Which company has the best benefits? From relocation to other day to day employee benefits?
What are they? Let's celebrate them! I'll start- Apple Nvidia
Not only small companies even Big Tech like Google, Amazon, Apple etc are tracking ID card/badges swiping of individual whether they are in office for atleast 3 days in a week with 5+ hours duration in a day or not? - Is 60% attendance reached by individual in month or not? - Adding this office att...Read more
Long story short, Salesforce offered to relocate employee to the US and then got fired and abandoned by the company. Since this employee is on a L1 visa, not a H1B, he can’t work until October and he is only 6 months away from receiving a green card. This is so F up. Edit: I am not the employee. #...Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/28/apple-worker-who-bilked-company-of-millions-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison.html #apple
As a company, your incentive is to squeeze out the most out of your employees. If an employee is super talented, you promote him and squeeze even more, until you saturate all his life energy and talent while making him work more. As a talented employee (assume for the sake of argument), shouldn’t m...Read more
I have a small team of developers working under me. And we were working on building a new product for our startup. The engineer who was building the tool had been working on it for 2 months and regularly giving us fake status updates. During this time we even sponsored him to come to our country fro...Read more
Salesforce: 1. Leaders urging employees to take care of their health and family first, and saying that they understand if people cannot be as productive 2. $250 reimbursement to setup home office 3. You can take your desktop home 4. CEO said in all-hands, no layoffs it’s not our culture
I want to know whether is there a option for acquired company employees to negotiate salary during acquisition? Can you share your experiences?
When companies commit to being onsite at particular locations, such as the bay area or seattle, it limits the competition pool to people who are able and willing to abandon family & friends and move to these places. This keeps competition somewhat limited. If all the companies go remote, you will no...Read more
https://www.theverge.com/24048636/ebay-layoffs-1000-employees-january-2024 Only made 1.3 billion dollars this quarter better lay some people off.
I work for Google. You should be horrible in order to get fired. As long as you are mediocre - You have job security (Googlers, correct me if i'm wrong). It's not an optimal strategy, but it's convenient for me as an employee. Is it the same for other big tech as well? How is it in FB, Amazon, Micro...Read more
Dish on the worst company cultures
Are there anymore companies that really care about their employees’ well being(mental, physical and financial) with good enough WLB and not just about profit? If there are such companies, let’s mention them in this thread. YoE 14 TC 95L #India #wlb #wellbeing #softwareengineer
Im a recruiter for Meta and were actively hiring right now for senior SWE positions (backend full stack ML mobile and specialized skill sets) Im wondering which companies are good to target candidates from. If meta isnt for you i get it, but cant deny that compensation and career advancement and be...Read more
Let's make a comprehensive list of the cringy names that companies call their employees. Google: Googlers & Nooglers Twitter: Twits Apple: Applers & Apploids Amazon: Amazonians & pip fodder Microsoft: Microsofties ByteDance/TikTok: slaves Meta: Metamates Uber: Uberites & nUbers I can't think of an...Read more
I was under impression that ESPP is a good benefit and was purchasing max limit 25k every year from past 5years. When I did actual calculation realized that I would have made more money by directly buying stock instead of keeping in company account and get stocks at 10% discount quarterly....Either ...Read more
I see a lot of posts that say "Don't join our Company X". This includes folks from Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft etc. Are there employees who are currently happy to be working at their own company? What companies are those? It sometimes feels like employees are grading companies on an absolute sc...Read more