Posting on behalf of a friend. Please help decide between these two offers. Looking for faster growth, higher TC, greater learning, exit opportunities. Microsoft Redmond Org: Azure Base: 110K Bonus: 20% Sign on: 50K RSU: 120K over 3.5 years Facebook Menlo Park Team: Will be assigned through Bootc...Read more
I am just curious to see what the best resources / boot camps / courses to learn the most about AI Engineering are. I am currently in Azure engineering but ML interests me down the road. Any information would be helpful. Thank you. TC 130k
If you could restart your career with this foundation, where would you focus? 2 yoe as an associate PM focused on cloud (AWS, Azure) for an MSP. I have an Informatics degree Here are a few things I’m considering but I’m interested in seeing what you more experienced Blinders would recommend pursui...Read more
FB has the best offer. Is it worth taking it over others? I don't like it a lot as a company, but the money would be useful. Details below. Location Seattle. YOE : 6 TC : so bad that it's embarrassing to tell. Less than the base offered by all of the below offers. FB : Team unknown. Boot camp is ...Read more
Hi folks, Thanks a lot for all the help over the past few months.I have 4 offers at the moment and I'd appreciate your help with evaluating them. FB: E5 Menlo Park 180K base 500K RSUs 20% bonus 50K sign on TC: ~350k I'm not very keen on joining fb since I'm not a big fan of their boot camp. I've h...Read more
I’m coming from a boot camp, and to be honest I want to go my own route. Rather than spending 100% of my time on algorithms like some of the brainless monkeys in my cohort I wanna allocate some time to get the az-900 -> ai-900 -> ai-102 I actually enjoy learning about azure and has been really
What's your honest opinion on boot camp from a desirability in the marketplace perspective? I read a lot of mixed reviews and would like to know from possibly hiring managers here what is important to your hiring decision. I'm going for my bachelor's in Software Development already and just about t...Read more
So I am looking at a career change, still in tech thinking about learning Java or python. Looked at boot camps, or studying myself signing up to leetcode..... and so. Moved to the lynnwood area over a year ago. Little to no interviews. Reading job descriptions I can easily do. Not a Azure / A...Read more
Hi, I’m a Support Engineer for Azure and was wondering how long I should spend in this role before applying to internally move to a SWE role/leave if I can’t internally move? I graduated from a boot camp and after being here a few months and I would like to dev a lot more than what I do what I do no...Read more
I'm using my spouse's account- I'm interested in learning azure cloud so I could eventually work in cloud support. Are there any accreditations I can get, or bootcamps that somebody can recommend? TC: 0 #azuresecurity #azure
I recently joined FB after working on Azure in Microsoft for almost 3 years. I was working on really cool tech there. I'm preallocated with a team in FB which uses React and Hack(php) of which I have no clue as I have coded in C++ and C# for all my life. Also never done Web/Mobile development in car...Read more
I have a New Grad Software Engg Offer from Facebook (Menlo Park) and Microsoft - Lvl 60 (Redmond). At Facebook, I will be joining the Bootcamp whereas I will be joining the Azure Security Team at Microsoft. My Total Compensation at FB: 115K + 40K Bonus + 150K Stocks. I am still negotiating with Mic...Read more
I have doing security engineering and architecture for nearly 20 years now and AWS/Azure security for 7 years. But I feel lack of full stack coding experience and how web application, client and datastore works together using the magic of coding with authentication, encryption and authorization, m...Read more
I'm moving to Facebook from Microsoft as E5 in a few weeks. I've worked on Azure last ~8 years and I'm hired as 'Software Engineer - Infrastructure' but I've been thinking about moving to ML/AI field for some time. 1) Do you think I can find a ML/AI related position during bootcamp even though I don...Read more
People saying that American engineers are totally replaceable are wrong. Some of them are. Those are the ones with generic skill sets you can learn in a bootcamp or in school like front end, back end, full stack, C++, data science. I was just recently told privately by a VP at an Indian engineering...Read more
I am a CS Masters graduating in May 2019. Please find details of offers below: Microsoft (Seattle)- 109k base, 0-20% target bonus (any idea on what to expect after 1st year), 100k stocks over 3.5 years, 30.5k (sign-on + relocation) Bloomberg (NYC)- 142k base, 18k target bonus, 30k (sign-on + reloca...Read more
Happy Sunday Everyone, So I graduated last year with a double major (not STEM related) and currently work for a F500 Company (Top Consulting Firm) Came in as a standard consultant (NOVA/DC area) but made a transition into cyber/IT by going through company paid for bootcamps. I currently possess N...Read more
So I wanted all the bananas and joined Amazon as an SDE II (comp was almost 4x what I was making before, hard to turn down.) Thing is, I've worked in IT my whole life, and completed a coding bootcamp (Codesmith) which led to this opportunity. To be fair, the bootcamp was an absolute joke, and I wen...Read more
Hello community I am currently an SDM in MSFT leading a team of 6 in Azure Networking, I will be joining FB Seattle in early Jan 2022 as an E5 ( accepted the offer and all pre-onboarding tasks are done ) I have already had ~7 conversations with various FB managers through the Connect tool in the rec...Read more
I am going to join Azure Networking team in Bangalore. Level:62, TC: 58L, YOE:7 Tech stack: C# .Net and C++ I wanted to understand a few things. I have always used Linux or Mac and I heavily use terminal(Bash/zsh). Will I be asked for my choice of laptop and if yes can I select Mac Pro? Do manage...Read more