The people are very experienced and there are a few interesting projects happening.
I have had both good managers and bad ones; te disheartening part is that there is no way we can complain about most bad ones. The hikes and appraisals are peanuts even with a great performance review; almost no career growth.
- New to Amazon - TC 220,000 - YOE 3 - Austin, TX (no income tx) - Rent $400 - Just got a stimulus check cause IBM didnt pay me well. - Investing every spare dollar in the dip.
Hi blind, What are good Patreon channels you pay for the content? Example areas: investing, learning, learning specific skill, live comedy, demos, sw programs, scripts, etc #tech #google #meta #facebook #microsoft #ibm #apple
The message was very clear: talent is not the source of MSFT value stream. The insulting remarks by leadership, spreading it across waves to create an environment of fear, stopping raises and cutting bonuses were all to signal that the talent had no leverage. Instead they are signaling their value ...Read more
Hey there! Thinking of investing in Broadcom and IBM purely for dividend yield. I won’t take the money out for atleast 5 years. Thoughts or suggestions for other options that would yield decent dividends? Already invested in Verizon and AT&T. TC: $350k YOE: 11 Bay Area Thanks in advance
Working at BlackRock with total 11 years of experience in technology. Have current base of 130k and 13 percent bonus and living in Atlanta. Looking for ideas about side hustles other than investing in stocks. Since can't do much due to finra regulations. #personalfinance #investments #atlanta #black...Read more
Hello guys i am about to start investing long term, what do yoi think about buying tesla, apple, microsoft. Att and ibm for dividents and some oil, airlines companies that ate on sale currently? Could you suggest something better?
I'm with Red Hat and there's a lot of questions around how RSUs are going to work now that acquisition has happened. We had a floor on our RSUs, but we don't know if we'll get that now that all our invested RSUs are going to be converted to IBM RSUs. Can anyone at IBM tell me if they have a floor ...Read more
I sold all the ibm stock sitting in my rollover ira, and i have about 5k to invest. 100% of my ira is in vtsax. I would like to start to diversify, first with the 5k , and then later by reallocating. Any advice? I have about 20 yrs before retirement.
My employment contract gives ibm rights to all the ideas I have while working here. As long as it’s related to ibm’s business it’s theirs. Technically it’s not related to IBMs business except that it’s technology and someday it might earn money. Should I try to get a waiver for ownership of the pr...Read more
Hi , I am looking for investing in high dividend paying stocks as prices are lucrative. Please let me know your thoughts about : xom (exxonMobile) oxy boeing. It is difficult to time market and I have decided to invest in small amounts just in case it further goes down I still have money to inve...Read more
Honestly, this DD requires a lot of critical thinking. If that’s not your jam, please enjoy this cartoon of Alex Karp crushing the competition, then scroll down to the bottom of the DD where you’ll find my plan for the end of my lockup plus a few diamond emojiis, a couple of hand emojiis and a bunch...Read more
There is one major problem I am seeing again & again with California based startups. These companies are throwing ridiculous numbers and competing with Big tech and sometimes beating them on TCs For example: - Coinbase - Roblox - Instacart - Wish - Robinhood - Snapchat - Palantir - Stripe - DB ...Read more
Why is meta stock at 8.8 P/E ratio when Snap has negative e meaning no P/E ratio Tesla at 70 P/E ratio Apple at 25 P/E ratio Oracle at 36 P/E ratio Amazon at 88 P/E ratio IBM at 100 P/E ratio Google at 18 P/E ratio I read the entire “The Intelligent Investor” book recommended by Buffet and this m...Read more
I want to understand how the financial market works. So up until few months back all these investors were fine when amazon was investing and growing with not much profit. (They made a lot of profit during pandemics and not really much before that). But now why have they lost faith in the big tech co...Read more
Hello. What are your thoughts on Quantum Computing (as a service)? I came across a report that said the market *could* be worth $26B by the end of the decade. I fail to see the kind of problems the technology can be used for. On the other hand, I see big tech rushing to invest. G, Microsoft, Amazon...Read more
Hi all, ready to sell my ESPP but I have no idea where to put it especially given the current condition of our market (I don’t need the cash). Should I put it in a traditional ETF? Something S&P related or ishares? I’m also interested in: infrastructure related technologies such as Microsoft, AWS...Read more
I started my career as Data scientist. Later in 2018, joined Blockchain team in my previous company to jump on Blockchain wave and raise in salary. In Corona, most the Private Blockchain projects ( Corda, Hyperledger) got dried up and we were moved to NLP projects in AI. I have seen many news that...Read more
Hi Blind. I am currently a 3rd-year CS student at a no-name (but expensive) school around Boston. So far, I have 62k in private student loans currently at ~11% (I will be refinancing as soon as I graduate). I am very scared of this debt but it is too late for me to switch schools to something cheap...Read more
eBay - - - + team will work on search use-case in future + will be work on data science + talented folks with prev exp in big tech like apple, microsoft, amazon, ibm, tenured ebay staff. expecting great mentorship as only junior in my team + like the work, team seemed nice on surface + not sure if...Read more
Which business provides the best environment for developers from wlb, comp and career growth etc ? B2C: fb, amzn, uber, snap etc B2B: IBM, Redhat, Cisco, EMC, vmware etc Finance: Goldman, JPM, Hedge Funds P.S. I have worked in all of them and this is my ranking: B2B >; B2C >; Finance, however