- vote What do I do with my life? I am about to graduate from university with a master's in physics and artificial intelligence implementations to data with experience in Data Science through a summer internship. And I still don't know what to do with my life. I am very interested in data and I have completed the final on-site int
- TOP TECH COMPANY RANKINGS - 2019 EDITION 0: Google, Facebook, Netflix 1: Uber, Airbnb, Apple, LinkedIn 2. Dropbox, Lyft, Square 3: Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, Twitter, Slack, Stripe 4: Salesforce, Yelp, Bloomberg, Adobe, Box, Tesla, Indeed, Splunk 5: Zillow, Oracle, IBM, VMWare, SAP, Twilio, Tableau, Glassdoor, Walmart Labs 6: Everything
- Bay Area Companies that hire genaralist SWE i have almost 4 years exp working on java but did not use latest industry tools on frontend or backend as our company used a proprietary IBM framework. Considering if I can handle the leetcode and OOD interviews... is it possible to get hired in FAANGMULA type companies in L4 role without experienc
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and industry lounge. - vote How many 🐨s are there now? Some of us did the needful and forgot to revert. Now we end up with a population... The question is, how many are there? I saw Oscar, Cisco, Twitter, IBM, Credit Karma, Snapchat are out there. Can 🐨s report to this thread so that we can have a rough idea of the population? TC 600
- 2012-2020: A Bull Market Retrospective if you had in 2012 1. Bought a house in the Bay Area in a region like Pacifica for 500k. 2. Joined FB as a E4 and gotten at least a MA each half S&P 500 returned 13.6% over the past decade. You’d have a *minimum* of 4.5M net worth today. Howd you spend the past 8 years? Working at IBM or SAP ins
- is IBM a good company to work for? more specifically the cloudpak team. any insights?
- What do you think about starting your career at IBM? Is this a bad move? Or a good one? I got an offer for about 100k and don't have competing offers yet. I really like the people that I interviewed with but am afraid that this might not be a good job to start my career. Do people move from IBM to FAANG or will there be good future opportunities beyon
- How to get an interview call from IBM research? Hello folks! I have a profile very relevant to one of the roles at IBM research and I'm very interested in it. I'm fairly confident that I can get it if I can get an interview, which seems to be the hardest step with IBM. I applied online directly and I also got referral. Nothing seems to work. I i
- New Grad Roles in Austin, TX Hi, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin. I have previously interned at HPE, AMD, and Samsung. Would love to chat with anyone working at any of these companies- AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia
- Tier rankings for the tech companies If you have problems with discussing tiers, then GTFO of this post. These rankings are based off the data points from other tier blind posts, If you think these rankings are off, then please comment with your own rankings. Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on r
- 🥇 MAJOR TECH EMPLOYER POWER RANKINGS (SEATTLE ONLY, Q4 2017) These rankings take into account: desirability, compensation, prestige, reputation, quality of life, exclusivity, company trajectory, social brand value, career growth opportunities, stock performance, location, office quality and a secret sauce of other factors. This analysis is focused specificall
- vote Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2019 (in no particular order) : ✓ Jane Street / Two Sigma / Citadel ✓ Google / Facebook / Amazon / Microsoft / Netflix / Apple ✓ Uber / Lyft / Airbnb / Pinterest / LinkedIn ✓ Snap / Twitter / Slack / Palantir / Square / Rubrik ✓ Yelp / Quora / Box / Dropbox / Twitch / Hulu / Spotify / Snowflake ✓ NVIDIA / Salesforce / Adobe /
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- Referral Any Big Company (Master, YOE 3, LC 218) Can anyone refer me to FANNG or Any Big Company? Last 2 years, literally I work and study 7 days a week. Education - Master’s degree in Machine Learning from a Top Tier college in South Korea (2020. feb) Experience - 3 years as a software engineer, CTO in small startup (founding m
- link Amazon recruiter contacted me, I sent my CV and he sent me the following NOTE: I am not looking for answers. I'm just interested in knowing if this has been a typical route to get hired as an SA. I have previously applied and had a couple of interviews, but no offer. I want to put my best foot forward. Also sharing for the benefit of others. ****************** Thank yo
- IBM Offering Manager What if the base and TC for Offering manager at IBM? Looking at 7 YOE TC 170
- Bad name vs no name companies Just occurred to me - should be relevant on Blind, where so many are preoccupied with "prestige" of the company, whatever that means - that some relatively big names are actually worse on your resume, than noname companies. Example: Cisco, IBM, Oracle. I wonder about VMware - and inclined to include
- There is no counter culture in tech anymore There are no new Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniaks out there anymore. Where are the hippies? Where are the freaks? The punks? They've been replaced by a bunch of psychotic MBA sociopaths who only care about money. When Jobs and Wozniak started Apple they were obsessed with taking down the corporate who
- 2019 Global 2000 Tier1: AMRA According to 1.4MM employees of the world's 2000 largest public companies, the best tech companies are: Tier1: Alphabet, Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple Tier2: SAP, Cisco, Amazon, IBM Tier3: Wayfair, Intuit, Paypal, Juniper Networks Tier4: Adobe, Intel, Netflix, Salesforce Tier5: Everything else
- Backing out of accepted offer I've been an intern at IBM as a student and I accepted the returning full-time offer after I graduate (82k + 10k signing). Before I accepted the offer, I was interviewing with one of the FANG companies for the heck of it. As of recently, I was given an offer that's higher than what IBM offered and
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Tier rankings for tech companies in the Bay Area Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinh
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and industry lounge. - Advise Currently at Intel Labs with 2 YOE. PhD in ECE. Got job offers from the following places: IBM TJ watson AI hardware (Research position) Facebook Oculus hardware (not Reality labs, product/implementation role) Google Cloud hardware (product/implementation role) Goal: to stay in research as much as po
- AI misgendered trans and non-binary Will it be banned? 🤔🤔🤔 https://qz.com/1726806/facial-recognition-ai-from-amazon-microsoft-and-ibm-misidentifies-trans-and-non-binary-people/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo&utm_source=reddit.com
- Referrals( past google) 600lc Hi I want referrals from companies like Lyft and Airbnb. I am at a hot state completing 600 coding problems in leetcode. If you refer me , the probablity of landing a referral bonus increases manifold :p I am a new grad!! I am open to all companies not just the a lve mentioned ones! 1. Vmware 2. Ibm
- Tier 1/2/3 companies in Bay Area for SWE Let’s do this millionth time, Tier 1 considering pay, prestige, wlb, talent, benefits etc. Here are my rankings Tier 1: Google NetFlix Facebook Apple Uber Tier 2: Amazon Linkedin Dropbox Lyft Airbnb Microsoft Twitter Robinhood Slack Square Pinterest Tier 3: Salesforce Oracle Reddit Quora IBM Nv
- Application status Hello IBM-folks, I had an interview 5 months ago and I see that my application still in ( interview Phase) !!!! Why this ?
- IBM is winning in cloud. Why does no one acknowledge the fact that IBM is third in the cloud business behind AWS and Azure. The media always says AWS Microsoft and Google are the 3 major cloud providers but that's wrong. Google did about 3 billion in cloud sales in 2017 while IBM did about 17 billion. Makes no sense to me.
- How is Red Hat since IBM purchase? Any insights or still too soon?
- Good job Apple by revoking enterprise certificate of evil Facebook. Once again Apple valued our privacy. Indeed Apple is the saviour of human kind. Respecting privacy is in DNA of Apple right from Steve's era. These Facebook guys just do anything for user data and go to any extent for it. They are just evil. Also Apple saved us from evil IBM. Also Apple tried to save us from evil Microsoft. But sadl
- link WTF! We definitely need H1B reform. Top ten companies with approved H1B visas in 2017. Company. H1B Salary Bach/Mstrs/PhD COGNIZANT 28,908 85k 22k/6.5k TCS. 14,697. 73k. 11k/2.9k INFOSYS. 13,408. 85k. 10k/3k WIPRO. 6,529. 75k. 3.9k/2.5k DELLOITTE. 6,0
- New grad Stripe, Tableau, IBM referral Title says all. Leetcode score: 250+
- New Grad Referrals wanted in Austin, TX Hey, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science. Got 3 offers in texas, just nothing in Austin (HPE(75k)/Jp morgan(90k)/ Capital One(100k)). Would be interested in AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia GM IBM Indeed Orac
- Everyone talks FAANG salaries but what about LIGMA? LinkedIn, IBM, Groupon, McDonald’s, Adobe Top tier salaries Incase anyone asks, TC 170
- Comment tiers of tech companies in your opinion Tier = Pay, prestige, career opportunities, wlb Tier 0: Google, Netflix Tier 1: Apple, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft Tier 2: Amazon, Microsoft, Linkedin, Tier 3: Twitter, Square, Robinhood, Stripe, Pinterest, Snap, Dropbox, Palantir Tier 4: Salesforce, Zillow, coinbase, Reddit, Spotify, Expedia Tie
- Which FAANG etc. company files lots of patents ? Heard of IBM / Intel / VMWare etc. filing lots of patents, is there any FAANG or tier 1 company that does the same ?
- link IBM uses A.I to find employees who are about to quit with 95% accuracy https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/ibm-ai-can-predict-with-95-percent-accuracy-which-employees-will-quit.html what the fuck ? Explains their complete lack of a promotional career path
- Google... First off I’m not a google hater but I don’t understand what google is doing as a business. Why aren’t they trying to expand their business? Amazon reinvests everything because they constantly see opportunities out their to improve customers lives. Amazon a couple years ago was worth half of google
- Worst of IBM -shoot at me Will be joining IBM. But I have heard it's the worse company to work for. In that spirit, shoot at me the worst of IBM that you know. Like really really bad. Go scorched Earth.
- link IBM is laying off more than 1,000 employees Jobs page shows 7k openings though. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/06/ibm-layoffs-affect-more-than-1000-employees.html
- link What happened to old fashioned flame and tech wars online? Now every discussion online(not only here) seems to be about compensation, new VC hipster products like AirBNB for dogs or SWJ inclusive stuff at some company I miss the old days when you read Slashdot and an article about a new Java release would get 400 comments how much Java sucks or how anyone
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and industry lounge. - IBM Offer I recently recieved an offer from IBM for a research engineer in formal verification. The breakdown is as follows: Base: 150k Signing bonus: 18k RSU: 0 Location: Austin, TX What are your thoughts on the offer? TC: 0 (PhD student graduating soon)
- vote Indeed vs IBM vs Cisco Assuming I have identical offers from each of these three companies, which one would be best to join? Considering: - growth/learning opportunities - weight on resume - culture - outlook - etc.
- vote What should we name our daughter! Hey blind. My wife and I are about to have a new baby girl. We are thinking of names and have it down to 3 let me know what you think. TC:290k Dropbox not IBM YOE 9
- Anyone else maddened by their Lightning-adapted headphones? I made the jump to my iPhone 8 after breaking the screen on my 6S, and now I’m dealing with something that was never an issue when I had a headphone jack. My phone will randomly pause/play/skip my music all the time with no input, even managing to bring up Siri sometimes. Any time I’m walking somewh
- RSU... are they given yearly? Hi everyone, So IBM doesn’t normally give RSUs out to non-execs... but I was lucky (or maybe rightfully earned) 100k in RSUs, so I got my first taste of the golden handcuffs. My question is... when people say 200k base and 500k RSU vesting over X years, does that mean they get 500k RSUs every year
- Low caliber of managers at Cisco Got fed up with the low caliber , politics and ineptitude of Indian managers at Cisco. Almost all of them were Indians and they all either knew each other or tried to outsmart each other. Nobody was strong technically. Moved to IBM , see the same story. What is it with these low quality Indian manag
- Cognizant VS IBM Apprenticeship? Trying to choose between being a developer at Cognizant (Greater NYC based) or going for a 12-month SWE Apprenticeship with IBM. Question 1: Which is a better opportunity in the LONG run for someone just starting their SWE career? Question 2 : How much does the NY IBM Apprenticeship pay? Backgroun
- Leave employer w/o notice? I'm looking for a HR or legal expertise here but personal experience is welcomed. I've been with IBM for 5 years and haven't had a single penny for a raise. I have applied for over 1000 internal openings (seriously, over 1000) in these past years and I have been contacted back probably less than 10
- Indeed Hiring Freeze Updates? (+F1 woes) New here! Could anyone keep this post updated with any news regarding the Indeed freeze? Or, does anyone know of specific companies in the Austin area that seriously consider international students? Full story: Bf got a verbal offer from Indeed in Feb (written offer was minted and ready to go), but