Pay and benefits are great. Internal mobility is easier than other companies.
Toxic culture. Super competitive coworkers due to their performance standards.
I’m currently at Instagram and have a PM offer from Google Cloud. Would it be better to shift to Cloud? Cloud is not exactly profitable but it’s Google at the end of the day. Instagram is profitable and with Twitter going down it will be the most successful US social media platform. Future career ...Read more
I am a PM who is bored in their life, so learned the basics of python and built this layoff insta page, where I auto-post when the dark clouds arrive / a layoff occurs. Please follow https://www.instagram.com/layoffalert/ and let me know your thoughts? Why am I obsessed with the bleak? TC: 240...Read more
1. Google search massively threatened by Amazon product search, Tiktok, Instagram, Airbnb etc. 2. Google cloud is so far behind azure and aws 3. Netflix partnered with Microsoft for ad business 4. Hiring slowdowns
No cloud, no enterprise software, no phone or mass market devices, no browser, no smart home , no ai assistant. Facebook and Instagram are huge cash cows, but they got to get something else.
Background and Experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps worked as a DevOps/SRE in Azure Product and Technical PM. Certified PMP Thinking to pivot to SWE or Machine Learning because of Blind, AI and Instagram layoffs.
Amazon dominates cloud market, everyone does online shopping through Amazon, Amazon acquires everything left and right. Yet they never let their guard down. Cut cost whenever possible, even if they have to split bagels. That's how they survive. Apple and Google have stopped innovating for years now...Read more
I know the following (through friends or public info) : Apple - AWS Netflix - AWS + GCP Snap - GCP (main) + AWS Stripe - AWS Uber - AWS Airbnb - AWS Pinterest - AWS Linkedin - Azure (future platform) + some AWS OpenAI - Azure Splunk - AWS Roku - AWS Spotify - GCP Slack - AWS Salesforce - AWS (mai...Read more
I keep seeing this recurring theme from the men on the dating apps they take the time to set up a profile put pics and write a bio spend hours chatting with a girl and then ask for Instagram. Once they follow a girl on Instagram they no longer want to initiate anything and not even continue the conv...Read more
Background and Experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps worked as a DevOps/SRE in Azure Product and Technical PM. Certified PMP Thinking to pivot to SWE or Machine Learning because of Blind, AI and Instagram layoffs. I love PM, Business and it’s depressing to pivot my career but I don’t want My pass...Read more
I was lucky enough to get offers from both of them. Now what matters is the team. Can anyone give feedback from the following teams? I know FB does bootcamp, but I'm taking to teams that have head count. I have 3 years of experience. E4 for FB and E3 for Goog. Google: YouTube YouTube Kids Google Ma...Read more
Twitter laid off 75% of employees and still works. What happens to #meta #uber #google #netflix Let’s be honest - why does netflix need PM and eng? they have turned into a content creation company. how complex is their tech stack really? Meta + Google -> Yes lots of big bets and new ideas need E
I am preparing for technical interview for company that builds databases for cloud. Specifically AWS, GCP, Cockroach Labs, Databricks etc. I'm from India but you don't have to be to answer this question. I'm more concerned about non-coding interviews. Are they going to ask usual system design (des...Read more
Hi Folks, need interview guidance for RRK Interview. I come from a non-cloud background but have taken up a course on Coursera to learn the basic cloud constructs and GCP services. I have heard there are are architecture design question where the interviewers like to spend the most amount of time. C...Read more
Saw this site (www.compgauge.com) posted on Overheard_Sales IG story this morning that shares Tech sales total comp breakdowns. As someone trying to break into an SDR role, it’s wild to see that AWS pays their SDR’s 100k+ Total Comp?!??! And they don’t rate the WLB that bad either. That’s insane fo...Read more
so im 38 y/o male with no kids. I was open to the idea of kids then i see the pending doom of the future. USA is complete trash at the moment, we have a global pandemic, global warming, fires, instagram, republicans. Honestly seeing this shit play out just makes me less and less want to bring kid...Read more
I’m a certified Pardot specialist, HubSpot inbound certified and Salesforce sales cloud expert working to get certification. Recently hired by one of the biggest tech company right after laid off from small company I like to work at Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, but notice enterprise companies use Market...Read more
Hi I know Google system design questions are not like grokking or anything you find in youtube videos. Can we share all questions? Last year, they asked me to design static analysis tool. For one of my friend they asked to design load balancer in cloud. Few more: Design logger Design code coverag...Read more
Hi I know Google system design questions are not like grokking or anything you find in youtube videos. Can we share all questions? Last year, they asked me to design static analysis tool. For one of my friend they asked to design load balancer in cloud. Few more: Design logger Design code coverag...Read more
I was thinking of selling around 25% of my GOOG stock and putting it into FB instead. This dip in FB stock price is simply too tempting. With Instagram rising and displacing Snapchat as the favorite among teens, I feel FB is a great long term buy. At the same time, Google has also been doing well a...Read more
My sister is currently is graduating her Masters next week from USF and she is looking for a job in inside sales, sales engineering, sales support, associate sales, account executive, business development, strategy roles in the Bay Area. She is on F1 and needs to find a job in 60 days. She has 4 yea...Read more