Can’t think of any due to executive level leadership. It was once a great company that was culture and people driven. That has been gutted with 2 major layoffs in the last 4 years.
With recent 12k layoffs, have to do more with less. Incredibly stretch goals that are unattainable which makes me think they are using it to justify further layoffs. Recent change in RTO policy = 5 days a week.
Told me today after not putting my promotion in to hire ups that "it's a privilege to get a raise each year". Didn't realize the shitty raise of covering inflation was a privilege and highest honor.
if you were happy where you were at, love your team, close with higher ups, and promotion path in 5 months but got an offer at another start up doubling your salary but promotion in one year, what would you do
Promotion ends today (see top of the Tech Lounge feed). Sent out links, but no sign ups. Guess I won't be rocking that Blind swag. Anyone else?
I have been through many ups and downs in my life within the last decade or so … My resume literally a copy and paste of the job description for some of them postings and has many promotions on it at different companies yet I have been receiving these for a while now. Every posting on LinkedIn that...Read more
Last quarter 2 of our team mates left the team of total 18 people because of pip , both were having 15+ experience. Senior manager hired 4 engineers in past quarter. Now they put 2 more pople in dev plan. So total 4 people in a team of apprx 20 in 1 year. The pople in safe zone are .. 2 PM, 1 TPM...Read more
Hey Blind, what’s your opinion on L3 SWE and PM who act as FAANG gatekeepers on LinkedIn, talk about strategy, promotions, scaling apps to billions of users and long term vision? I mean how do they feel when they pretend to be coding gods on LinkedIn and ask stupid questions to their mentors and in...Read more
I’m relative new in my career and I’m unsure what I need to talk to with my manager in my 1:1s. We have daily stand ups so he does know what I am working on on a daily basis. Also he keeps cancelling our 1:1s. I’m confused as to how to take charge of my career. And how to work towards a promotion. H...Read more
Few months ago during 1:1 with my manager, I was told that if I successfully delivered project on time they'd initiate my promotion request with higher ups. Fast forward two months, completed the project on time. Found out that I'd reporting to a new manager henceforth. I am hoping that the new mana...Read more
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/us/florida-ups-truck-police-chase-shooting/index.html Two people hijacked a slow moving UPS truck already followed by a helicopter? 200 rounds should do it! Kill all suspects + their hostage + bystander just to be sure. Next up: two weeks paid vacation and promotions ...Read more
Joined recently and seems like the corruption runs deep. Tons of useless do-nothings who spend their time writing useless docs that could be two-sentence emails strictly for self-promotion. Having useless meetings and wasting everybody’s time, but somehow fill the right quotas and meaningless “metri...Read more
Please evaluate below offer from Dropbox IC3. Location: Seattle YOE: 8 yrs Current TC: 215k with stock appreciation Amzn Dropbox Offer: 220 / 550 / 80 TC: Year 1: 470k (with 80k joining) Year 2: 420k (with 120k/4 refresher) Year 3: 450k (with 120k/4 x 2 refresher) Year 4: 480k (with 120k/4 x 3 ref...Read more
Been at Amazon a little over a year now and am currently up for promotion to L5/SDE II. However there is so much paperwork involved like multiple write-ups and technical evidence that needs to be presented by myself to actually get promoted. It feels like I have to convince management why I deserve ...Read more
Working at Cisco, located in the eastcoast (DC), grade 6 with base salary around 89k. This is pretty shitty to begin with because i have 5yoe and had excellent performance reviews every year. And I was told I would get a promotion in the upcoming month, but even with the promotion to grade 8, its go...Read more
I have been an EM for 5 years and have generally been exceeding expectations but it’s been tough scaling up to the director role. Getting a promotion requires opportunities to expand scope and opportunities are hard to create unless there a top down big initiatives that comes up. I have seen a numbe...Read more
I worked at my current company for 2 years. I got a promotion in first 6 months. I have been a high performing employee. i took over all the work, trained everyone and kept the ship afloat when my manager went on her maternity leave. I got pregnant after and let my company know. I also hired and tr...Read more
Question for folks who have worked at Google and one of the companies (Facebook/Netflix). How would you compare the culture there? In particular: * amount bureaucracy, how much development slowed down by all the "processes" - meetings, sync-ups, "design discussions" etc... * amount of office po...Read more
Currently at FB as E4 and it will take me about a year to go to E5. My salary then, will not even be close to the new hires as E5 since internal promotions are usually on the lower side. Planing to go somewhere else for a couple years and come back. I applied to some hot start ups and I’ll be havin...Read more
Hi, I recently got an offer and going to join in few weeks. In my current company, my manager is pushing me for a promotion and actively working on promo doc etc. My manager has always been very helpful and I would not like to burn bridges. I have to resign in a week or so and manager is going to p...Read more
I need some career advice, as I'm a young (under 30) worker not experienced in this stuff. My small (<150 employees) company is about to go through large layoff (30%) wave. Some of my higher ups are getting let go, and I've been offered the chance to move into a job spot that will be open from t
I was and am a great Google fan, still it's sad that I have to venture to other products, even for things where Google is there for long time!! Google chat/talk/hangout/voice....all were there long back, but hardly any improvements or follow ups....others are doing way better.... Comes up with all...Read more