I joined a new firm after being laid off at the beginning of the year (no longer at Schwab). I don’t think I’ve ever had a worse manager and weaker leader, ever. She doesn’t know what her team does, can’t manager her own time which means she wastes other people’s time with meetings that go 2x-3x as...Read more
I don’t react well to incompetent people, and I don’t mean people who don’t have the skills to do something, I mean when people don’t do their job well. And worse when they are oblivious to the fact that they’re falling to execute their jobs. This is so frustrating to me and I can’t hide it and make...Read more
How far do you live from work? The closest I've ever lived was 5 miles and back in 2010, I could go home for lunch. TC: 300K
I see SDE SDM TPM PM PGM HR TAM and other job family bashing one another. Realize that companies pay the least possible amount to retain you. No one is getting paid more than they should. You are a resource to the company. Your value is directly proportional to how important you are for the compan...Read more
Recruiter reached out about a role but is saying relocation to Santa Clara and hybrid work from that office is required. Is this for real? I thought Nvidia was very supportive of remote work from the top down? Wondering if they’re just using it to weed out candidates or if it’s really a hard requir...Read more
The title speaks, I have been in this toxic firm for two years. Been in a project for one year, then moved teams to another project where during appraisal I was given a C rating despite working hard just for single reason that I was new addition to the project. My TL proposed a B rating but my Manag...Read more
I'm not a nice person. I don't like smalltalk. I'm definitely not patient with lazy and unprofessional guys in life or at work and I never hesitate to confront and send complaints directly in real life. Do I need to change myself and pretend to be kind / patient towards coworkers even if I'm not ? ...Read more
I'm curious to hear what criteria you guys use when deciding it is time to transfer to a different team?
Did it ever happen to anyone? My coworker hums along with the music EVERY DAY! There are around 15-20 people in our area and we can all hear it. At first we’d just smile and shrug our shoulders at each other. Now it seems like people are used to it?? Should I tell them to stop? Tell their manager to...Read more
I am working for a project and seems like I gonna miss the deadline. There was a code review last week which made me to realize I missed a requirement thus have to re-write the entire code. I sat during the weekend and changed the whole code but having issues when I am running for a large sample. My...Read more
Hot take: The only important business functions are sales, marketing and finance. Everything else should be outsourced to someone who can do it cheaper. Anyone outside of those three roles should consider themselves low on the totem pole and completely expendable.
I’m the only person of different color and my whole team is of another color. Color is important here. I’m their lead and trying to bring some positive change in the team, and I see a lot of resistance from the team. Our manager does not participate in day to day work, and asked me to lead and man...Read more
Sundar's Bloomberg interview is a master class in CorpSpeak. The interviewer's questions were solid and Sundar's strategy just comes across as deflecting, answering a question other than the one asked, and speaking in broad platitudes that don't actually say anything at all. I'll give him credit fo...Read more
I’m starting at Airbnb soon. I know they’re remote first, but I live by the SF office. Anyone know if they have free food / gym / anything that makes the office worth going to? Old TC: 370k New TC: 440k 6 YOE
Alright, so let me confess by saying that as a white person who grew up in Michigan, I was surrounded by black people and I have a big friend circle and many of my buddies are black. Currently, I work for Amazon in the Bay Area. I happened to watch the new Mean Girls movie and I thought Karen’s cha...Read more
Hello Blinders Can you share your experience on the general work culture, wlb and office life in microsoft vs Intel. What would you choose and why ? I have heard the wlb and good working environment at microsoft lately has gone down and I hear similar things for Intel but I personally don't feel ...Read more
What the title says, I’m curious how many people have a side hustle in addition to their 9 to 5. Would love to know what the side hustle is too if you’d like to comment. Thanks! Update: oh wow, I would have thought more people had a side hustle, this is interesting. Thank you to those who participa...Read more
When I started my career several years ago, I thought professional success is 90% hard work and 10% luck. As I progressed, I had an opportunity to work with amazing leaders and I assumed that such leaders are the norm and my conviction in the recipe for success further strengthened. Over the last 3...Read more
Why do people just say “Hi” or “IM?” and wait for you to respond before asking their question? Just send your question! #culture #officelife #workplace
Serious question: why? Like the whole bowl is just smeared on the remnants of your guts and makes it unusable to others
If Teams disappeared global GDP would immediately rise by 200 billion+ per year.