Got offers from both Netflix and Snowflake. Assuming I like both teams roughly equally, which should I pick? Things I’m optimizing for: career growth (main), company reputation, and culture. Feeling a little frustrated in my current role, so I’d look into an internal transfer if I don’t hop. One th...Read more
Many of my friends at non-FAANG companies are at staff roles with 8-10 YOE. Given how we are hiring, most are interviewing & want to get in as E6 because they are currently staff at their companies. A couple of them got downleveled, got salty about the company, and even rejected the offer despite TC...Read more
I have a pearx interview coming up for s24 cohort. first round is 10 min not sure what to expect.
Living in Singapore, working in startup, where there is no oncall pay, and with a small domain team of 4 excluding lead, 4 of us are on weekly rotation, meaning we are oncall 1 week every month. Funny thing is even during maintenance activities like DB upgrade which normally happnes at 3am they wi...Read more
What is equivalent of amazon L7 tpm in coupang. Is it director or senior director?#tech
Can you fix new company notifications to be on top once there are some? Right now when you follow company tab because there are new - the top post is not the one that is the latest but the “hot” one, whatever it means.
I am a fresher. What kind of projects in resume would help in shortlisting at FAANG as they expect projects that use the current tech like LLMs. What sort of personal projects should I work on that proves the ability to learn and work on large scale at the company. PLEASE HELP 🙏
I previously took Meta loop twice and failed. The second time, I hired someone to prepare me. I did super well on half of the interviews, but sub optimal on one or two. I think overall I was close to perfection even though didn’t get hired. …one week later, I took TikTok loop. I didn’t prepare ANYT...Read more
TLDR: Firing someone for actually trying to stop child exploitation on their platform before they start
Joined 7 months ago on their tool side of the business. My options were worth around $350k. The recruiter mentioned, or rather lied, that the strike would be at the Series D price. But to my surprise, I got a much higher exercise price for the Series E instead. This makes life super tough because yo...Read more
I was casually working on Friday from coffee shop and overheard some guys(manager) who stayed after work and where under alcohol influence. One of them said he sometimes creates false alarms in order to create sense of urgency and illusion that they have job to do. - “Numbers don’t match!”. - “At...Read more
I’ve been living in the South Bay (Bay Area) for most of my 20s and I am now in my late 20s. I moved here for a job and kept getting stuck here due to only being able to get jobs in the South Bay. Many of my college friends who moved to the bay have moved elsewhere. I bought a home here 2 years ag...Read more
Had a conversation with manager about comp cliff, but didn’t have a good idea of the exact number , so I’ll come back to him with that. Manager seems not very 100% clear. He also mentioned dive & save. After the meeting I thought that I do have offers from 2 years ago, which at that time I didn’t di...Read more
A few months after joining a new company, there was a TEMP reorg due to another team manager on leave, my skip manager became my new temp manager. New (skip) manager out of blue asked me if I had experience in X, I said no, but would like to learn more about it. A few weeks later, I got tasked to d...Read more
Imagine the ability to chat with other ChatGPT users who were asking ChatGPT questions on the same topic at the same time as you. It would be a cool voluntary feature imo. Great way to get in touch with immediate, short term, anonymous study buddies
Hi All, Planning to join Walmart Availability platform- Global Tech/ Item inventory as product manager role seems to be interesting. Appreciate if anyone can provide insights on PERM processing, are they still continuing perm application in Walmart, also any silent layoffs or Amazon PIP culture? ...Read more
Passed the phone screen, but now that means I have 2 more coding rounds coming up. Is it better to: A) Repeatedly review the top 200 Facebook tagged questions until you can write them all out in a couple of minutes B) Go further down the list for more breadth I feel like the standard answer for s...Read more
^ Idk why considering sending a simple rejection email hardly takes more than 2 seconds, but once again, companies (well, I guess hiring managers) prove themselves to be willing to go every more lower lows!