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H1B folks should apply for asylum ? $etayolo @ Salesforce May be that’s a much faster process. Legal immigrants paying Sweat and tax - no one cares. Illegal immigrants consuming the system - we want them in ASAP. What has the world become? @blind_feed

Feel like I'm living in Andhra Pradesh coolkite @ New Just moved to Dallas... this is crazy. The level of Telugu domination in America has reached the level of Punjabi domination in Bramption... @blind_feed

Unpopular opinion - what's wrong with Animal? alphanimal @ DocuSign I recently watched Sandeep R's Animal. It's a brilliant movie. I don't understand what's wrong with the movie. I get that some scenes can be sexist but so are almost all the movies. What's wrong with the movie? #Animal #BestMovie @blind_feed

Which approach is better to lose fat and why? VqKY38 @ Amazon Approach 1: Cardio everyday Approach 2: Cardio and weight training on alternate days @blind_feed

Meta offer rescinded chinanum2 @ ex-Microsoft #meta Recently received and signed a written offer from Meta but was told that the offer was rescinded due to business needs changing. My online portal hasn't changed and I was supposed to relocate in a week... Does anyone know what's going on/has this happened to anyone else? @blind_feed

Coworker literally just disappeared UwQH23 @ Amazon So my coworker quite literally just randomly stopped showing to work and was fired... doesn't respond to anything on LinkedIn, nor texts or calls. My other team mates tried too. Anyone ever had this happen? Kinda worried about him. If my team was toxic af I would understand rage quiting and ghosting everyone but my team definitely isn't like that so I'm confused.. @blind_feed

Why do people say I own a house when they are on mortgage wHNu56 @ Microsoft Every time I talk to somebody that says I bought a house, I always find it admiring how they were able to achieve that big goal. But a few minutes in the conversation, I realize they have 25 years left of a mortgage loan before they legally can say they own the house. @blind_feed

Wife’s manager is smoking in meetings slickback9 @ Google My wife’s manager is fully remote, and apparently sometimes sneaks a cigarette during long meetings. My wife thinks it’s very unprofessional behaviour and for some reason is extremely agitated about this. Personally I really don’t care and I have no idea why anyone would. This has sparked a 3 day debate between us that we are hoping blind can settle for us. Neither one of us is a smoker. Granted it does not impact performance, if the person in the comfort of their own home wants to smoke a cigarette, why not? If anything, kudos for them for fully utilising remote privileges. Not so long ago people use to do this in the office and in person, so not sure what’s the big problem. Wife thinks that the manager should be a role model and a leader. It is not professional to eat during a meeting so it’s definitely not professional to smoke. It is a really bad habit and signals to people you do not care about working. @blind_feed

Side project 🙌 jhyrxns @ Microsoft MSFT pays peanuts but allows WFH I used my WFH time to work on my side business over the last 6 months which brings me to this fruitful day. Day #3 of being monetized: made $155 today Day #2: $90 ish Day #1: $50 ish If you aren’t leveraging WFH yet, and if you get 🥜 from employer… maybe think like me. 🙃 Btw I have not used msft resources to build this. Only used msft time. But how will they ever know? 😂#personalfinance @blind_feed

Luck is a huge factor xzxzxx @ Figma I’ve been in a few late stage startups now, one IPO’ed and stock didn’t do well, and now Figma obviously the deal fell through at the end. You basically just have to get lucky. We make our own luck to an extent for sure, I’ve put myself in the position and took risk, but the coin just doesn’t land right for most people. This is kinda obvious, but when you see people walking away with millions from some late stage startup they joined, they aren’t genius, just got luckier. Of course if you stay safe in big corp, you aren’t taking any risks anyway and luck doesn’t factor as much. TC 240+paper @blind_feed

Depressed (and broke) startup ceo jjtjeus36 @ New At 33: TC: $400k (Midwest), working for a financial institution NW: $800k, no real estate Ivy League MBA I saw a market need, confirmed it with user research, moved to Bay Area and launched a company with own money, then raised from VC, hired more, and reached thousands of users across the US. In the meantime, I lost my brother in an accident. I couldn’t meet up with him just before, because I had a big deadline for a large contract. We didn’t close the contract anyway. Now we run out of money, and can’t raise more - „bad market, show more traction, we bet on AI.” The team left, 3 people still standing out of 25 a few months back. Super depressed atm, but I still believe in the solution. At 36: TC: $0 NW: $50k, still no real estate My 2cents: - never bootstrap with your money as if you’re an angel investor - don’t pay decent employee salary if you can’t yet afford any salary for yourself. no one will remember that except for your wallet. - startup or not, your life and family have higher priority. hustle culture works only to a certain extent @blind_feed

Google-i-ness Interview: the f^%# is that? NullTrace @ ByteDance I passed 4 technical interviews at Google. Currently I am a 3-1 in ByteDance. TC: 575K. Now the recruiter came back and said the technical part is done but the last interview is to check my ‘googliness’. He said… well he said a lot … can any of those who have passed this, tell me, how to prepare for it and what’s the thing they want to listen. @blind_feed

I cut ties with friends who transition to SDM at Amazon BGfT25 @ ex-Amazon I have a friend since 15+ years who I never really liked as much, but was still in touch nevertheless. Recently he transitioned from L6 SDE (which he was at only for 3 months lol) to L6 SDM. I'll be honest, I lost all respect for him due to that. I had huge respect for him when he got promoted to L6 SDE, and celebrated it with him because I was truly happy for him. But, as soon as I saw his post on LinkedIn about transitioning to management I was like "Ew, huge downgrade in career, respect and as a human". Amazon makes SDMs do some sketchy and toxic things which we all know about, and Amazon SDMs are often (secretly) banned from several places. Personally, I feel if someone is a manager at Amazon for more than 18 months, they are not the best of humans. Yeah, humans - because they willingly want to continue being in a toxic role. I haven't spoken to him since (been several months), didn't congratulate him and plan to slowly drift away from a 15+ year friendship. 280k @blind_feed

How much house can I afford? ifdejmeVyd @ Meta Net worth of $6M Household TC is $2M No debt My financial planner says one number, I have a different number in mind and my wife has another number of her own. None of us can agree. @blind_feed

Who the f**k are over bidding 200K house.bble @ Amazon My parents here in US worked a normal non tech jobs and afforded a beautiful home in a decent location. My souse and I make 300K+ and still are getting priced out :( Who are those morons bidding 200k over ask price even for a 50 year old house? What the fuck is government doing? RIP house market. RIP American dream. #housing #mortgage #seattle @blind_feed

Bitcoin is a first decentralized Ponzi scheme. ¯\_(ツ)_/… @ WW Bitcoin is an innovation in gambling, not finance or technology. By bitcoin I mean all crypto. @blind_feed

South bay is the most depressing shit CmJS30 @ eBay Coming from a metropolitan like Delhi/ Mumbai, South Bay is the most boring shit you can be in. Life is dead after 7. How do people survive here? I can only see highways and offices. It’s crazy to see people actually buying homes worth 2M$ in San jose, Santa Clara etc. What’s really there here to like? Get a life folks. I feel sorry for what you have to adjust to. @blind_feed

What is the point of all this papi-jhapi @ Meta Been thinking about life recently. We're taught in school to work hard, get good grades so that we can have a professional certification/college degree and then be able to attain the promised land of work. Then we work, with the ups and downs, job changes, relocations, layoffs, etc. 30+ years of this until we squeeze enough money in those brokerage accounts to have them work for us and enjoy the rest of our life. Then we retire for some period of time and get some golden years before health goes downhill -- and we die. And most of us live lives of quiet desperation in the meantime. Being a bit philosophical here. What is the point of life? Friends/family/hobbies/relationships? Those are important, I agree -- but family alone doesn't give life inherent meaning. Neither does a particular hobby, nor friendships all by itself. @blind_feed

Net worth at 33 varirvbell @ Amazon What is/was your net worth at 33? Including real estate equity. @blind_feed

East Asians look down on Southeast Asians? WtTX36 @ Splunk -East Asian = Chinese, Japanese, Korean -Southeast Asian = Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Laos, etc. As a Vietnamese person myself, I’ve felt a discreet sense of superiority from East Asians. Most of the times it’s not exactly vocalized, but I felt the sense of disapproval from East Asians. Like they wanted me to know that Vietnamese are not the same as them. In my high school, the Koreans got along very well with the Chinese. The small number of Japanese also fit into their group, but the disdain towards Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians was quite palpable, even if it wasn’t as obvious. Any other Southeast Asians have similar experiences? @blind_feed