Interview coming up and it’s over Zoom. I typically use noise canceling headphones for work but I look funny with them on camera. My laptop’s audio isn’t great so I want to use headphones (so that the interviewers can hear me well and reduce background noise), but at the same time I don’t want to look like a gamer on interview day 😑. Do I need to invest in some AirPods? I’ve used bootleg ones but they always fall out of my ears (there’s nothing I can do about my funky ears unfortunately)

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Heading out to NYC to meet up with fellow founders in the tech space. Currently, working on a 1v1 coaching company with tech professionals. Think the senior engineer of slack doing monthly coaching calls. If interested, DM me.

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Nothing infuriates me more than being stood up in a job interview. It doesn’t matter it’s on Zoom 😡

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How to stop taking feedback so personally? I am trying for a promotion and getting the not-positive feedback is a real killer for me. Thank god for zoom or I would be tearing in the office :/ Any tips?

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Client: Please revise.

Me: *Revises the way they want.*

Account Lead: Can we add both versions so they have them?

Me: Okay? *Adds both versions*

Client: Please revise.

Me: *Finds that we gave them those edits already*

Account Lead: Can we add both versions so they have them?

Me: They already have them, they clearly didn't look at the link.

Account Lead: Okay, but could please add both versions?

Me: *Walks Account Lead through the papertrail over Zoom*

Account Lead: Add both please?

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Confession: I just took a 10 minute surprise zoom call with a taco in my hand. I couldn’t put it down or else it’d fall apart so I just held it while I talked. I thought it was off screen but someone mentioned in a confused tone “Um, is that a taco in your hand?” Yup, yup it is. It’s lunch time, mind yo business 🌮

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Skype calls pick up lot of background noise from ceiling fan or even AC

Suggest any earphones or other solutions

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I guess we know why Elon wants everyone back in the office. Can’t get laid over Zoom I guess!

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**off topic**
What do you prefer to wear in a zoom/teams interview?
A formal shirt or just a plain T shirt

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**off topic**
What do you prefer to wear in a zoom/teams interview?
A formal shirt or just a plain T shirt

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There are 2 types of people:
1) When they speak at the same time with others in a Zoom meeting, they say you go ahead.
2) When they speak at the same time with others in a Zoom meeting, they just ignore, continue, and speak even more loudly.

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My fiancé (35F) and I (47M) are lovers of all things McKinsey. The only people we associate with are at McK and we have attended every McK Zoom event. We’re wanting to get married in a McKinsey office somewhere near us, perhaps Chicago.

Does anyone know how much it’d cost to rent out an entire McK office for an entire weekend? We’d have the rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and then wedding ceremony and wedding reception. Thinking also of having a full 3 course meal served by the Partners themselves.

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I’ve recently interviewed via Zoom with two different individuals at a company. The feedback I received from the first was “great conversation, clearly qualified, but didn’t wow me”. The second “great conversation, valuable skill set and experience, but lacked energy”. Any tips on how to “wow” or come across with more “energy” via Zoom?

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We Are Hiring!

Systems Engineer (JR154545)-6-8 years previous Salesforce application development or support with a minimum 300-seat environment handling full scope of CRM, case management, and platform maintenance. Salesforce Administrator (201) and Platform Developer I

Data Engineers, Slack (JR155003)5 years of experience designing, implementing and maintaining relational / data warehousing environments (custom or structured ETL, preferably working with large data environments)

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Does your boss monitor your “last online” time via Teams/ Skype etc to check how late you have worked until on a weekday or whether you have worked during weekends?

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Do lawyers investigate? Why am I seeing job postings with Zoom, Meta, IBM, and other large companies asking for "investigations attorney" or "counsel, investigations"? I thought attorneys practice law and criminal investigators do the latter? Can't post in the law forum, I don't have access. Is a law degree desirable for conducting investigations?

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Who here has a job they actually enjoy and works with a team that is enjoyable to be around even on teams or zoom? What is it that you do and how did you get there?

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You get a slack/teams message, you’re not too busy, and you see the message.

Do you:

A. Respond right away.
B. Wait a little while so that it doesn’t seem like I have nothing better to so.

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Getting really tired of having to pick up the slack for an older, technology-challenged co-worker and then I’m the one that get chewed out by our boss because I don’t “coordinate” well enough. My work is always done, I double check things before I submit them. I’ve been at my job for 3 months while this guy has been there 6 months. I’m doing the job of three people while he can’t manage to do one. I snapped today and called his bs because he wanted to table another project.

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My manager and I have a 1:1 every week. The conversation always revolves around them asking me 1) what I’m working on, 2) its respective status and 3) how I could work faster. I want to slack off as much as I can so I’m having trouble thinking of how I can slow down progress without raising red flags. Advice?

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Anyone use fidget toys to help keep you focused (especially on Zoom meetings)? …and if so, what fidget toys do you like?

I just got this infinity cube thing from Amazon but it’s not as satisfying as I’d hoped.

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Staying in the office just so I can have office background on 2:00pm Zoom meeting. Then, I’m outta here!!

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Hi there! Anyone have advice for dealing with a toxic team? Management is very sparse and attrition is high.. I’m leaning towards finding a new job because I’m getting nightmares about Zoom calls and work emails.

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I have a zoom interview today but I’m not wfh. What is the best way to do this? Should I go home? To a coffee shop? Stay at work? I realize I am likely overthinking this.

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What type of firm does a board of directors or CEO hire when it’s dealing with a major controversy or issue? (Eg Uber w Travis issue, Zoom, etc)

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Getting lots of interviews, which is good
I would usually work from home and do the interview over teams/skype/etc.
But my work are very anti WFH so I'm running out of excuses not to come in

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Getting lots of interviews, which is good
I would usually work from home and do the interview over teams/skype/etc.
But my work are very anti WFH so I'm running out of excuses not to come in

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Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India Hi Fishes, Happy Sunday ! I have offers from @zoom india and Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India for DevOps SRE role. I have 5 years of exp. I am bit confused with respect to learning pace and onsite opportunities. Kindly share your inputs.

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Should I go for Software Engineer at Zoom or SDE-2 at Zeta ?

Base salary and bonus are almost same but Zoom is providing more RSUs vs less ESOPs at Zeta.

YOE: 4 years , Java/Spring Backend Developer

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Should I go for Software Engineer at Zoom or SDE-2 at Zeta ?

Base salary and bonus are almost same but Zoom is providing more RSUs vs less ESOPs at Zeta.

YOE: 4 years , Java/Spring Backend Developer

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Can anyone pls elaborate the hiring process in JP Morgan? How many rounds should one expect if first round is zoom call?

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I dun understand how human mcbeings can sit in a zoom meeting for two hours on a Fri and gaf. Like how that possible tf

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How’s the freelance market w/ zoom? More work all over the world? Can’t find good freelance help so I’m thinking about jumping in.

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When the intern is the first to join a zoom call with the client

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What do you wear during a zoom interview?

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How do people hang up zoom, teams, meet, whatever so fast? I’m always the last one to leave because my mouse cursor went missing or just not quick enough to hit that button.

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Recently I had a job interview at APCO in DC. The first interview was cancelled an hour before the interview was suppose to be held. I then rescheduled with the senior recruiter the following week via Zoom. The senior recruiter did not make it to the interview and her intern was trying to keep me on the phone for 15 mins out of the 30 minute interview apologizing on APCO’s behalf. The senior recruiter followed up with me and left a very insincere apology voicemail. I guess APCO is not for me.

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Does anyone know of any good CLEs that address complex issues re:multi-state employers/remote employees?

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I currently work at an international law firm (4 years) and recently accepted an offer to go in house. The main attorney I support did not take the news well and was very angry with me. I feel awful and beaten down as I don’t want to upset anyone but the new role is fully remote and a nice pay bump. Looking for words of encouragement that I did the right thing. I feel awful 😞

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Got offer from coforge.
Test Specialist role.
Is the test Specialist role equivalent to manager and
Is they provide work from home?

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Hi Fishes,
I have 1.8 yrs Exp and working in the Big data domain and have a few offers please help to decide on the comparatively better option based on salary, Work-life Balance, security, and Carrer Growth.

EY GDS: CTC 12 ( 11.20 Fixed )
Publicis Sapient: 16 CTC ( 14.5 LPA FIXED )
Neudesic (IBM) 16 CTC ( 14.5 FIXED + WFH Remote Complete )
PubMatic: 22.70 CTC + 2 lakhs Joining Bonus ( 16 fixed LPA + Other benefits, stocks, etc )

It will be very helpful if you can suggest with some reason.

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Have a formal offer at Citi for 120K as an AVP in the NY office. Currently making 92K at my current role where I feel there’s not much room to grow anymore. Is this a fair offer? I currently WFH pretty much full time at my current role which has been amazing, but it seems like Citi would require me to be there 2-3 days in the office per week - and this is something I’m very hesitant about. Thoughts on how to approach this?

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Does anyone need a hr coordinator, or entry level talent acquisitions coordinator that is 100 remote? Remote jobs are extremely competitive and when I find job posts on LinkedIn there are already over 100 applicants. Very competitive!I am open minded about salary,I have so much interest in expanding my skills. I have about a year of recruiting in the staffing industry and 6 months as an hr assistant for a corporate/manufacturing company. MA in Hr and will be testing for phr in July. Thank you

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What's the story on getting a remote part time job at a company that isn't a client of EY? Will it be breaching any independence rules (or any other type of rule)?

CSM in Adtech, looking for comparable salaries in tech space for CS/CX

- 10 years experience
- 2 years in current CS role with enterprise accounts
- Operations lead / Ops experience promotion
- Remote

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Incoming analyst at McK next month (US office). Are consultants expected to be in office right now or is the firm still doing WFH?

I've been living with SO in another city. Want to know when I should move back to the McK home office city.

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Hello there.
I am a junior front end developer(2+ years) and doing my Masters in Information Systems now. How possible is it to find a remote job at UK?? Living at Greece and working for company at UK. Except freelancing...

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Hi fishes, I have joined new organization 2 weeks ago and I think have been low bowled in terms of compensation. Now I got 2 offers which are better than what I have joined. How to deal with such situation. I am not greedy but joined 8LPA with 4.3 yoe.. is it okay or less? FYLI can't abscond as I have company laptop (WFH right now).
Please guide me guys..

What’s it like in RSMs North American Service Center; currently have an offer for 100% remote.

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If there is a case that we have to quarantine again. Do you all think it is possible for store associates to work remotely? If so, what are some ways this could work? I fear another pandemic or outbreak and so many people being out of work again. I can't even fathom those that had jobs in retail that had little to no choice to not be remote.

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I was recently laid off and I am actively search for a new role. I am mainly targeting ScrumMaster, Product Analyst, and Business Analyst jobs, but I am open to others.

Must be located in Austin, Texas or fully remote.

EXP
5 Mo- Business Analyst 3
1.5 Y- Venture Capital Associate
1.5 Y- Strategic Planning Analyst

Certifications
ScrumMaster
Specialist Accounting and Finance
Specialist Business Intelligence

Contact
737-707-5156
ajaspercannon@gmail(dot)com
www.linkedin(dot)com/in/jcstrategy

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Cognizant Recently cognizant have changed their internet wfh allowance policy.we use to get 1800 per month as internet allowance without submitting any bills or transaction details. Now they changed the policy as we need to apply for icici/axis/hdfc credit card from there we need to make the transaction and reimburse the same. I am ok with everything but why i need to apply for credit card? How a company can force me to have a credit card? It will directly/indirectly alter the credit score right? Cogniza

I’ve been a freelance print production designer for many years, and usually on-site in the before times. Now I work remote, and am finding it uneasy dealing with billing. Before I always billed hourly, which made sense, but it’s becoming an issue now. Some companies don’t have a full days’ work, so it seems wrong to bill full days, and it allows me to juggle projects for different companies, but my billable hours are down. I know I should bill a daily rate, but not sure that will fly. Thoughts?

Are there actually tax cuts switching from home office in NYC to Hoboken?

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Hi Fishes, I am looking for a role in data analyst/Business analyst/product analyst with Hyderabad as location or WFH.
Experience: 2yrs as Senior Analyst at eClerx
Current CTC: 11LPA
expecting CTC: 14LPA+
If you have any vacancy in your company please let me know
Thanks

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Looking for an entry level remote tech position. Honestly not picky, current TC is 111k anything close to that would be appreciated.

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Can someone explain how billable hours work? At a new agency and although I had to fill timesheets at my previous agencies, they were mainly used to ensure we weren’t over servicing a client/for setting the appropriate retainer for contract renewals. I asked ppl at my agency but haven’t gotten a proper explanation. I get the impression that billing to the agency admin code isn’t recommended, and my manager said he bills everything to client codes, but that doesn’t make sense to me .

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Which cloud MasterCard use for big data?

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Hi Fishes, I am looking for a role in data analyst/Business analyst/product analyst with Hyderabad as location or WFH.
Experience: 2yrs as Senior Analyst at eClerx
Current CTC: 11LPA
expecting CTC: 14LPA+
If you have any vacancy in your company please let me know
Thanks

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Hello, I've been working as a Healthcare Consultant for over 4 years now & I am currently a Consulting Manager near the Philadelphia area seeking an opportunity in NYC. Anyone know anything avail?

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What's a guilty pleasure you indulge in at work?

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Looking to learn coding. Any thoughts on learning code through a website like Udemy, CodeAcadeny, etc.?

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Hello Everyone,

I have not shown my first company's experience in resume as I don't have experience or relieving letter. Will it affect my background verification. As I have provided the UAN no. and other details on Infosys launchpad.

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How much time did hsbc will take to release offer letter after 2 rounds of technical discussion?

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Can someone from mphasis refer me for the position of react native. Thanks

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About me: Clinical engineering degree 4 years of bioprocess engineering working with stem cells on bleeding edge research and development. Launching products, patents, collaborations etc. $75k/ year. Health and dental. No profit sharing. No equity.

Is anyone on here in life sciences / biotechnology industry with insight on which direction to pursue within this space for a large salary. Can anyone give insight on the potentials of a career in this space financially?

Thank you for your help

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When will we able to see payslip in portal?

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Hi folks , what’s the salary range for Wipro Europe development centre (iDeas D&C) for B3 level Sr consultant ?

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If I was interested in looking for a job outside of law that was more consulting oriented, what kind of recruiter would I use?

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What’s average salary in ID firm mid size (NY) about 350 attorneys ? Class of 2019 but was in public sector (criminal law) for 2 years! 2000 billable hours minimum

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Hi,

What will be the in hand salary for this?

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Did anyone have offer revoked by JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard upon renegotiation basis new offer (before joining)

Appreciate any insight.

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