Thoughts on flying for a vacation? In terms of safety. Going stir crazy have not left the apt since March...

What’s been your most impressive/successful salary negotiation when you’ve received an offer? Did you manage to get way more PTO or other perks?

PHEV (specifically, RAV4 Prime) yay/nay?

Expected use case:
Family car
Low mileage (<10-11k / yr)
4-5 days a week expecting less 30 miles per day
Weekends 100-200 miles altogether (occasionally)
Rare road trip use (1x or 2x / yr; <300 miles one way)
Have garage (to charge at home)

Chief Concern: "Best of both worlds" in engineering can mean compromises and complications, which can mean non-resilient/unreliable. But I'm no gearhead, so not sure if I'm making massive incorrect assumptions.

Does Oracle have holiday shutdown?

For those who have started traveling again... I recently started flying for work and am noticing increased discrimination on Delta Airlines. As a brown person have experienced that in the past, but lately it’s blatant. I’m a diamond and a million miler however, I see more and more out of turn upgrades. Have you experienced and what dis you do about it?

Have you ever taken a trip to Israel? If so, what tour company or guide did you go with? Considering a trip later this year or next year

Booking a last mintue trip to India over Christmas New Years. Anyone have any tips on best places to book business class? From JFK.

Key West advice. Looking for a 3-4 day stay in February. Hoping to add this as an extension to an already planned trip so don’t want to spend to much money. Everything seems so pricey for not great value. Any recs on stays / best activities, let me know!

What's the best luxury points hotel in Kyoto? Deciding between the Suiran Kyoto and the Ritz.

Current Titanium member, so considerations are service, hard product quality, location, and elite recognition. TIA!

Hi- in conversation to make a move, but curious what the total package looks like for an experienced associate? (PTO days, 401K and pension?) Also, is there a paternity leave program? Thanks!

Paris hotels… which would you prefer?
a) Four Seasons
b) Hôtel Plaza Athénée
c) Mandarin Oriental
d) Shangri-La Paris
e) Ritz Paris

Help! I told my SO I’d let them know before I go to bed tonight. And I have totally procrastinated.

My friend and I were hoping to do a quick getaway to warmer weather this weekend (we live in Maine, so we're already freezing)! Our usual getaway is a quick trip to Florida but that's obviously not happening this week. Any suggestions for an awesome warmer place on a budget?

I'm trying to make the most of my time off from the hospital, but I just can't seem to recharge for life stuff and errands, how do you balance work and life?

27 F, Indian, Sunni Muslim, In USA from last 6 years. Works at Deloitte.

Open minded, eat halal, non-smoker, non- hijabi. Love to travel. Pray, Fast and give Zakah on regularly.

Willing to relocate anywhere in USA.

Any Hilton recs in Charleston?

I’m trying to decide on a hotel in the Maldives - currently choosing between the W Maldives and the Park Hyatt Maldives.

Does anyone have a perspective based on experience?

Just a quick tip for everyone traveling - always take a picture of your receipts.

Does anyone have a good literary/tips to Turkey they could share?

Looking to traveling from NY for 7-8 days, TIA!

Any openings in third party due diligence/ background screening? I am also pursuing CFE. Thanks!!

I am a technical recruiter with three years of experience. I am currently interviewing at a series B tech start up located in CA for a fully remote position. I am currently in Texas and don’t have to pay state income taxes. I am making about 90 K and would love to bump up my salary from there. My question is, what is a fair salary to ask for that will factor in both the new income tax and a raise? My other question is what is a fair salary in general for somebody with three years experience?

What is happening? Projects having budget problems and then cancelling the projects, teams moving to bench because of that

Have a friend who is at an engineering PhD program. I'm trying to help shape her resume, but would love a second look from those that understand the differences in grad school recruiting.

Is it too late in our lives to jump into a mortgage?

So my fiancée and I are relatively late in terms of finally landing well paying jobs and being able to save money instead of living paycheck to paycheck. We’re both 36 and currently rent a 2 bedroom in NY and have a combined savings of $35,000 which she wants to use as a down payment on a condo. I kinda just wanna continue saving while renting. I also literally just started contributing to my 401K so I’m also late in the game for that too.

How do you keep from getting discouraged while job hunting? I’ve had 3 final round interviews in the past month and gotten passed over each time. Their reasoning is always “we went in a different direction”. Each of the interview processes was 4-5 interviews so it’s a big time commitment and really gotten my hopes up each time.

How do you guys get your perm experience letters signed? My firm requires some specific experience on the letters. How have you navigated it? Specially with EY/Deloitte?

Thoughts on CIP and it’s note taking structure? Have you deviated from it or should one not break what’s not broken?

For a 3 Year Experienced React Developer shifting from Service based company which is better Comcast or Verizon? Pay wise 1.5 LPA is the difference between two companies. Designation is same. Both have variable pay upto 10%.

Any recs for insightful and well written books on entrepreneurship? Friend is trying to launch his own startup so I’m thinking of sending him a relevant book as part of a thank you gift

What are current life science boutiques offering employees with 0-2 yoe out of undergrad? Trinity seems significantly behind market norm

If I decline health insurance at IBM, do I get a cash payment? I have an offer from another firm that gives me $5k... does IBM give anything?

(Wife has free health insurance via her city job)

What is the org structure at TCS from consulting stream?
As in I have been offered C2 system Analyst with the work exp of 4.5 years... can someone please share the job level bands with comparison to Infosys Job level?

Gary Vee took credit for that baby nut commercial on Twitter. Love me some Gary Vee but not so much Baby Nut.

What sort of equity stakes do management teams at PE-backed companies typically get?

ACD/writer level freelancer? Have awards and new business pitch experience I’m based in Denver/Boulder.

Hoping for a bump at next review. Should I mention it now? Will either kick epic ass or fail massively in the next few months.

Learning cloud architecture right now so apologies if these are obvious questions: Best ways to store video metadata to perform analysis on it? I'm looking at AWS and GCP. Saw that Cassandra would be good for it, but not sure what the GCP equivalent is? But also I'm a bit confused on if Cassandra is just a DB and storage would need to be elsewhere? All help is welcome! I've been spinning my wheels on Google trying to understand

How do I contact United with a complaint/ request for points? Is there an email address?

Cynical Tuesday - just realize all this time, what pushed me forward was intrinsic motivation. At the end of the day, my hard work was not recognized, I was given a petty raise...no extrinsic motiv

When you check into the Westin and they say welcome home and you know that's weird but it's kind of soothing

Any WWE fans here?

"I will show you where there is some nice furniture" Wtf? Do not understand how anyone can support this tool

What percentage of DDs can I expect in MBB PE practices? Took part in several recruiting events and HR said I would work also on other related project types, but not sure how common that is vs. DDs

Anyone recently have a McK EM round 1 fit interview? Recruiter says it’s only the fit portion and no case until round 2. Not sure I 100% believe that. Have heard about a cold call case, or is that just at the BA/associate level?

My female FB fam: Will soon be trying to conceive, but nervous as I will have to stop my ADD meds (Adderall/Vyvanse). Has anyone been through this? How did you deal with fatigue on top of no meds?

Anyone have Chairman's club status with Avis or Platinum with Hertz? How are the benefits compared to Presidents with both Hertz and Avis

Anyone have any recs for self help books? Looking for more relatable topics to myself I guess?

Screaming child at back of plane - 8 AM flight. Was supposed to sit towards the back due to late booking. Thank God for Comfort+ upgrade and noise cancelling flight. Disaster averted 😎 Happy Monday!

Sheraton bed or the Westin bed in terms of good night sleep? In other words, If you had to buy one which one would you go for?

Hi everyone, anyone who experienced the work-life in it consulting company in Hamburg? Thanks!

Can you mute people asking about two MBAs?

Anybody at the Westin Michigan Ave this week? Drinks?

Any good recommendations for books on management techniques? Trying to understand how management manipulates junior employees.

When DC metro delays cause your in-city commute as long as a flight to Chicago 🙄

Best consulting firms to work for that will allow 100% remote work indefinitely regardless of what clients do?