Whether you're staying put in your current role or exploring a new opportunity in 2025, I am curious:

Which resonates more with your experience?

"The grass is greener on the other side"
OR
"The grass is greenest where you water it"

Drop your thoughts below. I am looking for some career wisdom and lessons learned!

To make job referrals easier, I am making a sticky thread where job seekers can post what roles they're looking for and people who have openings in their organisation can post their requirements as well.

This will make it easier to browse through all the available opportunities in a single thread.

Please feel free to post job referral related questions, opportunities, etc under this pinned post.

What drives people to answer stackoverflow questions? I love them for doing so, but when will I feel the urge to contribute?

Hi everyone looking for refferal in data science and analytics domain.

Yoe- 2

Tech stack - SQL, Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit learn, Dash), NLP, AWS (Athena , S3 , Lambda) , Pyspark, ETLs, Elastic Search, Databricks, Excel, C, C++,HTML ,CSS

Looking for good learning opportunities to develop my skill set and grow financially.

I have a interview with Qualcomm for Embedded firmware development. Can someone suggest the interview rounds and expected areas for the interview. I am purely into automotive domain and the opportunity is totally new.

Also please leave a heart so that I can dm others for referrals

Interested about PDM stats. Like if you got a comp adjustment and comment if you didn’t.

Any suggestion on relatively cheap neighbourhood for a mid 20s couple in london? - - Preferably less than 30 mins commute to Green Park/ bloomsbury/ holborn area.
- Would prefer not to have to worry about being stabbed on the street.
- balcony or a garden would be nice
- dont care about schools etc, wont have kids for a while

Would 15k per month be a bit too low to live somewhere that ticks the above conditions?

wondering if any consultants here have switched to IB? And if so, what’s the process for doing so!

Hi all,

The status on my ibegin portal of TCS is showing evaluated. What is the meaning of this? Salary discussion is done already. How much time will it take approximately to receive the offer letter?

Would like some opinions about how likely it is to make product analytics self serve by PMs? Anybody have success here? Or is it hopeless to think that product managers can pull their own data, look at their own dashboards, and do basic data tasks themselves?

Do you think Ellen Degeneres will have a comeback?

I work in higher education, for a private university in the Midwest, and will be asking for a promotion to Director of Social Media. I would like to gauge what salary or % increase I should be asking for.

I'm coming up on 1 year since I was promoted to Assistant Director. (I was promoted bc the previous director left, but the truth is I'm not assisting anyone, and I've been running our university's social media for the last 3 years, with stellar analytics EVERY year since taking over.) TIA!

Is it a bad idea to leave tech and try something else if I want to go back to tech eventually? For context I have the opportunity to move to London and pivot into a new field for me but the job is at an agency. I know I’d want to eventually go back to tech but paranoid it’ll be more difficult - thoughts?

Anyone currently (or previously) at BuzzFeed LA? What’s a reasonable range for a Senior Client Services Manager? Should I think of it as an SAE role use that to guide me ($65-$75K)?

Switching from PDM 2 to SpM, should I expect a pay adjustment?

Currently booked on AA DFW-EWR on Monday night. What are my odds of getting on the 7:20 AM flight on standby with same day flight change? Worth trying? Original booking is at 6:27 PM. Thanks y'all

Just moved to San Diego. Anyone wanna get together??

Soooo it just dawned on me the other day that people do their job for money not for fun…. Even in tech…. This is kind of an epiphany to me

Is it a bad idea to leave tech and try something else if I want to go back to tech eventually? For context I have the opportunity to move to London and pivot into a new field for me but the job is at an agency. I know I’d want to eventually go back to tech but paranoid it’ll be more difficult - thoughts?

Have any of you enrolled in or completed the Penn MCIT program and be willing to chat about your experience?

Happy Monday afternoon to everyone except to those recruiters who ghost job seekers 👻

Hey folks! Anyone know of any charities that encourage girls/women in tech & business that need volunteers in Charlotte NC ??

Which cities or states would recommend to move to for Cleared Tech Professionals?

Besides DC, MD and VA. Currently live in that area now.

For anyone who cracked the leetcode questions. I’ve been going at it for months but spend hours trying to get to a solution and hours trying to understand why the “answer key” works. Can someone please share how you learned these questions? Probably going to give up and switch careers soon.

Leaving Amazon saved my life. I spent over seven years at the company and after about 6 months I began experiencing a lot of stress-related things like hair falling out, tension in my marriage etc. All that is gone now. I feel so free.

What is the most you spent on at-home office furniture and do you hate yourself for it now that you're returning to work?

Just wanted to know how much a resource promoted to SA from A will make in Chicagoland area Vs a resource traveling from India to US in the same designation as SA in cognizant. YOE 11years.

Started at a big firm in July with high hopes- in the career path I wanted and I would be joining with other new grads.
After onboarding, it’s as if my team forgets about us every day. The training is non existent, there doesn’t seem to be any initiative to invest in new hires, my manager scolds me for not knowing enough yet gives no direction. I don’t want to waste time (colleagues mentioned it doesn’t get much better from here). Do I embrace the suck or look for other opportunities?

Hi,
I just want to understand how the recruitment works here in Canada. I applied for quite few openings but nothing is clicked so far, even Though my profile matches quite all criteria. How much a referral can work here, I tried to reach people in LinkedIn but most of the times I won’t get an answer for my ping. I literally feel annoyed and distressed. Can you please pour your ideas how we can actually search for a recruiter in LinkedIn and how to approach and how to atleast get single intervie

How much does a support advisor make at shopify?

Interviewing with a start up and they use equity shares. Is this the same as rsu? Quick google search showed no definitive answer.

Serious question… if I am interested in becoming a CTO/CDO one day, what should I do for the next 5-8 years to prepare for this? Are there specific roles in tech that prepares you for a CTO role? I am currently in sales engineering with over a decade in consulting experience.

Hi all- I’m a first year staff who works in Forensic accounting & compliance. I am almost at 1 year in PA, & have come to terms that this career is not for me. I am a creative at heart & interested in working in the music business/ tech industry. My PA experience has provided me with hard skills, which is why I think it would be a great segway into the music biz & entertainment industry. Please react/comment if you are in the music biz/tech field. Would love some advise on how to pivot!