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[OFFICIAL] Salary Sharing thread :: December, 2022

2022-12-25T11:52:12+00:00

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Cancelled Interview - Nvidia

2023-01-28T07:43:29+00:00

I had a technical interview scheduled at Nvidia in the coming week. The recruiter called me yesterday and said that the interview was cancelled and that she'll provide more details about why it was cancelled in the coming week. Anxiety is getting the better of me and I thought of asking here if anybody experienced something similar or knows possible reasons for such a cancellation. I finished the first round with the hiring manager and the second round was cancelled. Could it be because they found someone already for the position?

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Research Engineers in ML, How is your job?

2023-01-28T08:19:59+00:00

Hello Guys,

I am starting to look around for possibilities in ML Research and I am struggling in understanding if I can do something that I like (staying on the edge and pushing boundaries but also creating something real) with a master's or if I should go for a PhD.

Is it more likely that I will finish doing SWE for research or that I might actively contribute to research publications?

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Want to leave SAP (Golden Cage) in Germany and work at a more exciting place. What would you recommend?

2023-01-28T10:25:31+00:00

Firsts of, it's great working at SAP but since Covid there is a hiring-freeze and almost no promotions which makes the day-to-day life less fun & exciting and the overall mood is decreasing.

On top of that this week they announced layoffs. Maybe a second round will follow. Who knows?

I know the industry got impacted a lot by Covid and the recession stuff but I have friends in smaller companies who desperatly need new talent as they have a full pipeline of features and customers who pay willingly. So, there is demand as it seems.

My question is if you could recommend some companies here in Germany where one could apply which offer better compensation, maybe also stock options and where the overall outlook is better.

Thanks!

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What is a normal time range to accept an offer for an ML internship?

2023-01-28T09:43:55+00:00

I received an offer for an ML internship at a startup-ish company on Friday afternoon. They want me to accept the offer by Monday evening, and start by Monday next week. I had their interview mid week. This is not really realistic, as it requires me to relocate to a new city, find an apartment there etc. I don't like and appreciate being pressured in a hasty decision, especially as I am waiting for other responses and I am in the pipeline for other interviews. I applied to them end of november, and they ignored my take home assignment for about 2 months after I sent it back.

I would assume that a 2 week deciding timeline is usually standard in the industry, but I might be disilussioned (like with many other things in life). Any advice?

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Non-EU student, where should I go

2023-01-28T12:48:48+00:00

Hey guys, 24F from Bahrain here

Long story short, I'm a developer with only one year of experience in telecom as operations support, besides that I've done few internships in development, but that's about it. I'm currently due to start working as an information analyst soon. The problem here as a female in the middle east I'm finding it hard to get hired in IT for obvious reasons.

My end goal is to move somewhere with more freedom and be respected as a professional, so my plan is to do a masters in data analytics somewhere and hopefully not come back. My budget for this is about 31K-36K Euros for a year or two. I speak French, English, and Arabic - willing to blend in and learn any language.

That's it pretty much, any countries you can recommend where the job market is open to sponsoring someone from my background afterwards? As for example some students in the UK said it's difficult and they come back home eventually.

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what job title to put on my LoR?

2023-01-28T12:25:13+00:00

I've been working part-time (to my studies) at a company as a "Data Scientist" but basically have done near zero actual data work while there. For the most part, it's been Front- and Backend software development.

Now that I'm parting ties, I'm getting a LoR (Letter of recommendation) of what I've done and how well I've done that job.

I'm wondering if it makes sense to have them put "Full Stack developer" or something as the position instead of DS, since that will tie in better with my past experience and skills. Also think it's easier to get a FS dev job instead of DS.

What do you think?

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Shooting myself in the foot?

2023-01-28T00:39:31+00:00

I'm a recent grad who's joined his first real-world company less than 2 months ago. I suffer a bit with anxiety, fear and self-doubt as well - so I struggle to have an objective view on how well Im actually doing. I trust my manager/superior enough, so yesterday when we were leaving work at the end of the day I asked him if I could ask him a more or less personal question and then (after he said yes) I asked if I was doing anything wrong. He obviously said no, and that I was doing great, but I really dont see what he could have done other than that at that time.

Am I seeing things wrong? Can I assume that I'm probably doing things right? Is this a "no news is good news" type of thing, where I'll probably only get called out if I mess up? Was it awkward to ask my manager that?

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How to find really flexible working hour remote positions?

2023-01-28T11:01:15+00:00

I am a first year student from Poland in one of the western European countries. I've been working remotely for a game dev company (based in Poland) that allowed me to work whatever hours I wanted to (as long as they summed up to 40 a week) and even on the weekends. Being a student on a decent university with a big amount of work I am unable to work "normal" work hours, yet I need to earn at least some part of my monthly expenses (my current job covers 80% of it, which is nice). Soon I'll might need to change my workplace, as my company is facing some issues and there might be some layoffs. Is it a really unusual practice for companies to allow employees to work 100% flexible hours? Where is the best place to look for jobs like this? Do companies in the US hire devs from Europe (this way I could always work after my classes I guess)? Thanks for all the anwsers.

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Opinion about Barclays?

2023-01-27T19:43:26+00:00

Hello everyone. I received an offer for a summer internship at Barclays in Glasgow, UK: 9 weeks as a "Developer Analyst - Intern" (i.e. as an SWE as far as I understood talking with the interviewers). I would need to relocate from the EU, they provide VISA sponsorship.

TC: 41200£/year pro rata.
Signing bonus: 2000£.

What do you think of the company and the program? What about the compensation? Thanks!

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Cost of living in Barcelona is 44k gross enough for a single guy?

2023-01-27T13:54:22+00:00

Got an offer to move there, the recruiter told me it's roughly 2620 euros per month.

I'm a single guy with no kids, is that enough for having a decent quality of life there?

By the way, I earn pretty much the same in my home country but life is extremely cheap here.

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Pressure to accept an offer

2023-01-27T10:06:08+00:00

Hello all,
I'm in a bit of a limbo as to what do I need to do as the company (I think it's the recruiter) pressuring me to accept an offer just within a few days.

I currently work as a junior level games programmer and I am soon promised to be promoted to be a mid level programmer plus project lead. I love what I do but the problem I found is that I am getting massively underpaid. The company is relatively new so they don't have a budget to fund the employees atm and I understand that but it's also not helping me financially.

I love the company culture, how they listen to every employee's concern and make changes according to our feedback but again it's the pay that's making me a quite unhappy for what I can do in my current tech stack, how much work I put in, how much the management understands the difficulties that arise with this particular tech / framework and how much I've really put into this for them.

Now I applied for other well established companies via a recruiter and I got an offer just 2 days ago after months of multiple interview and technical test processes. They're offering me 10k more than what I'm earning currently. They're saying if I accept it right now and stop talking to other companies, they'll offer me 10k from the start or if I take my time in accepting the offer, it'll first be 6k during my probation period and 10k after. Which in itself seems quite "different" as the way I see it, it should be the full amount regardless. But I may be wrong with this so please correct me if that's a common practice.

Now this is alarming as I've asked the recruiter to let me have a think about this for at least a week because this is a big life changing decision. I am literally going to be changing cities to live and work from there for the long term and this will mean a lot of changes in my personal life and it is a big decision. I also want to think it over about smaller things like making sure I'll be okay with the company culture change as like I said it's going to be a long term employment and other personal life changes that comes with this big move.

I've not been able to keep in contact with the company directly and the recruiter has started to call me daily and email me multiple times a day about the pressure of that extra money if I accept it right now and wants an answer by the next 4 days max. Which I think is absurd as to how can I make this world turning decision in just the span of 3 days and if this is the correct way of pressuring a candidate into accepting an offer? The recruiter says it's because the company is really excited to have me and it's also good for that extra money.

This raises a few questions:

If the company is that eager to make me accept an offer that they go to tactics to give me the full money if I accept it right now and if they need manpower that desperately, doesn't that come as a red flag as it could be because people are leaving their company so often they need new employees RIGHT NOW.
Is it really the company that's pushing me to making these decisions within a spawn of mere days or the recruiter pushing to get their pay check? If it the latter, should I directly get in contact with the company and ask them if I can get at least a week to think this through because I can't make this decision this harshly.

If I don't like how they're pushing me, I may just decline it. As besides the money, I do love what I'm doing at my current job.

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Palantir full stack engineer interview: How to prepare?

2023-01-27T22:16:31+00:00

I have an interview scheduled with Palantir for the position of full stack engineer. Wanted to ask what the process is like and what's the best way to prepare?

The first interview is going to be with an engineer from the company on HackerRank. I was expecting it to be on Karat though

Also for context, I haven't done LeetCode type problems in a while although I am good with data structures, algorithms. What would be the best strategy to prepare in a month?

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Poland Advice.

2023-01-27T21:55:38+00:00

Alright folks, I'm moving to Poland in few weeks for work (non-tech) as an International, it's a 3 months thing with option of extending ... so my question here when my contract expires and they do not wish to renew, is it possible for me to apply to a college and pursue a CS degree there and also extend my stay ? it was always my dream to study cs.
Thanks.

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How to professionally mention layoffs as in company being completely shut down?

2023-01-27T06:13:39+00:00

My company is shutting down, normally we were planning smaller layoffs and was told I would be of one of the only ones allowed to stay. But earlier this week, we were told we're trying to find investors or we're shutting down by next week.

1y7m of employment at one place might not seem much, but I worked 50-60 hour weeks during that time.

Most companies seemed to have paused hiring with exception of VC-backed startups

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I made a career change into my first software engineering job two years ago - I'm now writing my CV and thinking about applications, how much (if any?) space should I give to my previous career?

2023-01-27T14:28:48+00:00

As the title says, this is my first software engineering job so I haven't really had to do "proper" applications before now (I did a training scheme with the place I currently work, so the application for this job was slightly more lightweight).

I'm not sure what employers will really be looking for in applications - my previous roles (of which there were 3 main ones since graduating/before switching careers) were varied but mainly a mix of policy and campaigning stuff, event management and stakeholder relations. I think there's lots of really useful transferable skills that I gained in those roles, but am unsure how best to make them appeal to hiring managers in this new line of work. If anyone has any guidance or similar experience, I'd really appreciate it.

Edit: I'm London-based, if that makes any difference!

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Seeking advice regarding Career

2023-01-27T13:31:38+00:00

I have a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and MBA in Marketing with some knowledge of Data Science and Visualization. I have had a few hiccups in my career and after a gap of 3 years, I have started working as a Frontend React Developer. Looking forward I am seeking advice from you on what paths I can pursue that can leverage my unique background.
If you can guide me a bit I would be really grateful.

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Cost of living and salaries in London/Europe

2023-01-27T02:25:26+00:00

So, I’ve wanted to move to Europe or London for years now. But then the pandemic happened and in that time I climbed in my career and standard of living.

In Australia with 3 years experience as a SWE, I’m on £58,000 and my rent is £1,100 for a 1 bedroom apartment with a car park in the trendiest neighbourhood.

From everything I’ve seen in Europe and London, the salary is less and the cost of living is higher (except Switzerland where I’m not allowed to work).

Am I getting this wrong? Are there ways to get a salary that means I’m not lowering my living standard if I move to London or Europe?

I’ve also been on this salary for 2 years now so it’s not a good feeling to get a pay cut when you feel you’re due for a pay rise.

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Italian IT Consulting Firm Avoiding Taxes?

2023-01-27T13:18:56+00:00

I'm Italian and living in Italy. I work as a Back End Developer in an SME IT consulting company. I've been contacted twice on LinkedIn by a major Italian IT Consulting firm through recruiters living and working abroad (Switzerland, Uk), speaking in English but offering jobs in-office (not remote) in the main city area. To clarify: not abroad. Office locations were in the biggest city near where I live. They were also looking for people with an active VAT Code (Partita IVA in Italy), which I know is required when working for a foreign Company, but as I said, the company is based in Italy, and they also have an office in this city (although there are other offices in Italy and outside the country).
I think it's weird. Is this a new trend in Italy or in other EU countries with relatively high labor costs? Are they trying to employ human resources through their offices outside the country in order to benefit from lower taxes and lower labor costs and to bypass annoying Italian "CCNLs" (nationally regulated labor contracts)?

EDIT: I'm just curious about the reason to operate in such a way. I'm not sure. Tax avoidance was only my first hypothesis, as, in Italy, employment through the VAT code is generally more convenient for the employer than the standard labor contracts.

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Is doing a postdoc a good move?

2023-01-27T07:21:29+00:00

I'm going to finish my PhD (in Machine Learning) soon, and my goal is to work at top companies as a researcher. I applied to some research positions but I only got the typical rejection email. Meanwhile, I was offered a postdoc in a very interesting topic, which I would enjoy a lot. I thought that I could use these two years to improve my skills and hopefully publish in A* conferences, which should make me more marketable, balancing for the two years that I "lost" while doing the postdoc.

Is this a bad idea, provided that I'm not looking for an academic career? Is accepting a ML Engineer position (not at a top company) a better move?

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CV Review - Machine Learning Engineer / Softwar Engineer

2023-01-27T12:00:01+00:00

By the end of the last year I finished my Masters in Data Science, and now I am looking for entry-level positions as SWE or MLE, as I don't want to work as a Data Scientist, as I'm more into the software side of things.

I've been improving my C++ skills (as I'm more into Computer Vision), leet coding here and then, learning more about CI/CD and tools frequently used for MLE, and everything I can while I'm not working.

The problem though is that I have been invited only to very very few interviews, could you guys help me improve my CV?

https://imgur.com/a/8RNEMjP

Unfortunately I know I haven't had prior experiences as a SWE, but I'm looking for an entry-level position exactly because of that, and I know I am knowledgeable enough for such positions.

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What are some green flags for a company?

2023-01-26T15:07:49+00:00

We often talk about red flags, but what are some green flags for companies in your opinion?

For example: at my current company I've seen quite a few people that left, come back later and rejoin later.

People on long term sick leave with a period of being sick often, don't get fired. Only people being shitty in their job for way to long getting fired.

Companies investing in your education. Good onboarding processes etc.

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How to proceed with my career?

2023-01-27T11:59:23+00:00

Hey there, I've been working as a freelancer & part-time junior .NET dev for the past 2 years while still going to high school. I'll have graduated in May 2023, which will allow me to start working full-time.

I have a strong motivation to change my current workplace as I feel pretty stuck there knowing I have no one to learn from (the only other person on my team has even less experience than me, so…). Plus a couple of organizational issues that the management remains indifferent to.

The issue is, I am unsure what to look for. I feel somehow experienced knowing that I've delivered small e-commerce systems as a freelancer and I am doing pretty well at my current workplace. I can guess that a high school graduate with 2 YOE on their resume sounds doubtful and nobody will believe that. So should I aim for entry-level jobs? And is it the right time to look for a job? Or should I wait until I'm closer to graduation?

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Electrical engineering to software engineering? (UK)

2023-01-27T00:17:53+00:00

I’m in my first year of a 3 year electrical engineering degree in the UK. I’m enjoying it well enough but I’ve started to realise I enjoy the software side of it much more than the rest. I have no trouble enjoyment wise continuing the degree, but I have questioned whether I should switch to computer science. My uni would let me, but I would have to repeat my first year. Cant decide if it’s worth it.

It’s a fairly diverse degree, and there’s plenty of opportunity to do more software and programming in the later years, but at the end I will nonetheless have a BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and I’m sure will be under qualified for many engineer jobs. But can that be made up by independent learning and/or a masters degree?

Just looking for any advice people have to make my decision. If I am to switch, I need to let my uni know sooner rather than later.

Thanks xx

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booking.com offer: salary evaluation

2023-01-26T17:06:16+00:00

Experience: 5 yoe Field: sr data engineer Salary: 90 k eur Bonus: 15% Location: amsterdam

Hi everyone, this looks a bit low when I compare the people that share their salary in booking.com. what do you think?

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UK: I'm looking for advice on how to self-learn and then get into tech

2023-01-26T19:43:27+00:00

Hi,

I'm in the UK and have no degree, but after doing a bit of HTML coding to see if coding etc, interests me, I'd say it definitely does. Of course, tech has fields which are very different from, and harder than, HTML, but I'll cross those bridges when I get to them.

However, now I'm having trouble pinning down what specific things would be best to learn. Hence, I'd appreciate if anyone could advise me about this, as well as point me to some good learning resources.

Web development, software development and the cloud are areas that look interesting from what research I've done.

But, please direct me to any other good fields, e.g. which have the best earning potential

Lastly, I'd prefer a remote role, but if I had to be based somewhere, I'd choose Glasgow, for various reasons.

Thanks

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