Unfortunately, for a North Indian gay man, there is no place where I can relate to. I am too western/LGBTQ for my Asian colleagues and too Indian for my white colleagues.

I have worked in industry a few years and have plenty of Indian Telugu “friends in FAANG”* so I can speak on this. You are totally correct in that there is blatant nepotism among the various groups of Indians in tech. They have created a nepotist monopoly among every large and small tech company they become a part of.

They will only train, promote, and hire those belonging to their group (Tamil/Telugu/Chinese) and see those not a part of it as strangers that cannot be trusted. These groups of people are very tight knit populations and see other people in it as brothers and sisters. If they were to choose a candidate to hire and they chose a person not in their group over someone who is, they will be shamed by their family and community.

It is a terrible system for US natives to have to deal with. I am Indian too, North Indian though. We don't have anyone who favors us as usually its South Indians or other Indians from a specific caste/ language group.

Many of us do bring specialized skillsets to US and work hard, paying a lot of taxes and following law religiously. I think what is needed is a stricter HR and tech labor regulation to curb nepotism, favoritism and bias

I tried to move internally in Amazon US and was on L1 visa. I wanted to move to a managerial role to get EB1C as H1B lottery is evasive. I spent 5 years at Amazon in another country.

However, my next hiring manager (new to Amazon) told that he would collect feedback from current manager and I thought that he will only ask if I was on some focus plan (which makes me ineligible to switch). But my current manager gave negative feedback and the hiring manager decided not to take me.

After all this, my current manager decided to FOCUS me due to 'poor performance'(in his words). Later I came to know that every manager has a fixed firing quota/stack ranking and they generally fire employees who are unable to hide their plan about switching team.

Nobody shared these hidden processes with me.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest feedback because I feel like I’m missing something.

I have about 4 years of IT consulting experience at a Big 4 firm straight out of college, and I’m still there. Throughout my career I’ve done a lot of work that’s closely aligned with product management—working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing features, writing user stories, leading workshops, coordinating testing, and helping drive product delivery. It’s the type of work I genuinely enjoy.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been applying (on and off) to Product Manager and similar roles at larger tech companies, but it’s been incredibly difficult to even land an interview. The only notable exception was making it through Meta’s interview process once.

I’ve had multiple recruiters and experienced professionals review my resume, and the feedback has generally been positive, so I’m starting to wonder if the issue isn’t my resume.

A few things I’m wondering:

• Is the PM market just that competitive right now?
• Is coming from consulting instead of a tech company hurting my chances?
• Should I be targeting Associate PM, PM, Technical PM, or another type of role?
• Would joining a smaller AI startup first make it easier to eventually transition into big tech?

Ironically, I get contacted fairly often on LinkedIn by AI startups, but I’ve always been hesitant because I’d prefer the stability and scale of a larger company.

For those who successfully made the jump from consulting into tech PM, what actually moved the needle for you?

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any advice.

Looking for any advice or opinions as I feel completely lost and exhausted:

I have been wanting to get out of Texas for a long time. For context, I grew up in Austin, loved it, but always felt like I would regret it if I stayed here forever.
I have no kids, no responsibilities, and I feel now is the time to get out of my home state and try something new. Also, in 2021, my family moved to OR, and so that was another motivating factor for me to eventually leave.

I got a job in tech straight out of college, but based in Dallas. **I hate Dallas,** but the job has been good so far and pays me really well, so I took it. However, within the last 4 months I have been looking for ways to transfer to our other office in Santa Clara.

I was able to apply to an internal position and got it (yay) and now I am moving to CA in August.

I am so excited: excited for a fresh start, excited to be closer to family, and excited to be near my boyfriend who just got a job in the bay area as well.

**However, the housing hunt has been so stressful, I’ve started to grow pretty anxious about the entire move.**

I have talked to numerous people about where to live. Many recommended at my age to live in SF, but I have to be in office 4 days a week and the commute is too much for me. Especially coming from Dallas where I already spend 50% of my time sitting in traffic.

I’ve started looking in Sunnyvale/Mountainview/Santa Clara/North San Jose and surrounding areas - but it is insane. My max budget was set at $3k, and even then, it’s hard to find decent, clean, livable 1B1B apartments. Almost everywhere I look online has a plethora of negative google and yelp reviews: even places with 3k+ rent have complained about pests/crime/theft etc. Wtf?

Based on my new salary and relo bonus, I thought 3k would be plenty for a good place, but now I’m starting to think I might have to pay 3.5k or more… which basically leaves me no room for savings at all.

I’ve tried looking for roommates in a variety of online boards/facebook/etc, but I have two kitties, and finding roommates who are okay with 2 cats has been a challenge, so I’ve resorted to looking at 1Bs.

Anyone who is local to the south bay: any advice on where to live? apartment buildings that are within this budget that are clean and safe to live in? as someone coming from out of state, what neighborhoods do I avoid?

The housing search has been unbelievably stressful, so any help would be greatly appreciated. ♥️🙏🏼

Why do single people in tech in Silicon Valley always live with flatmates?

Is it always better to find a flat-sharing person for psychological reasons, even when its difficult?

Hello everyone,

My name is Paul Singh and I am a Journalist in the Bay area writing a story about the rising number of Gen Z adults who are cutting off their families. About 60% of Gen Z adults has cut off a family member. There has been videos on Youtube and TikTok about this topic with the hashtag #ToxicFamilies reaching 1.9 billion views on TikTok. I was wondering if there were any Gen Z adults located in San Jose, South Bay or Silicon Valley that I could interview Friday morning?

I Get Why Everyone's Chasing AI Overviews.

It's obviously changing how people search and in many cases, reducing clicks to traditional organic listings.

Now because click through rates are way less marketers started looking for shortcuts.

Some tried scaling AI-generated pages.

Others doubled down on parasite SEO.

Some built content specifically to attract AI citations rather than help readers.

And there's nothing wrong with that but I know for a fact Google has spent the last two years updating its systems to identify manipulation—not AI itself.

I would just like to know what is the future of marketing or better yet the strategy?

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Anybody got any ideas here?

So, option A is: Hoard it like a dragon and sell tokens well below big tech's costs. This is my "go to plan" because it's legitimately carbon copied from the Uber Startup, that was really ultra toxic and tons of people really hated it. So, that feels like good plan to me because then Silicon Valley will get to experience what it feels like to have your jobs deleted by a bunch of jerks.

Option B is: Open source it, which blows big tech's LLM plans up on the spot. This plan is "the funniest," but I don't think it's the smartest. As much as I hate them, and as much as they deserve it, I simply just don't hate myself enough.

Option C is: Full on hoard it like a dragon, but use it to replace big tech's products. Because this is an actual linguistic analyzer, it can do a lot of things that LLMs can't do. So, I can just pick up some percentage of the people that they ripped off their mega scam.

I would say that working with big tech could be an option, but you know after observing their behavior for decades, I just don't think that's something that sounds like something I'm going to do.

Anybody got any ideas on what to do with what is effectively the same thing as LLM tech, but it's not a mega scam?

I'm kinda stuck right now, honestly. There's so many evil things to choose from.

I mean Mark Z's Disneyland for Pedophiles seems like a good candidate for vigilante capitalism. So, he thinks that kids and pedophiles belong together? Let's be serious, nobody actually cares if that company goes bankrupt correct?

Let's all plan this out: What company deserves to get obliterated because they're a bunch of jerks?

All of them, or just some of them?

If you think I'm not serious, I am, so let's talk about the future.