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- vote Github vs AWS India YOE: 7 Current TC: 46L AWS TC: 62L (L5, SDE2) Github TC: 68L (Grade 9) As of now i am leaning towards AWS coz expecting better quality of work and scale (Yea i know about ops load and PIP). Please suggest #amazon #microsoft #github #engineering #software #swe
- Do all Amazon engineering teams use CodeCommit instead of GitHub? Do all Amazon teams use managed services from AWS instead of 3rd party like GitHub?
- AWS Networking System Design round Hey All, I have been preparing system design concepts for My onsite interview with AWS Networking team but most of the system design preparation was from YouTube videos, github links, and AWS blogs. I kind of feel lost now when I think what should I be focusing on if I am giving an interview to AWS
- GitHub tech interview process Got an tech interview for Github. The role is a Professional services Solutions Architect. What should I expect? Any tips you wanna share, I’d appreciate it, DM if that’s the case. Currently L6 at AWS #tech #github #interview
- vote Life after AWS I think I'm done with the AWS pain and I'm considering options for my next step. I see great engineers around me burnt out left and right and I'm well on my way to burning out myself. Plus most people here are mean (being mean/aggressive is a plus in my org), the kind ones tend to be pushed out un
- Looking for Referrals for Canadian companies I am a security consultant with AWS ProServe looking to move to Montreal, Quebec. I’m looking for referrals there. YOE:9 (2 at Amazon) TC :90k€ #apple #asana #shopify #lyft #slack #uber #dropbox #pinterest #docusign #coinbase #moonshotfactory #openai #scaleai #github
- NYC SWE roles I'm finishing my PhD this spring. I've worked as a software engineer throughout grad school (part time) and done systems-ey research. I'm doing onsites with AWS and Google right now (this week), and I've prepared quite a bit (LC, books, etc), but I know it's hard to predict how that'll turn out. An
- [India][Remote] List of good Remote first companies actively hiring in India My current employer is starting to pressurise on coming back to office. The freedom that comes with remote work is quite hard to give up. Please help out in creating a list of remote first companies in India, sorted in order of great to worst WLB. Areas of Interest: Python, Golang, Microservices,
- Amazon AWS referral Looking for a referral. Hi guys/girls I am currently a Data Scientist for a large engineering company (~ 2 years experience) with 3 internships and an engineering degree from UT Austin (3.8 gpa) as well as personal GitHub work and am looking for referral for a few positions that fit my experience an
- GitHub Interview Question - Software Engineer I have applied at GitHub for a senior software engineer role and they have put me through to the Technical Exercise stage. They have mentioned in the email it’s going to be a Data Storage API and it should take around 2 hrs with a time limit of 5 hrs. What exactly are they looking for in the Data s
- Seeking referrals for policy or program management roles Seeking referrals for policy/program management roles at #google, #facebook, #patreon, #bumble, #microsoft, #uber, #airbnb, #zillow, #lyft, #pinterest, #youtube, #instagram, #whatsapp, #aws, #amazon, #github, #discord, #reddit, #slack, and similar companies or large foundations. 10 YOE in consultin
- @Github Why not charge for breaking rate limits? Maybe I'm just dumb but this seems like a big missed opportunity. Github currently has rate limits for their APIs. They could make billions of dollars if they just charged for people beyond the free/enterprise/etc tier. They allow for increasing the rate limit, at a price proportional value, just li
- Referral Hi folks It’s time for #Day2. I would very much appreciate referrals to any FANGMULA or to any product based company that has offices in EMEA or APAC. Currently working as a Software Engineer at AWS. LeetCode: 150+ YOE: 1.5 year Please drop a comment so that I can DM you my info / just DM me.
- Wharton MBA Alum Seeking Career Switch into Software Engineering Hello All, I have had roughly 10 years of experience in the business field with various roles in Investment Banking, Corporate Development/Strategy, and Brand Management. As someone who minored in Computer Science, I have recently decided to pursue this college passion and switch into software engi
- Take home assignment reject despite doing everything right Recently I interviewed with a Unicorn who gave me a take-home assignment. Despite doing everything right (professional submission with unit test and getting the right result), I was rejected. I have posted the coding challenge on github -> https://github.com/awsanonymous2021/backend_traffic_ana
- Referrals for Mid/Senior Data Engineer Hi all, I'm looking for referrals for remote data engineering and cloud engineering roles. Just finished a terrible wlb faang job, so looking for a less extreme team. YOE: 4 years TC: $180k Mainly have experience with Airflow, AWS, python/pyspark, and dashboarding for ads and ecommerce. Please
- Terminated due to accidental posting of org code into public github As a cloud architect I was looking to assess a service called “code guru” from AWS and in excitement of trying this out, I put one of the “cloned organization codebase” in my laptop into my github accounts public repo. It was there for 5-6 hrs before I received a security operations email escalating
- Twitter Product Management Offer - Help? Hi all, I received a “verbal offer” from Twitter yesterday and was given some general ranges. First formal offer will come early next week with the real numbers. The role is under dev exp and seems like there’s a lot to take on there and difference to be made. Original posting was at Senior/Staff a
- Feeling a bit lost in job hunt. YOE: ~2years TC: 120K Hey guys hope you're doing well! So I've recently been on the hunt for a new job, I've done initial prep work with getting some cloud-based certifications in AWS and GCP, and have added some projects to my GitHub, I've updated my resume three times now. I've recently been apply
- Source for Software architecture videos, tech talks, papers? Hi Blind community, Does any one have any good sources to watch videos or tech talks from employees/architects from the actual companies talking about the design and infra of their own products?? I found this really cool YouTube channel called InfoQ which has some videos from people from Instagram
- Amazon recruiter, front end engineer (fee) vs sde Im definitely mostly a front end engineer but worried about the title being different from sde and a different interview experience than the swe kind ive been preparing for. So id be down to do full-stack, but am i qualified for it? Nothing in my work history with java/c#/c++ or object oriented des
- What is the achievement of Satya Nadella? Microsoft has a massive Indian population and almost all Indians will tell you that Satya Nadella is "kicking ass". But I fail to see why. Let's see positives. Today MS is posting lot of profits (which they did even under Steve Balmer). And yes there is lot of positive press (acquired Github, Min
- Referrals please for PM / TPM roles Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MBA within finance and graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science. Full-Time Network Operations MGMT Engineer / Campus Ambassador. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I do not need any sponsorship! Past Experience: I’ve done sever
- Roast my Resume Hey, brilliant people of Blind. It's yet again time to take apart someone's resume, no hard feelings whatsoever. I'm aiming for a position that's bringing me closer to FAANG as I'm currently not able to penetrate the Big Tech Bubble (with my current company) In the first year, I started working a
- Referrals Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MSBA, graduating in December 2021. Have an MBA in Marketing and engineering undergraduate degree. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I can work without sponsorship for now! Past Experience: Data Analytics, product analytics and Sales
- Fall 2022 Internship Hey everyone! I'm a junior . I have worked at Verizon and interned at AT&T and will be interning at Amazon Web Services in the summer. I'm looking for Fall 2022 Project Management or something similar internship/co-op referrals. Please drop a comment so that I can DM you my info. Thanks in advance
- Referral for Product manager job in Canada (PR holder) #product Hi Blind Community, I just joined Blind and was awestruck - what an amazingly helpful community, what superb level of information/knowledge on various topics (my interest for now is in job-related ones). I am looking for #productmanager #product referrals. Please help with referrals for F
- System design interviews when you've never built a distributed system System design interviews stress me out a lot because I'm basically faking them. I don't mind the ones that are more like google doc tech spec designs because I actually do those at work (e.g how would you design the "someone is typing" feature for slack). But the questions about how I'd design youtu
- How to get $1M in bonus? I keep hearing of stories of how folks are getting millions in bonus equity grant at Facebook & Google. Are these stories real? If you are one of those people who got $1M bonus/grant or more, can you please tell me what role, level and did you really have a massive impact? I know that, at GitHub,
- Am I noob for using Github Desktop? Recent PhD graduate doing my first job outside academia. Quite good with ML modelling/research and implementing stuff. Put a few big things into production. When I started my job my engineering skills sucked hard, but now they are much better, and I could push things quickly, when there was a real n
- Rest and Vest at Microsoft? Earlier, I was working with Amazon (AWS) for ~5 years. I worked on great new tech and learnt a lot, mostly in backend development with Data intensive applications and distributed systems. However, lately WLB/Growth was pretty much screwed and hence decided to leave. I joined Microsoft ~3 months bac
- vote Can't Decide Where to Work Based off What People Say Here? I've been reading in blind for a while now and heard that people hate it at the following companies: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, auth0, Dropbox, okta, capital one, jp Morgan, Cisco, Netflix, twilio, Disney, roku, Adobe, indeed, Nvidia, eBay, Intel, amd, LinkedIn, PayPal, Uber, lyft
- Student's Google Cloud Credentials Stolen - $14k Bill Hi, Recent college grad who used Google cloud (maps API) in a school project. Someone has stolen the credentials (not sure how, I suspect one of my less bright group members put the whole project on his GitHub, but no one would admit it). In Jan 2019 over the course of <2 days, someone hit the
- Workday Senior Software Development Engineer I am having 4 years of experience and I do have coding Interview with workday, what kind of questions I can expect from Interviewer? Is coding Interview is generic in workday or depends on project requirement? I am sharing job description below, so that you will have an on Idea for what position I
- Wife looking for MLE/DS co-op starting Jan 2021 (3-8 months) At present, She is a graduate student in DS, northeastern university, seattle campus. Previously she did her bachelor's and masters in mathematics from Delhi University, india. Prior to masters in usa, she tried a startup in blogging space for 2 years but failed and before that worked for 3 years
- How relevant are code metrics at startups? Startup is transitioning from consulting team to inhouse developers, few red flags (hiring manager gives me a 40 minute spiel upon first introduction, frontend is riddled with bugs and many features broken/unfinished), but also stuff like recent Amex partnership. Me and one other dev start (he is r
- Seeking Referral for SDR Role - Transition from Legal Marketing GREETINGS! I am seeking a referral for an SDR/BDM role for any of the below companies. I have done a lot of research of where I would love to start my sales career and the full list at the end if anybody can help/offer guidance! Any help much deeply appreciated and happy to chat further. #Google; #
- Non Traditional Path to Google L5 SWE I've been on blind for a little over a year now and with all the negativity, I wanted to (hopefully) share some positive encouragement for those looking to break into FAANG. As the title states, I had a very unconventional path to ending up at Google. My undergrad was in Physics. Sure we had to tak
- Need to escape the black hole of a Government job TLDR: TC: 99k YOE 7, hate being underpaid and need advice getting into the private industry. I work for the government. I moved up the ranks and gained a lot of respect in my organization but I realized too late that I should have gotten out a long time ago. I've always been a high performer at wor
- 50 Reasons Kubernetes Sucks TC: fo-fitty To those that actually believe, really and truly believe this hype driven PoS with so many issues they had to distribute the parts because the sum of which would = failure. There is no honest person that can say k8s is a great platform. Here are 50 reasons why it sucks, and will cont
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away