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- link Airbnb wants you to clean toilet!!! https://www.indy100.com/article/airbnb-rules-list-toilet-bathroom-twitter-9009801?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1563393575 i found it hilarious though😂
- link Airbnb Says Its I.P.O. Plans Are Back on Track https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/technology/airbnb-ipo.html Mr. Chesky closed the meeting by declaring that Airbnb is back. “We’re not committing to going public this year, but we’re not ruling it out, either,” he said. “When the market is ready, we will be ready, because Airbnb was down but we
- How is Airbnb? Comp, interview process, wlb Seriously considering applying to airbnb because I like the space. Burned out at a current east coast saas making only around 220-240k. (Principal pm with like 12yoe). What to expect for airbnb process? How is wlb there for PMs? Good target comp? Mostly just thinking it won’t be easy for me to ge
- Life time cap in terms of number of interviews allowed? Like if you failed two on site interview opportunities, then you won't be allowed to try for any openings of same role in the future. Does anyone of the FAANG or PULPA company have such kind of rules? Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix Pinterest, Uber, Lyft, Postmates Airbnb, etc.
- What tech companies besides Coinbase is not woke? Kudos to coinbase who recently implemented a no politics rule at work. Sadly nobody else has the moral courage to follow. Do you know of other tech companies that are not woke and politically neutral AND pay at least Microsoft not Amazon TC? L63, $240k TC, 7 yoe. #tech #google #facebook #snap #ub
- vote H1B transfer Let’s say you found a new job and filed for H1B transfer to a well known tech giant in bay area. In the prevailing situation where government is toughening up the rules, would you still join the company on H1B filing receipt? Referring to companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn, Uber, Am
- Design referrals for Spotify/Apple Currently a product designer in Microsoft India, looking to move out of the country (preferably U.S, but hard given the pandemic and visa rules) to work on a more interesting product. I've liked Spotify, Apple and Airbnb for design teams, but I'm open to suggestions! TIA 🙂 TC: ₹71.5 LPA YOE: 6y
- vote How do you feel about neighbor renting on airbnb? I purchased a townhome, no HOA, but the sellers didn't disclose that there is a covenant (community rule) that says no short term rentals. I rented a spare room on airbnb to help with my mortgage. A neighbor (couple) seems very unhappy about it, they put an aggressive note on my door saying I should
- Relative Order of Difficulty of SWE Onsite Interviews From your experience, what is the order of difficulty among the following companies for L4 equivalent roles? Google, Facebook, Databricks, Doordash, Instacart, Snap, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Robinhood, Coinbase, Snowflake, Plaid, Stripe, Brex, Square, Amazon, Microsoft Rules 1. Commen
- Can H1B be a part of an LLC in USA? I’m planning on partnering with an American citizen on his Airbnb business (rent properties and then rent them on Airbnb) in California. I’m on H1b so I can’t be actively involved. I have a few questions: 1. Can my name legally be on LLC as well? Are H1Bs allowed to be a part of LLC? My American
- Internship offers: Dropbox vs F/G, Msft, Bloomberg, Uber, Airbnb For context I interned at F/G last summer and have a return intern offer. Have offers from all above companies except Airbnb (waiting to hear back). I'm personally ruling out Msft, bloomberg, and Uber (didn't seem to vibe with Uber during interviews). My main question is how is Dropbox these days?
- Anyone doing a bicoastal living thing? The lifestyle has always appealed to me. I like the classic NYC and LA, but NYC and Austin, San Diego, Seattle all sound cool. Just curious if anyone has pulled this off? Is this realistically possible without being a high 7 figures net worth person? New York has tightened the rules on Airbnb, so b
- link Apple makes unexpected concession on 30% App Store fees. Apple will temporarily drop its contentious App Store fees for businesses that have been forced by the pandemic to pivot to online-only events, in an unexpected concession after increasingly vocal complaints over the rules of its store. The exemption, which lasts until the end of the year, will aff
- Help me pick I'm interviewing this month and next and seemed to oversubscribe myself. I'm looking for caliber upgrade and $. WLB is non factor. Help me rule out companies. Doing: g, fb, u, amz, lnkd, lyft, snap Unsure about doing: stripe, dbox, zillow, apple, sift, voleon, citadel, two sigma Need help on the
- Request for Summer internship referral Hi guys One of my friend is pursuing computer science at San Jose State and is looking for intern opportunities for the summer. She started her search late, intern roles at big companies such as fb,airbnb, goog etc are already filled up. She has prior experience as a backend developer, is pretty g
- Invest $150k in real estate or bonds + index funds? Hey Blind, I’m torn between buying a condo or investing in a mix of bonds and index funds. I live in the Bay Area but will be moving to Europe in 5 years for family reasons. If I buy, I could rent out the condo until I’m ready to sell in 15-20 years but I’d then assume risk by having to hire a pro
- Can you help me sorting the best companies to apply to? I am trying to rank companies where I want to apply. My target is to maximize first (TC, WLB) and then (reputation, growth opportunity). So far I have: - established and safe, good WLB/TC: google, netflix, dropbox, twitter - healthy pre-ipo: stripe, databricks - healthy post-ipo: twilio, square - hi
- link Bootcamp Success Story + Pointers on Negotiation Hey Blind, When I was attending App Academy a few years back there was a story circulated that details a very inspirational account of someone who was able to get multiple offers from top companies (as a SWE fresher out of bootcamp). He was able to leverage these offers to get 250k TC -- keep in mi
- vote Startup that depends on web scraping? I have an idea for a startup that I believe would have a net positive impact on society, in particular, for a vulnerable group of individuals. However, enabling this would require scraping large amounts of metadata from a large social media company. Nowadays, there are many high-quality scraping se
- link Competition: A new acronym to keep your SWE career on track It's long past time for us to move past the outdated FAANG acronym as there are literally dozens of companies consistently paying $300k+ in liquid comp to newly hired software engineers with 5 years of experience or less. We need a new acronym that captures all of them. Post your new acronym below!
- link Machine learning engineering and ML systems design resources master list Hi Fellow Blinders, I'm trying to make an ultimate thread of recommended ML/ML engineering resources. Contributions much appreciated. I'll add them to the OP. Looking for anything, from resources for learning machine learning theory to deep learning to the latest trends in ML engineering and system
- vote Compare FAANGMULA to the Ivy League YOE: 12 TC: 780k Is a joke? Yes Now that we have the important stuff out of the way, onto the fun because it's performance/holiday season and I'm procrastinating. Facebook - Harvard. Fitting that Zucc went here. Everybody still wants to go here, it has the name brand, prestige, and controversy. An
- Blind sentiment about issues at FAANG Spending about 2 weeks on blind for the first time, this is what I've gathered from most posts about the common issues in Faang companies. Would like to get a more clearer picture about how the market is right now FACEBOOK - Perm processing held up due to lawsuits AMAZON - Pip culture and terribl
- Ultimate Thread of European Places to be in as SWE There isn’t much discussion on European-based jobs instead US-based ones, so I decided to make a thread which will constantly be updated for future references. Please comment with your comments and I’ll add them to the post. Let’s compare different countries and cities in Europe, and compare all of
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- link SDE guide to getting the best offer - part1 This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ___________ I left Microsoft some time ago. I switched job several
- 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
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5
- Referral Needed Looking for a referral. I need a fully remote position for personal reasons. I do not mind sharing why in my DM. YOE: 16- leadership roles. Do not mind being a individual contributor. Do not need to be a manager but I am great with people. Current Title: Capacity Planning Manager Education: Master
- Anyone hiring SDE with 1 year experience Anyone hiring SDEs with 1 year experience. Currently at Amazon and don't like the team. It is impossible to move within Amazon at L4 level. #tech
- vote Should I buy stocks on or after Election Day? What you guys think? #Amazon #Apple #Google
- Rationale behind a 15-min interview, and what to prepare? I've got an interview scheduled with a hiring manager of a BB bank and was told by HR that the call will be a 15min. I was curious who has had experience doing a 15min interview as an interviewer or /viewee and can share what was the focus of the call during the short timeframe. Also, if you were th
- Facebook referral Hi, Can someone refer me at Facebook for a SWE position? Really appreciate it! #tech #software #referral #job #opening
- vote How Much Are You Spending on Healthcare? I realize I'm spending a ton on healthcare (premiums + out of pocket). I have a couple of health conditions but I'm not dying. I'm averaging about $1100 per month this year. How much do you spend per month on premiums and out of pocket combined? #healthcare #health #personalfinance
- H1B appointments in India Reaching out to understand the current situation with H1B in COVID. I visited India in 2019 December and got H1B visa (previous employer) on my passport. I started with new employer in February 2020 (with new H1B) and have not visited India since. I have a few questions w.r.t. this: 1. Do I need to
- vote Did you take PTO to Vote today? 📩