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Amazon Hack
- Apple amzn supermicro Hack ? Who would you believe Bloomberg story or Amzn n Apple denial on the hack ?
- link China hacks Amazon and Apple I’m offended! Why did they not try to eBay?!? http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-apple-hacked-by-china-through-microchip-2018-10
- Amazon LP: Frugality : hacking scenario will backfire? I'll have an interview at Amazon. While preparing for the LP, especially Frugality I have a rather quite awkward story. Once, I was working on the integration of a customer service desk of a well know provider. There was only one official account and multiple consumers in my team. The expected deli
- PRC hacked amzn and appl at the hardware level. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
- vote Leaving Amazon marketing job to go to Hack Reactor? Been doing marketing for 8 years and cannot imagine making emails and webinars for the rest of my life, so I’m considering quitting and going to a boot camp to become a dev. Hack Reactor appears to be the most respected on Blind. Do hiring managers take boot camp graduates serious? Do I stand a c
- link Capital One was hacked by a former female AWS engineer. 100M customers may be affected This is what would happen if you hire tons of new grads to work with critical data and services... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-engineer-arrested-capital-one-hack-affected-100m-people/amp/
- HDE vs SDEs … God Bless Tech Industry How the hack entry level SDEs (code 🙈 - and really bad ones) make twice what experienced HDEs make? I have seen this across multiple devices org within Amazon. Is this just peculiar to Amazon or rampant across Tech industry? #tech
- Share your favorite SWE interview hacks Share your hacks that you think give you an edge, whether you used them during the preparation or during the actual interviews. #tech #interview #hack #tips #google #facebook #apple #amazon
- link Ouch...black day for cloud companies and their secure story https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-capital-one-hack-data-leak-breach-paige-thompson-cybercrime-1451665
- link Is Bezos going to PIP someone over this? https://theintercept.com/2021/03/29/amazon-twitter-hack-union-jeff-bezos/
- Buying Tech Books Any hacks on buying tech books cheaper? I see all titles $35+ at Amazon.
- Flash Crash Check Google, Amazon, and Apple stock prices all are showing 123.47. Glitch or hack?
- What was behind Alexa laughing? Did Amazon get hacked? Simple mistake in the request? Why is the laughing on the videos so creepy?
- Amazon Prime Air Recently got contacted to start the process of an Operations Scheduler for Amazon. Any insight on interview process or compensation? Experience: 8 years Live in NYC Position in Seattle Bachelors in Supply Chain Currently have same job title Mainly interested in compensation/relocation hacks as
- vote Saying “Hi” from the non-tech side Hey, I just want to say hi from the non-tech side and maybe gain some feedback about my plan. Sorry for my broken English, not a native speaker. Recently doing a bootcamp with Hack Reactor part-time online and I have 4 months left. Hopefully can break into the tech field this year. I learnt react n
- A friend of a friend What’s all this I am asking for a friend nonsense? Some legal get out in case Blind is hacked? Actually… From now on I will refer to myself as a friend of a friend. #amazon
- vote Displeasure w/ Amazon. Majority or vocal minority sentiment? As the title suggests. Is working at Amazon bad for most employees or only for the ones that can’t seemingly hack it and are about to be PIP’ed? Poll intended for current/past Amazon employees!
- Amazon QAE Assessment Recruiter sent me a link for QAE assessment have a week in hand … anything I should be knowing before hand? Or practice something? Thots/advices/hacks please! #amazon #interview #qae
- WLB and Good Engineering in Seattle? Been at FB 6 months and waiting to hit 1 year when I will leave. I am in Seattle. Engineering quality is just hacks all over the place in attempt "move fast" . I just sick of hacks and keep patching them and getting on call craziness. I am E5 with 10 yrs of experience. Criteria is good engineering
- Best strategy to enter Microsoft Hi All I am with Amazon as PM and want to switch to Microsoft. I have been trying for 4 months now ,no luck. I have couple of friends there helping me with referral. Any hack on how to get noticed to the recruiter ?
- link Amazon OA Need to hack really quick. Found something online but not sure if this is obsolete. Is this enough ? https://cybergeeksquad.co/amazon-oa-online-assessment-2021-questions.html Or Should I go over latest postings in leetcode ? https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question?currentPage=1&orderBy=new
- My crypto currency prediction 1: Some black hat will gain a temporarily controlling compute share of a cryptocurrency (either the chinese ASIC companies or a massive AWS/google cloud/azure... cloud mining to override the majority share and convince the network that some illegal transactions occurred). 2: They will then proceed
- vote Pipeline Ransomware Hack So—which cloud got hacked? https://www.reuters.com/technology/colonial-pipeline-halts-all-pipeline-operations-after-cybersecurity-attack-2021-05-08/ #aws #azure #dell #oraclecloud #gcp #tech
- vote Microsoft Security Team I don't think there's been a Quarter that Microsoft is not in the news for some hack. Microsoft pioneered alot of security practices yet it looks like they have a lot of misses in production. Google and Amazon are barely ever in the news. I am really curious why at this point
- vote How is the Amazon fresh team The recruiter seemed nice but at the end it became clear she's just a company hack trying to hit her numbers. How's Amazon fresh? Dumpster fire? Should I just join and then switch teams? Or is it good? Manager seems to have an attitude. Current 180k new Tc 250k. L6 product. I want That money but I
- How do I quit tech forever? I seriously want to quit working in tech but have student debt to pay off. My plan is to work at amazon for 4 years and vest and use that stock money to buy a house, house hack, and just keep investing in real estate and retire early. I love fishing and want to be a fishing youtuber instead and not
- Amazon sidewalk wtf? Hackable wifi through echo/ring? If someone hacks me through sidewalk would amazon bear liability? And no way to opt out if you wait till June 8th? Should i switch to apple homepod, given apple values privacy a bit? Please pip whoever top manager came with that idea
- vote Is tomorrow apple’s turn? Based on the pattern this week, each day one company in FAANG is getting attacked or having a major downtime. Yesterday F- fb services down (they say it was a BGP issue, but might be an attack, who knows) Today A- Amazon (twitch hack) Is tomorrow Apple’s turn? #tech
- Ex-Amazonians ruining Google culture I have seen two ex-amazonians who have joined my team in cloud in last 1 year. - During weekly standup, they never fail to mention that they worked over the weekend or working late last night (even when there is no urgency). - I have got pinged by them on late evening (after 7pm) and over the weeke
- StockX referral? Hi, I’m an Associate SWE with 2 YOE at Rocket Mortgage. I was very impressed with the StockX hack week presentation and was wondering if any SWE II opportunities are available? My experience is in Angular React (NextJS) Micro services & micro frontend architecture NodeJS, ExpressJS & Websocket ser
- Linux on laptop and distro name Want to have linux on a personal laptop Goal: to do some low level kernel hacking and some networking projects that need root 1: What would be a good laptop ( that i can buy from amazon ) 2: what linux distro would you suggest ? ( dont want to use dual boot with work laptop )
- Amazon London vs FB London I had joined Amazon London 11 months back on L4 with 3 yrs exp but yeah compensation wise FB E4 is much better(around 40 percent more in FB) I like working in Java at Amazon with AWS and all with okay WLB but I have heared that FB uses Hack framework for most of it's Development and bad WLB. If co
- why is linux so underrated? my first job of college and in learning linux. wondering why no one until this point stressed on it. from ssh-ing to shell scripting. ec2 instances to aws cli tools git to hacking.. its everywhere! tc 120 yoe 2
- Amazon On-site Interview I have an on-site scheduled next week. It is basically on Amazon chime. Anyone who has given an interview on chime, please let me know any hack for white boarding on the call. I am planning to get a while board behind me on the call discuss on that board. Will it work ?
- Super micro server hardware implants https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=premium-asia Any idea whether this actually happened?AWS and Apple vehemently denies this ever occurred
- sde 2 at Amazon with bachelors applying for mba I'm an sde2 at Amazon with a bachelors, 2 years of work ex and want to apply for an mba. (Brown ethnicity) gmat 740. please keep the general 'it is about the overall application' aside. I want to get into the top rung of colleges. how are my chances? also, any essay writing/recommendation 'hacks'
- Hack for a sde Hey everyone Currently a L5 sde .. my manager loves me and I was a TT last year and have been TT for 4 years in my 6 years tenure .. I am good at solving customer issues.. extremely hard working .. like work 20 hour days when needed. But I know I am a hack .. I have never developed anything amazin
- Google veteran program Hi blinders, Currently at Amazon for non tech and attending bootcamp hack reactor. What’s my ultimate goal , you ask? To be an sde at Google of course. Why you ask? So I can eat free lunch and dinner at the HQ. All joking aside, If anyone has experience joining Google using a veteran program, I wo
- Feeling that IPO fomo with Airbnb and DoorDash? Check out: https://iporegrets.com/ You've come to the right place! I've hacked together a janky ass website where you can see just how much money you missed out on by not joining companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, Snowflake, and all the other hot startups. So don't cry about how much money you might
- vote Leaving Meta, going back to Amazon I do wonder what I’m doing. Going back to Amazon though after 2.5 years to get some work done. Meta has much friendlier culture. Lot more peer pressure though. Lot more passive aggressiveness where people go build the same thing you are doing just to have something to show on their psc. Managers ar
- starting an ecommerce site in Seattle if I wanted to build an ecommerce marketplace like Amazon, what would be the right architecture to start building it on? would you use an out of the box solution and start hacking it? a simple OOTB solution like Big commerce wouldn't work for me because I need to be able to heavily customize the UI
- Companies that hire remote in Canada >200k USD TC I'm looking for a company where I can solve technical problems instead of working to growth hack a double sided marketplace until it's successful. I'm interested in the fintech space, but I'm not married to that. 4 YOE at various startups with Python, AWS, JavaScript/React and Rails experience. I'
- Joining FB (infra) and imposter syndrome I got an offer for Fb e5 infra and will be attending boot camp in 2 weeks. I have 6 yoe, 4 at aws and 2 at a no name small company. I think I just coasted at amazon and got lucky with features, I am no Java expert and I know Ruby. LC’ed hard and finished DDIA/Grokking and hit the E5 jackpot. But I
- link Oracle CTO insecure a bit? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/10/26/amazon-web-services-customers-can-hack-aws-cloud-and-steal-data-says-oracle-cto-larry-ellison/#3dbbc9376cfb First, ex oracle guy covers oracle news, no smell of bias at all. Then a series of outrageous exaggerations, followed by a bunch of falsehood
- Any one who uses Pomodoro to stay focused? I just get so distracted. I am not looking to be medicated and I don’t judge anyone who is medicated for the same. Just looking for hacks to stay focused especially since I am working on a brand new programming language and a complicated code base A little context: I am sleep deprived because I ha
- Ex-Googler at Amazon opinion Recently joined Amazon from Google a little over a year ago and would like to share a few thoughts. 1. Amazon management is much better than Google. There are alot of really bad managers at Google not because they are not smart, but have no leadership or people skills. This partly explains why Goog
- Security on Amazon Echo What kind of security is promised by Amazon re my Echo recording every phrase uttered in my apartment. Assuming she only listens after hearing the key phrase ("Alexa") but it seems entirely likely that someone could hack the mic to be always on. Similarly, how much security is there between my devi
- Hack reactor results Current hack reactor student going through immersive 12 week program. I assume blind has quite a few grads, so hopefully you guys can answer my questions and level my expectation. Currently L6 operations manager at Amazon - on PLOA to take this course. For those of you who have graduated - what’s
- Cloud wars. Folks at Azure and GCP. How goes it? Needless to say AWS is all brought to you by death marches, insane ops loads, and hacks by devs. On top of it, reinvent is yet another way to squeeze the last drop of juice. Most places are understaffed and overworked. Trying to get a picture here of what's happening on the other side. PS: This is
- My Microsoft experience so far It has been 3 months since I joined Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer from Amazon. I truly am experiencing zen professional moment here. There is so much positivity all around me. I am getting to truly focus and enjoy the software development work. The vocal transparency and trust that my lead