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Amazon Outsourcing
- vote SDE1 at Amazon vs. Senior Software Engineer at a small outsourcing company YOE: 3 I recently got two offers. One is from Amazon, which is SDE1 downgraded from a SDE2 interview. Another is Senior Software Engineer at an outsourcing company with about 300 employees and good culture. It's worth to note that I am a programming enthusiast. I use Emacs. The team at Amazon us
- Got microsoft senior engineer interview with 3 yrs of experience at non big tech So I will have the 4 interviews for a senior software engineer position next week. Isn't it weird (I expect people with 7+ yoe to get microsoft sr. interviews)? I have 9 moths (3 fulltime + 6 pat time) internship at amazon + 2.6 yrs at an outsourcing company (client sap) + 6 month at another outsou
- vote good time to invest in AMZN (AWS) and MSFT? Over time wouldn’t it be cheaper and more efficient for virtually any company to outsource computing power and servers to AWS or Azure? Why shouldn’t one be heavily betting on this trend? What does the crowd think? Let’s hear all the die hard amazonians and azure folks.
- What makes the difference between an engineer working for a FANG and an average one? What are the main differences between some average developer working for a prestigeous company, like FANG and an average one working, for example, in outsourcing? Is it passion? Is it IQ? Is it the network that makes the difference? Is it soft skills (high focus, good communication, attention to de
- Amazon that disorganized??? Multiple times Amazon recruiters asking me if I am interested in considering a role at Amazon while I am already late in the Amazon interview process. Maybe for the system design interview I can suggest designing a system for recruiters regarding new hires? There can be a really cool feature that l
- link Visa approvals for tech workers are on the decline. That won’t just hurt Silicon Valley. Outsourcing and consulting firms — which provide IT services for companies whose main business isn’t tech, and which tend to rely more heavily on H-1B visas as a share of their overall workforces — have received the brunt of the decline in approvals. The situation isn’t as bad for the biggest tech c
- Is Amazon really that scary? I've seen a lot of bad stuff about Amazon on Blind. Do people just troll? Or spoiled with decent WLB and 6 digits TC? I live in 3rd world country and there are no FAANG representatives, it's mostly soulless outsourcing and I feel like I don't have future as SWE here. But I live a decent life here, c
- My manager asking me not to code and do only architecture. There has been a major restructuring because of covid and instead of me working in R&D, I now work for IT. My manager is asking me to stop working too fast and not to code or do code reviews. Just chill and participate in design decisions that will be implemented by outsourcers. Also offered me 2
- Leetcode and gtfo or stay and learn? Joined amazon europe as new grad 6 months ago. Team is great. Work life balance is great. But i was initially assigned a project where like 90% work can be outsourced to a 10 year old, No any coding work. I have completed that. Then i got a small SDE work and i made sure to finish it before the SDE
- Amazon background check, employment history job title inconsistencies with resume. I recently got to the background check process with Amazon (outside US) and now they need to check my previous employment history using Accural. However, in one of my previous role, I have changed my job title to what was more relevant to what I was doing on my resume rather than what was my formal
- Amazon Background check coming up. Have inconsistencies in my resume. Hi I need advice on how to navigate this issue. I have recently gotten a job offer for CSE role at aws (I would be relocating to a different country for the role). I have 5 job experiences listed on my resume. However I have 2 half truths on the earliest experiences at the beginning of my career. To
- AWS - Being an AWS employee and an AWS partner, at the same time. Having a little trouble trying to beat my ethics here. My company is an AWS partner, and I'm afraid of answering to Amazon emails (i.e. account manager ). Since it's a small company, no one else have the expertise or tech knowledge in order to get involved with AWS topics with customers, other tha
- link Who lived through first Dot Com Bubble? Any stories to tell? Just reading through Boo Hoo, a book written in 2001, illustrating the largesse of e-commerce startup Boo.com and how they spent $170m in less than two years most of it just to launch their first website. Also watched startup.com a few years ago (https://youtu.be/ibuiUXOTE4M). As a two time startu
- OCI Interview Experience - India Hi, I am at Amazon since past four years and I interviewed for Principal Member of Technical Staff role at OCI and was interviewed by another Principal Member of Technical Staff who recently joined Oracle and was earlier working on a Apple project which was outsourced to Indian IT company. He aske
- Feeling lost; need advice to get foot in the door I've applied to about 30 companies in the past three months (some with and some without a referral) and haven't secured an interview call yet. I'm 36, have 8 YOE in software (last 5 in software) and 6 YOE in entrepreneurship and I work at a second-tier Indian outsourcing company. I understand I trig
- What impact do you have? I work as a Java Developer at an outsourcing company, I was an intern at amazon before this. I am quite disappointed by the type of work that I do and I am not sure if I am too trash, because I do put a lot of extra hours, or this is the way things go. For example, sometimes I spent even 2-5 days t
- Am I justified? A couple of years ago I had a startup where I was the founder. I outsourced a small piece of our project to a contractor in India. The agreement was I would pay him a fixed amount for FULL TIME work. Long story short, he lied. He took my money hired a part time contractor who did shit quality work.
- Prioritizing career growth vs other ventures Im 22yo, SDE, 150 TC. I'm trying to seek advice on what to prioritize what I should focus on for 2019. Anyone with experience doing the following while working fulltime and be willing to share their experience in how they did it: Leetcoding and ML interview prepping: Ive been working fulltime for
- Should I appeal, sue, or take pivot My team started to restructure shortly after I joined, my new manager hired in was basically trying to fire people from seattle site and outsource in his home country then. He intentionally put me down several times during our 1x1, I explained to him some of his attacks were against my underlying co
- Not hiring in bay area or HCOL in favor of remote This is at mid size bay area company(not amazon) with substantial presence on east coast. Higher management decided to stay away from interviewing/hiring bay area candidates. Reasoning behind this decision is we can not hire/retain top talent in bay area due to competition from faang and other tier
- I want to work for a company that values tech I am currently an engineer at T. Rowe Price. I was so excited to land a position here, but I am miserable, bored, and severely underpaid. They do not value technology at my company. The team I am on currently has a significant number of mostly junior engineers outsourced to India through a SOW. Coll
- vote [Need Help Quickly] Should I consider Navi SDE1 Currently SDE2 (2 yoe) but most of the experience is related to Game Development! Zynga India is really outsourcing of dead games for maintenance and feature addition! Had difficulty getting interviews due to Zynga resume until Navi! Couldn't crack Navi SDE2 because of lack of preparation and prior
- I don't know what I am doing with my career So I got to college, did an internship at amazon (mainly because people told me to go (I went to interview just for curiosity), I had to choose between working at bitdefender fulltime doing c++/python mainly). At internship I did java, I learned there spring and aws and all the other things. In the
- Comprehensive Canada guide So many questions about Canada ,job prospects and stuff. Thought I’d share a detailed and comprehensive guide to working in Canada 1. Salary range: — Canadian company: senior dev 100-130k CAD. Staff level would be 130-180k CAD — US company : senior dev 130-180k CAD Staff level : 180-250k CAD There
- Changed 3 companies in 2 years. Should I worry about it? After college I was working for a decent company. Then switched to Amazon for high pay and reputation. One year later pipped. Took severance and left. Then joined a startup. It was very good. Tech lead was very supportive and wlb was quite good. Loved working here. I was getting calls for interview
- link Don’t join Walmart IDC in Bangalore in ongoing hiring surge! Hi Blind Community, Title of the post itself should be sufficient enough but explaining in detail so that your career stays on track. Background: Walmart recently sold ASDA (UK retailer) and is planning to transition all the work happening in Sunnyvale (SV) office to Bangalore as a move to lower c
- My take on future of job roles in tech.. Whats yours? I am a 25-year old SWE and i have been thinking about future of tech jobs lately. I intend to be in the industry for next 20-25 years. These are my views on the tech industry as a whole and the sectoral jobs in that time horizon - Software Engineering - Web based development : I think the overal
- link Insights about tinder and online dating (long thread) About a year ago some friends scraped 70k pics on tinder and it was reported a few months later: https://bit.ly/2ZbFVwf They said their goal was to outdo the guy that did 40k and was reported in the news a few years ago. Anyways, not to be outdone, I decided to scrape millions and do 2 TB worth of
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl
- 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
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch
- vote Do you trust Wealthfront retirement projections? I was planning retirement at 55 but Wealthfront says I'll have more than enough at 50 which is only 7 years away for me. I'm leaning toward rest and vest at this point because I'm running out of funks to give! Do you trust Wealthfront?
- Expected TC change after potential Biden’s presidency? So basic economic theory says that if the government raises the tax on some goods, the price will rise and how much it’ll rise would depend on the elasticity of the supply&demand curve (which side is more sensitive to the price change). Given that, do you think TC of overall tech companies will ris
- link What websites do people use to find jobs in India? Monster.com?
- Part Time Degrees worth pursuing I have a BS, MS (in Computer Science), MBA - all from top schools in the US. I currently do Product Management which gives me the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and business - and I really like the job! I have found that both my advanced degrees (MS and MBA) were a great way
- Elon's Presidential Vote Given his strong support for re-opening the country, we know who he's voting for, right? For... the raise ur hand all the damn time student..., no I'm not looking for a poll, opinions only. Data and logic are not allowed in this response. Simply opinions based on nothing but how you FEEL. TC: $1
- Referral at Twitter I need help with couple of positions open in twitter which are relevant with my profile. Can someone help with it pls ? TIA
- Google Mock interviewers needed Looking for mock interviewers. You will get paid for your time. DM for details.
- Need referral at Cloudflare, London - willing to pay As the title. #tech #cloudflare
- Fb l4 refreshers. What are they like in 2020? Considering an l4 SWE offer. Can someone help me understand what the typical refreshers.are like now ? I see older threads but would like newer info to help me decide. Tc 250k
- vote Workspace diversity Can you openly be anti-BLM or indifferent to BLM at your company ?
- What do you guys think of Rivian's future? Is it a good time to join? What do you guys think of Rivian's future? Is it a good time to join? #equity #startup