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Amazon Privacy
- vote Amazon alexa team vs privacy team. I got reached out by amazon recruiters one from alexa team and another from privacy team. I am looking to apply to sde1 position, and I am not sure which team should I proceed my application with? I am looking to work as backend/full stack developer. Blind folks would you be kind enough to help me
- Amazon Senior Privacy Specialist Please shed some light on the expected salary range and job level for Snr Privacy Specialist at Amazon? These roles seems new and no much information available in glassdoor or other forums. #amazon
- Amazon Alexa Privacy org? Anybody known anything about the Amazon Alexa Privacy org in Arlington, VA? Culture, WLB, nature of work, etc? I got contacted by them recently for an SDE position. TC: $200k #tech #alexa
- vote Question for employees at Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft on privacy If you work at one of these, do you trust your company to protect sensitive user data (e.g. full name, home address, search history) from access by insiders or external leaks?
- link Amazon violates privacy by publicly posting video captures from Ring doorbells https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pajm5z/amazon-home-surveillance-company-ring-law-enforcement-advertisements As laudable as it may be to capture a criminal, putting a person’s face on blast using ads is a questionable tactic.
- Jiawei landed his next job at Amazon Looks like Jiawei got unpip-ed. Check out his LinkedIn profile, he successfully moved to Alexa team from AWS. And he claimed in his description that he has a great manager now! “I work for Alexa AI, my team protects customers' privacy. If you have read my post, I have a great manager now.” #a
- Looking for referrals for Data Privacy Positions 15 YOE. Former tech attorney with data privacy background. CIPP certification. Consultant at PwC in privacy space currently Looking for Data Privacy Program Manager, Privacy Engineer, etc. Not currently interested in privacy counsel positions. Already have referrals for Amazon, Meta, and Google.
- vote Which Faang would you be reluctant to invest? Netflix: many competition , lose existing customer; Apple: same product over and over again, not many new stuff and technologies , but iPhone still hold majority of hardware product, it is difficult to see Apple lose customer; Meta: FB falling with privacy dispute with apple, metaverse as a new s
- How does Andy Jassy Feel Stocks gone down. Big EU fine for Data Privacy. #stocks #amazon #dataprivacy
- What if one of the FAANG would acquire Blind? #acquire #msft #acquisition #google #facebook #amazon #apple #privacy
- vote Amazon India vs Microsoft India in 2022 please look at the images and tell which one offer should I take. Also please give reasons of your choice. Thanks. YoE: 0(fresher) Update: images removed due to privacy concerns. #tech #amazon #microsoft #apple #google
- FB Privacy Engineering Team - Reviews/Interview Expectations Hey all, I have a call with a tech sourcer on FB Privacy Engineering team. I was looking for industry feedback regarding working as a privacy engineer on this team, the expectations in an interview for it and possible info on the team's culture. Currently: L5 @ Amazon since 2 yrs with 5 yoe total.
- $GOOG has passed $AMZN finally Pandemic online retail bubble is going away, Andy cannot replace Jeff fully, GCP is growing bigger&faster and now threatening AWS, Youtube is skyrocketing, antitrust things are not happening, privacy things are not concerning, search is still robust, top overpaid talent is shining... And finally Go
- Stop the shaming BS I hate when people who work at FAANGs morally try to shame others when they are moving to another FAANG. One is not ethically better than the other. All are trying to make money and maximize market share. Facts: Facebook only cares about engagement. Apple uses slave labor. Amazon sells counterfe
- is FAANG TURNING TO MAANGO? (: Facebook out Microsoft oracle in? Is it the end for Facebook due to data/privacy management problems? I feel like all other company has some product .... Facebook is just another social media platform..?? Is this the ugly truth?? Market caps: Microsoft = $712B Amazon = $710B Apple = $860B
- AWS Vs Alexa I have a quick question, recently I have received two offers from Amazon for SDE 1 position : Alexa privacy team and Amazon AWS Tier 1 team. Which is the best team to accept the offer considering work life balance?
- Amazon Gets Record $888 Million EU Fine Over Data Violations If Amazon gets caught again, EU can issue fines of up to 4% of global revenue. 4% of 2020 global revenue would be about $14bn https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach #amazon
- Facebook -SDE - Privacy Friends, I have an upcoming onsite with FB for SDE position in Privacy team. One of the on-site interview is marked as "Adversarial Mindset". Based on my discussion with recruiter, this would be something real world example and I may need to drill down into a privacy incident. With description, I
- Amazon recruiters now sending text messages. So I got a text message out of the blue from Amazon recruiter. I fail to understand how did they got my number.. maybe from LinkedIn (as it’s in my profile and i thought it’s private). I have never applied at Amazon and not interested due to the pip horror show. Recruiters if you are reading this
- vote Among FAANGMULLA, which companies get looked down upon to work for? Each of these companies has a reason or two e.g. Facebook = Privacy evil Amazon = Banana Apple = Secrecry Cult Netflix = Firing Culture Google = SJW Microsoft = Dinosoaur Uber = Stock and Bro culture Linkedin = Glorified stalking site Lyft = Stock Airbnb = Culture and exec politics TC:300K
- Amazon Team Match I have to fill out a form ranking my team preferences for Amazon. What are some of the areas that I should target if I care about some degree of WLB (ex. Multimedia, AI, Cloud Computing, Privacy, Consumer electronics, etc.)
- My Friend has agreed to refer me at Google now what's next? So my friend has agreed to refer me at Google. I would be graduating in Dec 2020 and I was looking for defensive security, threat management, privacy engineering roles at Google. How do I proceed? #googe #intern #salesforce #facebook #fb #netflix #amazon #googlecompensation #googlehiringcommittee
- FAANG Cyber Security Salaries / Salary Thread Please state your: -TC -department (appsec, red team, detection, compliance, privacy, infrastructure sec, etc) -YOE Mostly looking for FAANG / tech salaries. Bonus: How are interviews at FAANG for infosec? Will Leetcode be required? What are you expected to know? Any tips appreciated. #tech #info
- vote Meta vs Amazon I am currently at Amazon (TC 220k) and just got an offer from meta (new TC 340k). I am eager to leave but I'm worried about the issues Meta will be facing with regulations and Apple/Google privacy changes. Working at Amazon sucks, and benefits/TC at Meta are very appealing. However, Amazon stock ha
- 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
- Fmla question Amazon doesn’t pay if someone take fmla (maybe pays few hundred a month). But in amazon version of fmla form they mention to health care providers that patient will get “paid benefits”. Is this to discourage physicians from filling the form? So that they could just fire the employee when employee
- Move to Bangalore? I have permanent WFH (apart from occasional team meets). Currently in NCR. For a long time, I have been thinking of moving to BLR. Issues - no much privacy & space at my home - too much noise except at nights. If I want to read DDIA or give contests, I can't find peace of mind - messes up my perfo
- link Welcome to the club Meta! https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/22948097/mark-zuckerberg-voice-assistant-metaverse-ai-announcement https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/meta-is-building-a-digital-voice-assistant-for-metaverse-push-7788461/ Google Assistant, Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa and now Met
- Big tech companies don’t know what to do except one Google - invested heavily in G+ to catchup with fb and failed. AI efforts are progressive rather than game changing new area. Self driving car not here yet. Ad business cash cow. Cloud business is catch up aws and azure. Will likely turn out as G+. Android thanks to Schmidt on Apple board. What next
- A big tech civil war breaks out… Previous rivals, Apple and Google team up to take down the all too powerful Meta. Meta recruits other players effected by these sweeping privacy policies, namely Shopify and Amazon. Tesla/Spacex joins the alliance between Apple and Google out of pure hatred for Amazon and their weak blue origin roc
- Why Metaverse will not succeed. Metaverse is Facebook's response to tightening privacy restrictions by Apple and Google. These two giants control the entire smartphone OS market. With these restrictions Facebook cannot continue to operate as it affects it's business model. Getting people to use Metaverse requires a fundamental s
- vote Who do you trust less with your doorbell data? Google or Amazon Debating whether to get a smart doorbell either a Ring or Nest. All my phone, location, blah blah blah data is already owned by any company with an App, but feel like the home front has been the one place Of refuge and privacy (Google earth aside). Now I’ll be giving a live feed of my house/neighbor
- What is the number of L1 visas that companies like Google and Facebook help get per year? There is an official doc by USCIS (linked below) that shows total numbers of approved L-1 visas petitions by employer for fiscal year 2018. Here is what it shows for some famous companies: AMAZON FULFILLMENT SVCS INC: 345 (AMAZON CORPORATE: 37) (AMAZON WEB SERVICES INC: 20) (AMAZON DIGITAL SERVICE
- Why Apple is highly rated than Amazon on Blind Hi guys I am wondering why Apple is rated highly than amazon. Some teams at Apple are so horrible; they are worse than Amazon. The managers in these orgs behave like Mafia’s intentionally screwing you in your reviews. They don’t care if you work well or work backwards from customer but only if you
- link Is there an open source solution to host my own iCloud The new privacy law changes from Apple is crazy. Now I’m worried that this can be extended in any direction. They might start going through our images to capture data from passports, licenses, etc. I take pictures of multiple important documents and the idea that a service thinks they are within the
- What skills to work on to get into red team/appsec at FAANG? Trying to plan where I want to take my career in the near-future. Would ideally like to keep doing pentesting/red teaming but from what I've seen only Microsoft Azure teams, Amazon AWS teams and TikTok have proper red teams, with all of them and others having appsec engineers. Meta's "Privacy Engine
- vote As a Facebook engineer, would you be ashamed to tell where you work in social circles? In 2015, when someone says they work at Facebook, you'd be impressed. Today, Facebook has completely lost it's reputation in the US for the past 4 years. It got the reputation as a product to divide the country, undermining democracy, increasing teen depression, breaching privacy, farming and sell
- I gave up on my Amazon return offer and now landed at a Decacorn When I decided not to accept my Amazon return offer after my summer internship, I was doubtful of my choice. I wasn't impressed with my teammates and wasn't optimistic about my career growth at Amazon, so I took the risk to let the offer expire and look outside. When I failed my interviews at two la
- I launched a website in less than 7 days from idea to live! website: https://surprisegift.to ## Story 2 months ago, one of my colleagues left the company to pursue a Product Role at a startup. I wanted to buy a physical book that gives more insights and helps her in the new role but it's going to be a matter of privacy if I ask her where she lives. So, I bo
- Seeking SDE I/entry level/early career SDE opportunities Hello blind community! I am moving from the greater NYC area of the East to the greater Bay area of the West (specifically Santa Clara)! I transitioned from a mechanical engineering to software engineering about a year ago and am looking for entry level SDE jobs. The growth and learning at my curren
- Weird "Blind" hate for Meta/Facebook From the last few days, most of the hot posts in my feed are about Meta and its stocks, and how even folks from companies like Amazon or Apple are bashing it and speculating the fall of Meta (lol). Im sure most of these blinders are having 0-3 yoe or they are just too much active on Blind then the
- I am joining FANG and I am feeling an impostor I am joining FAANG (not Amazon and not Google) and I am almost tripling my salary. I am very afraid of not being good and fast enough for FAANG. My colleagues look like rock stars having high stared github projects, while I never code anything outside work. I also will soon have my second child, so
- vote Those who work at Facebook, are you worried about future TC drop because of $FB? It is no secret that Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram are losing users, although they monetize better over time with better algorithms and pushing the limits of privacy. The competitions is getting fierce - Snapchat, Signal, Telegram, Tiktok, Parler etc. are popular alternatives. Each country has th
- Referral Required - Security/Privacy Roles Hello everyone! I am writing this post on behalf of my girlfriend. She's graduated from a Masters degree in Cybersecurity and Privacy from a Tier 1 US university and trying to find a job in these fields but she's unable to get an interview due to these difficult times. She's applied to over 550 jobs
- TC quoted on blind factors in stock appreciation? I've been in talks with recruiter and negotiating attempts seem to be reaching a wall. All I am asking for is the offers quoted here on blind. Recruiter says its over the limit of L6 band and needs special approval. he says to benefit you, keep more stocks than base or bonus as potential upside i
- Startup vs AWS-SA vs GCloud partner engg Friends, I have the following choice before me. I am ~15 years experience with past few year focus on data. Basically I am Senior engineer+customer skills. Current in privacy Startup ( past 1.5 years) as principal big data engg. Getting promoted/moved into Director Customer Engineering/Success
- Good top tech company to work for in current scenario I understand this is super open-ended and is highly dependent on the team. With regards to a L5 or SDE2 position. Microsoft - Laid back culture, politics, legacy and old technologies. Amazon - Bad culture, Bad WLB. Google - Work is getting mundane with emphasis on maintenance kind of stuff. Apple
- Not sure about my Amazon role Hey Blinders! I have an offer from Amazon IDE team. My interview process was a generic one and I'm a backend developer. Talked to the hiring manager and he mentioned Typescript, Node.js, Java, React as their tech stack and didn't reveal much details because of privacy. At that time I didn't realize
- link Facebook recruiting call from hell - really? I had a call with a Facebook recruiter recently. The conversation: *we exchange greetings* *she asks and I give an overview of my work and career so far* *she confirms at my level I should go for the role she is looking for if I have experience in [x] language* Her: Awesome can you give me an exam
- Design interviews are too text book Long story short. I interviewed at Google in last couple of weeks(exact date hidden to protect privacy). The topic of discussion was choosing X approach vs approach Y. I commented Y is as per text book but I have seen Y fail in some specific team at Amazon and how we moved to approach X. The intervi