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- H1B on federal contract seeking referrals I work at a boutique consulting company in DMV region. which works primarily with one of the federal agencies. I'm one of the very few employees at the company on a H1B visa. A new executive order was passed earlier this month asking federal agencies to evaluate visa employees on federal contracts.
- link How I got offers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Bloomberg Based in Dublin, Ireland. Left Facebook for Microsoft in December 2020. IC4 TC at FB: ~140K Euro L63 TC at MS: ~160K Euro I had a friend refer me to Amazon, applied to MS and Bloomberg myself. --- Applied to a bunch of places around end of August/ early September: - Microsoft (offer) - Amazon (o
- Interview experience with Netflix I had a super underwhelming interviewing experience with Netflix. Here are a few things I did not expect at all. The good: 1. Feedback after onsite, not just a yes or no. 2. The hiring manager was great with making sure I understood the requirements of the role. 3. The onsite wasn't a day long pro
- Going to work and staying with smart people was a boost When I graduated from college approx 10 years ago, and joined Amazon, we’d all go to work and I had roommates. The conversations around technology used to be awesome. We’d show each other cool things, build small and nifty utilities and share those amongst each other, I think the things I learned t
- Netflix onsite prep (What to expect?) What should I expect that would be different from Google/Facebook/Amazon prep? So I passed the technical assessment, and am moving onto the first round (technical round) of the onsite for a full-stack role. I've heard over and over that the interviews are fairly team-specific; the doc I received hi
- Google India Program Manager - Recruiter says before start of interview process - I am above their pay level? So, google india is starting interview process for google cloud, delivery center, customer success, program manager role with me. Recruiter upfront while scheduling the rounds and running me through prep session, tells me, that I might be put in L4, and since my current compensation is 51 lakhs per
- 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
- vote What’s are my chances after Snap onsite? I recently had onsite for snap L4 and it went like this: - round 1: coding round. Interviewer was nice - said 1-2 problems depending on how many you can do. I did first and then was asked to run it. There was some bug though so answer was wrong. As the interview was ending (after QA session) I re
- Manager - Micromanaging like 3 one - o - one in a day!! Please help 🙏 Hi Blind Community, I am working in OCI - 1.6 years experience. I posted earlier how my manager has been worse. I have been in the same situation since then where my manager is micromanaging for last 2 months, it has been a very difficult time for me, affecting my physical and mental health. He O
- Put on performance improvement plan because I didn’t attend happy hours I am a veteran who served in Afghanistan and after returning from active duty I enrolled in a masters program in computer science after which I started my software development career. I joined Amazon two years back as sde 2. I am older than most of my colleagues I don’t attend a lot of the social
- Should I interview for SDE I or SDE II at Amazon? I am working with an Amazon recruiter and plan to interview soon with the Buyer Risk Prevention Team. After the Chime info session we learned the difference between SDE I and SDE II is that candidates for the latter will be asked system architecture and design questions. The recruiter said I can int
- Coaching Clients Wanted Are you struggling with a career change? Dealing with a difficult situation? Facing burnout? Finding it hard to motivate? I’d love to coach you! I’m a new coach looking to build my experience. Since I need practice, I’m offering up to 2 sessions for $20 each. If you find it useful, we can continue
- My experience with Interview Kickstart Hi Blind community, have been wanting to put my thoughts on Interview kickstart for a while now. Got busy with life :slightly_smiling_face: . But I do see a few posts asking whether it's worth taking the program or not so I felt to talk about my experience. TC before Doordash - Base 220K Pre IPO O
- Reinterview after ~6 months I interviewed at AWS for an L5 position in March this year. I was unable to clear the loop interview and the feedback I got was that the panel couldn’t come up with a unanimous consensus on hiring me (they had a split decision). The recruiter I worked with reached out to me again this week asking if
- Therapist Demands Crying I signed up for one of those online counseling platforms when my boyfriend broke up with me. I had been in therapy for a while before, but didn’t have someone during this crisis. I get assigned a boomer aged white guy. He shares with my that he is an ex Christian pastor and his wife left him, so ma
- How confidential is talkspace/other therapies if it's paid by company insurance? TL;DR: I'm getting a lot of mixed signals from my manager and this is taking a toll on my mental health so I wonder if I could trust online therapy to talk about work. I need someone to talk to and my budget is a little limited. I could use my health insurance to use therapy sessions, but can I tru
- I don’t know what to do with my life... Advice appreciated Let’s say that I consider myself successful. But lately I’m worried about my carrer and financial future. Job at SAP is decent but I don’t see growth possibilities unless I start talking the same shit that leadership talks. I’m not that guy. Launched a couple projects on my own: they were not fin
- Amazon Interview Experience #design #interviews #ux Interviewed with a team at Amazon for over 3 months. Went through 3 phone interviews and the all-day loop. Everything went smoothly but didn’t get the offer. Want to share my experience here and also get some advice on how to improve for the future. Amazon’s recruiter reac
- link Facebook E6 - I made it!!!!! I've studied so hard over the last months. Spent Christmas vacation leetcoding and doing mocks with other blinders[1] and today finally the result came! I passed E6 with flying colors!!! 😂🎊🤣🎉In the upcoming weeks I'll have the numbers. Maybe next week. Not sure if I'll join (already made anot
- Amazon L6 SDE Interview Experience Hi, I wanted to share my L6 SDE interview experience as I couldn't find any before attending mine. (mostly non-SDE experiences here) I had a total of 5 interviews over 2 days (virtual onsite) and before that 2 phone interviews. Phone Interviews ============= 2 phone interviews were mostly behavio
- Anyone had a ByteDance Codebunk Interview? Passed my 1st round of coding interview for SRE-DBA position at Tiktok. Got an invitation for second round of video interviews, this time focusing on MYSQL. I have been working in SQL for the last 3 months so I know the ins and outs pretty good now (select/insert/update/Drop/PK's FK's/Constraints/J
- link FANGs onsite interview Every recruiter that reach out to me recommends the same thing: "think out loud, take your time, explain your thoughts and your approach to the problem", also the official demo video Google has in their recruiting channel, is showing something according to what recruiters recommend, the guy provide
- @wayfair new tech hubs planned in SF, Austin, Toronto So Wayfair plans to expand outside Boston and Berlin with 1000 new hires in these locations. This follows a harsh, hidden layoff session over the last 12 months where they’ve instituted a harsh Amazon style PIP program, planning to phase out large chunks of the junior engineers and try to hire unsuc
- Engineering Manager at Airbnb/LinkedIn/Lyft Hi all, I am currently an EM (M2 - which is still a front-line manager so no EMs as directs) at Apple with about 2 years of people management and 8+ of IC experience. I got a few pings from the recruiters and scheduled an onsite with LinkedIn and just started a process with Lyft. I like what I do a
- Learn blockchain the right way I work for a #crypto company, and this is my take(in a way non-crypto techies can understand) Smart Contract is just a decentralized way to host cloud functions. Wallets is the user Authenticator (think OAuth). However, instead of have user token throughout a session, you need to authenticate eve
- Need a mentor/coach Hello community, Problem - Cons - I want to be an individual contributor but I have come to believe that I am not finding any opportunities at my current company to grow as one. I am stuck into a full stack role and I just cannot work on front end stuff because it's just not my forte. I am also ve
- I never felt so rejected. So many FAILED INTERVIEWS I started my job search in August 2020 and have been rejected from so many interviews. I've probably applied to over 100 jobs over the course of time and haven't gotten a single offer. From all those applications, I have received an automated rejection email for maybe 95% of them. For the remaini
- AWS AppSec Phone Interview The questions asked was define threat modelling and your process (read up on TM, know your approach should cover assets, threats, maybe trust boundaries, get data flow diagrams for logical, infrastructure, and development view. Threat Modelling a bank web app - talked about HTTP vulnerablility (poll
- My Honest Interview Note: I already have Two offers. So, I decided to give this Interview as honest as possible. Also, I am on PiP at Amazon. In the last round with Hiring manager I told the truth. Round 0 (Phone screen): Just simple Leetcode question(zigzag level order Traversal). Result: Cleared, got the full Loop
- Terrified while giving Amazon (Lab126) on-site interview Not trying to generalize things here...but this was my experience (The interviewer was 2nd level manager) Interviewer: Let me copy-paste the question Me: Okay, I read out the question, ask clarifying questions. (I was hoping to get some clarification) Interviewer: "that's the question which I as
- Amazon Sunnywale Interview feedback Hi everyone, just wanted to share some feedback on the Amazon Interview process. YOE: 7 Current TC: 330k I worked in a few startups and 2 large enterprise companies. Over the last 6 month have interviewed with Netflix, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Now let’s come to Amazon: - Completely unprofessio
- How many been there done that, i.e. interviewed by FAANG and failed all? I never in my wildest dreams thought that I will get a Google on-site and as luck would have it, had it last year. Needless to say, read through everything, knew about hash tables, queue, stack, and what not. I couldn’t solve any of the coding problems, had a good design interview, just explained th
- Hiring for AWS greenfield project! Hi, everyone! We're developing an exciting new AWS core service at Amazon that will disrupt the software infrastructure market and change the world! I can't tell you much without you signing an NDA, but it's a high-priority confidential project in a quintillion-dollar market that we are building f
- There has been some interest on 'Moving back to India' related topics. I want to share my experience! Who am I - A Sr. Software Dev (L6) at Amazon. I have close to 12 years of experience. Out of those 12 years, 6 are at Amazon, around 3 at Microsoft and the rest at Cisco. 11 out of 12 years I worked in the US and a year in India. I moved back to India just a year ago (internal transfer to a paralle
- vote Amazon SDM virtual onsite rate my chances Background: 11 years of experience with currently leading a group of 25. Current TC: 300K Had my final virtual onsite for an SDM L6 yesterday. Here is my self eval: Overall had 5 one hour rounds of interviews INTERVIEW 1 - with an SDM. First an LP question around a time when I went above and be
- vote FB Onsite chances? Hi Everyone, I recently had my FB onsite and wanted to get your feedback. Round1 -> Coding 1 problem on binary trees, 1 problem on Trie. Solved both questions efficiently and explained Time complexity and Space complexity. Interviewer seemed to be happy with the solution. Round2 -> Coding 1
- Bombed AWS phone screen Position: SDE I as an upcoming new grad Had my initial phone screen with AWS recently for a position at a newly formed team. Bombed. Bad experience with the interviewer in comparison to a previous time I interviewed a year ago. Strong accent, had to ask him to repeat in a lot of cases. I also heard
- Working at Intuit To all who are wondering if Intuit is a good place to work, here is my take. I am from Modern SaaS team. My work mostly revolves around Kubernetes, AWS and Golang. What I love most about working at Intuit? 0) We don’t get assigned work but we choose what to work on -the tickets/projects etc. Thi
- System Design Interviews : What do the interviewers look for ? I've been reading through Grokking the System Design Interview, System Design Primer for past couple of days but I'm still not sure how to approach the interviews(or rather, what the interviewer will be looking for) For e.g if the question is Design a video distribution system, there are so many as
- Depressed by Praise - Looking for Referrals Hello Dear Blinders, I am actively looking for a Data Scientist/ML Engineer role and would appreciate any support. I am willing to relocate anywhere in order for me to work for a new company in the United States. I recently got my H1B visa and it will be active from Oct - 1, hence I need the new em
- 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
- AMA - Recently got FB PM offer and cleared other PM interviews with the pure intention to help others during these tough time i can snswer any questions you might have about the prep, interview process and negotions for PM job at FB, LinkedIn and Amazon where i recently clear interviews and accepted FB offer. thanks to fellow blinders for the help, motivation
- Keep getting dinged Hi, I really need some help. I keep getting dinged at various companies. Sometimes after onsite and other times after round 1 or 2. PM interviews have too much variance so it is very hard for me to pin point where I am going wrong. Below is some history. Facebook: rejected after round 1 Google: r
- link Facebook Interview Feedback - How to deal with location? I interviewed for E6. I got strong hire on both coding and hire on everything else. One system design is not sure about the level. I will get committee decision in the following weeks. It's very unlikely I don't get an offer recruiter said. More likely I get E5, but if I get E6 there is no team matc
- vote Principal/Staff Offers Evaluation.. + Prep Strategy [AMA] Interviewed with lot of companies in last 2 months and narrowed it down to below 6 companies based on team, level & TC. Priority: Long term career growth, Scope of work, company culture. Company: Level TC: Base + Bonus + Equity (per yr) + Sign-On Team (if known) Meta: E6
- link Is it possible to negotiate an up-level at FB/Google? I've recently finished interviewing with a handful of companies, and I'm feeling good about receiving offers from all of them. I did the on-sites at an E4/L4 level with the assumption that I could be up-levelled to E5/L5 if I did well during the interviews... unfortunately, this seems to not be the
- link Bay Area | Eng Leadership | Prep Resources Hi Blind Community, Following up from my earlier post(https://www.teamblind.com/post/fFNduLYB), I wanted to just share my experience interviewing for EM roles and what preparatory material helped me in the last 6 months. Hopefully this is helpful and a way for others to get started. Background: -
- AppSec Interview (super long post, sorry in advance) I just want to say there are very very good people on blind. Besides the TC bragging and blah blah for the rest of us normal people just trying to make it, there are alot of people that will invest in helping you achieve your dream jobs. Grateful for all the peop
- A Failure’s Guide to the Facebook DE (Analytics) Interview Hi Blind, I’m fresh off of failing my second attempt at the DE analytics virtual onsite at Facebook and I want to help other people avoid that feeling of emptiness and despair that comes with rejection. I’m well aware this interview isn’t impossible, but I feel it’s hard only for the sake of being h
- vote Tip & Offers & result Thank you for blind(er)s current TC 250K YOE 6yr SD2 tl;dr; I would like to share what I learned. Please scrolldown if you just want to see numbers(offer) I accept an offer today Meta(ex facebook) as Partner engineer (IC4) English is !perfect 0. status I worked 6 years and not made senior. I was