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- vote Offer Negotiation Best practices Its generally accepted common sense not to verbally accept a verbal offer over the phone when presented (even if it surpasses expectations). lets say you’ve done your research (blind, your network, the market, etc). you have your target TC, your strategy laid out and you have your first counter al
- IBM Watson AI salary? Hi, I'd like to know about IBM Watson AI (engineer) salary information, According to some info online, it seems pay is relatively lower than other companies, but some people say in the blind, research center is well respected, How is salary range? YOE : 2 Current TC : 158K #ibm #watson #salary#c
- vote Google vs Apple vs Bytedance I got offers from these companies, but am having a hard time deciding which one to pick, any help would be really appreciated. My profile: - new grad (ignore Walmart) in India - 4 internships (ML engineering + ML research, none at FAANG companies) - 2-3 publications (mid-level conferences) Google
- vote Is masters or PhD worth it? Everyone who has done master or PhD that I’ve talked to regrets doing it. Mainly because your research gets outdated really fast or irrelevant to you work. Also they wasted a lot of time on defending their thesis rather than developing it. Now I want to ask this question to Blind. Is grad school wo
- What to expect for Microsoft Sr level offer (lvl 63) Friend of mine planning to move to Redmond in Seattle as a Sr PM in Marketing Level 63. She has 8 years experience Mentioned today she was targeting the below based on her research and multiple web sources Base:150 Sign on: 60 Stock: 155 Note: asked her if she could take me with her and she respec
- Deep Learning Careers Hey guys, new to Blind and am, admittedly, a little shocked by what I am reading. I went to a top 50 school and got a bachelors degree in applied math and ended up with 18 hours of graduate level special topics courses in ML / DL from almost every discipline imaginable. In school, I was able to lan
- How did you pick your field? I'm currently a Sophomore at a Top 4 CS school and am torn in deciding which field I want to specialize in & pursue research/projects in. I've considered: Operations Research (OR), ML, Graphics. I've enjoyed all of these but here are the pros and cons of each. OR Pros - Develops general mathematic
- O1 visa eligibility I have 100+ citations on my research work during undergrad and masters. I haven’t been active since and got a few invitations to review papers at top conferences like ICCV, CVPR and WACV but didn’t take part in the peer review process. Is O1 a likely path for me? No awards for the papers either. Ju
- Deep Learning TC Is anyone on blind a deep learning researcher/scientist with a huge TC? (like in this nytimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html) I am a DL scientist with 1 YOE after graduating from a top school. Would be helpful to hear about your b
- Anyone move from academia to tech even though you dislike tech? I loved what I was doing in grad school. A close relative got afflicted with severe mental illness towards end of my grad school and family needed urgent money. I decided to chip in and moved into tech because i was good at programming and felt tech jobs would help me payoff the expenses my family
- Personal Austin experience from non texan I was randomly checking Blind posts and found a post about Austin today and found that many Californians are spreading negativity about Austin. ### Racism I have visited Austin 10 times at-least and never had any negative experience. In Fact, I had faced racism in Democratic cities lots of times be
- Referrals pls Greetings members of Blind, I am looking for a new position and would very much appreciate a referral. Data scientist (deep learning focused) interested in DS, AS/RS, or machine learning roles, either remote or in DC where I am currently based. Some background: ~ 1 YOE - PhD (STEM) from known
- Relocating from CA => ATX, WFH state taxes? There seems to be a few different answers/opinions from my research so I thought I would ask here. I am potentially moving to Austin from Cali and would be working remote/at home. Do I get to escape the bs ca state income taxes and enjoy tx no income tax even if the company originated, as does my em
- Hire me for UX designer, researcher and UI Design. 5 yoe. OPT visa. Hi Blind folks, I'm a UX designer in NYC area. Looking for full time roles in UX/product design. Can also do UI design. I'm good with UX research roles as well. Great team player and asset. Quick learner. Need job asap! Any help is appreciated. I'm on F1 opt visa. Have stem extension. Looking for
- HALP! C and virtualization guide Long story short I have accepted an offer for a team that writes network device driver code in hypervisor. I haven't written C code since undergrad and systems is totally unfamiliar domain. I know I am fcked...but I like to learn and team is ok with me taking time to onboard. So elites of blind..!!
- What exactly is Microsoft CSE? Was reached out to by a recruiter recently about their Software Engineer II(CSE) role in NYC. Commercial Software Engineering. Was pretty excited to hear from a large tech company but after doing research I can’t find any information on exactly what this is. Seems like Blind has a negative opinion o
- vote Moving to Seattle from bay area. Cost of living seems same.. worth it? Hi folks, I and my spouse are planning on moving to seattle area from south bay (sunnyvale) in a few months but looking at the real estate prices, it seems its as expensive as south bay and commute is similar too from places like bothell or sammammish areas that seem affordable .. we both had to tak
- Blue Origin Offers My friend whose company isn't cool enough to be on the Blind app is in the final stages with Blue Origin. Doing a bit of research on their behalf to define negotiation tactics. Has anyone here ever gotten an offer from Blue Origin? What does their compensation consist of (base + bonus? Base + equity
- How to find foreign Opportunities? (currently SE-2 in Paypal India) Hi blind, I am currently working as SE-2 @Paypal. I joined this June only and had competing offer from Amazon India but decided to go forward with Paypal. After joining found people are getting in with much better offers and hiring manager told me this is the best he could do for my role even thoug
- Expecting Waymo offer at L7/L8 mgmt level, need advise? Researched blind but could not found good details. I am doing good at current company and getting paid ok. However autonomous car future look bright and growth can be big. So interesting in joining them if they give good enough offer. However other threads on blind mention that they just match exist
- link Why we should stop worrying so much about pay The research is in. It has been in for quite some time. Money is merely a hygiene factor. After a certain point an increase in our pay does not correlate to an increase in our sense of well-being or happiness. So if not pay then what? According to some researchers here are a few things we should be
- How is work as an applied scientist at Amazon? Hi, I am an L5 AS at Amazon. I joined last year. This is my first job. I had other offers but chose Amazon mainly because of the location. So far my experience is pretty good in terms of team and wlb. Actually work pressure is very low. It’s not very scientifically stimulating but that’s understand
- link Google asked for expected salary and I provided a competing offer A recruiter from G asked me about salary expectations, this puzzled me since I provided them info on competing offer (verbal only). The competing offer was 165/375/20. I'm afraid these numbers could be high for L4 at G and I do not have any proof for competing offer. I did my research on Blind and L
- Offer Eval - Delivery Hero Hi teamBlind community, Pls help me evaluate this offer from deliveryHero - Berlin YOE - 7 years - India Academic Qualification - MTech in Artificial Intelligence from IISc + MS Advanced computer science , Nottingham UK , B.E Computer science , CEG Chennai Previous and Current company - worked in
- Looking for UX Research Assistant or Associate Roles Hello to any and all of my UX peers reading this. I'm currently searching for UX research roles that require between 1-3 years of experience. I fall right in between those criteria with 2 years of experience (I graduated two years ago) and have had multiple UX internships and associate positions.
- Let's talk ICOs I get it, it is a pump and dump. Lets do it anyway. Can you share useful links to get started please? Good suggestions of white papers you ve read, good founders you ve researched, maybe we can get in and get out quickly with a 50x return. Really appreciate any helpful ideas, no need to point out th
- vote Does research based masters increase long term earnings potential? Currently in high paying SDE II role at Amazon, but planning to leave for research-based masters in CS at top school (MIT/Stanford/Berkeley) in a group with a 1-2% acceptance rate, focused on ML. Is this a good investment and is it likely to lead to a much higher paying job directly afterwards or in
- What's up with Coinbase recruiters ghosting? Applied to coinbase and got a pretty quick response (~10min after applied). Recruiter set up a call - just general info about company and my background. All in all it was very casual. Idk if possible to fail a recruiter call but I felt it went well... The role is for Product Designer with Design Sy
- Looking to buy investment property I am single and have $60k in savings apart from my investments and emergency fund. I want to use this as down payment to buy an investment property. I live in a rental and not planning on buying a house until I settle down with a family so want to get an investment property and create a positive ca
- LinkedIn, Adobe, Microsoft Referrals needed Hi people of blind. Need referrals for LinkedIn, Adobe and Microsoft to start my Full time employment. I am a second year CS grad student at NC State and a Software Engineer intern at a Startup for the past 6 months. I have a proven track record as a full stack developer with domain knowledge (rese
- Help with referrals and any other suggestions Hi Team Blind, I am recent grad, with background in engineering, data analytics and project management. I'm seeking jobs actively, and would like to request you all for any referrals and suggestions. My offers were rescinded in March. I didn't have any interviews since march. Please help me. Than
- What do y’all think of Google Cloud in London? Looking at a few research roles at Google in London, and one that came up is on Cloud. I’ve seen mixed (leaning negative) things about Cloud on Blind, but never specifically about London or a non-eng product role. I’m going to ask the recruiter for more info about the role, but wanted to see if any
- Amazon L5 TPM TC Range/Expectation Hi Blind community, First time posting, please forgive me if I miss any etiquette :) My friend recently got a verbal offer from Amazon as L5 TPM (HW), in Bay Area. But recruiter did not provide a number, instead is asking her TC expectation. Wondering what should be the range/expectation? Curre
- [India] Salary expectations for MLE 2 Interviewed for MLE position (L5) at Amazon India 10 days back. I am currently working at a small scale company based out of Gurgaon in NLP domain. Totally had 5 rounds (excluding phone screen) and the recruiter mailed me today that the feedback was good. He was also saying that he will start the fu
- Is Meta MLE better or research data scientist? Hi folks, It happen to be that I have received two interview invites from Meta. The MLE recruiter has been chasing me since past couple of months while I was trying to do more leetcode and prepare ML/Stats concepts. Then I realized that there is research data scientist which could be more aligned g
- Need Internship referrals for FANG+ Blind community, I am seeking summer 2022 internship referrals for my younger brother who is currently pursuing his MS in CS from North Carolina State University. Prior to his master’s he worked in Samsung R&D as a ML researcher in Bixby Voice Analytics team and an emerging startup as a ML Engineer
- Summer 2021 Quant Research Prep Hope everyone is staying safe and enjoying WFH. I graduate undergrad (with BBA Finance, BS Statistics, and MS Statistics bc of the credit hours I’m taking) in Spring 2022 so I’ll be recruiting for quant research positions in a few months for Summer 2021. I’ve seen how supportive blind can be - I’v
- Most lucrative company / career move for a PhD engineer with an applied numerical methods background? (ODEs, PDEs etc) Hey blind, Looking to you guys for some career tips. Currently a PhD computational mechanical engineer at a defense research lab. I have a great background in applied numerical methods / mathematics, dissertation was in these areas. Programming primarily in Fortran and Matlab, some C++ and Pytho
- Is Hate toward amazon exaggerated? Having discussion with some friends who work in FAANG. It seems the google ones are having very relaxed work and team. They were mostly machine learning engineer L4. The meta ones mention work is team dependent but overall not too bad. Now the Amazonian in the discussion were the strongest in terms
- Worried and Confused about the future and my worth Hey Blind, thanks for taking the time. I’ve been unable to sleep (currenlty 4am) for the past few days because I’m uneasy about my future. I don’t know where my skillset slots in to industry and what to do next, and I feel I’m completely behind my peers. I’m 24, and am just graduating with my Mast
- Negotiating relocation bonus into TC possible? (Apple) Hey everyone. Recently got an Apple hw ICT2 offer 125/50/30. 1 YOE with BS, for a mech eng role. I do not require relocation bonus since I am already in the bay area. through some research on blind, i see that the bonus is 1 month salary + any moving expenses. Would I still be getting the bonus ev
- Referral for Entry Level DS/ML Role Hello Blind! I am looking for an entry-level data scientist or machine learning engineer role in Canada. I'm open to both in-person and remote. I am currently a graduate student in machine learning and had a research-based ML internship and worked on speech processing. Have good knowledge of ML an
- Referrals Hi Blind, I have 1 YOE at a quant fund (Data Eng) plus some ML research internships and want to move over to tech. Any referrals for FAANG[A-Z]* would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks in advance! LC 389 TC 150 YOE 1 #swe #facebook #apple #amazon #netflix #google #microsoft #uber #lyft #linkedin #
- My Wife Wants to Become a SWE. Suggestions? My wife is a Pharmacist with 7 yoe and hates it (as many do). She wants to become a developer, so she has started down the bootcamp route - chatting with reps from the bootcamps, doing fundementals, etc. So far, she really enjoys it. The more research she does, however, the more it seems like boo
- Is Vanguard customer service always this horrible? After reading many posts here (thanks Blind community) and some research, decided to rollover my MS 401k to Vanguard. I needed help with something, tried calling them several times in the last week, put myself up for call back. Never heard anything back from them. Fidelity client service is hands d
- Planning to buy a 3bed Apartment in Bay Hi Blind, I'm planning to buy a 3 bed apartment in the San Jose / Santa Clara area ranging 800k - 1M. I haven't looked / researched on it yet. Planning to down 15% and rest on loan. Married, No kids yet. Wife potentially to start working by early next year. I want to know what would be the monthl
- L5 Business Analyst (BA II) Recently accepted a role as a L5 BA at Amazon. In researching comps on Blind I couldnt find much information on offers. Hopefully this post helps someone in the future: Base: $100k Year 1 Bonus: $29k Year 2 Bonus: $20k RSU: 36 TC: $130k YOE: 3 Original offer was for $126k TC and we eventually neg
- vote Where do all the best engineers and scientists go to work these days? Serious replies only please. I'm not necessarily talking about prestige, but moreso where you'll find 1) the highest total compensation, 2) the most research and technology-driven culture, 3) the greatest opportunity for impact and career growth. I have a feeling it's Netflix in 2019, but intere
- I made it! Landed on a full-time offer at a quant firm. Hi! I can't express my excitement enough! After having 3 internships (including Amazon) during my PhD, I finally landed on a full-time quant research offer at a quant prop shop I just interned. I will move to a new city with LCOL (relative to bay area). It is particularly meaningful to me as my jo
- vote ServiceNow or TikTok? Offer comparison Hello Blind Team, Let's rate my offers! ServiceNow Base: 125,000 With bonus: 137,500 RSUs: 80,000 (percentage by year: 25, 25, 25, 25) TikTok Base: 140K With bonus: 175K RSUs: 100,000 (percentage by year: 15, 25, 25, 35) Current TC: 100K YOE: 3.5 - 4 Role: DevOps Location: California I haven'