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- I see a lot of complaining about the Amazon bar being low - do people at top companies look down on Amazom SDEs? It's true that the talent at Amazon is far lower than Google or FB or trading companies etc (nobody turns down Airbnb for Amazon) but in terms of customer improvements/products it seems like Amazon is doing a lot more. Google has uniformly brilliant engineering Ubermensches but cant even make a soli
- link Yahoo news on Blind post Yahoo! Voices: A DoorDash employee making $400K a year complained about a company-wide initiative requiring that he personally make one delivery a month. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doordash-employee-making-400k-complained-043424806.html #yahoo #doordash #vent #wedash
- Are all company specific blind’s so terrible? My company specific blind is just people complaining about C level execs— like this exec said this or that exec did xyz… or people complaining about some aspect of the company. Are all other company blinds this bad ? Is this app creating a toxic atmosphere ?
- Sysdig BS About High Pace Sysdig management BS's about they are a high pace company on Sales Call. I see everyday people talking complaining about the slack channel about they being here 2 quarters and still no stocks allocated to them. Others on work visas complain about their GC process being delayed. I think the overall c
- Amazon is basically the highest TC company for the last year Honestly I think the supremacy of Amazon is a hard pill for blind to swallow. If you look at the comp they are handing out (which everyone here is well aware of) and then the stability of the stock, Amazon is #1. All those fat offers from smaller tech companies were way smaller than they looked, th
- What did YOU get YOURSELF for Christmas? Okay big TC ballers. Enough complaining about what your company did or didn’t get you for the holidays. What did YOU get YOURSELF this year? Haven’t closed yet but buying myself a vacation home in SoCal.
- Tell me you work for Amazon without telling me you work for Amazon I'll start. My company has an i-got-pipped channel in all official Slack workspaces with hundreds of members. Topics discussed include people complaining about being put into Focus for one year at a time.
- vote Does your employer give you free food? With me being a remote employee, I don't get the benefit of free office food. But I know some employees at big tech companies have the luxury of free food. Someone complained about Meta reducing their offerings so they can't get their 3-4 free avocados a day lol.
- Do gaming companies really pay less? If the gaming industry is so profitable, then why do gaming companies pay less compared to the rest of the software industry? FYI: I’m not complaining about my pay. Roblox pay is pretty good, but it’s not a gaming company either. I’m just curious to know on what basis do gaming companies justify l
- Who's at a company they really like? I hear everyone complain about companies here, but don't hear the good things much. Who's at a company now that they really like and would reccomend? (and why?) Seems like I have a negative impression of every company
- I wish being a “diversity hire” was a real thing I am a girl with a “diverse” background and even with 3 years of experience, I struggle to get call backs. According to Blind I should be getting lots of LC easy interviews!!! Can y’all who complain about “diversity hires” please send me a referral or post here? 🥺 … I am curious about these “dive
- Blind getting toxic? I see a lot of negativity on blind recently. People just complain about other companies and saying they would go bankrupt. Why does everyone want to see others go down? I've see people complaining and talking shit about fb, Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Microsoft, google. These are all our top companies, wh
- Why don’t engineers at FANG complain about interviews? Why do I always see people at non-faang complain about interviews?? I dont get it, its a choice, if someone doesn’t like the process its fine, don’t engage in the process, there are many companies who dont ask leetcode type questions. Why complain??? Specially, when everyone knows interviews are mo
- A company makes you register on some shitty portal just to apply for a position. Is it a sign of a shitty company? If companies complain about shortage of good engineers, then why do they make it a damn quest just to apply? And that's after a referral!
- Are interviews in India harder than those in the US for the same companies? I can't tell. Are the people complaining about getting LC hard at tech companies mostly from India? It seems like even the more difficult companies here have pretty easy interviews if you have ever even practiced for a short amount of time. Also they may legitimately care more about using modular me
- advice for younger folks For those starting out their careers, here are a few things that’ll serve you well: 0. Strive for happiness and WLB 1. Don’t stay in one place for more than a few years 2. Want higher TC and career growth? See 1) 3. Don’t burn bridges, don’t take work personally 4. Never stop learning new skills
- vote Which Company have the best IT department? Most people complain about IT department for being slow or for not knowing what they are doing. From your experience which company has a strong IT department?
- vote Do you like where you work? Seems like a lot of people on Blind complain about their workplace - does anyone here actually enjoy working at their company? Why or why not? New TC: 370k (not chase)
- Good vibes only: What are you most proud of this year so far? - Just got a new better paying job - Been body-building since last year and it’s paying off in my confidence and even dating - Just feeling great, eating well, sleeping well and can’t complain 😃 What about you? Old TC — 55K (no joke) New TC — 90 base + 25 RSU (small company) 0.8 months YOE
- Marshall Wace Is Marshall Wace a good company for a software engineer? Any reviews/complains? Had to find info about TC/WLB in London. TC 105k, YOE 5
- Off my chest: 3 of my direct report cried in front of me I had 3 direct reports cried in front of me, complaining about workload, pay discrepancy, and lack of career path. All of these are known issue and could be fixed with money. The company is/was doing well. But there was so little I could do about it because my budget wasn’t truly mine to spend. The
- Share the positives as well Blind in itself is a great platform to share professional stuff but after reading people's experiences, I feel it's a bit depressing as everyone is complaining about their company and practically no company is there where the people's experience is good. So let's share the positive experiences as w
- link Excellent blog post, definitely recommending reading it it https://medium.com/@sgriddle/im-35-and-i-may-suddenly-have-lost-the-rest-of-my-life-i-m-panicking-just-a-bit-35d6a28dcbc For people complaining about the salary/job/company.
- vote No Work life balance! A lot of people on here complain about bad WLB at their company. Especially at companies like Facebook and Amazon. How long do you guys really work for? If you work for more than 40 hours then comment with the company and hours per week.
- How do you define "woman in tech"? For me it's a woman in a technical position, not a woman with a non technical role at a tech company Asking because some of my non technical woman friends claim to be women in tech and complaining about it...
- vote How much $ to leave a job that's fine? Say you've been at a job for two years and it's fine, nothing to complain about, but you're not passionate about the work, and not likely to get a big raise soon. Within the next year, say. What % increase in your TC would it take for you to leave for a seemingly similar job at a different company?
- Why is Amazon so successful? You don't see a post here about comparing companies without people complaining about Amazon's culture, pay, benefits, etc. I also did not have a pleasant experience interviewing with them. I am wondering now, what makes Amazon so successful? What makes you like working at Amazon?
- Facebook vs Google for L5/E5 Which company is better for L5 to work on a promotion to L6? I've seen many people complain about WLB in Facebook. Is it actually that bad across the company or depends on a team? Is it at least compensated by faster promotion?
- People who reject pre-IPO companies and complain I see so many posts of people who got offers from pre-IPO companies, which years later actually IPO, and then they complain about “if only I had accepted the offer”. I understand it must feel like crap in hindsight, however, there is a lot of mental work and toughness, patience, and combatting FOMO
- PSA... TC on Blind is not reality In light of Blind's cameo on the news with somebody making 400k complaining about having to actually use their own app I'd like to make it clear that 95% of all IT workers will NEVER sniff that kind of money. The majority of those that do make that kind of money work at publicly traded companies whi
- TikTok/ByteDance toxic culture Hello everyone, this is a warning post to make you aware of the toxic culture that exists in ByteDance/TikTok. Our company is unquestionably on its way to becoming one of the worst places to work. The sad part is that every issue here could have been prevented, but the leadership simply fails. The
- vote Is it just me or are West Coast Companies > East Coast Companies I grew up in the Bay so I’m probably biased but companies in the WC (sans Amazon I’m sure) just seem better run with lower ego folks? More tech vision, product focus and deep interest in scaling. East coast companies just seem to care about short to medium term wins and squeezing productivity. The
- Benefits at Bungie or other gaming companies? I was curious about the benefits offered at Bungie or other companies. Are there premiums for the individual or family plans? What are the deductibles like? What company do you use and do you like them? Any insight would be great! Our benefits get complained about a lot so I was trying to see what
- Google employees never complain? I've been on blind for about 2 months and I've never seen even one post/comment from Google employees complaining about their job/company/wlb/etc. Is Google really such a heaven, or is it just blind sample space and data quality issue?
- Written Warning after maternity leave Has someone you know received a written warning? Is it serious? Does a company keep a permanent record, and if so, who can see it? While I was on maternity leave, a senior leader complained about me. I just returned from maternity leave, and I was given a written warning. I know the incident viola
- T-Mobile micromanagement / toxic environment? I got a couole of friend who work at T-Mobile and they have been complaining more and more about micromanaging from their leadership plus a more and more toxic environment. One of them is about to accept an offer and might even take a pay cut to move out while the other is already actively looking f
- Is 24/7 oncall the norm for SWEs at most companies? I see a lot of AWS engineers complaining about 24/7 on-call and getting paged multiple times overnight then going to work the next day. This sounds incredibly torturous and I’m wondering if this type of on-call is the norm for most big tech companies. For reference, my team does have an oncall whe
- Contractor asking for home office setup? Is it normal for a contractor to ask for equipment for home office? I recently started out at a pretty sizable company, and TC isn’t that great. I don’t wanna complain about TC, but my chair, desk, laptop are pretty shitty so I wanna get them replaced. I wondered if I can bill the company for these
- Time to move on. Been at Amazon for 5 years now and would love to move on to different tier1/tier2 companies for better WLB, TC, benefits and work. My experience so far has been good, nothing to complain. Current TC: 270k, SDE2 (Was TT - top tier performer for 3 years). Total years of exp: 5, joined Amazon soon af
- What should I do when my co-worker said this to me? I'm going to transfer to another team within the company and my manager hasn't officially announced this to the team yet, but only the PM and one senior engineer have known about this because they need to do quarterly planning. Last week, one of my co-worker sent me a message early in the morning l
- Leetcode is not a metric for skill So I was working at this company, I was one of the developer and we had this amazing team lead, that was also a developer. She was the best TL i've ever had, extremely smart, much more than me, she always knew the solution to every problem or bug. We both recently interview for Meta, I passed the b
- Why does it seem like people at Amazon are PIPed more than people at other companies? This is an observation based off being on blind for a while. I don’t have any data to support it other than my own personal experience; however, it seems as if people at Amazon are always complaining about being on a PIP. Is that just something in their culture managers are encouraged to do? Or am
- Why Amazon? Why would you work for Amazon? Just because of the brand name? or to use it as a stepping stone? I see everybody is complaining about the Work/Life balancece, PIP, one of the worst 401K matching companies, etc.... #amazon #interview #aws
- Kicking myself, turned down Netflix 2 years ago and regret it every week Really bumming myself out these days. Turned down an attractive offer from Netflix 2 years ago because things in my life just didn’t work for a move out to the valley. Now I’m getting insultingly low offers from Amazon (salary, title, relocation etc) and other companies and just can’t seem to get ou
- Meta on-site rude interviewer I had a virtual on-site for E4 with meta and am unsure how to process what happened. I had 2 system design which went ok I think and my behavioral round went well. My coding round was rough. I was about 90percent finished with the first problem and the interviewer cut me off and said “ok I know what
- What to discuss during an exit interview? I am leaving my company soon and HR has scheduled a exit interview with me. The reason I’m leaving is my manager’s attitude. Would it be good to complain about him? Will it affect me in future when someone will ask for his contact info for my background check?
- Stop listening to the propaganda (includes referral link to TikTok) At least 50% of the people who complain about TikTok’s work culture on Blind have never worked there. Of the remaining 50%, at least half of them are xenophobic. How are you being convinced by those people? It’s a great product, gradually outcompeting every social media company, and they’re paying
- Fired - Need help So last month I was fired from my job. Reason, performance. Things went quite murky after I joined. People never answered my queries on chat or teams but once I updated ticket with my findings, they used to update the ticket and tag manager and put me in a negative light. In my one on ones manager u
- How can I motivate my bf to leetcode and interview with Google? He said he's happy at current job, but recent half year he's been complaining about people at work a lot. He always wanted to work for Google, but when google's recruiter reached out to him, he never even wanted to chat with them, because he's too lazy to practice leetcode and argued that they're us
- Do companies get rid of you if you complain too much about salary and ask for promotions? To start of, I'm good at what I do. I'm straight A (above average, documented) performer. However, I accepted a low salary to begin with and been complaining about it to my boss when possible (ie. During raises, performance review, or when company survey results come back saying 50% of the departmen