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- [LIST] - Companies offering high TC in EU These are employers where they pay above the respective market they are hiring for, especially for senior and above software engineering levels. You won't be disappointed with the offers you get when you show a good performance during the interviews. Some people will object and say some of these "
- Interviewing tips for popular companies Hi - I'm hoping we can learn from each other's experiences with this post. Have any of you attended following interviews (infra/backend swe senior engineer role) ? What's the best way to prepare for these companies ? If you got an offer or didnt, then do mention the same too! Note: I know "leetcode
- vote Help with deciding on an offer Hi. I'm deciding between offers and would like to know your thoughts on the company outlook, the engineering team quality, and promo opportunities. Which company has a better upside and growth potential mid to long term? Doordash E5: 210k, 700k (4 years), no bonus but refresher program has 6-12% pe
- Career change, need referral Hi Blind community I am in need of a career change and would like the community's help. Working in a job I dont enjoy and really need to change my current position and get some solace. Applied to Meta (SWE new grad) but got rejected in screening interview. Need referrals from #Doordash #Instacart
- link Startups to interview at I am considering to interview with some of the startups from the list below. Of course, I cannot talk to all of them. I'd love to know which ones are worth to talk to. Slack Stripe Clover Pinterest Open Table Hulu Robinhood Nextdoor Wish Reddit Drive.ai Thumbtack Coinbase MapR Confluent Signl
- preference for on sites plaid /coin base/ cruise Posting on behalf of my fiancé Who is currently actively interviewing and has few offers and few onsites. The challenge is he can have only few onsites before current offers expire. He is exhausted with these interviews but want to schedule interview with plaid / coinbase/ cruise if there is any ups
- Asking for referrals for tech companies (SWE/SDE) I am a Canadian citizen looking to relocate to US on TN visa. I am mostly flexible to work onsite / hybrid / remote from within US (remote ideally, TN is not location based) - However I would stay away from Toronto-like weather (e.g. Chicago) I am getting ready for interviews after preparing with
- vote Databricks vs Confluent Hi, I got 2 offers from the above 2 saas company. Confluent offered staff title with 240k base 15% bonus total TC around 500k Pros Team, wlb, scope, good refresh Databricks offered senior title with 190k base 15% bonus total TC around 520k (220 per rsu) Pros Not yet IPO, but not sure how success
- Confluent Phone Screen Experience I was asked the most recent question that has been posted on leetcode.com’s discussion section for Confluent. In the end I had completely working code, but due to needing a hint for an edge case I was rejected. They require you to actually run your code. Negative comments: - After I asked clarifyin
- vote Dynamic Programming for SRE Roles Hi guys These days do we need to prepare for Dynamic Programming (including Knapsack and Greedy) for SRE/PE interviews at FAANG Interviews for SRE roles vary tremendously at various companies. Some Companies treat SREs same as SWE and some don't (especially Google SRE and FB PE). Amazon has SySD
- link [India] Referral for 9 yoe SWE Hi, I am interested in a new role. Any decent or better company will do. Some examples are - Atlassian, Salesforce, Intuit, Flipkart, OCI, Twitter, Airbnb, Visa, Rubrik, Postman, Confluent, of course FAANG. Any companies from these lists - https://us.teamblind.com/s/xw7PbFnK https://us.teamblind.c
- I got rejected from all 7 onsite interviews. AMA Google FB Uber (ATG) Cruise (Passed on-site but was rejected during team matching. Recruiter botched interview role) Lyft (Level 5) Airbnb Confluent Having gotten an offer at Uber a year ago I really thought I would have a chance at getting an offer again. I passed all of my phone screens with 100
- FANG + Unicorn Referrals Please! Hey blind, Currently, I have an offer to continue doing Sec Engineering work. However, I am trying to go for PM/TPM roles. I founded a non-profit during the pandemic, and would love to leverage some of my business sense/engineering background. I would appreciate any referrals/support. Hope all is w
- Possible to get L5 (senior) offers with 3-3.5 YoE? I'm a L4 at Google, recently interviewed at a few companies hoping to get a L5 offer. However all I'm getting are L4 offers. Examples: Stripe L2: 190k base + 10% yearly bonus + 140k RSU yearly = 350k TC Confluent: 270k TC (don't remember exact distribution) Coinbase: 260k TC (don't remember exact d
- Speed/# of months of these companies' green card processes to finish for current priority date Please no trolls and no foul language. Bout to get an offer from Splunk but curious about these companies as well as I have interviews lined up with them. Could y'all provide answers to my questions below for each of these companies ? Adobe, Splunk, Salesforce, Twitter, MyFitnessPal, atlassian,
- Looking for SWE referrals for my wife Hi everyone, I’m helping my wife to find a job. Anyone willing to provide a referral? I can also provide a referral to LinkedIn if anyone’s interested. A little background about her, - She’s doing her masters currently. - She had 3+ years of previous experience working as a SWE mostly on backend.
- FAANG + UNICORN Referrals Please Hey Blind Family, Currently, I have an offer to work as a full stack software engineer 2 for a bank. However, I am trying to go for PM / TPM roles. I would appreciate any referrals / support. Hope all is well and stay safe! YOE# 2 TC: 120k <3 #referral #referrals #interview #hiring #jobhunt #bi
- vote Offers: Confluent vs Doordash Wise, kind and resourceful people of this forum, please help me out. Really torn between two offers. Both teams are new greenfield product lines for the respective companies and both hold prospects of rapid career and stock price growth. 1) Confluent: Got positive vibes from the team and company. W
- Referral help UX / Product Design Hey folks Exhausted Product designer here , trying to create WLB in my life Can anyone be able to refer me to their company ? Exp - 5 years . Currently interviewing with toast and GoDaddy Twilio and Oracle ghosted after the final round 😭 #tech #help #adobe #affirm #airbnb #apple #blackrock
- Interview Rejection I gave an interview for a SaaS company for Go + k8s role. I solved (aced - everything in Go) coding + concurrency + projects discussion + had a good time with interviewers. The HM round went for 90 minutes - discussed about everything ( about the role, WLB, perks of it, future planning - heck even a
- vote Confluent vs FB vs Google vs Snowflake Hi, I am expecting SWE offers from 4 companies next week: Confluent, Facebook, Google, and Snowflake (in alphabetical order). Confluent is offering L4 (senior SE) in the Kafka team. Facebook E4, I interviewed as infrastructure SE and will go through their bootcamp after joining. Google, L4, and of
- Los Angeles / Remote Referrals Copying tags from another post I saw. But I am looking for SWE roles that are remote or LA/Southern California based. Currently on final on-sites for Intuit and Meta. Interviewing with Google as well. SWE II roles preferred 1.5 YOE 140 LC TC: 170K #adobe #affirm #airbnb #akunacapital #apple #asa
- Job seekers keep hustling! Offers will come Just wanted to share my journey in an effort it’ll motivate some people who are finding it difficult landing a job. About 1.5years ago I was struggling with on-site interviews at relatively small companies. I got rejected from 5 on-site interviews in the space of 3 weeks. I was just fresh from grad
- Offers for 2021 (Experienced) Offers are listed in alphabetical order. Looking to get feedback on the numbers, my top 4 WRT team fit and alignment are Apple, Confluent, Facebook, Roku, in alphabetical order. I have been a top performer my entire career. I don't mind putting in 80 hours, but I often get things done in 20-30. I wi
- Junior SWE seeking referrals!! Hi Blind, I’m currently searching for a new SWE role in the NYC area, and have been having trouble getting responses from cold applying with my resume despite positive feedback from Rooftopslushie resume reviews. I guess the market is still not that great for junior engineers at the moment :( I’m
- Referrals please for PM / TPM roles Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MBA within finance and graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science. Full-Time Network Operations MGMT Engineer / Campus Ambassador. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I do not need any sponsorship! Past Experience: I’ve done sever
- vote Please help to choose an offer: Twitter-Uber-Confluent-[maybe Square] So, I had an interview bootcamp :) and got 7 offers. The choice is boilled down to those 4 companies in Subject. Twitter. Staff Engineer. No comp yet, recruiter told might go to the high band since I have strong competing offers. Told the highest is about 525 total. Vesting: 6-month cliff, then eve
- Please help me land a backend role Hello good people of Blind, I am looking to change my current front end role (I was pitched full-stack upon signing) into a more traditional SWE/SDE backend role. Nothing against FE but it's simply not me. I was a little slow getting into software as a whole coming from a computer engineering back
- Referrals Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MSBA, graduating in December 2021. Have an MBA in Marketing and engineering undergraduate degree. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I can work without sponsorship for now! Past Experience: Data Analytics, product analytics and Sales
- vote Company ask me to relocate to SF, please help me evaluate I have passed the interview with a pre ipo company called Outdoorsy for staff/principal engineer, TC 300K (180 + 120 paper money). The CTO have decided all of the sudden that they would no longer allow full remote after COVID and everyone need to go to SF, Austin, or Boston and be in office 3 days a
- Harsh Job hunt story - 11/11 Rejections Sometimes it gets so tough. I have a friend of mine who is looking for job as a masters new grad international student with 2 yoe outside US before masters. She also has an offer from the company where she interned. And to tell things in perspective- she was the first one to get the internship offe
- Help me break into tech I’ve posted before I got a few replies, but posting again due to not passing a final on site. I am a management consultant and I am trying to break into tech. I have one year of experience as technical program manager and I’m trying to break into check as a TPM or a product manager. This is way hard
- Oracle India RSUs Hello Blind Family! I am a fresher and was placed in Oracle IDC. Now as any campus placement package I was offered 600 RSUs with vesting period 4 years. I don't have any idea how will this be vested or how can I redeem it (is there an app for it or something). Can you please share the process? Thi
- vote Offer evaluation Rubrik vs Netskope Hi folks, Please help me evaluate the couple of offers I’ve received Rubrik offer - Snr Swe Base 190k Bonus 15% Equity - RSUs 13900 units (@ 26$ a share) 360k vesting over 4 years Sign on 23k Netskope offer - Staff Engr Base 200k Bonus 5% in first year and increases 5% every year of service aft
- [India] Interview/Negotiation experience Long post alert. Sharing some of my lessons, which I shouldn't have done, but I did and some generic info. 1.If you applied for job X, but recruiter says your profile is matching to a requirement Y. Then try to probe if that req is opened actually. If not, probability of getting an offer is pretty
- Referral Request Hi All, Looking for referrals for Cybersecurity Profile in good product based companies. YOE: 13 years Please drop a comment so that I can dm you. Thanks!! #Airbnb ##cybersecurity #interview #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDynamics #AppliedIntuition #Arcesium #Atlassian #Bain #Bigbasket #Blackbuck #Bloo
- Referral for Product manager job in Canada (PR holder) #product Hi Blind Community, I just joined Blind and was awestruck - what an amazingly helpful community, what superb level of information/knowledge on various topics (my interest for now is in job-related ones). I am looking for #productmanager #product referrals. Please help with referrals for F
- vote PM (India): 6 months, 26 applications, 10 rejections, 4 offers (Poll) Yes, 26 applications :) I was literally on a hunt for the right PM job in the last 6 months. Applied to all the vacancies in good companies that I know. [To be honest, In my mind, Microsoft and Google are the targets but planned to use other companies as interview practice because this is 1st time I
- vote Sad about missing my big payday and joining a smaller company I had taken a break from work at the start of this year due to mental health and am now looking for a job. Been interviewing at all the big firms and got a big NO cause I underestimated the importance of practising LeetCode (was more of a pen paper solver) . I have 2 offers -- one from Zeta and anot
- ~20 SWE Onsite Rejections In A Row In 1.5 Yrs, then G, MSFT, Unicorn Offers ! TLDR: Making this post for others in a similar boat to hang in there. Just when I thought I saw light at the end of the tunnel and thought I'd get an offer I was rejected and the tunnel got extended by a few hundred miles. At the end however I saw success and so can you. Motivation: I got in the i
- link Sharing the love (but mostly bragging) Hey Blind folks, Thank you for helping me get here. I prepped intensely for about 3 months and switched to Google from a mid-size unicorn. This is for ML engineer IC with ~10 years of experience in the Bay Area. I thought I should share my journey to give back. I interviewed around 10 companies an
- vote Amazon vs LinkedIn vs Splunk My wife recently got offers from Amazon, LinkedIn and Splunk. All are front-end SWE roles. Background: MS + 7.5 Yoe (small company in SJ) Current TC: 220k 1.Splunk P4 (cloud), San Francisco office Base: 185k Bonus: 15% RSU: 325k / 3 yrs No sign on TC: 321k Recruiter said it potentially can go up t
- link Referrals wanted -- hypergrowth startups/pre-ipo unicorns! YoE: 10 (2 in leadership) EDIT: Wow, what a showing! I wrote a follow up thread for this if you're curious about what happened with my search: https://www.teamblind.com/post/oXQhcVqb Thanks again for all your help folks! Hi all, It's that time of the year and I'm beginning to ramp up my intervi
- Need help with Data Science referrals! Hey there! I am a L4 BIE at Amazon, been here almost a year now. I am really tired and exhausted working at Amazon now. Having a lot of Mental Health issues because of poor work life balance and internal politics where my manager plays a lot of favoritism between different team members. I need a ch
- Looking for Any/HFT Referrals, D.E. Shaw grad offer Undergrad graduating in July 2022 from a Top 10 uni in India, currently interviewing for HRT and Google India. Flexible to work anywhere as long as the visa is sponsored. Why me? Among top performers on Project Euler with a couple of Olympiad achievements. #referral #faang #hft #janestreet #jumptr
- Referrals requested Hiya I would really appreciate any and all referrals for any position that will let me write some code. Remote is cool, but I'm not picky. Heck I'll even give one lucky person who helps me out a tmo discount code! Really though, thanks for commenting if you do :) Alternatively, I would be very g
- vote Compare : product / growth offer for non tech Interviewing with all these companies for growth roles. I’ve been reading the reviews of all the companies online / on blind and just want to test the waters on what everyone else would do. I’ve worked in multiple FANNGs and starts ups all within marketing analytics. I’ve found the best part of an
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- link PART 2: Referrals for hypergrowth startups/pre-ipo unicorns! Hi folks! I originally made a thread about referrals for hypergrowth startups/pre-ipo unicorns. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Referrals-wanted----hypergrowth-startupspre-ipo-unicorns-PdAugt1Y I wanted to make a follow-up thread to help the community out further and keep the momentum going, as I t