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- PLEASE - Don’t panic during Solution Design interview People who come for design interviews. Don’t panic. It is no different than your every day conversation with your coworkers 1) Don’t dive deep too early. Your success doesn’t depend only on an architecture diagram. 2) You DO NOT need to cover everything. 3) Understand what is asked by asking que
- Looking for a ux design/product design referral! Hey guys, I'm looking for a referral for MAANG or solid startups/companies with strong design culture. Thanks in advance! YOE 6 #design #interviews #ui/ux #referral
- Meta ML Design vs ML Infra Design round Recruiter asking me to pick one, I am trying to understand the difference. Seems like ML Design is more about model selection, feature engineering and ML Infra is that plus everything you would need to run the model. Seems like ML Infra covers more scope but in less depth? Any insight is much appr
- Atlassian code design round I have a code design round scheduled with Atlassian. Can someone help with what I can expect in this round? Does it involve concurrency questions? Have noticed on leetcode discuss that someone didn't consider concurrency and coded rate limiter and was rejected
- Product designers— let’s talk titles. I come from a mostly startup background. Before that (~5 years ago) I was a product designer in agencies. Over a 9 year career, I’ve ground and worked my way up the ranks. Mid level, senior, lead, and eventually director positions at these younger companies. I recently applied for a staff level ro
- Xbox Design Recently applied and got contacted by a recruiter for a Senior Designer position. The description mentioned developer ecosystem design team. Anyone with experience at Xbox have any insight into this team? Or just info to share in general at Xbox? They listed out a few more questions for me to answ
- Product design TC expectations Hey you beautiful Blinders, I’m wondering what should be my salary expectations if I get an offer for a Sr level ux/product designer roles. Also, assuming I clear the interviews, should I come up with a number or let the recruiter tell first? My tc expectation is around $380k - $400k. Is that high
- vote Designer bag to work? I switched to apple recently and plan to buy an LV bag as a gift to myself. Is it ok if i carry it to work or will it be frowned upon? Level: HW ICT3 YoE: 7.5 TC: 210k #hardware #apple #applehardware #appleict3
- Meta design camp First off does anyone know what design camp is actually like? Also interested if anyone is joining that date or is already on a team that is looking for product designers Joining june 20 Old tc: 125 New tc: 235 full remote 🙃
- System design prep Ddia is too long and talks a lot about history. What’s the most effective way to prep for system design interviews? #tech
- Designers are underpaid Should Product Designers really be earning 50-60% less than our Software Engineering or PM counterparts? Is this happening because the industry is yet to catch on to the value of Design and only some companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix etc understand our value? Is this happening because of a l
- ML design Please name some ML design references, blogs, YouTube channel etc Just read educative grocking
- Which companies pay senior designers $400k? I have two on my list so far: Coinbase, Twitter.
- vote Design Patterns I know everyone here is after TC, but this post is about doing a good job at the jobs we eventually get hired for. I tried searching for this information but didn’t find anything modern (2022). In your view, how important is it to learn Design Patterns? Edit: can’t believe I forgot Blind tax. TC: 9
- Best tech company for designers What's the best company for designers (graphic designers, ux designers, visual designers, product designers) in terms of pay, benefits and work life balance in your opinion? #design #techcareer
- Looking for product design referrals 👨🎨 Hey guys, I'm looking for a referral to FAANG or solid startups/companies with strong design culture. - At my current startup I launched a new product line, worked on newly patented tech, established research and design best practices. Started at Seed and now were coming up on our B round. Anythi
- link Is System Design Primer enough for System Design https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer Have onsite next week.
- Top K design please HELP! Please help me with a System Design of Top K. Failed Meta and G onsites due to it 🥲 and still can’t find any practical source about it. (Don’t mention Mikhail Smorchok recording, it doesn’t explain it over a sliding window). 10^5 events/sec -> 4 * 10^10 events/year How can I maintain the list o
- Low System Design experience Should I mention to the recruiter that I have little if not 0 system design experience? I'm not sure I can pick up this part in just a few weeks... LC should be in better shape. I have Google, Lyft, Apple incoming Tc 135k
- Meta product design challenge I don’t have a question.. just sharing my product design interview experience. I had the most fascinating design challenge today at Meta. The prompt was to design a web3 based social token economy. I hear people talking about designing a remote, lock or atm and how fb repeats these prompts but boy
- System design prep advice When you all studied for system design interviews, did you deep dive into MySQL stuff? My last two interviews were designing Venmo and opentable, but they only cared about defining the sql. None of the other parts they cared about Kinda got fucked as I don’t write sql ever and that part of my brai
- vote Design technologist Aka UX engineer or prototyper! Do you guys have a portfolio to get a job? I feel a little lost regarding, how to show my work. It’s not full coding or full UX portfolio. Any good examples I can follow to build mine, if it’s needed? Any help is really appreciated. #design #interviews #ui/ux Desig
- Blind75 equivalent for System Design Hi, What is the best resource for System Design interviews? I worked on the blind75 list but I have little experience with system design... TC 135k
- Oracle OCI ic3 interview no system design Is it normal for Oracle OCI swe ic3 level to not have system design round in the onsite? yoe: 4
- Failed System Design interview failure. I recently failed multiple system design interviews at tech. In some I genuinely made mistake but in some even after covering pretty much all the things those are required from driving conversation , functional and non functional req , failure , errors , monitoring, choice of tech db etc , if things
- System Design Interview Podcast Recommendations Hi! I am looking for System Design Interview Podcast recommendations. I find it easier to listen to podcasts as I don't have to set time aside to listen to them. I can listen to podcasts while driving, walking blah blah as opposed to reading a book. TIA TC ~ 100k TIA #google #meta #amazon #micr
- In Depth Systems Design Interview Primer for those in need Hey guys, I'm seeing that a lot of people are being laid off at the moment and between those and the hiring freezes, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Blinders are going to be looking for jobs soon. In the event that any of you are prepping for systems design interviews, I made a 30 page in depth
- link My Approach to System Design It is not an exhaustive list and might not work for everyone. Also it is not a one size fits all thing but I hope it helps you to draft a plan and figure out how to tackle the sys design. Resources: 1. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 2. https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-s
- Meta infra system design vs product design What's the difference between the infrastructure system design and the product design interviews? I've read SO many different answers. I thought I finally settled on one: infra system design is the traditional design interview whereas product design can potentially be the traditional design intervi
- Apple Design Interview Process I have HM interviews later in the week for 2 product design positions, from what the recruiter told me they are 30min and I’ll be discussing my work and thought process a bit. I know it might be team dependent, but anything I should start prepping for now? What would typically come next or down the
- DocuSign product design interview process? Has anyone recently interviewed for a product designer role at DocuSign? What was the general process like? And what was included in the onsite interview? Thanks :) TC: 110k #design #interviews #ui/ux #productdesign #productdesigner #docusign #tech
- My first system design interviews are coming up! I have been at Amazon for 1 year after joining as a new grad. After 6 months, I have decided to LC and read DDIA because my feedback from my manager was not positive nor negative, but I have decided to stay on the safer side and get ready for something new. I have been approached by recruiters form
- Design Gurus vs Educative - Grokking the System Design Interview Hello all, I wanted to look into honing my skills for System Design interviews. I see that it is being offered by both DesignGurus and Educative. Both have the same price for the course but DesignGurus say they provide - Lifetime access while Educative says the fee is only per year. On surface Des
- vote analog design i understand that analog is a highly saturated field. but, if you are an experienced analog designer, what domain in analog has the most pitential for growth and/or job oppurtunities?!
- Let’s design a better interview process I’ve been thinking about how the hiring process is completely broken for engineers. Neither does it give enough information to prospective employees, if doesn’t even do the right skills check. Maybe we can start with how to correctly interview senior engineers. Generally for a senior engineer I’d
- What are the best companies for designers? In terms of culture, up leveling skills, leadership opportunities, and mentorship. Less concerned about compensation but job security is important to me. Basically I want to be treated as a human and not a cog. #design #ui/ux #productdesign
- System design/ algo design resources Preparing for tpm roles, are there any good resources for algo design and system design. Thank you
- Best System Design Videos on YouTube Can someone suggest the best system design videos on YouTube?
- vote Design culture in companies Which of the following companies have good design culture and WLB? If design culture and work is great then WLB is secondary. #ux #design #interviews
- Sys Design Prep for Onsites Hi, I have a few onsites lined up in the next weeks (Google, Snap, Reddit, Quora, and a few others) but I never did system design interviews. I recently got Grokking the Design Interview and I need to start looking through it. Any tips from the more experienced folks here regarding system design p
- System Design Preparation I am Applied Scientist L5 in Amazon. Recruiter in meta reached out to me for E5 Machine Learning Engineer position. He talked about 1 round of system design (distributed system) in addition to LC rounds. System design was not required for AS L5 in Amazon (at least I didn’t have). I wonder how long d
- System Design - How Do You Design API When doing system design interviews and you are asked about designing the API, what is expected there? Is it just defining the POST/GET/PUT/DELETE requests? Do you have to define the responses as well? Any good resources? I haven’t been able to find too many on this and wasn’t able to do it successf
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 1 Long term prep strategy Part 1 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/YA2RKEqY Coding Part 1 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/ikvVrRXa Part 3 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 Part 2 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/rBrt5bV8 Edit 6: I will be posting the rest/comment
- Twilio Frontend System Design Round [India] Has anyone attended Twilio India’s L4 Frontend Interview? What is the sort of questions they ask for system design round? Is it frontend specific or a complete distributed system design kind of exercise?
- vote Meta System Design Interview I got this system design question at my Meta onsite (E5) where I was asked to design a price tracking application like camelcamelcamel.com. I answered most of the questions that the interviewer had, but I am not sure if I choose the right db. The requirement was to store price changes for up to 2 ye
- vote Facebook Messenger System Design When user A sends a message to user B. Two things need to happen 1. Message needs to be persisted in a db 2. Message needs to be pushed up to user B via their websocket connection if they are online. Which should happen first?
- System design EXPERTS please help. I’m building an app for business owners. How do I implement the app so that customers can use my app to pay the business owner directly? So far, I know that online payment can be setup for a business using eg. Stripe. But I can only do that as the business owner. I’m sure it’s a solved problem. Fo
- Meta Product Design vs System Design Guys. Having a meta on-site coming soon. Which design interview should I choose? Any idea how the product design question looks like?
- Meta Product Designer IC4 Offer Sharing this for my fellow designers as a data point - Los Angeles | Instagram Org Base: 160K RSU: 46,750 per year (Total grant 187K) Bonus: 15% Sign-On: 15K Total Comp (Year 1): $245,750 Current TC: 150K | YOE: 6
- Meta system design e5 What kind of System Design questions are expected of an E5 @ Facebook? How deep can they go….and how BEST to prepare? 20 years. 150k