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- Developer Advocate What's life like for a Developer Advocate? Are they respected? How's the pay? I'm thinking of moving from Dev manager to an Advocate and advice is appreciated.
- Developer advocate role? Hey, I’m currently a Software Engineer but I don’t think I want to be one much longer. I heard about the developer advocate role but wondering if that type of role is just as respected as Software Engineer? Does it pay the same a Software Engineer? Is it a good role to advance my career? Thanks (als
- DevRel / Developer Advocate Has anybody experienced an interview for DevRel / Developer Advocate position at Google. I wonder how technical is interview/call going to be. Also, what is compensation level? Thanks!
- What is a developer advocate? Saw this job at Doordash and I was curious what day to day work like for a developer advocate? https://boards.greenhouse.io/doordash/jobs/3322953?gh_jid=3322953 Also are their TC same as SWE? TC: 500k #engineering #software
- Developer Advocate Interview - Google Hi, Has anyone gone through the hiring process for a Developer Advocate position at Google? How does the process change from a standard SWE role? TC: 100k CHF Thanks! #developeradvocate #google
- Developer Advocate in Google I was looking for a technology / engineering role when an offer came to join #google as developer advocate, working with startups. The job sounds super fun - conferences, community, working with startups. But im afraid it won’t be challenging enough, tech wise. Will i be able to deepen my experience
- TCs for DevRel / Developer Advocate in ML vs. Web3 I'm a SWE with 15 YOE in Silicon Valley, out of which 4 at Google in DevRel, some at Yahoo! back in the day, and the rest co-founding and full-stack eng (JS) at a few startups. Some got funded but none are still in business. The problem is I haven't had a traditional job since Covid; only worked on
- [ advice ] Developer Advocate at Syntropy I'm a SWE grad currently applying for a Developer Advocate role at Syntropy. Any tips on writing a resume fit to the role and the interviewing process? Would love to connect with Developer Advocates to talk about it. TC: 15K
- Google Developer Advocate Interview Fail... Interviewed onsite a week ago for a Developer Advocate interview. Recruiter called back today, managed to get some feedback (surprisingly): -people skills and communication was top notch -experience with APIs, helping developers, etc was top notch -coding..."was mixed". Some questions you absolute
- What is a Developer Advocate? I see this position floating around but never met a person who held this role. What do they do exactly? I also see it mixed in with the term Partner Engineer. Are they like engineering cheerleaders? What is the growth trajectory for this role? Tc 220k Yoe 3
- Software Engineer to Google Developer Advocate Looking for career advice: I've been offered a job as a Partner Developer Advocate at Google. I'm really interested in the job role and looking forward to working at Google. But I'm also worried about transitioning away from the Software Engineering world. I've been working as a SWE for over 10 ye
- How much do Developer Advocates earn? There are a lot of Dev Advocates working at FAANG. What is their TC like? And how’s the job? TC : 150K Yoe: 3
- Senior Software Engineer -> Developer Advocate Would you recommend it? I am considering making this move.
- What’s a developer advocate at google? Saw someone with that job title and it sounds like a weird role to me. Are they respected among engineers? What’s their TC compared to eng? Are they similar to TPMs?
- How to pass a Developer Advocate Interview I’ve been a SWE long enough and now I want to chill for a bit. I have a Dev Advocate on-site coming up. How can I succeed at the interview? What kinds of questions can I expect? Serious answers please, TIA.
- wtf do “developer advocates” do at Amazon? i’ve seen some people with the title and they seem to do jack shit all day.
- Do Developer Advocates make as much as software engineers? I’m considering a move to becoming a developer advocate/evangelist. I don’t know if I will do it forever but it sounds great for a couple years. Would I be taking a pay cut or making a lateral move? TC 240
- Ex-AWS Developer Advocate Tweetstorm on Former Director https://twitter.com/jrhunt/status/1356917566631895049 Randall is a pretty high profile guy. This may get some attention.
- Looking for a referral in @MongoDB Hi, I am looking for referrals for Developer Advocate role at @MongoDB India. Would appreciate if someone can connect.
- Amazon Dev Advocate Mgr L5 Salary? Haven't found much by searching on blind for this role: Technical Developer Advocate Manager @AMZN. Just got an offer, is this any good? 115k base / 150 RSU@8% / 35k signing bonus Or should I ask for more?
- QAE and SDETs openings Openings in consumer org for QAE and SDET. Do you have a passion for quality and are a strong customer advocate, then this is the team for you. ping for more info.
- Which Company Has The Better Developer Relations Program, Google or Microsoft? As someone who is interested in joining the Developer Relations teams at Microsoft (Cloud Developer Advocate) and Google (Developer Programs Engineer), I’m curious about the following: 1. Which team is more well-known/revered? 2. What is each company’s investment in their programs? 3. Which would b
- Can anyone help provide me referral to a Dev Rel/ Product Role in Singapore? YOE-3 with Masters AI/ML #product #developeradvocate Hi everyone, I am currently an AI engineer(in SG) working for the past 3 years. Have good exp with Developer communities and have worked with one in the past one year. I am looking to progress my career into product management. But I know I am quite early to the game s
- vote Worth to change from GS to OCI Hi, I joined GS about 5 months ago but not happy with the type of work(no development/operations just meeting and advocating) WLB is good but seems I am losing my engineering skills. I have IC4 offer from OCI but failed Microsoft 63 level unfortunately and pending results from paypal. Current TC:
- vote 2 job offers: which would y’all choose? Sooooo I am leaning on company b but curious about your thoughts. I just received 2 job offers today. (I’m in DevRel) BigCommerce (Post IPO): Title: Sr Dev Advocate Base Salary: 170k RSU/yr: 15k Signing Bonus: 5k TC: 190k then 185k. Company B is a Start Up: Title: Developer Advocate Base: 200k S
- HELP: career change advice due to health issues I can’t use keyboard and mouse more than an hour per day :/ I’m considering career change where I can get by with speech recognition and have minimum keyboard and mouse usage. I am not sure if I enjoy being a product manager. I also don’t have the language and presentation skills for developer adv
- GCP Customer Engineers - what are your tasks and how did you prep for interviews? Numbering the questions for readability: 1. I've been researching on Blind for a while and many say that CE is more like a sales role. Is it like Developer Relations/Developer Advocates (I assume the customers of GCP are developers instead of end-users)? 2. I've seen people mentioning quotas, I've
- link The true colors of Amazon Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30203581 (I am not the author of the below comment) <comment> I've been an Amazon SDE and an Amazon SDM. I enjoyed my time as an SDE, luckily free from these horror stories. After having been an SDM, I understand how these horror stories can form.
- link How do you negotiate total comp? For context, I recently accepted an offer after negotiating. I have 6 YoE and was making a lateral L4 SDE move. When I received a verbal offer, I took the info to levels.fyi and Glassdoor and realized that I could probably bump the base up a bit more. However, I didn't want to exceed the 4-year tota
- Who develops the specification on net new products/ideas? My company is a big advocate for voice of customer. Very few initiatives get approved without having some customer pain point captured. It is also reinforced that PMs should not be designing the solution, that falls on engineering and developers. In situations with products like Slack or the iPhone
- London - Java Microservices Development Strategist Java Microservices Development Strategist – Investment Management, City of London Up to £100k base +50% bonus (so potential TC up to £150k) Are you a delivery-focused tech fanatic with excellent Core Java development skills? Would you like to step into a Senior Thought Leadership role and help set
- Amazon switching role and team Sorry in advance for not being able to disclose much details due to confidentiality. Currently a L4 in role A (not SDE), good performance, on track of promotion in Q2, but manager is leaving soon. She said this should not have an impact on my promotion and I will have a new manager. A team and HM
- Google TPM onsite I am interviewing for TPM roles with Google cloud programs team and have cleared phone screens. I understand that there will be 4-5 interviews at onsite , but it will help to know what areas I need to prepare specifically for these interviews ? eg: If it is project based or behavioral? I have abou
- Interview Kickstart Experience Hello Blinders, I have been studying at #interviewkickstart for the last several months. I used to think that preparing for a change in the software development career is an extremely challenging task, let alone applying to the FAANG+ companies. IK's support systems (tools, ops, resources) and their
- Dislike Job, Recent Hire Hi Blind community, Started a job less than 8 months ago, it was not at all what was described to me. New position but dealing with many negatives and few of the positives that were what drew me out here. Basically inherited a big ol' poop pile. Manager told me I could start in this position to dev
- Frontend interview experience Want to share some insights on the following companies I interviewed for frontend role: Google(L4): worst recruiting and interview experience out of all. I have huge respect for some of the developer advocates but the coding questions are just leetcode questions. Was only able to fully solve one pr
- How can we better encourage and champion diversity in tech? I’d like to introduce myself - I’m Sage Randall, a marketing executive, a partner with Hire Women Week and Lady Bird Talent, and an advocate for Diversity in the workplace. One of the Keynotes we are developing for Hire Women Week is focusing on diversity in the workplace, what we are calling “When
- Growing as Engineer with Non-Traditional Background I have a non-traditional job history and degree. I entered software engineering only within the last couple years and wouldn't want to do anything else for work. I am not familiar with the culture or community surrounding tech; this site felt like finding out where the adults comes to meet and doscu
- Why minorities can't be the only ones to help each other I keep hearing this phrase and I wish I could publicly call bullshit on this. But woke feminists would crucify me. "Women help other women go up the career ladder." Sure, it sounds great in theory! Except for my dear mama, many things in my professional life I owe it to men in my life. I don't mea
- EB5 personal story : to do or not to do I wanted to share my story of going through the EB5 process starting in 2018. Use this information as you like. First of all, if you are reading this and considering EB5 today in July 2021, please wait! The regional center program through which most EB5 investments are done expired in June 2021. It
- vote Your manager starts canceling your weekly 1:1s. How many cancelations would it take for you to start looking? Title. So I like the work and I like the people I work with. They're smart, work hard, and they'll do what it takes to make shit happen for me. (And I would for them too). But that's where the doubts start to creep in. My manager is really high up, like a couple levels from CEO and I'm an analyst.
- I feel I'm at the end of my rope in Amazon... Hello, I've been under a year at AWS and I never felt so out of place, underperforming and I never got just a harsh-brutal feedback as I've got so far... I am barely reaching "the bar" and every month it feels like my ass is on the line, it is almost like by design that amazon want to break you, bef
- Re: Cocky ex-tech lead confession to a young manager There was a Blinder here just promoted to director of engineering, and this OP worried his 4.5 years of experience is not good enough to be a director. The post has been deleted - don’t know why. But I wrote shit ton so I ain’t going to waste it, so here is my weekly autobiography for your amusement
- link It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple A group inside Apple called Information Systems & Technology, or IS&T, builds much of the company’s internal technology tools — from servers and data infrastructure to retail and corporate sales software — and operates in a state of tumult. IS&T is made up largely of contractors hired by rival cons
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