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- Seeking referral for Dropbox, Apple, Pinterest, and OCI Hello! I’m a new grad that has had 3 internships (startup, unicorn, fb). I received a return offer from FB, but I’m searching for something better. I’m very interested in working at: - Dropbox - Apple - Pinterest - OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) I’m fairly confident in my interview ability. I’m
- Referrals Hey everyone, I’m a Digital Marketing Manager based out of San Francisco with 5+years of experience in leading growth programs at tech, startups, e-commerce, and healthcare services incl. 2yrs agency experience. I know the Blind community is great at networking. I would really appreciate if anyone
- Discussing compensation with a recruiter. Recruiter gave me a verbal offer and invited to discuss “my compensation expectation”. Any tips on this? I’ve only had offers from startups before and I was only able to negotiate ~10k base. Now I’m getting an offer at a public company and knowing there is more room to negotiate, I don’t want to mak
- Dropbox aiming for IC4 over IC3 offer Hi all, I’d really like to get an IC4 offer as that’s more in line with my current experience and compensation (I’d love to get a hike if anything) My current compensation is at the high end of the IC3 band, but there is still technically room for growth. There would be way more room for an initia
- Referrals I would greatly appreciate if I could get a referral for large tech companies. I am graduating this december from top 15 CS school. BS in Comp Engi with CS and math additional majors, 3.7 overall gpa. Internship at Nvidia, startup cofounder with ~1.5 year fullstack dev experience. LC 150+, still g
- Dropbox phone screen experience I just finished a phone screen with Dropbox. I coded up the initial problem and then the interviewer added few twists to the question and basically make the input size really big. I gave a verbal explanation on how we could rewrite the code to work files instead. At this point there only 10mins l
- Poor interviewing experience with Dropbox I interviewed at Dropbox/Seattle last year for a Sr engineering position and did really well. After the interview, despite promising to get back within a few days (since I had another offer that I needed to respond to) they didn't respond and stopped answering emails. Eventually, the recruiter agree
- Looking for freelancing work Hi, I am a grad student looking for gig job in Customer Care/support/web developer/bug fixing. Excellent communication skill and written ability can resolve all the tickets/issue(email/call) of the product. Do let me know if you have any current openings. Expected - $10/month(assuming 4 hr/day) Not
- PERM filing as remote worker Folks, msft dallas office is under construction. It will take 1 year as per recruiter. My email says msft files gc asap but work address needs to be given since that is where advertisements etc will be run for perm and gc filing. Since office is under construction, I am probably just going to put m
- Called for Visa interview after drop box appointment refusal I had a dropbox appointment(not the company but the visa document drop off procedure) in Bangalore last week. My case status was quickly updated to "Refused" and in 2 days I got my passport back with a 221(g) letter stating that I need to attend a visa interview after "regular operations have resume
- Any active equity investors here who want to start own private chat group? Need serious investors only - minimum 50k in individual stocks/ equity (index funds are fine but would love discussions on certain stocks). We could start a chat group here, or on Slack. DM me with personal email IDs if youre serious with a screenshot of your investments - ill add mine too. Add yo
- Terrible interview experience I had two terrible interview experience with Apple and dropbox. Dropbox: recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a possible role. We scheduled my tech phone screen. Phone screen went really well. I was expecting an onsite invite. A week later the recruiter came back to me saying that the posi
- Did really well on FB phone interview, but still anxious Hi all, I had my first phone interview with FB today. I absolutely nailed the problems, coded up the optimal algorithms for both in under half an hour. I let the interviewer know that I was familiar with the solutions before hand, I was asked if I had received it before, and I truthfully said not in
- Amazon L5 System Design Tips I have an Amazon system design on-site interview in 2 weeks. The recruiter basically dumped a bunch of links and words in the email: “”” Whatsapp app design, Uber Eats, Uber Ride and Share Amazon Prime Video rental platform, Dropbox, Twitter, Square Payment Gateway, Booking.com, Carvana, System D
- Looking for Referrals at Any Tech Company Hello Everyone, I am a data analyst at a state university. I borrow this blind account from a friend because Blind doesn't support university emails. I am looking for career transition into tech. Since recruiters are really not interested in candidates in education industry, I haven't gotten many i
- Top-50 in Leetcode contests. Need referrals! Hello people! I know that many folks on Blind are kind and provide referrals to strangers. Maybe You could help me! Just like the title says - right now I'm in Leetcode's top-50 "Global Ranking" section (based on weekly/biweekly contests). Link to my LeetCode profile: https://leetcode.com/A_Le_K/ .
- REFERRAL @ India Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any product based companies. LC 250+ YOE: 3.5 years @ sony Expected TC - 35L Current TC - 20L Please email at neal.kakarot@gmail.com Out of dms so Thanks for reading! Appreciate it TIA #ARM #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDynamics
- Looking for Tech Referral Hello Blinders, Blind newbie here looking to get into tech. After 16 years of public service (6.5 years with current group), I think it's time to move. I’m looking to be further challenged and growth. I work for a highly visible innovative group, that’s received many accolades and set standards for
- Refferal Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any product based companies for C/C++ developer with 5+ yrs of experience. YOE: 5.3 years @ wipro Please email at abhishekd.nitjsr@gmail.com Out of dms so Thanks for reading! Appreciate it TIA #ARM #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDyn
- Facebook recruiter talking way to candidates “I told you several times over the phone that need to show work so that hiring managers can make an assessment on whether they will speak to you. I repeated this several times when last spoke. I asked that you give me screen grabs of work that have been released as to not violate your NDA and you s
- List of gem 💎 companies Not super well known (the likes of FANG) Great WLB (<= 40h, no or low on call). Good culture, no stack ranking, nice people, family friendly. Ok salary, enough to live but not for the TC chasers. I’ve heard good things about Expedia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc. Can you share your gem company?
- Dont lose hope is the moral of the story Hi All, This post is to boost the morale of those who are preparing for a new job. Here is my story: Last year I tried to make a switch, I tried at few places and was rejected everywhere. I used to think I am a loser. My inbox was flooding with rejection emails. I stopped applying to jobs, focused
- Two phone screens, one terrible, one amazing -- thoughts? TLDR: two phone interviews for same company scheduled for different days. Independent interviews (one did not lead to other). First one terrible. Second one amazing. Should I email the recruiter that first one wasn't at the right time? I recently had two back to back phone screens for a new grad po
- link My 6 month journey to an offer Finally got an offer and will be joining Google next month as an L3. During my interview journey I was checking Blind excessively and learned a lot, so I decided to give back a little. Hopefully this post will help some fellow Blinders. The rest of the post will be sorta chronological. Interview Pr
- Dropbox onsite, what are my chances? Had my onsite with dropbox this past week. I think the level I'm interviewing is IC2. For the first round, I was able to answer time/space analysis and coded it correctly for the base question and all follow ups. I think communication was fine, the interviewer understood what I wanted to do every s
- Is this scare tactic in offer negotiation? Should I compromise? Going to use different companies in this example, but this is what happened, say at Facebook and Google. I was fortunate enough to receive a verbal offer from both of them here's the story: 1. I got the FB verbal offer first, I asked them what range I should be able to expect, and she said it will
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- Facebook offer E5 NYC, need advice OK Team Blind, need some advice on how to proceed. Got an initial offer from FB NYC for E5. I have 15+ YOE in the industry, am coming from a small startup. Recruiter said I did really well in the interview, and one of my interviewers reached out to me with a really nice email just to say what's up
- Anyone hiring for a new grad SDE? Referral would be greatly appreciated Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering
- Recap Job search 2021 - an average SWE "Don't lose hope, you will get it sooner or later." - anon December 2020 - I was Happy at my current job with no intent to switch anytime soon. wth Faang exp: 1.2 years and Overall, Yoe 2. Jan 2021 - Then Random recruiter reached out on LinkedIn and I decided to give a shot not intended to switch.
- link Thanks Blind! Sharing my Google L5 (and other) interview experience and giving back to the community! AMA (Long post warning!) Thanks Blind for all the inspiring and motivational posts! I hope to give back to the community by sharing my own personal experience and I hope this can help others who are going through a similar situation. Current TC: 200k, 7.5 YOE, L63 New TC: Base 200k RSU 491k (33/33/22/
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- How rx6800xt can beat rtx3080? Nvidia invested 2.8 bils in while AMD spent 0.5bils in R&D? 🤷🏻♂️ Should I buy AMD stock instead? Engineers at AMD are so much more efficient?
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5
- Referral Needed Looking for a referral. I need a fully remote position for personal reasons. I do not mind sharing why in my DM. YOE: 16- leadership roles. Do not mind being a individual contributor. Do not need to be a manager but I am great with people. Current Title: Capacity Planning Manager Education: Master
- Anyone hiring SDE with 1 year experience Anyone hiring SDEs with 1 year experience. Currently at Amazon and don't like the team. It is impossible to move within Amazon at L4 level. #tech
- vote Should I buy stocks on or after Election Day? What you guys think? #Amazon #Apple #Google