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- Software Engineering Interview exchange? Want to trade Software Engineering Interviews? I’ll interview you and you interview me. Reply here so we know who’s in and we can DM each other. It’s an alternative to spending between 150 - 300 on a mock interview. Interviews can cover Algorithms and Data Structures System Design Product API de
- vote Older Engineers don’t exchange pleasantries on async chat? I noticed that engineers that are 45+ and at high level (principal+) do not exchange pleasantries on async chat like slack or google chat. Stuff like good morning, good night, thanks, etc. It’s not because they are grumpy or unfriendly, the same people do all of that in the office, but never on chat
- Mechanical Engineer Referral in Texas - Exchange Looking for some referrals to any decent companies in Texas. I can refer anyone interested in Raytheon in exchange as well. YOE: <2 Current experience: R&D group, rapid prototyping, CAD Design/Manufacturing Looking for a similar role, product design, hardware engineering. #tesla #honeywell #mic
- vote SDE exchange rate between Meta and Amazon Considering Amazon probably has 10 times more SDE, what is the ratio between SDEs moving from Amzn to Meta and from Meta to Amzn?
- how’s True[X] engineering in Brentwood? got a verbal offer for senior platform engineer in ad exchange team. anyone have insight into the company?
- Calling all amazon managers Let's make a mutual exchange. Hire me so I can put faang on the resume and then you can pip me on the first day TC 🥜 #engineering #software #swe
- Looking for referral: AirBnB, NFLX, MSFT, AMZN SDE, 5 yoe, 250k tc Finished CTCI and 100 LC so far. Can exchange a Facebook referral. #referral
- Top paying companies that use C# / .NET? Other than the obvious (Microsoft, Stack Exchange, etc.), what are some top paying companies in the .NET Ecosystem? #software #csharp #dotnet #softwareengineer #softwareengineersalary #swe
- Any OKcoin info? China-based crypto exchange Any TC numbers? I cannot find SWE salaries anywhere. I think they just started recruiting for their US branch. TC: 0 #Okcoin
- Coinbase team matching Interviewing for coinbase. Currently Manager at Amazon (TC: 400K). Meeting with hiring managers from payments, crypto, exchange teams. Would appreciate inputs on the best org to join based on WLB, operational load, bureaucracy and innovation. #coinbase #crypto #engineering#engineering #software
- why is coinbase worse than all other exchanges / wallets why can't I send usdc using something other than ethereum? Is this real life? Literally all other exchanges and wallets let me send using solana or a cheap chain like tron. This is just one example - tons of other tokens you should be able to use the cheaper chains instead of having to use the expen
- any chill people in Bay Area wonna hangout do things? I’m early 20s male swe new to the bay (fully vaccinated) looking for other cool people to chill with, lmk if you’re down and we can exchange social media and stuff
- Any Sales Engineers out there? Would love to get an idea of TC in your role if you are a sales engineer. Sometimes if I wonder if I am under compensated, and not sure that I trust Glassdoor. Anybody feel like anonymously exchanging and compensation information?
- Google vs Amazon Amazon: TC 420k Google: TC 310k Both for SWE Bay area, L4/SDE2, standard 5/15/40/40 vs 33/33/22/12 vesting Curious how you would weigh the 110k + 🍌 in exchange for the looming threat of pip YOE: <5 TC: 275k
- How do you decide if Y Combinator is worth it? YC takes 7% of any startup wanting to join, and in exchange, the firm invests $125,000. For a SWE/PM at MAGA or a company like Snap, Uber, etc, 125k is arguably not a lot of capital but 7% is a lot of equity.
- New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) interview Have an interview with NY Shipping exchange coming up. Anyone able to share their general experience. I have never interviewed at a start up before supposedly no leetcode. SWE backend 5 YOE 125 TC
- Ousting Citadel I’ve now decided that Citadel needs to be ousted from its position of highness. I’m one of the most prolific engineers in the world and I’ve decided that I will take them on. In addition, we also need an exchange that is not controlled by the establishment. Who’s with me? #investments
- Google pay Apple $12 billions each year, wtf! Apple now receives an estimated $8 billion to $12 billion in annual payments — up from $1 billion a year in 2014 — in exchange for building Google’s search engine into its products. It is probably the single biggest payment that Google makes to anyone and accounts for 14 to 21 percent of Apple’s ann
- vote Python or C# with .Net Hello folks, I want to change my career from sysadmin to SWE/SDE. But I don't know which language should I learn, if I want to join FAANG. Note: I have a lot of experience in MS technologies ( AD, ADFS, Exchange, Powershell etc..) I don't want to join SWE at MS :) Thanks in advance.
- vote Has a career in engineering negatively impacted your personal life? Has your personal life been negatively impacted by your engineering career? Have you ever felt your ability to interact with normal or nontechnical people has been hindered, by your STEM/engineering career? If yes, please comment: What do you feel you have given up, if anything, in exchange for th
- Comp Negotiation for SWE L5, Google What’s a good Comp ask for SWE L5, Google, San Diego (was down-leveled to L5). YoE 15+, successful career. Please respond with the splits: Base - Joining Base - Total Initial Equity Offer. TC 360K <—- updated based on someone rude teaching me the rules. P.S.; don’t reply if you are having a b
- Coinbase outages Can someone from coinbase explain why during periods of higher volatility ur exchange is almost always down? Its borderline unusable, are engineers on call to triage these situations? The crypto market is global and operates 24/7, does that affect WLB?
- Frontend Interview Hi guys, I am doing a market research to create a FE interview prep program for Frontend engineers. I’d love to get on a quick 15 minute call to ask you questions about your frontend engineering journey. I am not selling nor promoting myself. I just need to understand you! In exchange, I would lo
- How much money did you get in exchange for equity when a start-up you work for got acquired? This is for engineers who work at startups and not necessarily for founders. If possible, please also post the name of the startup, which company acquired it and how much you got in exchange for your equity in the startup. You can also mention if you were the K'th engineer at the N person startup.
- Work for free with equity It has been a while since someone asked me to work for free with equity for their great idea. Is this still a thing with startup with ideas or initial products to reach out to engineers to work for free in exchange of peanut equity? #equity #startup #free
- Referrals Hey everyone, New Grad SWE 7 prior internships (Amazon, IBM, etc.) LC 200+ Was wondering if anyone is willing to give out referrals to any of the major tech companies. Happy to exchange for referral into Amazon (currently Fall intern)! Please drop a comment so I can DM you more information about
- 💞 To come to think of it, TC and all is great but the fact that tech engineers built features enabling audio notes exchange in Whatsapp gives me the ability to wish my 72 year old grandma, who lives in another contient, a "Good morning" everyday without fail is on another level! - 10 pm thoughts Tc:
- Coinbase: which team to pick? For an intern position but planning to return full time so gonna treat it as such. I know Coinbase isn't exactly known for WLB, but I did want to mention I value WLB a bit more than $/interest since I have other stuff on the side that I also work on which I need time for. From the form, I see Prod
- Look into buying apple pro display XDR Want to buy this monitor but it's so expensive (6k cad) and I seriously need an apple employee discount code/link. Any folks from apple willing to share their discount code/link with me? I can offer some insights into Amazon recruiting engine team in exchange if that helps. TC: 170K CAD YOE: 4
- This bubble is gonna burst Old dev here, from when we didn't call that engineer. I was a dev during the 2000s when the web was all the craze, devs were scarce and getting a lot of money from startups whose stock was raising despite poorly constructed business models and no plan to profitability. This was attracting a lot of o
- link Angel Invest your skill into VC backed Real-estate marketplace startup Hi everyone, I met an Ondeck startup founder who is building a luxury Real-estate marketplace startup and looking for strong backend and UI engineers with background in Google/Apple Maps to help out on the side in exchange for equity(1%) and cash (15k/mo). Any ex-Zillow and Google engineers out the
- vote 2 offers expiring tonight. Which would you take? Both Same pay. No stock. Deadline to decide is tonight SWE Option 1: turnitin - education tech, A.I assisted grading of student homework Option 2: Prime Trust - building financial apis, mostly geared towards crypto exchanges, binance, bittrex Gut feeling is saying turnitin. Glassdoor said prim
- All-in metaverse companies - am I crazy? Over the past three months, I’ve invested all my money into metaverse related companies, such as Roblox (metaverse gaming), Snap (AR + social), Unity (game engine for VR), FB, and some crypto exchanges like BNB. I firmly believe they will be the next trillion dollar companies building the new intern
- QA Engineers in Big Tech Question: Is QA a sustainable career, and is it still viable to get into Big Tech as a QA? Or should I get ready to LC and transition into a Dev role eventually Background: I'm a QA Engineer at a small start-up in London, UK. I just got a job at a large cryptocurrency exchange for a significant pa
- Is a PM job more chill than engineering? I hate work and wanna coast as much as possible. It’s hard to do that as SWE as your work output is clearly visible(number of PRs and code lines). It seems PMs occasionally publish some PRDs and attend some meetings to exchange ideas which I already do anyway as a full stack engineer. Should I consi
- Why is Canada such a trash place to work? Feels like entire country is engineered for lazy bums. Moved from Canada to USA and feel like I’ve finally escaped poverty. Any job I think of I’d rather work in USA than Canada. I more than doubled my salary after exchange rate when I moved to the USA and I’m taxed half of what I was in Canada. I
- Interview prep partner Looking for a committed interview prep partner who is willing to put 2-4 hours a week doing mock interviews and exchanging solutions/ ideas etc. Not interested in paying Outco / IK I am a Sr. Sde with 10+ years of experience at Amazon and would love to partner with someone who has at least 7+ years
- vote Software Engineering Daily Podcast going downhill? EDIT: Jeff, the host, appears to be having a manic episode and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This is very tragic and I hope he gets the help he needs. https://softwaredaily.substack.com/p/how-i-lost-my-mind Original post ———————————————————- The podcast used to be great. However, over the
- I’ve received PR in UK after 3 years of living via global talent visa. AMA I know lots of folks here are stuck on L1/H1-B visas in US waiting years for their green card. After I moved to UK I found that receiving a “talent” visa here is much easier than O-1 in US and basically any senior software engineer can get it by building a good case with a good lawyer. Global Talen
- Our startup needs a Netflix experienced engineer Experience level below CTO Could anyone introduce me to some ??:) => post what your start up does Crypto exchange => and exactly what set of skills are already on board, Front end back end engineers Java python linux jenkins 2-5yrs + experienced engineers => and what your looking for.
- Any recruiters looking to be recruited to a crypto exchange? We are a well established Crypto Exchange outside of the U.S. looking to scale rapidly in the U.S. and we need help! Looking for any recruiters out there who are looking for a change (and an interest in diving into the crypto industry). As a bonus you’ll have an awesome manager (me!). Feel free to
- Need Referral after layoff due to EO - H1B Hello fellow Blinders, I work in a small non-profit org focused on cultural exchange and after the president's EO on immigration the company income was pretty much reduced to 0 so I am being laid off in a couple days and I am looking for an opportunity to keep myself here in the Bay Area. Relevant
- Advice on salary negotiation Currently I have new grad swe offers from Microsoft and Bloomberg. After negotiating the offer with my Bloomberg recuiter through email, she asked to speak with me over the phone. What should I expect? Will she ask me to commit to Bloomberg in exchange for a better offer? I’m hoping to get a better
- ML engineering study group I want to apply for ML engineering roles in another 4-6 months, and am looking for someone to study together with (remote is fine). It just helps me stay focused, discuss any questions, exchange study material, and discuss interview questions. I have a strong background in data analytics and decent
- Mobile System Design Pairings I'm an Android Dev with 10+ YOE, interviewing for E6 role at FB in a few weeks. I'm beyond the tech screen and into the final loop, looking to exchange interviews with other L6/E6 candidates. Since it's harder to find Mobile System Design content, I'm hoping to get a small study group going so that
- vote AWS vs Gemini vs Arista Got a decent offer from all 3 companies. Feeling lost about future growth and choices. Some feedback and insights would be great. Arista & Gemini will tackle Go, C++ (which I love) and microservices. AWS is all Java (ugh!) & microservices. AWS has the FAANG resume benefit, but with a fairly new HM
- London options after banking soft eng? Been working in Front Office Soft Eng since I graduated (market making, hft, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income etc). Making decent money atm, but am getting bored as the work has lost variety. What are the best options to move to in London which are realistic? What would be a good way to get to it.
- Why won’t WFH crater US salaries? I don’t understand macroeconomics or monetary policy. I think its confusing how exchange rates are settled upon. Basically eli5 why software engineering salaries wont reach a global equilibrium? I’ve heard the arguments about how difficult it is to work across timezones, but I have to imagine a tal
- link 2022 Carta Referral (Engineering and more) Carta started the year very strong with lots of new openings and exciting plans on different product areas (private, public, platform, investors, exchange, etc.) We have aggressive goals on scaling our engineering teams and a referral will make you move faster and get an offer earlier. Backend: Sr
- Mulesoft vs Microsoft vs Facebook? Currently support engineer (IT) for exchange Just finished final round interviews for associate consultant position for mulesoft and SMB marketing program associate for Facebook. In the chance I get both and compensation is similar for all three.. what role seems to have more transferable skills/p