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- What kind of person works at Apache, GNU, and Wikimedia, non-profit engineering? Real question, just trying to understand. Who exactly is the type of person working at these open source companies? For example if you work on apache web server technology, your scope is easily multi-million dollar trajectory in Silicon Valley. Are these people like monks who reject the temptation
- link Facebook E5 Virtual Onsite Date of Interview: 1st week of March 2021 Coding 1: 1. Intersection of Two Linked Lists (LC 160) 2. Leftmost Column with at Least a One (LC 1428) Coding 2: 1. Range Sum of BST (LC 938) 2. Trapping Rain Water (LC 42) System Design: 1. Design Proximity Server 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8p
- Laid off 🤕 Looking for referrals due to time constraint Hi Guys, Yesterday was my last day at work and being on H-1B, I have 60 days to look for a new opportunity so hoping if someone can help with referrals if their company is hiring. Looking in NYC or remote only, ideally senior backend/software engineer roles. I have been interviewing actively since
- link Facebook E6 - I made it!!!!! I've studied so hard over the last months. Spent Christmas vacation leetcoding and doing mocks with other blinders[1] and today finally the result came! I passed E6 with flying colors!!! 😂🎊🤣🎉In the upcoming weeks I'll have the numbers. Maybe next week. Not sure if I'll join (already made anot
- Please help me break into Tech! Hi Everyone, I am interested in breaking in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Growth/Marketing Insights Role within Big Tech - and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on technical skills (or even certifications) which I would need to be qualified/competitive for the aforementioned rol
- Facebook Data Engineer interview prep help Hi folks, Just got contacted by a FB recruiter for a Data Engineer role. They mentioned I should brush up on Python and SQL but didn't give a ton of specifics on what topics to cover. Was curious to learn from folks who might have gone through the process and work at Facebook as DE - 1. how did yo
- vote What if my past project experiences are not big enough for FAANG? Would they care about that while hiring me? Hello 👋 As the title says, does FAANG or any big companies care about how big enough one's past project and life experiences were? Or would they look for how the candidate performed in the situations they were in? The question is in regards to both technical and behavioral aspect. I have been wor
- 15 YOE w/Microsoft stack - MS won't interview me but FB and Amazon will I absolutely cannot get even a phone screen with MS. I've got on sites coming up with FB and Amazon. Daily I get hit up by recruiters from other companies. But I cannot get a Microsoft recruiter to give me the time of day. Also multiple rejects from cold applying for jobs on their website. Anyone a
- Facebook SWE Interview - System or Product Design? Hi Blind, I'm currently at the onsite stage for Facebook, and the interview I'm most worried about is the design interview. I'm given the choice between choosing between the two: System Design: designing a very large scale distributed system and would need to consider things like availability, sca
- Mobile Architecture MEGA LIST I have an on-site with FANG in a few days. I am compiling mobile architecture optimization topics worth discussing in interviews. Following is a generic list I have so far. View hierarchy and models would be a separate discussion. Please contribute more ideas Identify the Bottlenecks, tradeoffs and
- Alternative to GMail Trying to gradually reduce my exposure to Facebook and Google knowing everything about my life. Next step is to get my email away from them. Gmail is a good product but it's unfortunately a Google product, and Google simply knows too much about me. Not convinced that Outlook mail is going to be a
- Looking for job & career change from QA to DA/DE/DS Hi, I am currently working with Land O’Lakes QA team as QA Lead and I am looking to switch jobs in the field of data analytics, data science, data engineering and business intelligence. I have extensive experience in Automated testing, ETL testing, ERP testing, and many more. I have recently comp
- How can i get into these 150K/250K high paying jobs ? Hi All, May be i am being too ambitious,but i am wondering how can i get into those high salary jobs like in Google/FB/Microsoft/Netflix etc.. I feel that my career path is not in the right way.My technical background and professional timelibes is shown below. YOE : Total 6 years. 3 years in Ind
- Looking for a good resource recommendation to learn about client server computing. Is it client server computing? I am in Sales. But I’m interested in becoming a software engineer. Salesforce has a lot of Java projects so started with Java as it will help for internal switch. I’m interested in learning about using API’s to work with services like gmail (used gmail as an example. Let’s say git or Facebook or n
- Women in tech I recently came across some post calling out for all women in tech to form a group to network, etc. Unfortunately, I don't find that post anymore. Can someone help me find that post? I think women are one of the underrepresented groups in tech and cheering each other could be helpful. I find it ver
- Front end engineer interview experience I see that a lot of top companies still don’t know what to ask to front end engineers. Here is my Uber experience for a senior front end position: Phone screen: 2 leetcode medium-hard algorithm. On-site: 1-OOP, 1-problem solving, 1-bar raiser technical, 1- manager cultural, 1 - system design. No
- vote A Facebook interviewer told me if I didn't get the maximum stock gain in O(n) time, I won't even go to onsite interview I went to a first round Facebook interview, and I requested to be on campus, since the phone can be unclear. *It was for a web front end dev role* So the interviewer asked me to solve the "Maximum Stock Gain" problem. Simply enough, given an array of stock prices, such as from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of
- link System Design Prep: What's the best resource to build a Web application end-to-end? I'm from a non-CS background but took some undergraduate courses (OS/Architecture/Assembly/DS/Algorithms/Networks) to learn CS. I worked with web applications before and I can understand the high level system design architecture. I read Designing Intensive Data Applications and worked through a few
- Interview Horror story - Meta/Facebook So today I had my on-site. After the recruiter meet and greet The first interviewer didn’t show up. When I emailed the recruiter they reschedule it during my lunch break with the same interviewer. The second interview goes ok. It’s time for that initial rescheduled interview. This guy shows up
- Should I / how to list self-started side business/sites/"micro-startups" on resume for engineer? Over the years, I've tried a number of side ventures that had some mild degree of success. It seems valuable to include on my resume as it could demonstrate ambition/vision/project management/ability to self-start, etc -- but I'm not fully sure how this would be received or how I'd list this sort o
- Behavioral Question Challenges Hey guys, As I am preparing for a facebook behavioral interview, I have prepared a response for the question - How do you tackle challenges? Name a difficult challenge you faced while working on a project, how you overcame it, and what you learned. Situation, Task: When the product X was in a devel
- I know you guys all love negativity...but... Hey - I'm an HR guy, worked for Tech companies and consulted 2 of FAANG on workforce planning. For anyone job searching - this has literally been one of the worst years ever. The complete oversaturation of the job market with a complete cliff of open roles has left people job less, seeking, intervi
- link Passed L4 for G&FB - sharing strategies Giving back to the community by sharing the strategies/tips/resources that helped me get L4 offers from Google and Facebook. There are no innovations here. My goal for this post is to provide: - A few useful tips that you might not have seen yet - Strategies that worked for me Coding interview pre
- 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
- Weird Facebook product/system design question Interviewed with facebook a while ago and had a pretty weird experience. Was asked to design a type ahead suggestion for google search. It was a product design interview , not system design. Came up with a trie, computed via map reduce periodically over 1 hour(configurable), frontend implementatio
- 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
- link where to learn marketing/growth for entry-mid level ppl out here thought i would make a seperate post. this is taken from another discussion. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions. ----- First of all, you have to decide what you wanna do: Growth Marketing - acquisition Growth Marketing - user journey (activation, engagement, retention) Brand marketing Pro
- Cruise / Nordstrom / GoPro / Stripe / HP / Hilton / HashiCorp referral needed I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing department. I gave interviews for Procurement positions at Facebook, Palantir, DocuSign, Twilio & Splunk and di
- vote Technical incompetence at Wayfair -- is there anything worse?? Is there anything worse than Wayfair at this scale in terms of sheer technical incompetence and poor engineering practices? Wayfair's codebase and infrastructure are stuck in a pathetic, sorry state. The PHP repo, the databases (which are all mirrors in some way), the vertical scaling -- it needs t
- System Design Interviews : What do the interviewers look for ? I've been reading through Grokking the System Design Interview, System Design Primer for past couple of days but I'm still not sure how to approach the interviews(or rather, what the interviewer will be looking for) For e.g if the question is Design a video distribution system, there are so many as
- Offers from Facebook, Google, Uber and 6 others | AMA I learnt a lot about interviews from blind community. This is my effort to give back to the community. This thread is not about TC, but for the curious ones, I have multiple offers around 550k and I still negotiating, I will start another thread with comp details. Offers I got - Facebook (E6), Uber
- vote Meta Vs Google for L4 In team match with G (I would love it if an HM reached out btw, infra in bay/nyc) and waiting on the formal offer from Meta. Both already told me I passed the HC and interview respectively. Not quoting numbers yet as I don’t have those for G and Meta would be changing the initial offer due to adjust
- 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
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 2 Part 3 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 This is part 2 of a series. Here is part 1 which has a long intro: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-System-Design---Part-1-4yufM3RY 0. Preface Let me touch on some points from Part 1 flood of comments: Is Nathan
- link Another data point on industry hire in the bay ..great read :) Found this post on Reddit and seems really helpful . Just posting it here . ————///——————///——————///——/ Hi everyone, I just went through a round of interviews and wanted to share a data point. I wanted to share some interview tips that you may not have seen before. I'll also answer questions in A
- 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.
- 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