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- Facebook E6 vs. Startup cofounder I am currently E6 engineer at Facebook. My TC is nearly 500K. A friend of me and I had a startup idea and were able to close 3M seed funding. Do you think I should continue at FB as an E6 or take the risky path with the startup? #engineering #swe
- vote Steve Wozniak doesn’t like Facebook, do you? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/why-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-deactivated-his-facebook-account.html
- vote Would you ever deactivate Facebook? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/why-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-deactivated-his-facebook-account.html
- link FB is dying :( “whopping 44% of Facebook users between 18-29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year” https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1054192363663450112?s=21 also, oculus is dead https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/22/oculus-co-founder-is-leaving-facebook-after-cancellation-of-rift-2-headset/
- Facebook HackerRank coding interview prep Anyone do this? I'm already doing the LC Facebook problems. My recruiter sent me this. Startup cofounder, mainly equity. 15 yoe
- link Resting and vesting your ass off This is how it’s done: https://www.quora.com/link/The-billionaire-cofounder-of-WhatsApp-is-resting-and-vesting-showing-up-to-Facebook-and-barely-working-in-order-to-collect-a-450-million-payday-1/redirect
- vote Interview kickstart says 3 strikes I saw in YouTube add, that one of the co founder of interview kick start ( Ryan Walles) says that there is an untold logic of 3 strikes in most companies. That they won't consider us, if we get rejected 3 times and so we should not roll the dice and try our luck. Is this true , if so what are thos
- Product Management Refferal to Facebook Hey Guys, I understand your time is valuable. I'll only write three points about me • Designing since the 9th grade • Build 2 startups 1st failed (losing a co-founder), 2nd grew profitably to $33k in revenue in the first 7-8 months • Grew a drop-shipping store to 100,000 impressions & a Youtube Ch
- Commodities Trading Does anyone here trade commodities? I heard that Facebook Cofounder made 300k trading natural gas when he was an undergrad ar Harvard. I was inspired by this and trade natural gas and oil futures. its also a good way to diversify from tech jobs. does anyone else do this?
- FAANG to Startup CTO to ? Im E5 at Facebook. Im starting a company soon with a cofounder. What would be my options if I didn’t hit a successful exit? Will I have to go back to interviewing at FAANGs and just become a senior engineer again? Not a troll question. I’d appreciate comments from anyone who’s taken a similar path.
- Looking for Flutter Developer CoFounder. We are an early stage fin-tech startup currently looking for a cofounder in charge of front end development. We are a team from Google, FB and Pinterest, and the backend code is done. We need some help with UI engineering. Please DM for details. Thank you in advance! #equity #startup Edit: Positi
- How do you find startup co founders Currently working at facebook and feeling the impact of work decreasing. In year 4 and now i feel all my work is about growth. Looking to start my own thing or network with people looking for partners. Wondering if anyone has ever gone through a similar experience? How did you find your cofounder?
- Focus for FB EM project retro interview? Have a FB EM loop coming up. For the project retro, I was originally planning on discussing a large engineering project I managed and focusing on technical trade-offs, build vs buy, missed milestones, etc. But saw a few threads that mentioned the retro was non-technical. Has this aligned w/your expe
- Not getting any PM interviews - Any tips? Total YOE:1.5yrs as a PM Previously: Co-founder of a career-counseling startup Background: Masters in Computer Science, Former Adjunct Instructor at NYU Center for Data Science, Cleared CFA Level 1 I have been applying to PM roles in FAANG and startups like Brex, but never got shortlisted for inte
- vote Should I move or stay, please help. I am having 5 years of experience (from top 20 colleges in India). Current compensation: 30 lac base + 28 lac stock I'm having very satisfying job right now. Evaluating: Work life balance, compensation, learning and career progression. Now question comes: 💲💲 I am getting interview calls from Go
- Started my own business making mobile apps I am new to this as I have always been at either large tech companies (Google and Facebook) or small startups a long time ago. My idea might be good enough to get a few million users if my mvp seduces early adopters. Doing it all by myself. So, I left my job a few months ago to focus 100% on this
- vote Google L4 vs Series A vs Founder I left Google earlier this year to work on a revenue generating side project / startup full time and just took a small acquisition offer (low six figures). I have high conviction this was the right choice given the market and situation w/ my co-founder. It's been a few months now, and I'm thinking
- Technical interview collaboration Say you have an interview problem that's a legit hard one and you have absolutely no clue how to get beyond a naive brute force answer. For example it requires a concept you're not familiar with like topological sort or whatever. If you're able to work out the solution with the interviewer's help is
- 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
- What are some current startups with impressive founders? Like: - Mark and Gates, who were already programming prodigies before going to Harvard (and in a similar vein Dbx founders and MIT alumni Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi). - Steve Wozniak, went to UCB and an absolute prodigy with computers. - Bezos, who studied EECS at Princeton before becoming a
- Instagram cofounders leaving How bad is the culture ! Is it better or worse than fb ? Are Instagram folks treated badly ? What made the cofounders leave together ? Pushed out ?
- link Looking for core team members - ZipLip TV #earlyStageStartupAlert #startup #equity #startups Hi All. I am anonymous 🙂 – YOE: 10yrs, Location: India I left my job at MFST couple of months back and have co-founded ZipLip TV - A Short Video App - where people can create awesome short videos or just watch them. Playstore link: https://pla
- link Looking for core team members for early stage startup ZipLip TV #earlyStageStartupAlert #startup #equity #startups Hi All. I am anonymous 🙂 – YOE: 10yrs, Location: India I left my job at MFST couple of months back and have co-founded ZipLip TV - A Short Video App - where people can create awesome short videos or just watch them. Playstore link: https://pla
- Seeking guidance from PMs for resume review Hi guys, I got a lot of constructive feedback on my last post and one of the things that came up was that my resume needs some key changes to be able to reflect my PM skills. I have made some changes based on feedback of some amazing people who responded and now seeking help from the community to ta
- Google vs Facebook Product Manager Brand Curious if Google or Facebook has a significantly better brand in the market for product managers? Specifically within the context of future opportunities (eg, unicorn startups) or raising venture capital/finding cofounders? Thanks! TC: $210K
- Is 1 year at Facebook enough? A brand like Facebook or any other top company/university on your resume makes it easier to get jobs or attract high quality investors/cofounders in the future. That’s what I think at least. I’m at Facebook and I don’t see myself staying long term. Is a year enough to get the “prestige” of being an
- Roast me (and my resume) Hello, wise people of Blind. I am looking to get some honest resume feedback. I am aiming for a position at a FAANG or similar (west coast USA) company at the SDEII level. A little about me, I transitioned out of hardware/controls engineering to join my friends start-up as a technical co-founder.
- vote Leave Google or stay? SWE with a little more than 4yoe, 2 at google. TC for 2021 from Prosper: 340k(Due to stock increase) Joined Google 2 years ago and was down-leveled to L3 at that time. After joinning: EE, SEE(promo failed), NA, SEE(Promoed to L4). I care about level, growth and comp. I'm not worried about WLB. Wh
- link Anyone know anything about Anduril? Was looking at companies and it looks interesting. It's in Orange county. One of the founders was the guy who cofounded ocuclus, then oculus got turned into Facebook reality labs, and apparently there was drama because the guy was a trump supporter lol. Anyways just wondering if anyone here work
- link Best startup to join in 2022 🚀🚀 Hey everyone! I wanted to share about Sigma Computing (Series C) as a really good startup to join. We’re trying to hire aggressively so I wanted to help out. Currently ~150 employees trying to scale to 300+ Details about Sigma. We have a strong technical team (CTO/Cofounder used to be CTO of Salesf
- Jobs for Medical Doctor’s in Tech? I have a good friend who’s an accomplished mid career medical doctor/researcher working at a large university health system. He’s also done a fair amount of coding and is very strong on the technical side as well having cofounded a medical imaging startup in the past. Does anybody have any ideas on
- link Unchecked Bias at Tech Companies It's obvious to anyone working at the big tech companies or the Bay Area in general, that we have a problem. And that problem is that we are trusted by customers and the world at large to be neutral arbiters of information, respectful of a diverse set of perspectives and values. However in practice
- PM at Facebook, Google What kind of experience is required to become a PM at Facebook or Google? I have 3 years of experience at a startup which I cofounded at the age of 18 while still in college and 2 years of experience working in the senior management (Software & Product) at a tax management startup in India after und
- What is the best time to join a startup? I'm interviewing for this small (>10 people) AI startup backed by a top VC (e.g. Sequoia/a16z). Leadership team looks really good, really clicked with CEO, and strong AI talent but a lot of the SWE's are young/inexperienced. It would be a good acquihire target. Pros: - I offer specialized experti
- Should I take a low level role (in or out of tech) while looking for high level? Would this hurt me? Hi Blinders. Happy new year! Hoping I can get some of your wisdom & insight. Spent past 7+ years in startups abroad as a passion project founder, a co-founder at another startup & a Director PM role at another. (not in that order) Returning to the US after recently attending a few events and seeing
- vote Increase TC first or create a startup? Right now my job is a joke, I work maybe 3 hours a week and maybe a few hours of meetings, it’s remote too. Lots of free time. Problem is that it’s hardly engineering, more like consulting internal teams on platform choices and creating app proof of concept hello worlds accompanied by tech docs. I’v
- link Great ICO find - Gems ICO - Decentralized Amazon Mechanical Turk Gems will soon be doing a pre-ICO, and I think it’s one of the few projects I’ve seen that I’ve felt so bullish on. Wanted to shill this to spread the word, and am also interested to hear other people’s thoughts, especially since we’re in tech. Check out the whitepaper if you find it interesting. I
- How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs There is a very valuable post on blind about an interview process for engineering leaders from last year: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Interview-Cycle-Facebook-M1-Google-L7-Microsoft-L68-and-Local-Public-Company-dRQmWtbh This
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl
- How Lyft’s Missteps Killed its Chances of Overtaking Uber Article: I If there were ever a time when Lyft had a chance to catch up with Uber, it was last year. A constant barrage of negative publicity, including a #deleteUber social media movement, offered Lyft a gift in terms of picking up business. But while Lyft made some gains, it still finished the ye
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch