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- Career Advice Need an advice from fellow blinder. Been in Amazon for 1year and 7 months and with total 4 yoe. Current TC: 23L Was hoping promo in this quarter but manager is targeting next one due to some gap(feedback from one of the sde3) . Promo could happen in next quarter or the one after that. Manager is a
- Manager being ambiguous on promo? Everytime I ask manager about promo, my manager says let's start with perf check-in doc with next level and see if there is enough evidence in each category. Does this mean the manager thinks I am not ready yet but not willing to tell me directly? Wouldn't the manager already know I am ready or no
- Roast my Resume Hey everyone, currently a new grad trying to making it into the product space via APM programs. I don't have the traditional tech background, but I am doing my best to bridge the gap by learning how to code as much as I can. Already adjusted my resume a bunch from feedback, but the more the merrier!
- vote Are systems/low-level design interviews being abused The more I interview the more I notice that the feedback from my failed systems/low-level design rounds don’t match the signals I am getting from the interviewers during the interview itself (and from my own impression on how I did). This leaves me with an impression that these rounds are not only n
- [RANT] Rejected after interviewer praised Today I interviewed for a backend Dev role. The tech stack for the role is different from the one I currently work on. But I cleared the first round so don't think that might be reason for rejection. Also, this was a product design round and nothing technical was asked. Most of the discussion was on
- Concern about my future in current job Hi, My background is in backend development using Java and restful services. I have recently joined this position 3 months ago which is more focused in machine learning, python etc. I am the only guy in my team who has no background in the technologies being used here. Moreover, the original work ha
- YOE Valuation in TC for Apple IC4/ICT4 - YOE is a very important data point to get quality feedback on Blind and i wanted to probe that a little further to prepare for a possible offer. there are a variety of variables that go into where a candidate falls within a compensation band but wanted to focus on YOE. lets say credentials for two
- facebook offer pending, 100% remote YoE 15 Current TC 300, 250 cash Update: Offer: 211 base / 825 equity / 20% bonus / 25 signon Offer TC ~450 Location: Austin I don't have a current competing offer. What's a reasonable expectation here? Do they hold back enough that I could close the gap to 500 TC with 175 more in equity? I o
- vote Google offer chances ? Interview - 1 Solved and finished coding the problem and 3 follow ups, still 5 minutes were left. Interviewer said they will give me a bonus problem and it’s okay if I can not finish. I did not finish but they said my approach was good. Interview - 2 Solved the problem and the follow up. I was as
- Those with 15+ yoe who went to G/FB from companies like Intel, Synopsys Interviewed at G/FB both 1 year ago and was no-offered. My expertise is in compilers and one of the compiler interview sessions "I thought" I aced I was given negative feedback by interviewer at G, to my surprise. This interviewer was old at 60+ yrs age, came into interview confused looking, seemed
- vote Google India - L4 - accept or reject at 6.5 Yoe Faang experience? Hi all, I am SDE2 at amazon. Been with company for more than 6.5 years and sde2 for more than 4.5 years (changed orgs after 1 year of sde2 in previous org). I recently interviewed at G India and got offer for L4 (SDE2 equivalent but termed as SWE3). I was hoping for L5 and even had a design round
- vote IC2 Offer Compass vs Uber (2.75 YOE) I interviewed at Compass a few weeks ago for a Senior position, however, due to my YOE, I was downleveled to IC2 (SDE II) despite recruiter's push for Senior and very strong interview feedback. Compass offer: 160K base, 144K equity over 4 years, 48K yearly refresher (This is given equally over 4 ye
- Multiple Opportunities in a Blockchain Fintech startup that just raised $6.2M seed round! Hey everyone, Wanted to share some details and job openings at Pontoro, a seed stage start up building a platform to revolutionize the Infrastructure Fintech space! $94 trillion of infrastructure financing is needed by 2040; however, financing capacity continues to diminish due to the declining ba
- My interview journey so far I read a lot about compensation range in the Seattle area and how my TC was towards the lower end, I prepared Jan through March and started interviewing April onward. Applied at 5 places in total out of which I reached 4 onsites and one was a phone screen rejection. All 4 loop interviews ended in a
- I can't understand my Manager. Please help ! Many times, my manager gives me a sarcastic comments on my actions. I'll give some examples. Example 1: If I come to office 30 minutes late than usual time. He greets me saying "Good Afternoon" or saying "Did u hit the snooze button today ?" is he indirectly telling me that I need to come in time
- Cleared Google interviews but Internal candidate hired Role: Data Scientist Org: Google Cloud Current role: Senior Data Scientist at Deloitte Master's in Data Science YOE : ~8yrs (5yrs in data science consulting) I recently interviewed for a data science position at Google: 1. Tech screening with a senior team member 2. Virtual onsite ( coding rou
- Completed my TPM L6 Interviews with FB / G Want to share as much as possible with the blind community so someone else can benefit from this in the future.... Note, I'm not going to share my questions. Most of it is all found off the interwebs, educative, youtube, etc... anyways. Prep: I took 4 weeks off work, studied like my life depended
- Toxic (Jealous?) Teammate - Stay or Leave? Hi guys, I started a new job 5 months ago and hate it. For context, there’s a teammate who’s been here for 6+ years and they’re in the same role as I am. They’ve always worked solo on the team for the past 6+ years until I joined. Since they know the ins and outs of everything, they‘ve asked me to r
- Rant: why do companies send interviewers who are not at all interested in interviewing? I recently had a “Technical Architecture Phone Screen” with a company. First off, it took 4 reschedules to get it done because, every time, the interviewer would have a meeting conflict and I’d get reassigned to a different person. Then when we finally got to it, the interviewer was clearly not int
- What are the ideal ways to answer these typical interview questions for Product Design I've been searching around and I just can't find any good examples online since product design is still a minority workgroup compared to SDE. Hoping to hear from folks here: 1. What are you looking for in your next role? - I am actually at my 4 years cliff and I am bored of the work .. but I can
- LE 4 years in a row, lessons learned. #Amazon, #PIP, #Devlist A little over 4 years ago, I joined Amazon. My skill set was a mixed bag, with solid depth in a number of areas (beyond what most folks at my level had), but gaps in areas that turned out to be core to the first team I joined. My hiring manager assured me there would be time
- FB recruiter experience: Was not set up for success. I recently got a opportunity to chat with a FB recruiter. I was very excited about this. Esspecially reading about how successful other peoples experience was on TeamBlind. However, I felt like I was not set up for success with this recruiter. Recruiter emailed to ask if I was interested in setting
- Toxic (Jealous?) Teammate - Stay or Leave? Hi guys, I started a new job 5 months ago and hate it. For context, there’s a teammate who’s been here for 6+ years and they’re in the same role as I am. They’ve always worked solo on the team for the past 6+ years until I joined. Since they know the ins and outs of everything, they‘ve asked me to r
- Meta/FB vs HFT vs Hedge Fund in London - which offer to take? I am struggling to decide between my top three offers, which are for Meta, a Hedge Fund (think Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc.) and a London based HFT firm (you'll likely know the name but want to protect my privacy). The offers are: Meta (E5): TC ~£203k (109, $420/4 years, 15% bonus), plus £
- 330% TC bump in 3 years - grateful to this community TL;DR - My TC went from 160K to 688K in 3 years and this is my journey. I am grateful of this community to provide me motivation and help me prepare for my interviews to find the right roles & compensation related to my experience/skills. I want to share my journey to help motivate someone else who
- Facebook E5 SWE interview - Messed up one coding question - what are my chances? What are my chances of receiving an offer from Facebook for an E5 SWE position assuming my observations below are accurate: * I did great at the screening interview: 2 coding questions completed under given time, explained well. * I did good at behavioural interview. * I did OK with System design i
- vote 5 simultaneous offers - help evaluate! So I finally am done with all my interviews and have five different offers between my current company, 2 faang, a startup and another public tech company. I'm going to try to anonymize the company names to avoid the Blind bias for/against certain companies; I want the holistic offer evaluation (alth
- link Getting to the truth about diversity initiatives This might be an unpopular and controversial opinion but based on recent research, it seems that most of these diversity initiatives are solving a problem which did not exist in the first place. Women only form 18% of all CS degree holders yet form 25% of all engineers in Google. They seem to be o
- [India] Thank you Blind! Google L5 PM Offer YoE - 5 (3 Dev + 2 Product) Current TC - 40 LPA I recently had a call and signed my offer with Google Hyderabad. Blind went a long way in helping me in my course of action at the later stages. To give back to the community, sharing my experience below : Timeline - 1. Application and Rejection : I
- PMM at Meta vs PM Director elsewhwere: complex situation, need guidance Hi everyone, I need to take an important career decision, making me feel very anxious, and hence I would really appreciate your thoughts and feedback. I have been at FB/Meta for several years, and I am currently a PMM working closely with Eng and PM on: 1) Identifying customer needs, 2) Product gap
- link interviews - two part question. obligatory yoe - 16+ in java, includes 9+ in android (yep, pigeon-holed), with 13+ years in us in h1-b dual-intent work-visa. obligatory tc - $90 per hour consultant. question-1 : why do companies / recruiters ghost after interview-loops ? TLDR :- below bullet-points just-in-case if you are more c
- want to help my team we have built a new team last year and we started out strong. we inherited 4 legacy systems, 2 of which i know very well cause i wrote major parts of the system and I know them well and they don’t operationally bother us much. The other two are absolute disaster - pipeline is in an extremely bad sh
- Help! Need advice to clear System Design interviews Apologies for the exclamation and for this being a long post. Thanks in advance to those who take the time to go through it and offer constructive feedback. TLDR: I am struggling with system design and would appreciate preparation advice. I have listed down my preparation steps and how these inter
- quitting and studying LC - another one Hi Blind. About me: mid 20s, single, no plan for kids in the next 5 years and trying to optimize TC/career growth. I had no financial cushion right out of college but I have some decent amount saved up now. Also learned investing along the way and really want to make the most financially out of my
- Amazon SDE 2 Interview, very bad experience - 24 months cool off Hi all, I just finished interviewing for the first time for the SDE 2 role at Amazon and wanted to share my weird experience with the overall onsite process. YOE :2 years Education : MS in Computer Science Problems solved : 700 on LC (Meds : 392 Hard : 75 Easy: 233) Interview: Onsite was in the
- FB lessons summary from Blind So I scanned through all advice on fb from blind and posting it here. Would love to get comments if they are still relevant. But, I did that as a prep to join the company and be prepared. This is my giving back to this wonderful and disgusting community of blind. Facebook lessons (from blind) Summ
- Managing Remote Employees — A Guide. There’s an inexpressible comfort in showing up for work every day, settling down in your cubicle, getting ready to release the rush of adrenaline that fills you up as you embark on a new project. You say hi to your colleague in the next cubicle, boot your system, and do what you do best — launch i
- link PM Interview with Facebook (Meta) - documenting my experience ---------------- Update 11 Done! This process is a marathon, not a sprint. Nearly 3 months for me, although I got COVID which added 2-3 weeks worth of delays. I feel like I did very well overall. Execution was my weakest in both rounds, although my second Execution I felt was stronger than my f
- The Truth About Goldman Sachs Some of you are looking for new jobs or thinking of moving to finance. Probably HFT or Quant Finance if you're on here. Thought I'd share some things about GS to know before coming here. - Tech is a second class citizen here, even on front office "strat" teams. In the last 10 years you'd make more
- Life advice: I have no idea how to feel about my life - have great positives and awful negatives. Title is tl;dr 😛 I’m gonna go deep about my personal life, not much else in it for you. Its a long read, if you have some free time on your friday. Would love to hear any advice from y’all on any part of my rant ahead Blind tax - 9 yoe 280k tc ☺️ Just turned 31. Life is….urgh, its crap…but its a
- Google Team (Borg) That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20/inside-google-s-brewing-mental-health-crisis-claims-of-toxic-work-environment When Chewy Shaw left Google’s site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal. “I n
- [Amazon] Harmful for career. Read and think 100 Times before you join Amazon Hey everybody, After getting lot of courage, I am sharing some wise advise to all. Hopefully it help all ppl. Amazon a big brand but its always good to know the reality after all. If you are going after brand name Amazon then think 100 times (after reading this) before you join here. otherwise it w
- Another Amazon Suffering Post from Leetcode Discuss Hey everybody, After getting lot of courage, I am sharing some wise advise to all. Hopefully it help all ppl. Amazon a big brand but its always good to know the reality after all. If you are going after brand name Amazon then think 100 times (after reading this) before you join here. otherwise it w
- link UPDATED (08/10): Amazon Behavioural Interview Top Tips from an experienced interviewer I’ve been at Amazon for over 3 years and have interviewed extensively. Over time, when interviewing for partner teams (that is when your colleagues ask you to be part of assessing candidates for them) I took a greater interest in Phone Screens where I got to speak to candidates at initial stages. Wh
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- link Thank you blind. My incredible success story. Warning. This is going to be a very long post. Feel free to ignore most of it and just scroll down for offers if that's all you care to see. I've fudged the numbers slightly for the sake of anonymity but they are more or less accurate. A few months ago I made this post and promised to follow up if
- 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.