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- Morgan Stanley Java developer Hi blinders, I have an interview scheduled for Java Developer role at Morgan Stanley (Obviously I don't have the offer right now). How much can I expect from compensation point of view. Currently working as an SDE at McAfee. Do you recommend switching from a PBC to a Financial Org. Current TC: 10 L
- Overcoming financial insecurity Hey all, Growing up in a lower middleclass family where my parents worked really hard and long hours, I didn’t exactly have financial freedom and privileges which I think has developed a financial insecurity in me. I am graduating with an undergrad (21 right now) soon and I accepted a job at Amazon
- Roles in tech vs quant I worked at both Amazon and Bloomberg as SDE and I have lots of passion and experiences with machine learning (so basically I’m MLE). I’m strong and interested in both engineering/CS and math/stats, and my career goal is certainly to bring these two together. So for career development, I could cho
- vote Please help me choose a management role (FB M1/GOOG L6/AMZ L6/SF L9) I've been screwed by many employers throughout my career (financially and on promotions). My goal is to make big money and grow my career. I'm currently a Sr. EM. I can either accept a Director of Engineering role at Salesforce or a down-leveled role at AMZ L6 / FB M1 / GOOG L6. Pay wise AMZ > F
- vote Do you know what an event loop is? I've worked in the financial industry as a developer for over 20 years. It seems like majority of the people I've worked with and candidates I've interviewed fall under the 2nd or 3rd category. To developers in FAANGMULA+, do you know what an event loop is? If so, how did you learn it? In the backe
- [serious] Who's the best paymaster in Bay area? If you only have 4 more years in the country before you have to go back to your homeland for personal reasons, who is the best employer to work for to maximize your financial gains? Current Role: Software Engineer TC: 200k In other words, if you have the will to study/crack any interview, what sho
- SWE Referrals Hello, Looking to transition into a SWE position. Prefer companies located in NYC, New Jersey, DC, Baltimore, NoVA. Remote works too. Currently a DE and am most fluent with python. Used to previously work in a large financial institution as a Access/SQL Server developer. Recently failed a Facebook
- Discover Culture/Interview Hi all, I passed the first round coding challenge from Discover Financial Services and I was wondering if anyone could tell me more about what to expect from the following phone (seems like there’s an option to do wither phone or video?) and onsite interviews (for SWE with 1 YOE). Also, how’s the
- What are you thoughts on WePay ? I'm Interviewing with WePay for a Senior Software Engineer position. I'm impressed with their engineers background and their tech blogs. Seems like a good place to work. They got acquired by Chase and are going to move to a new location in Palo Alto. I wanted to know if you guys have any thoughts
- Lever: Worth joining? More for current Lever employees. I’m expecting a staff SWE offer from them. I obviously asked these questions in interviews but curious about what people say anonymously * Does the company enable you to make meaningful impacts / changes that push it to a successful exit (and beyond)? * Would you s
- Data science manager interview prep FAANG+ Looking for coaches / mock interviewers in Seattle area or virtual. Yoe: 12 in financial risk modeling. SAS and matlab. 8 yoe as IC, 4 as manager in a big 4. Want to switch to DS management in FAANG+ Spent most of pandemic on sabbatical to learn python, ML, SQL, … CV is getting attention and rea
- Thank you Blind - meta offer I have joined Blind since 2019 and following since then. A bit of my journey. I have more than decade experience on financial domain, I have been financial software engineer doing backend stuff. I was a part of the investment banking bandwagon victim, however I enjoyed all time in this domain. It wa
- Handing out referrals for a $2.5B real estate unicorn To cut straight to the point, we are looking to expand our R&D team 3x over the next year. Right now we are looking for JavaScript engineers (3yoe+) , data folks, product managers and designers, and engineering managers. Lots of really exciting things going on at Side as we expand our markets. The f
- Quant to Data Scientist I am looking to switch from being a Quant analyst to Data scientist at FAANG+. Work has become quite routine recently and I do not see any exciting future prospects in the long run. I have a Financial Engineering masters degree and well versed with python, monte carlo, statistics and statistical mo
- Interviewing after accepting an offer I have accepted an offer from one of the companies in silicon valley. I'm currently in financial crisis and need to start at new company ASAP since they're paying more than current company. Current TC: 100k New TC: ~200k Yoe: 3.5 My question is: Since the job market is very hot, I want to continu
- Quant vs roles in tech? I worked at both Amazon and Bloomberg as SDE and I have lots of passion and experiences with machine learning (so basically I’m MLE). I’m strong and interested in both engineering/CS and math/stats, and my career goal is certainly to bring these two together. So for career development, I could cho
- vote Seattle vs San Francisco I compared the cost of living between this two cities on number.com, and I calculated after-tax income. Numbers show that 240K TC in Seattle had the same buying power as 380K TC in San Francisco. This is insane. Financially speaking, I can literally work as an intermediate engineer for life at a ti
- Am I Blessed, Lucky, or Stupid? I feel like I just get promoted from mistake to mistake. I don’t think I’ve successfully pulled my weight or led a project to completion in years when I ask for context on a project, I usually have to hear it 3 or 4 times and the person gets really tired. Somehow there’s always some other team that
- Twitch/Lyft/Other Referral or advice Hello all, I have close to 5 years of experience in corporate FP&A and am currently a Senior Financial Analyst. I’ve been applying to a variety of tech companies, but despite being seemingly qualified (Running end to end forecast process and presenting to C level executives, modeling experience, bu
- Unpaid SWE internship vs Barista/Busboy Hey guys! Due to COVID, the financial situation of my family changed drastically and I need to decide ASAP between continuing my current internship or getting a job. I enjoy the work I currently do (backend & data engineering) and I believe that having relevant work experience will help me with rec
- Need help with tech recruiters I am looking to move out of the finance industry and into tech. However, recruiters reach out to me for jobs within financial services only and it’s challenging for me to convert job applications into interview calls when it comes to tech or any other industry but fintech. I am aiming for FAANG but
- What salary should I ask for Senior DevOps job in NY? I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer with 14 years of experience, working in the Greater Seattle area. My yearly comp is $118K + medicals. (is that very less?) I just finished rounds of interview for the company Medidata, based out of Manhattan, New York. It's a Senior DevOps Engineer role. I think my inte
- Deep Learning Researcher at HRT I’ve always wanted to get into the finance industry. I’m currently interviewing at HRT for the Deep Learning Researcher role. Just curious if a move from Google (currently am L3 engineer) to HRT (assuming I get an offer) would be an ideal move in terms of learning. My biggest motivation isn’t contri
- First SDE Offer from Sales Background Hey studs & studettes! I have an opportunity to make a transition from Sales to SDE. I’m currently 2 YOE in as an AE with a TC of $165k. The SDE role would be a program from [Twitter/Microsoft/Uber/Google] company @ a salary of ~$93k for the first 5 months and then I will interview for a FT role a
- Facebook London vs Amazon Seattle TC comparison I'm currently working at Amazon Seattle. I have an offer from Facebook London. SDE2 Current TC: 245K USD YOE: 5 Offered TC: 180 GBP E5 After Federal tax, I get about 170K USD. However, London has around 45% tax for my income, so I would be saving around 100 GBP which is around 140K USD. Also, co
- vote Background check: late payments / delinquencies I am interviewing with a few large Bay Area tech companies for engineering manager roles. What impact will late payments (90 days) on unsecured lines of credit have? (I had near perfect credit up until recently and have a good explanation for the delinquencies. I am also working with the creditor
- Legal to work 2 FT jobs at 2 different tech companies? I have a FT job I really enjoy. Looking to add some financial cushion and really kill it this year with TC. Non technical roles so TC isn’t swe status or close. My question is - is it legal to work two ft jobs? Seen a few posts floating around the internet but would like to know the granular details
- vote Joining Robinhood in 2021 Im in the manager hiring pipeline for Robinhood. Any tips on how to get in through their engineering management interview? I personally think this is a hard time for the company and an interesting challenge for me as an employee. They have a massive platform, previously a lot of momentum, and a lot
- Any recommendations for any training classes which can help preparing for highly paying companies? I am 42 years old having beautiful wife and 3 beautiful kids. At this stage of life when I have lots of responsibilities towards my growing kids, I feel I haven't save much ( reason 2008 crash fobia when I lost good amount of money) and feel myself a failure and sometimes when kids are demanding, I
- Thank you Blind, my Mother is very happy Hey Blind, I’ve been silently using this platform since an year. I’m very happy to join Expedia Group as a graduate. I’m more happy that I got a job as a SWE. My father left my mother when I was 2 years old, my mother as a single earning parent helped me financially in every possible way to support
- How is Apple AMP group? In process of interviewing with a team from Apple Media Products (AMP) group for a Sr. SDE role and have onsite rounds coming up soon. I haven’t heard much about AMP - so I’m curious to know what it’s like. All I know is that it’s part of Software & Services group which is doing well in terms of fin
- vote Please Help: Intel G7 (150K base) vs Apple ICT3 (155K base) PAST: The Peanut Pay Trauma I have been working with Intel for the past 5 yrs. Got promoted to G7 mid-year 2021. I felt that my compensation was extremely low compared to competition (couldn't afford a house after 5 yrs in job). Prepared my ass out for 3 months and cracked APPLE interview. HW eng.
- vote Career Cross Road: Backend Developer, Security Engineer, or Reliability Engineer I want to make a move and have three options in front of me. 1. Continue being a back end developer, which I've been for 8 years. 2. Entertain offers to be a Reliability/Production Engineer; I started out as a Sysadmin and my systems prowess keeps following me; finding it easier to crack those inter
- amazon senior manager, software development What's the interview process like for a Senior Manager of Software Development at Amazon? What kind of topics should I brush up on? I've been in the industry for about 16 years, with the past 11 being in engineering management for multi-billion dollar organizations. Have had a progressive career wit
- Seeking SWE Intern Referral for Brex, Stripe Hey everyone, I was hoping to get a referral to the two companies above for their intern positions! Stripe announced they’re moving to Toronto and Brex also has a SWE intern position as well available. I’m a fourth year Canadian CS student who will have 8 months of internship experience by Dec 202
- WTF is an Enterprise Engineer? It seems like there have been quite a few posts asking about the Enterprise Engineer Role at Facebook, so I decided to write a post to help those who are currently looking or have been contacted by FB enterprise engineering recruiters. When I first received an email from an Fb recruiter, they never
- Got in to Microsoft, next step? Hi Folks, I recently joined MS Vancouver at L61. I was looking for some general advice on how I should go forward. Is staying at MS and getting promoted better or should stay consistent with interview preps and keep trying once in a while? or any other path? where should I focus my next 6months-1y
- FAANG Interview Advice Few weeks ago a FAANG recruiter reached out to me for a SWE interview to which I have agreed. I didn't know what I was getting into and have realized that it will take me several months to adequately prep since I don't have a CS degree and am only experienced with financial VBA/database development.
- vote Offer evaluations Yelp(London) vs Dream11(Mumbai) Hi Guys, Would like to get your thoughts on the below two offers, as I have to make a decision in a few days Yelp(London) base: £65k RSU: £70k (Over 4 years) Sign-on and Relocation: £12k First Year CTC: £94k Dream11(Mumbai) Base: 24L INR ESOP: 12L INR (Over 4 years) Rent: 30000(After tax)/Month o
- Referral for Plaid, Chime, Brex, Blend, or SoFi Hey all, I was hoping to do an internship at a fintech/financial services company, but I've gotten ghosted by mostly all of them, even my school and project experience is more catered towards them (For reference, I've gotten interviews at trading firms, even though I have little relevant experience
- vote New grad Microsoft vs DoorDash vs Virtu offer Hi people! I have 3 new grad SWE offers and would really appreciate some advice!! Personally, I'm interested in lower level systems infra like compilers/OS/distributed systems/parallel computing, and also developing algorithms for big data. I would care most about my tech skills growth, and less ab
- EM roles at second rung companies Seeing figures on Blind, TC for EMs in FAANG and like are in the range of around 350-500K. I have been trying for an EM role in the above, but being largely screened even before the interview stage. This could be due to the fact that I am from the Financial sector, and work on complicated but propr
- Desperately Seeking Guidance I am from a third-world country. I have graduated 2 years ago. After that, I was planning to do postgraduate in abroad, but then the pandemic started, and also my family's financial situation got worse. So had to cancel that plan. Wasted 1 year. Got a SWE job and have been working at that firm for a
- Will I need to return Microsoft sign on bonus if I resign? I joined Microsoft in November 2019 and received $50k in sign on bonus split across two years. I am planning to interview with companies & based on my current timeline, I will likely be leaving Microsoft in August / September 2021 (before completing the two year mark) In that case : 1. Will I be
- Withdrawing from Robinhood ASAP Withdrawing my $200k from the app as soon as I liquidate next week. If you want $0 commissions, go Fidelity all the way. You guys are market manipulators by cutting off demand to these stocks. When Robinhood ever get the balls to start dictating market activity and market pricing? So much for democr
- Blind Community Please Help : New PhD Grad Seeking MLE or ML-SWE interview advice Hi Blind Community, I would really appreciate every cent of your advice. No trolls, please. About Me: I am a Ph.D. grad focussed on ML research. The 2020 year was a bumpy life experience for me as I got covid, met with a road accident, my leg got amputated, and stayed in bed for 7 months. Suffered
- To get into entry level quant roles with no experience I'm a recent Master's in Financial Engineering with 6 months of work experience as a data scientist. However, while at school I dreamt of starting out as an entry level quant. Graduating in the middle of "hiring freeze" and "layoffs" took it's toll. Also, not to mention that I am on a student visa (
- Taking a break from work post break-up I'm a 28 yo male software engineer with 6 YOE. I recently went through a tough break-up and am navigating that and questioning life as we speak. I want to stay positive and motivated and grow from this "opportunity". That said, I am considering taking some time off from work to focus on personal gr
- Constant Rejection Hey Everyone. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been applying left & right to companies and have had recruiters reaching out to me. At this point, I’ve been rejected by Stripe, Google, and Meta. I’ve done screens/onsites for Linkedin, Amazon, & a few other large startups, but I’m still waiting to see
- How to grow?!?!?! Working at MS as a Hardware Engineer (RTL), Raleigh NC.. been here with the team for about 2+ years. Not really challenged.. not really learning much. Feeling stagnant, especially with all this inflation and no significant increase in salary. Stupid 2-3 percent merit increase. Though I love the tea