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- link Opportunities at Atlassian Hi all!! Atlassian is hiring across Engineering and other roles!! My experience has been great here so far. The company has a great culture and values WLB a lot. Almost all roles are remote, even if there is a location attached to it. The internal policy is team anywhere aka remote-first. Check ou
- Meta/FB Virtual On-site Tips/Advice (Product DS, not SWE) After my 3rd try, I’ve made past the first round interview with meta (45 min technical screen). Honestly… it’s an insane amount of stress. The ic5(level I’m being considered at) compensation is more than anyone in my family makes. My open ended question is, how do you prepare? Below I have many co
- vote What to do after accepting an offer but a new offer came? Struggling to make a final decision - already accepted an offer (from non-tech) and went through the background check. A new offer (from tech industry) came in. Originally thought it was hard to get the latter offer so said yes with haste to the first offer. The TC don’t have a big difference (10% v
- Looking for Data Science referrals Hey Folks, This is my first time posting on Blind. I am currently working as SDE on ML applications in the Payments domain and I am looking to switch to Data Science roles. I have been in the current role for close to a year and have worked with designing data pipeline, feature engineering along wi
- Socal tech Looking to advance my career in the Socal tech scene. Right now have significant pre-tech leadership experience and experience in sales in highly technical / data-first Enterprise sales cycles. Looking to hopefully use my MBA to some extent and/or greatly increase earning potential. Located in San
- vote Goldman sachs Or Salesforce India I have offer from GS as well SF. Please help me choosing between GS: 60 base+22 lacs per year stocks+ 17 lacs fixed Performance bonus for first year+ 10 joining bonus + 3 relocation SF: 53 base + 24.5 lacs Stocks per year + 8 lacs Performance bonus + 15 lacs joining bonus + 4.5 lacs relocation bon
- vote New grad data science in tech vs. MBB Consulting I’m down to two offers in data science, one at a large tech firm (not FAANG but still large and well-known) and another at an MBB consulting firm. It sounds like I’ll be focusing on product and strategy data science at the tech company and the MBB consulting position will be a mix of ML plus interac
- Upcoming Data Engineer Onsite Interview@Amazon Hi Guys, Thanks for opening this post and wish you have a good day. I have an upcoming data engineer interview@Amazon, the location is Seattle and the team is prime video. From the JD, I can see it's looking for SQL/Redshift&Python. Does anyone know the structure of the onsite interview? What will
- Looking to become a self-taught software engineer and need help creating a learning plan I’m started my career as a business analyst not long ago and I like it, but I think I would enjoy building applications or tools rather than primarily analyzing data. I recently started researching software engineering and I would like to start developing the skills to pivot to a software engineerin
- Need help with Data Science career Hi Blind, I want to make a career in Data Science at FAANG (or a similar firm/startup with good compensation). I currently work as a Data Analyst at an Indian Bank. Lately, I've taken up some projects here that were more oriented towards Data Science so have some hands on experience. I have appli
- link Fastest-growing Companies List Hi Blind family, First off, huge thanks to the entire community for all the great insights and TC data - it all helped me a lot with my career decisions. Apart from TC data, I always wanted to learn how well different companies are doing before interviewing with them, but it was always hard to get
- vote Is everyone here for them DS/ML roles? Quick poll as I’m curious...but something I’ve been thinking about is why I’m even trying to aspire for DS roles. Obviously, a DS will probably have a higher salary group than an analyst role, but I would think an analyst can also have that same potential (they may need to be an analytics manager),
- How is working for FIRST? I’m considering applying for a position at FIRST in Manchester, NH. Reviews on Glassdoor are pretty mixed, so I thought I’d post here and see if I can get a few more data points. I’m ok with lower salary (it is a non profit, after all), but I would like to know what the work/life balance is like and
- Transition into a tech career Hi everyone! First and foremost, thank you for taking the time read my post. Let’s get down to business! I’m looking to transition into a career in a tech related field, whether it be software development, data analytics, programming, coding, etc etc. I’ve been in the banking field my entire career
- Should I lie about not being a transwoman? I’ve been searching for a new position for 6 months now. This is the first year I started openly identifying as a transwoman. People are more than happy to promote my posts looking for work but I rarely make it past a phone screen. I’m beginning to wonder if I should just pretend to be a cis male or
- Switch my career path to data science. Hi Blinders, I am a software engineer with 6+ year experience. I have been dealing a variety of things. Mostly web (backend, webapi, sql, cloud), windows application (WinForm and WPF), and cross-mobile platform (Xamarin). Yup, C# and its corresponding frameworks. I have successfully led multiple
- Opinion on ML at these startups Was reached out by the following startups for positions of lead ml engineer/ chief data scientist. Just wanted opinions on how they are doing, whether it's a good career move. Course hero Mixpanel Bolt Gusto Didi labs I've eliminated those I wouldn't want to consider. Current TC is approx 230k in
- career advancement Ive been actively searching/applying/practicing DS/algos/LC for almost a full year. I have only been with JPmorgan for that amount of time but it hit me how much of a mistake this was as soon as i started. It’s my first full time role and i feel like if i dont get out my career as an engineer will
- Career path towards Data science… Hey everyone! I just need some candid advice here from those who care and have the time. Little background: I have a masters degree in CS and currently as system engineer in a higher institution. I am also a part time MBA student(plus will earn graduate certificate in data analytics). Wlb is grea
- Data Science/Analyst job advice/referrals Hello kind data science folks at Blind, Trying my luck here. I am a recent post-graduate (analytics) from one of the top US colleges. Gave interviews at facebook, amazon, apple, two sigma, and other companies. Could not convert any. I am actively trying to reach out to people on Linkedin and trying
- Career Switch to DS or DA I’m aiming for a DS career in tech with the ultimate goal of working at a FAANG company. I am looking for suggestions on what positions to apply for. I am hoping for a more interactive and challenging role than what I have now. Should I do DA first before trying to get into a DS position? What’s a g
- DS to SDE2 Hello, I recently moved position from DS to SDE2 (different company) about 1 week ago. After joining new team in new company, I’ve read lots of ramp up documents in the first week. In this week, my task is to read and understand couple of repos. Since I’ve worked as data scientist for my entire ca
- Uber Phone Interview. WTF?!? I had a scheduled call with an Uber Senior Tech Recruiter (K.S.) to discuss a role. She ghosted me the first time so I rescheduled to another time. She did follow through with phoning me the second time. Unfortunately, it wasn't the best time because I was called into an impromptu meeting at work so
- Offer evaluation Hello blinders, Current TC: 110k, Data science, Wayfair, Boston I have a couple of competing offers: 1. NY based startup in a pre-launch seed stage: TC is 140k, ML + computer vision based role, love the tech stack, benefits not that great, was very fast in interviews 2. NY based mid-size company
- Performance and capacity engineer Facebook Got offered a role as a performance and capacity engineer at Facebook. Does this fall under the umbrella of software engineer? Would I be able to transfer to other Software engineer roles internally after a while? I’ve read some posts about data engineers / Analysts having to reinterview since they’
- Growth in Data Science after Masters ( non PhD) I have recently been told that PhD peeps have to concur an opportunity cost of $ 400-500K ( assuming 50% savings of $200 TC of fresh Masters grads). Losing $500K dollars for the first five years seems alright if a PhD guarantees, from what I heard starting at 250K TC and unbounded growth, while the
- Advice/referral request Hi, all, I'm a new user and first-time poster. After leading data science in higher education for 14+ years, I am looking for a change. I have a Ph.D./MS with a focus on AI/ML and another multidisciplinary master's in the making. I'm highly proficient in R, SQL, Tableau (dataviz in general). And ot
- Born in the cloud era I have started to work in 2014 and luckily I joined a company that was already fully in AWS. Since then I never had to deal with any projects that were not fully using cloud. It's strange when people talk about how things were done in the past. I usually get lost in the conversation. 😆 It's usually
- vote Switch to SWE or stay as Data Engineer Hey guys, Please help me decide between an offer and career path. I’m currently a data scientist with a background in CS and I want to get more involved in engineering. I’ve been mostly applying for data engineer and swe roles and to my surprise, I have 2 offers! These are just initial numbers and
- vote Microsoft India vs Amazon Cambridge UK Hello Everyone, I am a new grad 2022 from India,and I have these two offers. Microsoft India : Salary: ₹14 LPA Relocation : ₹3 Lac Signing Bonus: ₹2.5Lac first year + ₹2.5Lac 2nd year Stock bonus: $30,000 vested over 4 years Bonus: Performance - based bonus up to 20% of salary every year Total comp
- vote Dillema. Got 2 offers. Need help to choose I was laid off 3 months ago from a preseed startup in NY. DA position with 55k salary. I have 1.5 YE in research and analytics Now i have 2 offers in hand but timing is the problem. 1. Crowe (top 10 consulting) - data analyst 6 contract position after that full time. 40 an hour, FT: 80k + 10% bo
- vote Rate my offers! I was fortunate enough to receive three FAANG offers for Product Manager roles during my recruiting cycle. Please let me know which role you would choose if you were in my position. Thanks in advance! Company | Location | Level | First-year comp Four-year comp breakdown --------------------
- Career goal abandoned or realized? So in March 2020 I graduated with a master’s in Data Science (DS), at the time I was working as a Data Analyst (DA). Since graduating, I have unsuccessfully tried to get a true DS role. In September 2020 I accepted a DA job at my current company. It wasn’t the DS job I was after but there was a con
- How can I level up as a Business Intelligence Analyst? I've been blessed to be able to build a career around business intelligence, mostly via SQL and Tableau, given that I didn't do amazing in college and my first job out of college paid me TC $28k, lol hey a job was better than none back then. I have 9YOE now and I make TC $135k. I'm still very humbl
- Backend to Full stack SWE transition deadend Recently made the switch from backend/distributed systems to full stack, a more product facing role. Most of my experience before this has been working with cloud systems and scaling/reliability, which I really enjoyed. It’s my first time working with PMs, DS, etc, so it’s a great learning experienc
- Any Applied Scientists at Amazon here? YOE:11, TC: 77lpa (In Bangalore) I had the first round of interview(Ml depth and breadth) for "Sr. Data Scientist" position and cleared it. But later found the Data Scientist title in Amazon is for Analyst mostly involved on the business side of things. I asked the Recruiter rather put me in the App
- Data Engineering at Facebook just isnt what I thought itd be I come from a largely swe oriented background and I just feel like the role of data engineering at Facebook is too restricted, automated, and very non-developer friendly. While building pipelines can be fun, the whole dashboard development process is just a bunch clicking. And beyond that, the thing
- Lesson learned: Negotiate hard! 1) Got into FAANG early in my career. I thought to myself “holy shit! I made it to FAANG”. I accepted an offer for L2 non-tech operations role. Pay was shit but I was naive and thought it’s standard… but it wasn’t! New hire coworker came in as L3 with similar experience and was making 30% more. I a
- Microsoft Referral India **Microsoft Referral** Hi, if you are looking for referral at Microsoft & have 1+ year of Full Time work experience, please go through the openings at https://lnkd.in/gDEi5936 and email me the following details: Full Name First Name: Last Name: Email address: Phone Number: Job ID (from the Careers
- vote Which is better startup or established company? Which is better, joining a startup which just started or established company. Startup has offered me double the salary that the company offered. This will be my first job that is 0 YoE. Startup: Role: Backend Development, Flexible but not limited work hours Established Company: Role: Data Analy
- vote Wayfair-getting better? Hello guys, I recently got an offer from wayfair as L3 in data engineering team. The team looked good but didn’t ask many questions on the tech stack and work. It felt like They’re using GCP mainly. However, after coming to blind and reading about the lack of cloud access and about the php code ba
- Insight data science scam during Covid-19? So my partner got accepted into the next batch for the Insight Data Science camp. This is what I knew about the program from friends who have been through it before: 1) its completely sponsored by companies who are looking to get first pick at recruiting. No cost to student 2) it's for PhD graduate
- Job hopping India First company: 2.5 years Second company: 2 years Third company : 5 months Fourth company : 6 months Fifth company : 1+ year ( present) Third, four and five are startups, Third one had a pathetic work environment, fourth one underwent an acquisition. both happened during pandemic, In my fifth , I
- Left sde for girlfriend, can I still go back I’m not sure what to do with my career next and appreciate any advice. A ok school, cs undergrad -> a tier 3 software company, sde for 6 months(not Google, I only interned there) -> a tier 3 company data science, 1.5 years now, no machine learning, mostly cleaning data, quick analysis for bus
- Need Help on Deciding Career Path Hi Everyone. I am asking for help on my career. Please read the two scenarios, I need to pick one. Career Path 1: I got a new job at an IT consulting firm (Capgemini) that is paying 97k and my title is data scientist. I will probably be working on several projects and spending extra time on work
- vote Non-tech people where you at?? Anyone here working in Media & Entertainment that has a stereotypical media and Entertainment role like animator, video producer, video editor? Vote yes if you are present and lurking!! If you are an engineer/data scientist/PM I’ll have a category specially made for you!! If you are in marketing, sa
- vote Looking for advice on next job Working on Cloud technologies at Express in Columbus, OH. (engineer and Architecture) Wants to move to tech product company. I am exploring Google CE or AWS SA. Any recommendations? Criteria - WLB, Pay, Benefits Also if you some one can guide through the process of moving to these roles. Thanks i
- Suggestion on prep for aws sr. solutions architect phone interview? Hi All, having a telephonic interview (first round) for sr. solutions architect role in amazon aws in 5 days. how best to prepare for this? what all topics to brush up? will there be coding (data structure/algorithm) question? i don't have prior aws work-ex but have taken a few online courses on aws
- vote Career Path from BIE Working in Amazon as a L5 BIE. TLDR - What's a good career path for a BIE? DE or DS or TPM given that they have an year to prepare for these roles ? Have never worked in a SWE type role before but did manage a small BI team before joining Amazon as an IC. BIE is a dead end role at Amazon or anywhe
- Career transition at the age of 32 - Non-tech to Data Science (new grad) Hello everyone! I am a new grad student who is making a career transition to the field of Data Science after 7 years of experience in the non-tech industry. A little bit about me: 1. Completed MS in Mathematics from one of the top universities 2. Worked for 7 years in the non-tech industry (relate