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- Husband and wife TC gap and age gap Blind community, what’s your fair opinion review based on the scenario? H: current 180k base + 25k bonus, engineer role, yoe 15, master degree W: current 100k base + 10k bonus, IT Support role, yoe 3 (previous background: 7 yoe banking retail, 4 employment gap due to raising kids while studied MBA
- Medical insurance covered after job terminated? Blind friends, please share guidance if medical insurance is covered if there is a month gap in me leaving current company and joining new company.
- Salaries on Glassdoor and Blind Can anyone explain why there such a huge gap between the salaries posted on Glassdoor and here on blind? The gap is huge, do people here just lie? What's the point? #salaries #offer
- Did MICROSOFT fix its compensation issues? Saw a ton of activity on blind regarding special stock awards to close the gap to engineers. Did msft fix the gap when it comes to offers? Hiring managers, are you seeing better offers now than a few months ago?
- Coding interview for front end roles For leetcode style coding rounds, I use C++. But as I’m applying for front end roles recruiters are suggesting JS. I’m trying to think of the gaps between C++ and JS and wonder if it’s easier to switch in a matter of days. Anyone tried this? Any thoughts? Blind tax 165k
- Leetcode Premium Subscription Dear Blind Community Starting with DS/Algo revision journey in order to prepare for SE job interviews after a career gap. Would anyone be kind enough to share an LC premium subscription?
- Can anyone train to pass Google's interview? Hi Blind, have any of you tried teaching your friends how to FAANG level-interviews that are in tech? Do you think anyone can do it with the time? Or is there an inherent talent gap
- vote How much gap to take between jobs? Curious because the traditional advice is that gaps hurt future prospects. I kind of want to take a nice break before the next job. What do Blind folks typically take?
- vote US wealth gap: should we be scared? Wealth gap in the US is wider than in France before the 1789 revolution. Below article is from last year and I can only imagine today’s situation is even worse. TC and assets bubbling up only for a few privileged Blind users. https://www.polljuice.com/vive-la-revolution-comparing-u-s-inequality-wi
- vote Blind 75 Study Guide I am currently studying DSA to be able to solve the Blind 75 leetcode questions by reading through the Grokking Algorithms textbook and trying to implement their examples in my own IDE. Would this be sufficient or would I still have knowledge gaps I would need to fill in to be able to complete all o
- How to schedule interviews to get offers at similar time? I need to schedule interviews with several companies (Google, Meta, Lyft, LinkedIn etc.) in a way I have offers at similar times and can pick the best. I need advice on how to schedule these interviews. How many days of gap would be ideal between each interview? People with similar experiences ple
- Mentor a high school student remotely while working from home this summer Applications to mentor with Close the Gap foundations are now open! You’ll mentor a first generation low income high school student through a social impact project of the students choosing throughout the summer, and change their life by giving career guidance, college app advice, and generally bein
- Women in Tech Topic Only Accessible to...Women in Tech? Hey @Blind, can we make the women in tech topic only available to women in tech? Not sure how this can be done, but it might be beneficial so there aren’t the men’s rights activist trolls and gender pay gap deniers flooding it with their pollution.
- I need Therapy Been wanting to buy a home for years… hubby wanted to wait till we got our big pay day. We got that pay day but it literally means nothing when it comes to this housing market. We just started and it’s just nuts. I don’t understand why anyone would waive appraisal gap… it doesn’t make sense. You sho
- vote Salary in Austin TX What would you consider a good TC in Austin for 5 YOE? I’m curious about the biiiggg gap between SF and Austin looking at the recent offers on Blind. TC - 185k Also, roast my TC.
- Why does Amazon's rating in Blind have one point differential than glassdoor I just have a curious question on why there is one point rating gap between glass door and blind. I found the ratings of other big companies like Google and Facebook are pretty close between glass door and blind. Is this because the quorums are different? But it doesn't make sense Google is consiste
- Microsoft background check and visa transfer Hello Blind community, I recently signed an offer with Microsoft. HireRight has sent my background check to Microsoft with a yellow flag on gap standard 5 business days back. When can i expect them to initiate my H1B transfer ? From this point, what are the steps and timelines i can expect until th
- vote LinkedIn Influencer hate thread LinkedIn influencers have to be the cringiest BS I have ever seen. More cringe than Instagram, Reddit, Blind, and Tik Tok combined. So much self congratulation, especially by recruiters. I copied this one straight from LinkedIn ””” I interviewed a candidate with a resume gap of 1 year. His fathe
- Return to Work (Easy interviews) Hey blind. My friend is looking for companies with easy interviews (work specific or LC easy level) This will be the first job in US after a gap of 3 years. So, need info which companies will offer easy interviews ? Please suggest companies… Prev experience : 3 years as developer in Infosys in Java
- link 2022 vs 2021 Tech poll: Trends Comparing 2022 to a 2021 poll. Here are the observed trends: 1- Google is still king on blind 2- Meta was not able to close gap on google. Same exact gap of ~30 votes 3- Stripe Gaining popularity, dethroning Netflix at #3 4- Dropbox is still at the bottom 5- Roblox making some noise (was not l
- How to justify gap in resume- time taken to prepare for interviews? Hi Blind peeps! Thinking of quitting and then studying for interviews as it is mentally taxing for me to manage both work and studies. Is 6 months gap tough to justify? Can I say I needed time to study- will that sound odd? Thanks in advance for any inputs you have!
- Google, what's taking so long to make Android PCs? Literally all you had to do is make an official window manager and port some Linux tools over. You don't have to deal with an "app gap" or even support Intel for most users. Windows was on the brink with Win8 and you missed your chance to stamp it out.
- Career break for 2-3 months in India Hi blind community, I am currently working as software developer for the past 6 years and planning to take a break for 2-3 months without anything lined up. Would this gap create a problem in trying to find a job later? Would love to hear if someone has done something similar before. TC: 28LPA
- Do away with salary ranges! Have one salary for one position We can only close pay gap if pays are transparent. If I don't know what my colleague who does same work as me is getting, I'll never know if I'm being underpaid. Time to have one salary for one job. Create more levels. Promote people to reward for performance.. But keep salaries transparent ! TC-
- Everyone I studied with moved to USA from India This is more of a ignorant rant. How is there a huge wage gap for the exact same role b/w USA and India? Thanks to abroad working Indians and their dollars, I cannot even own a decent enough house in my city? How can one who is working in India can peacefully live when abroad working are buying a
- H4/H4 EAD timing My wife who is on OPT was not selected from the H1B lottery this year. She only has one attempt left. Her opt expires next year around June We are thinking of applying H4 COS and H4 EAD for her. (I have an approved I140 and it is greater than 180 days) What is a good timing to file H4 & EAD for h
- Does a time off between switching jobs count as unemployment days? I have another offer and H1B transfer is in process. If I keep a gap of a week or two between last day with current employer and first day with new employer, does that count towards the 60 unemployment days allowed on H1B? I'll confirm with lawyers, but asking the blind community first for a quick
- What is the current compensation bracket for a 12+ years of backend java developer in finance in NYC ? I feel like there is a huge gap between data I see on sites with compensation details like indeed/glassdoor etc, what people say they make on blind and what recruiters say firms are offering. I want to get a sense of a reasonable compensation for backend java developer with Finance domain expertis
- vote Is staying until reaching L6 worth it? Hello Blind, I have been at Amazon retail for 3.5 years. I have been working on the L6-scope work for a year now and my manager believes the remaining gaps to L6 can be closed in the next 1.5-2 years by delivering more projects to fill up the gaps. Is this worth the effort to get promoted and join
- vote I feel unappreciated by Blind, what to do? I've been asking questions and making polls, and overall exceeding all expectations, but I feel like I'm not being appreciated by Blind, as I'm still lacking the top-contributor badge. Any advice? Anything else I should pay attention to, or any gaps to fill? I've seen a lot of other blinders who ha
- vote Meta E4 offer : stay at amazon or leave to meta I am currently SDE II at amazon - been SDE2 for last one year. Recently interviewed at Meta and got an offer for E4. My WLB is pretty decent at amazon. My WLB is not bad as many blind Amazonian’s say. Confused whether I should stay at amazon and try for L6 or take the jump to meta. Realistically I
- Do you think being a teller might be a good place to start your career? I'm currently taking a gap year off of college and have been working at a startup as an intern. I get to do some interesting stuff but I've heard that being a bank teller is also a good learning experience. Do you think this is true? I think it would teach me a lot about the finance industry? What d
- vote Jumpship before or after the birth of baby To all blind parents: We are expecting the second child in 8 months. I am Currently L5 at aws. L6 promo just got rejected but the gaps are small and can cover before the birth of baby. Does it make sense to stay in Amazon and take the paternity leave TC hit then jumpship after L6 promo ? TC bumps
- Senior Product Designers making less than junior Software Engineers? I am a product designer with more than 5 years of experience in the SF bay area. I’m new to Blind, but looking at a bunch of compensation posts here, seems like the pay gap between designers and engineers is enormous. Except for a few anamolies here and there, junior software engineers are making th
- Data Analysts vs SDE - Compensation Disparity I’m seeing a big big gap between Data Analyst vs SDE salaries. Most of which is justified with the unique skillset SDEs bring and the nature of work being more technical. Pretty much all the SDEs I see on blind are bagging over 300K annually with 5-6 years of experience. I try to quote my expected
- Loneliness Sucks😐 Sometimes it's sucks, going in the path to becoming a software engineer to work at FANG, I often don't take time to talk with my friends and cousin which had led to the communication gap. Now I am in the state of loneliness. I often pass out my time in blind or just wasting my time. It had affected
- Transition from IC to Manager Hi Blind folks, I have 8 YOE & I’m stuck as an IC in my career. I did manage people for small periods in my previous jobs but I felt I wasn’t doing it right! I’m looking for mentorship/advice from folks who are leaders in Data Science/Analytics domain to learn, grow and understand if there is any g
- Suggestions for H4 job search Hi Blind Fam! My wife came to USA on H4 and we filed for H4 EAD in July-2021 and are still awaiting. Her background is in Software Industry however she has mostly worked on Mainframe technology, like almost 6 years. Left last job in India - April 2021, so not much gap. She is studying python and pr
- Product/Program Managers Compensation Hi Blinders, There are many posts about software developers' compensations, but there are just one non-tech base salary survey on Blind. There is a huge gap, so let me start a thread to get a sense how much Product/Program managers are paid. This thread may be helpful for developers who are conside
- Offer hopping n negotiation justified if current TC is low wrt to Market ? Hi Blind community, I am working with MS and due to gap in employment they lowballed me with position and pay, with 9 YOE i have SDE2 61 with 40LPA CTC(30+10Share) I got one offer but due to lower current CTC, they are offering 65-70LPA CTC(Verbal offer) While we all know for 9 YoE and experience in
- PIP and termination, options and pay? Hey Blind folks, Was wondering if you're put on PIP and then get terminated do you still get some kind of pay for a while? What are usual steps in terms of getting a new job? Do you tell your next employer? Does it show in the record somewhere? Or do I just apply pretending like nothing happened?
- Best way to learn tech workflow I'm playing around with some tech (creating apps, websites, etc) and am feeling I have a lot of gaps on how to manage general workflow of code checkin, launching / dev ops, backups, etc. E.g. I have an app/web page which has a supporting backend DB. I'd like to learn more about how to update live co
- vote Finished CTCI + Blind 75. Should I do more LC volume or more mock practice? I will be putting myself back on the market in two months. I'm finishing up Blind 75 soon and want to plan ahead on how I will finish my prep. Should I continue to grind LC and go for volume? I do not think I have all the patterns down pat yet. Or should I prioritize practicing mocks and seal up
- Is there still a way to save cash from inflation? Was saving for down payment of a house in LCOL + some for appraisal gap. Couldn’t convince myself on any house and instead found a job in bay area and moved. Now I have 200k+ cash. Can’t afford a house here in bay area but don’t know to save the cash from inflation either. Have increased recurring
- Facebook - follow up design interview Hi, Blind I went through all rounds of virtual onsites with facebook and did well at all rounds, except for system design, where I had some gaps as I was told. I picked highly scalable distributed systems for my original design round, however, I will need to do a follow up design round - product d
- Systems Design Primer is total junk The Donne Martin one. Going through this to fill in gaps after DDIA. You can tell it was cobbled together by someone who doesn’t have full command of the material: disparate/contradictory blurbs copy pasted from elsewhere, zero nuance suggested (e.g. doesn’t even mention Read Your Write and other ne
- Need to take 5 months off. How best to explain the gap on resume( Need to take 5 months off for some family and personal stuff. I don’t want to use FMLA. I want to quit. Will also be doing a lot of interview prep. What is the best way to explain this on a resume? Ideas: 1. Form my own LLC, issue my own w2 and say I’m working for a startup 2. Say I’m a freelancer
- Resume review - getting into product management Hi Blind community! I've been trying to break into product management in tech and have been having a tough time. Would anyone be willing to take a look at my resume and give advice on skill gaps, content or even other career paths to transition into product? I'm hoping to get into the APM/RPM prog
- HWE vs rest of Silicon Valley In the recent years while on the hiring team I am noticing it is getting tougher to find HW engineers especially the ones with electrical/ signals/circuits background. After digging more on my hunches i found there is truth that very few people are graduating in said skills as they is lot of hype o
- Best way to fill in a resume gap? TL;DR: Should I be honest and explain the failure of my projects, and that the time was used primarily for self-improvement #leetcode? Is it best to form some sort of 1-person company/fill-in with "freelancer"? I've got about a year gap on my resume where I've taken time to do personal projects (wh