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- Finances after getting married Married folks of Blind, I’m going to be marrying my girlfriend soon and was wondering how married couples deal with finances. We are both working and earn a good salary, although there is a wide income gap between us (one of us makes ~3x the other). Our combined TC is around 500k. How do you deal w
- Competing for tech talent (India) I am a product design leader and a founding member of a no-name early stage product incubator. While I have been involved in the Tech industry for many years, only recently got introduced to Blind due to some research involving recruiting tech team for a couple of new initiatives. Since, I have not
- Are personal projects sufficient for building strong programming skills? I've been working as a junior back end developer for a little under 2 years right out of college. I've implemented various features but for the most part I've been doing bug fixes on legacy software. My debugging skills have improved significantly, as well as navigating huge codebases. However, I do
- Career Advice for a Late Bloomer I write SQL queries for reports and use an arcane reporting tool called Jasper Studio, and some Tableau. I'm in NYC at a non profit with 83k TC/3 yoe. I'm also a teaching assistant at a data analytics/viz boot camp run by Trilogy education at Columbia - 13k TC. We cover basic Python, Pandas, data
- vote OCI IC 3 or Salesforce MTS? Hi folks, I recently received offers from OCI (seattle) and Salesforce (Boston). Both companies allow fully remote working. Oracle is offering me a more senior title (IC 3), while salesforce is trying to match the TC, however keeping the title as MTS. I'm wondering if the TC is comparable, should I
- 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
- 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
- Friday rant. Am I f'cked I was the guy who posted about girl friend cheating with the other guy and as suggested by Blind community I ditched her. It was a really hard time for me in the last ~6 months and yesterday I just found out they broke up after only 1 month in the relationship. The guy has some common friends with m
- link What are the benefits & perks at linkedin? Hi, We built http://perks.guide to help job searchers compare perks at different companies. We've been trying to source data for linkedIn(SF + Sunnyvale) but have come up short so we're trying to fill in the gaps from the blind community. Here's what we have so far: Data we have: Compensation Phil
- Home Network? Recently saw a late 90s home network diagram for a AWS VP. It was super cute... Got me thinking.. what’s your average FAANG home network look like? Here, dual WAN, weighted load balance through a pfsense VM. 1.4gbps from diverse providers. Stopped going to the office a few years ago, so made sense
- [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
- H4 Visa and H4EAD I have an H1b visa. I had an approved I-140 with my previous employer and I was employed with them for 2 more years after my I-140 Priority Date. Later I faced layoff at my old job and I had to leave the US in the grace period 60 days so I was out of status with regards to H1b. I finished 3.5 year
- Meta - Production Engineering Manager Role Looking for guidance from the Blind community here regarding a transition from Banking technology to Tech (MAANG + others). For most of my xx year career I have been working in various application support role (Run The Bank, hands on, linux, basic scripting, monitoring, incident management, user sup
- Unregretted attrition. WTF! Is there any legal action I can take? So this happened to me, never thought it would but it did. I useful to read posts on Blind and think who would be those managers who would do such a thing, now I have also experienced working under one. I resigned in December and my manager was like is there anything we can do to make you not leave
- I'm quiting my job at the end of the week. I currently work at a Chicago exchange doing regulatory investigations where 50% of my work consists of trade data analysis and the other 50% on report writing. I am quitting my job because I absolutely hate the report writing aspect of it as it can take months to write up and edit a single report.
- A plea to the Blind community First a quick introduction: I am a Professional Engineer and have been working in the Civil Engineering/construction space for the past 7 years for the same company since graduating with a Masters Degree. My company is a rather large, top 20 employee owned firm (>5000 employees), and very well e
- vote Stripe vs Google, new grad Probably this is a frequent poll in Blind(looks like every time Stripe will win the poll), but I really need some insights about the career. Thanks! Similar TC around 190k, though a lot of paper money are in Stripe's package. Well, for a new grad, I guess it is never wrong to go with google, but I
- Psychiatrist / Psychologist / Therapist / hopeless rant I just put my 2 weeks at Amazon. Leaving with a TT-1 rating. I am in desperate need of some mental health help. I am a good engineer (or my peers and managers say good to me) but I’ve been hiding behind work for almost a decade. I love to work and hate living. My family, Indian born, barely helps,
- Have you ever been denied a job and then talk them into hiring you? SE I’m getting denied from Front End Software Engineering jobs left and right for knowledge gaps in my skill set: “sorry we need someone who can write Apollo GraphQL on day one,” or “Sorry but you’re Redux skills just aren’t up to par with what we are looking for.” I wish I could respond with the foll
- Is it time to leave Salesforce? I work in technical pre-sales, and mainly sell to customers who have already made investments in the tool. Often I find myself doing a lot of education, and talking customers out of trying to build things in-house. These customers usually struggle to implement Salesforce; they are not ready to manag
- Laid off for 5 months... Constantly rejected for all design positions 😅 Hey folks, I got laid off back in February. 50% of my job applications are getting rejected (I get 2-3 rejection emails every morning), and the other 50% are ghosted. I've gotten a handful of interviews with Netflix, Amazon and some small private start-ups, but I'm not getting any offers. I have 9
- How to break the entry barrier I am an early 20s IT grad (associates only) currently working in a entry-level IT job for 3 months, not tech support. Was pursuing BS in CS prior but had to drop out because $$$ and time. TC now: 48k Location: Florida, US YOE: 0.25 Want to know what I need to do to get my foot in the door and est
- Inferiority complex- Feel like not knowing anything even after 3 yoe and a masters *Background* I finished bachelor's and worked for 2 years. I was treated like a new grad and so learnt little. In addition, the company or the product I worked on was also like secondary for the company. So no good engineering practices or anything. Didn't even write a single test as a dev and had Q
- My wife is seriously underpaid - motivating her to get into big tech. I am in tech. My wife works in tech but is seriously underpaid. I make over 500k in TC every year, while she makes 80k in TC with minimal benefits and works more hours than I do. She started off with 60k in 2016. She knows how underpaid she is, but ever since we got married, she has lost interest
- 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
- Question to working moms (of 3) in Silicon Valley Last week I found out I am pregnant with third baby. Happily married. Have 2 kids - in elementary and preschool. I am scared to do abortion, and later regret it. I am terrified of the idea to have 3 kids! I don’t know how we will handle it. It’s too much work, stress and sleepless nights. I don’t
- How do you scale people? Hello Blind family, I need your help and experience to see if you have run into this problem before and how you solved it. For some background, I work in AWS ProServe and we are expanding the team rapidly and starting to really run into some growing pains. Unfortunately, the quality of engineers/c
- What Diversity and Inclusion mean to me Growing up in a multi-cultural home in East San José during the 60’s, I had no idea what diversity meant. My parents raised me to be color-blind, and to treat others with empathy, respect and kindness. In September of 1972 I started middle school in another neighborhood. When I invited Mike (one of
- 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
- 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 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
- vote [New-Grad advice] Snap vs Google I am using my friend's account to post this. I recently received offers from Snap (TC: approx 190) and Google (TC: approx 160). I believe both offers are standard offers for my location (The location is the same). I did not negotiate with Google because I did not want to share the screenshot of an
- Want to Quit My Job I've been having a lot of difficulty at work dealing with my manager... Let's call my manager Bob Swan for the sake of conversation. Bob is very manipulative and there's a lot of office politics - so much that it's psychologically distressing me and it's affecting my work output. It's also affectin
- 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
- Offer accepted I spent the past 7 years working as a contractor for different tech firms. During that time there were always a few months of gap between contracts. And then there moments when I just did not have the energy to work. Remained depressed and felt lonely for long periods of time. Before landing in tec
- 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
- vote [Seeking Advice] SWE @VC, take it or not? Hey guys! I am a recent-promoted E4 at Meta. Recently, I got a "non-traditional" offer from a tech-focus venture capital firm (5B+ asset under management). They are hiring the 1st engineer to join and automate the deal sourcing & diligence pipelines. They also expect this role to have 30% of time i
- 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
- 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
- PM looking for help deciding on an offer or to take a walk Hey friends, Was laid off two months ago (not performance related, was business/finance related). Had a cluster of interviews that didn’t yield what I had hoped. Only landed one offer, that I am negotiating on Tuesday, but looking for guidance on whether I should proceed or walk and start my search
- Uber / Lyft market share + growth Any Lyft folks here who can dispute this? Information article below: Source: Second Measure Data The once-hot ride-hailing business is cooling down—just as the two biggest players are thinking about going public. Revenue growth rates for the U.S. ride-hailing businesses of Uber and Lyft slowed thi
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- Linkedin front end interview general tips Not leaking specific interview materials, but personally have seen many people with many yoe failing the interviews because it exposed their severe lack of fundamentals, so want to share how you can better prep. I personally think frontend interviews are actually harder than your general SWE interv
- How to improve soft skills? Sometimes I’m not the most patient when dealing with people. I need to really improve my soft skills to advance. Sometimes I am too terse and emotionless. Sometime idc, and I am straight to the point with facts. Example 1 - sometimes I am talking to teammate, and he can talk forever and never shut
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 1 Long term prep strategy Part 1 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/YA2RKEqY Coding Part 1 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/ikvVrRXa Part 3 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 Part 2 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/rBrt5bV8 Edit 6: I will be posting the rest/comment
- Ultimate Guide to Buying House I have bought multiple homes. I always bought in a seller’s market (not by choice) and this is what I learned. 1. How to decide the offer amount: don’t use the listing price, comps, Redfin/Zillow estimates to decide your offer price. In a hot market, none of these are accurate and people who compla
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A good story about Microsoft Blind is full of horror stories and negativity. I admit I joined myself upon a colleague relating such bad but true thread about a person we both knew. So I have recently learned a happy ending story, I thought I 'd share some positivity here. Names, teams are not shared in respect to people s anony