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- Gap new grad hiring process A friend of mine just got a Hackerrank assessment from them. I am asking on his behalf. Wondering what level the questions will be. Also, what is the rest of the process like? What type of behavioral questions? What type of technical questions? Any LC? If so, what level? Also, how is the Rotational
- If I take a gap year, will FAANG still want to hire me? I’m at 2 YOE, thinking of taking a gap year to start and focus on my side business. I’m currently interviewing for G, Fb, A. Feeling pretty burnt out. If I end up failing all my interviews I’ll be thinking of taking time off to focus on my side business. If I come back a year later ( after cool off
- Was anyone asked to fill in a form including any gap year and expected compensation before Google hiring committee? Hi, Was anyone asked to fill in a form including any gap year and expected compensation before Google hiring committee? I have hardly found the cases. is this normal?
- vote Google HC (L3) chances? Just got off the phone with my recruiter: he said he was pretty excited by the feedback from my on-site, but there were still some gaps (so won’t be able to skip HC). I think at least two LH votes. He’s sending my packet to HC asap; he said his manager also was excited about the feedback? Is this
- Lying about employment dates in order to take break between jobs, bad idea? Say I want to quit and take a ~3 months break before I start job searching again (burnt out). When I start job searching, is it a bad idea to act like I was still working during those 3 months? I've read employment gaps are red flags to hiring managers
- Why is a gap in experience frowned upon? As hiring teams or manager, do you actively scrutinize or have a negative impression when you see an employment gap for a potential candidate? It isn't like the experience they had is all washed up. Given the trend in tech at least, job may be in a different domain altogether anyway with nothing co
- 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?
- Bought a new construction and the quality is disappointing I spent so much money to get poor quality KBhome. There are tons cosmetic issues including scratches, dings, and questionable design. There are probably structural issues but I wouldn’t know. Customer service is simply covering the scratches or dings with paint and patching up gaps with pieces of wo
- Wayfair hiring in Canada Toronto? Saw wayfair is hiring in Toronto for tech roles, are they actually hiring someone? Any pay gaps from US? Did they lease a building there? How's the pay for the L3 engineer role?
- Quit to leetcode I'm thinking 2weeks to take a break (travel) and take 2-3months to leetcode and start interviewing. Would the gap indicate a red flag to the hiring companies including small to large corporate? Reason why I want to quit to leetcode is I'm getting bullied at my current company. I tried all my option
- Disappointed with Canadian market Immigrating to Canada for better immigration and life, on H1 in the US. Highly disappointed with the Canadian market, I have been interviewing for 2 months actively and have cleared final rounds for a few companies but no company is ready to go more than 200k TC with 160-170k base in CAD. My profi
- link How is Microsoft able to attract/retain the talent? The levels.fyi data shows a significant gap with other big tech. Assuming that MSFT hiring bar is also high / tech employees are of good quality, how is MSFT able to retain the talent?
- Employment Gap How is the gap in employment construed ? My wife has around 3+ years experience on the Business/Program Management side but has a couple of yrs gap due to lack of work authorization. She recently got her EAD but hasn’t been getting any calls lately. I believe it’s due to the current situation but
- Popular posts on Amazon Channel 1. Boils my blood to see new hires make so much 😡😡😡😡 2. Onboarding Hell, 2 YoE, $375k, (no one helps with onboarding and folks are commenting no one should given that TC, OP should require no such onboarding) Many internal employees are rages with the new pay bands being offered to external hi
- Fed up and thinking of leaving software engineering Non traditional SWE. I am strongly contemplating leaving tech. I have a 1.5 year gap on my resume followed by 1.5 years at MS after which I got PIP. Another 8 month gap followed by a startup that went downhill. Joined another startup for 10 months and was just recently PIPed and given severance- the
- 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
- vote Longest jobless you have been until getting FAANG as your next offer I recently got laid off from my first full time job. F startups. I hate startups and worst mistake to join startup as a new grad simply for getting experience ans TC.. Having said that... I am curious if anyone got laid off and their next job was at FAANG or any well known places..and how long was
- Is a Gap in Employment a disaster? Recruiters and Hiring managers. Is a Gap in Employment a no go if you are in one of the following careers? Developer Program/Project Management Tester Analyst Data Scientist Recruitment Ops What if someone takes a year off to travel? Or for a personal reason? Or from burn out? Or tried another car
- vote The gender pay gap? If women performs equally as men, why are women only getting 70% compensation? Also, if unjustified pay-gap is true, why dont all corporations hire 100% women and save 30% cost on payroll? Are corporation so blinded by sexism that that are willing to lose billions on profit?
- What does Jane Street look for? Hey everyone, I’ve applied to Jane Street online in the past and didn’t pass the resume screen so I’m curious on what skills or attributes they look for in experienced hires so I can try to see where my gaps were. For context: I have experience as an ML engineer at Twitter where I worked on the hom
- Taking 1+ year(s) off for childcare How easy/difficult was it to get hired from companies after taking a long break (over a year) for childcare (not including parental leave)? Did employers question the gap? Share your experience!
- Meta E5 Hi, I’m an SDE3 at Amazon, promoted in Q1 2021. My TC right now is 270k. I took interview with FB and I was between E5 and E6. Unfortunately due to some gaps they are able to offer E5 position. I’m still waiting on numbers but recruiter said he will be requesting top of the band. What could those
- What does this mail from Google recruiter post interview mean? Info needed for moving candidature forward: Name, cgpa, internal refrences, expected comp, promotion summary, gaps in employment, achievements etc. Does this mean my interviews went good and they are moving to HC? Or does this happen irrespective of performance? TC 39lpa YoE 1.7
- Mid-career sabbatical? Has anyone taken a year ‘off’? I want to leave my current job, but in looking for a new one it’s made me realize I want time off to pursue hobbies and other interests. Have you hired someone even though they have a gap? I’m concerned about the resume gap etc. I’ve been working for 20 yrs straight
- Google India interview prep Google India is on a hiring spree. Anyone who has interviewed recently care to give some tips? I have asked for a month's time to prep. Planning to solve some LC medium and hard + grokking system design. Should I get LC premium? What's the time gap between problem solving and system design round? Y
- vote Real talks: To make Amazon earth’s best employer I think leadership is drunk. Some changes which were made recently were nice but those were only duct tape. Still pay disparity between internal promos and external hires is a lot. 1. I think internal promos should be rewarded heavily with refreshers to make up for their hard work and to bridge th
- Recruiter/Hiring Committee asking for A LOT of background info - Is this normal? My packet is expected to reach hiring committee Thursday. Along with this update, my recruiter asked for an indepth work & education history as far as 10 years -- list every promo, identify all gaps between jobs, reason for leaving, etc.. Is this normal? TC: 220k #google
- vote Is women👱♀️ life easier compared to men👦? Except vulnerable to forced sex, pregnancy, periods and child birth. Do you guys think women get easy way in every other aspect of life ? 1. Dating life. (I don't think this require explaination) 2. Marriage. (No pressure of earning more) 3. Physically fit. (Just eat less) 4. Workplace.
- Finding Job with Gap in between Asking for a close one. He has a gap of 2 years in between handling personal issues. Now looking for jobs again. Has started preparing. Anyone willing to hire such candidate. YOE - 6 + 2 Years MS from US TC - 19 Lakhs in the last job Location Preferred - India
- 6 month umemployment gap took a 6 month break after i quit. is this a concern for Hiring manager that i didnt highlight that gap in my resume? Could that be taken as me lying on my resume? i signed offer letter but that offer letter is contigent upon a good background check. #engineering #offers #tech
- Google Rejection based on previous (3years ago) interview feedbacks? I interviewed for Customer Engineering - GCP on Sep 2020. My interview feedback was Strong hire, Hire, Hire across RRK, GCA and googley. had Hiring manager as my GCA interviewer and he showed strong interest. Shocking that Hiring committee rejected my citing 2017 interview feedbacks (No hire across
- New in VP Role - Senior execs pls help What do I need to succeed in a Vice President role? It’s a pre IPO co. and I have the expertise they need. Proven success in 5 out of 10 things they ask for this role. Will hire the right people to address the gaps. Also enjoy and I’m good enough at people management. What else will they consider
- Pay gap - Your thoughts Company wanted to hire two managers. They hire candidate 1 for 200k. Candidate 2 was offered a salary but the candidate provided 2 other offers for slightly hire. The Company decided to offer 220k. Candidate 2 accepts the offer. The candidate 1 and 2 were hired to do the same thing and have the same
- CPT&OPT for onboarding at Meta I am an international student and planned to graduate in June. However, I just got an offer from Meta, but the hiring manager hopes me to onboard in late of March. I haven't applied OPT yet. Is it possible if I can use CPT to onboard first, and then transfer to OPT without a gap? Will meta allow thi
- Gap between jobs? How much time did you take off in between one FAANG job to another? I'm moving from Google to FB and the recruiter and hiring manager don't mind if I start in late August. Should I give notice to Google now and take the whole summer off? Does that create a weird resume gap? Other advice?
- Min h1b salary 130k$ bill tabled. Is this true? What are the implications? Dont think every company in US will pay NCG that much? If so, wont that create inflation gap between 2017 and pre 2017 hires? As it became mandatory these days, dont hijack the thread with ur witty trolls.
- Minorities should receive diversity bonus Since there has been a pay gap for minorities for years, it's only fair that a diversity bonus as a way for companies to pay reparations for years of discriminatory hiring/promoting practices. Not really interested in white male commentary, this post is for minorities to unite to demand diversity b
- Unemployed for 7 months - How does that affect me i quit my previous job due to stress and I've been trying to get a job as a PM for 7 months since, How would I answer questions like what have you been doing since and why did you leave ? How does that gap affect my opportunity and preception of my applications by hiring managers or recruiters ?
- Need help with office politics! I have a peer who joined before me. He is not qualified for the work he wants to do (hired for different skills) I got hired for the skill gap. He takes my work and paraphrases it to management and cross functionally. He also has a bunch of management's ear. How do I deal with this?
- Referral request for Business Analyst(remote) I am trying to help my wife to find a new job. She has been treated unfair at her current job and doesn't feel any motivation to continue at her current job. She has 3 years experience in the USA as business analyst and has worked in India for 5 years as SAP BI-BO systems engineer. She does have 2 y
- Advice to advance from tester > sde I have a minor in CS and was hired as a test engineer. What are some resources to fill in the gaps in my knowledge to work my way up to dev? Basically I did the first two years of a 4 year CS degree.
- All this fuss, but no concrete action on H1B abusers With the initial intention of H1B to be a highly skilled visa, why does the government not impose restrictions or penalize the companies hiring contractors on Visa, when it's clear that it's just a workaround to circumvent the visa intention, almost enabling abusers to continue leeching the system..
- Should I mention short stint in hire right? I got offer from one of the faang. I previously worked at a mid size company for 4 months. I didn't include it in my resume. In background check can I omit it as well? Would 4 month gap be investigated by hire right? Haven't brought it up to recruiter as well and they never asked. Any advise from
- Help: mentor wanted Hi I am a non CS major hired into a fast paced, date driven, high performing team as an SDE II. I am underperforming pretty badly due to gaps in my CS fundamentals and not being able to handle the workload given to me. I am looking for some guidance/ mentorship on how I can close these gaps. I know
- Exhausted, need help It's been weeks and months of sending out applications, and now I am exhausted. As much as I see recruiters posting they're hiring... my messages and emails gets unanswered. When there's massive layoffs.. people are always willing to help but how about people who need take a career break whether it
- Pay Transparency What does it really do? Does it close the pay gap? Or does it just make people lie to make more money and inflate the (mostly) crappy talent that floats from job to job? And why do we insists on transparency from candidates and then down level them and low ball them saying that they aren’t at our “s
- Would companies hold it against me if I were to take a year off to cool off? #burnout I am very burned out, but am worried it will be harder to get a job when I want to return. I know from past experience that many hiring managers have complained about "gaps in the resume" for candidates. Is the HR and general tech industry attitude the same? I am over 40 years old, wit
- Why dont tech companies revise pay for existing employees? In almost all companies except those who give refreshers, pay lags after few years in a company compared to new hires even if one is promoted. While i know that if new employees are given salaries based on current market situation, otherwise companies can't hire quality BUT It doesn't make sense
- negotiate up level at FB??? my friend got an offer from FB and recrutier put her onto another round of interview for E5. the E4 interview was all positive. now recruiter told her that she has gaps to be an E5 so they will hire her as E4 is she accepts. she has 8yoe in a non FANG company. anyone has successfully negotiated in
- Microsoft Background Check I recently received an offer from Microsoft and accepted it. It’s been 13 days and the hire right background check still shows a blue check mark and the ‘gap standard’ is yellow flagged. I briefly worked on a research project on the side in my school and I’ve listed it as work experience. It’s star