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- system design interview. gap i am going through the grokking sdi course. there are a few storage options, mostly NoSQLs like hbase that i don't have much experience other than read about it. am i expected to know details? there are other areas i use daily like message queue/lb/circuit breaker.....so i can give solid examples o
- FB and G interview scheduling gap What is the suggested approach for scheduling FB and G interviews? A week gap is fine or give few months gap to improve else there is a chance I might lose on both interviews.
- Gap inc Strat role interview help I’m got a interview call for Sr. Manager Strategy at Gap inc. Anyknw from Gap team idea hows the inteview going to be - how many rounds, Type of questions etc... #corpfinance
- [India] career gap repurcussions on interviewing I'm an SDE and am being asked to leave my position due to performance issues. Given my situation I'll need some months to prepare for interviews. Is the career gap going to be a big red flag in order to land interviews/offers. I do think I've good cause to justify the personal time off. What is the
- vote Interview before or after extended gap Few years out of college; planning on quitting PM job to take a 6-9 month gap to live abroad. Trying to plan ahead reentry to job market. Best course of action would be: 1) Interview now and secure offer (potentially 9-12 months out)? 2) Interview while abroad or once I return (with no current job
- How much gap I can take before scheduling amazon phone interview I cleared the online assessment for qae role and now I got an email for scheduling phone interview. How much gap I can take before scheduling this phone interview? I have heard people taking 3-4 weeks for preparation. Is that fine? I do need sometime to prepare. Please suggest.
- Interview with GAP, Inc. as Manager - Analytics role. I'm in the final stages of interview process with GAP, Inc. for the Manager role. Could you please share some insights about what to prepare for the technical round if anyone has ever interviewed for this role? That'll be a great help! TC : 120k #e-commerce #retail
- PSA: Interview at Baby Gap for high TC. Gap has really low TC! Baby Gap is rad with super high TC. Tell your Gap recruiter you’ll only consider Baby Gap positions if you want high TC! Edit: Adding TC since that one bum insisted. TC: 489k Offer at Baby Gap: 900k Offer at Gap: 300k
- Gap between Intuit phone screen and onsite Interview (Virtual) ? What is the typical gap between Intuit phone screen and onsite interview ? Is it ok to ask for more time to prepare - how much is an acceptable ask ? #tech #intuit #intuitcareers #interview TC - 135K
- Trying hard to get into interview prep mode after long gap. I'm trying hard since last couple of weeks to sit down and study to prepare for the interviews. I'm unable to get a good start. It's been 6.5 years of gap. Any advise for people like me? Would like to know what worked for others in similar situation. #engineering #software #swe
- 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!
- Folks who prepared for interviews after a gap, what strategy did you use ? My team got shipped off to India and I have moved to a boring organization which basically does configuration changes and no real design , code etc. I want to move to a better company and a better product. I haven’t done leetcode in past 2 years, what strategy did you guys use to practice leetc
- vote Low TC/Salaries at Gap inc in SF. Are titles/positions super inflated here? Worth interviewing? Yes or no? Recently interviewed for Sr.Director role at Gap inc in SF and got badly low balled @ TC < 300k for sr.director role? TC is close to some of the sr. Engineer roles in SF. How is the work culture? Looking for place when I can make a decent impact than bad politics. Current tc. ~300k
- How bad is it to have a couple month gap between your last job and interviewing for a new company? I'm getting very burned out and feel like I've been constantly getting screwed over for getting a promotion. I'm considering turning in my resignation and taking time off for myself and to study and LC for interviewing. #tech #amazon #sde #health
- vote Have you ever quit a job without another offer lined up? If you did, what were your reasons, and how did things go for you? Did you get questioned during interviews about why you had a gap between jobs? If so, how did you answer? TC 150k
- Amazon offer! Applied for a L6 Sr.TPM role at amazon. Did great on interviews and was recently offered the role. BUT their offer was for an L5 instead of a L6. I asked why I was down leveled if I did so well on the interviews. Recruiter mentioned it was to make sure there is no technical gaps and recruiter ensure
- Background Checks Does your company’s background check look into your resume gaps (and if so, how do they do so)? I worked 7 months at a company to get me through financially during the pandemic but it’s irrelevant experience and quite frankly I hated that time there so don’t want to touch upon it during interviews.
- Can I post my resume for review I have 7 years of experience but hardly make any interviews, moreover I am a self taught frontend engineer, currently doing a masters in computer science. I have gaps in my cv and failed startups . May I post the cv here for feedback? Edit: adding resume
- How PIP impacts career of Amazon employee in India? What if they are not able to clear interviews and get a job? How will the career gap impact?
- how to prepare for interview? Don’t you forget? I never done interviews that well but always got in lucky. For example I can automate the things with logic but never was able to learn all programming concepts. This is because I forget it completely after 1 month gap. After 1 week gap the code that I learnt is gone from memory. I kind of feel lazy
- Are Facebook virtual onsite interviews back to back or have breaks in between? I heard interviews are 45min each. Wondering if they usually schedule them back to back with no gap, or do they have 15min gap between each (making it 1 hour each)? And is it usually 4 people or 5?
- link The Empathy Gap in Tech (Quilette) http://quillette.com/2018/01/05/empathy-gap-tech-interview-software-engineer/ Probably a controversial article. Discuss?
- 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
- Gap in employment history Was past gap in employment history (upto a year) an issue for you at your green card interview?
- Interviewing again at FB Failed onsite 6 months back. Was wondering when can one interview again ? Is it a year or 6 months gap ?
- Partner was undocumented, recently got work permit. Looking for full-stack engineer position. Obviously has a gap in employment. How do address it best during the interview process? Anyone was in similar situation?#career #tech
- vote How much gap b/w jobs without affecting your job search? Hi, I have recently resigned from my job due to some unavoidable circumstances. I'm now looking to prepare for interviews full time & then switch company. I'm little worried about the gap i might have on my resume without being employed & its negative effect on my job search. TC - 37 YOE - 10 My
- Google recruiter wants to talk one day after my last on-site interview. Is this a reject? I had a one week gap between first 4 on-site interviews and the last 5th one. She said she was attempting to gather feedback fast because I had other interviews (other companies moving fast). However if she wants to talk to me one day after my fifth interview, does this mean I have been rejected?
- vote Have you ever left a company in less than 6 months? Have you ever left a company you joined in less than 6 months? If so, did you include the company on your resume when you were interviewing? If so, how did you explain your reasoning for leaving in such a short period? If not, how did you explain the gap of time on your resume? #tech #softwareengin
- 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?
- No word from recruiter after final round of interview I recently interviewed for a position at discover financial. For the final round interview it was around 3 hrs with 4 different people. After the interview i followed up with recruiter with couple of emails with decent gap between one and other. But there is no word from recruiter that I am selected
- Gap tech salary I am interviewing in few companies in SF Bay area for a director role. One of the company I have interview lined up is GAP tech. What's the total compensation looks like.
- Do amazon intern interviewers meetup after every interview? One of my intern amazon interviewers seemed to know the story I had shared in my previous interview. I had 2 interviews, spaced out with a 30 minute gap between them/ Do amazon intern interviewers talk to each other between interviews? #swe #intern #tech
- 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
- Recommended courses/training for TPM technical knowledge Hey folks, Recently I had my first TPM interview at FAANG. I didn’t clear the first round because I couldn’t answer the system design and architecture questions well. That made me realize that I have a gap in my technical knowledge. So I am wondering if there are any recommended training or online
- Gaps during employment Q for blinders: I had an approximately 9 month gap in my employment history 4 years back - combination of travel outside the country and some short consulting gig. TOE: 14+ But does that gap show up in background checks ? I'm trying to see how to explain it off - have an offer coming shortly. TC :
- 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
- Re-enter job market after a long gap Asking for a friend. How do you enter job market after a long gap (immigration, kids etc)? In addition to practicing problems in LeetCode, do you have any suggestions on how to build resume, contact recruiters and get an interview? TC: 340K #engineering #software #swe #interview
- Recent Interview Results for Senior and Staff Roles In Q1 of this year I interviewed with 6 companies, here are the results and rough offer numbers. I don't want to try and calculate refreshers so I'll just provide 4 year average without refresher, and if it's significant then also the year 1 number. DoorDash - interviewed for Staff, offered a downl
- 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
- Emailing answer after the interview? I haven't interviewed in years and just bombed a technical interview due to knowledge gaps. I am interested in this company. I'm planning to read about all the topics I was asked about during the interview that I didn't have much insight about. Should I email my interviewers to thank them for making
- 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
- Interview process fb london e5 How many days do we get to prepare for System Design interviews after the coderpad round? I mean how much is the gap between 1st round(coderpad) and 2nd round( system design)?
- Gap compensation Does anyone know how much gaps pays? My friend graduated this year (MBA) and cleared the interview. He is yet to hear about the compensation but was curious to know how much they offer.
- WFH has one advantage: we can interview with another company It seems WFH has one big advantage, we can join a company first, and then even within the first couple of months, interview with other companies. If we have to go to the office, it is harder to find a one hour phone interview gap with a computer, and even harder to have a 5 or 6 hour gap to do an o
- 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
- 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
- Gap between FB phone screen and onsite ? What is the typical gap between a facebook phone screen and onsite interview ? Is it wise/possible to ask for more time to prepare - how much is an acceptable ask ? TC - peanuts - 24 LPA #facebook #facebookphoneinterview #facebookonsite
- vote Rejection from Uber India I got feedback from Uber Hr, That problem solving was really good, but there was a gap in system design considering the scale at which Uber works. But I had a great interview with System design interviewer. It seems like a generic response, What do you guys think?#engineering #software
- Product Analytics / DS at FB or Google, as a lead or higher? I would like to pay you for a mock interview. I get asked to interview for Product Analytics Lead roles at G and FB, unfortunately I have bombed each of them 3 times, at various stages in the process. Since there is never any feedback provided my prep based on pure introspection isn't helping me identify the correct gaps, which apparently are