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- Sabbatical Been on team and company 4 years. I am thinking of taking a year off working internationally in an unrelated role, then coming back to the tech scene. I've done well, gotten promotions, and taken on leadership. I have had managers offer, without asking, to be a reference before they left their role.
- Help a boomer out would ya I have about 14 yoe, tc 250k as a SWE mainly in finance. I'm thinking about getting out of finance and applying to a FAANG etc. I have a few questions: - In my companies, we don't have the same kind of level structure so how is that determined come interview time? Would it make sense to apply for L
- Roast my Resume Hey everyone, currently a new grad trying to making it into the product space via APM programs. I don't have the traditional tech background, but I am doing my best to bridge the gap by learning how to code as much as I can. Already adjusted my resume a bunch from feedback, but the more the merrier!
- Lack of experience I have been working as a contractor since 1.5 years now as a software engineer; but till now I haven’t got a chance to work on coding/backend work. Most of my work involves around support or other UI or organization specific work. I am feeling stuck here. I started interviewing but couldn’t get pass
- Account executive/customer success roles in the bay area Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well during your WFH time. I’m trying to make a move to the Bay Area and was seeing if anyone had any advice on securing a role. I currently work as a relationship manager at an asset manager, but was looking to move in to tech company in strategy/operations. My
- vote On dev plan for past 30 days, getting worried Edit: not on visa I’ve been on dev plan for 30 days. Manager said I made progress but it’s not really enough, so I’m thinking pivot is coming soon. I’m concerned about finding new jobs. I haven’t applied too much but I failed my past two phone screens (and have two more in next few weeks). My ques
- Better to be employed when interviewing? Hoping to make a career change after working for Microsoft for 6 years. I’m wrapping up getting a masters in December. Juggling school and work is tough leaving little time to prepare for interviews. I’m worried that I will become an underpaid lifer if I don’t leave soon. Would my chances of gettin
- How bad is a 1 year gap? I'm at 1 YOE and had to leave my previous job last year due to personal reasons. Recently have been applying to SWE roles and am experiencing a high rate of auto-rejections. I don't think my resume is lacking since I had a high rate of landing the first interview in college. I have a CS degree from
- Recommendations on job profile I am a mother of two. Planning to resume working after 4 years of gap. I was a software developer in my last job. PHP was my primary skill set. To admit I am not very technical (i.e. not great at coding and not very sound at logic) but survived so far. I am thinking of having a job that is slightly
- Masters in CS after BSME? Worth it? Almost 4 yrs working at Lockheed Martin and just got promoted to L2 SWE. TC ≈ 140k. I got hired at Lockheed as a SWE straight out of college despite having a BSME because my resume matched a job description perfectly. I definitely want to continue in SW, but I feel like a I have a lot of knowledge
- Wait for EAD vs. Pursue MS @ Berkeley Hello people on Blind. Please share your thoughts on my situation. I'm currently on H4 visa. I was supposed to join my spouse on an F1 visa last year. However due to Covid restrictions in India, I had to defer my admission to 2021. We were on a long distance relationship for more than 2 years and
- Questions about Jane Street SWE Internship Currently deciding between JS and a return internship offer for junior summer, and I had some questions for devs @ Jane Street: - How are engineers treated? Is there a big front office/back office culture divide like in traditional finance institutions? How significant is the pay gap between trader
- Jobs for 53 Year Old Dad — Former Business Analyst My dad got laid off from Amway last year as a Business Analyst (TC of $110K) and decided to retire early. My grandma apparently bought like 1000 share of Apple in 1937, so he’s been living off her retirement. Now he’s considering getting back into the workforce, but since he’s an old boomer, he’s
- Options for H1-B transfer? Hi Everyone! I need your help! What are my options to transfer H1-B? I would love accurate and detailed answers. Here is the timeline- Came to the US on an F1 visa 10 years ago. Got H1- B approx. 5 years ago. Used H1-B for 1.5 years. Quit job and went back to India to start my own firm. It did
- Product Management and AI What are the AI/ML specific skillets expected from a person applying as product manager for AI powered products/SaaS such as Salesforce Einstein/clouds powered by it, LinkedIn Sales Intelligence etc. I have successfully completed few online courses related to ML and eagerly follow what is happening
- Help me quit unprofessionally Today's my last day. It's too late to give 2 weeks notice since my next job starts tomorrow. Blind, what are your creative ideas for quitting a job? I don't want to be a total jerk (more than I'm already going to be) but there is some leeway because, unless my current employer really tries, this ca
- Worst luck for job switch or bad decision making? I am a Software Developer at Virsec Systems India with 1.5 YOE and 0.5 can be excluded as it was a gap. And this story is about that gap. I was a software developer at Arista Networks per corona. I received a offer letter from Goldman sachs which was better than my compensation at that time. But w
- How do you deal with failure( especially when you worked at startup) Long story short, i worked at seed funded startup, the product that I was heading failed ( not sufficient differentiation, capabilities took too long to build and needed too much investment, founder decided to exit). In my current role, i feel like an imposter, double and triple guessing my decision
- vote Should I quit and prep full time? Graduated with electrical engineering degree and started working at Cisco as an embedded software engineer. Been here for 4 years. TC is 🥜 and work is boring. Interviewed and failed in last month. I never grinded Leetcode before or after graduating. Was asked embedded questions and operating system
- Unsure about my role and TC I am a cs grad with an adv. MS degree (mostly theoretical stuff) I had to take a gap year due to personal problems and the pandemic. When I got hired last year, I got an entry level role. After a few months I realized that other entry level people were actually new grads and were learning on the j
- vote background check at facebook who reviews background check at big tech? is it hiring manager, recruiter or people ops? I left my last job in December but didn’t report it on the resume and haven’t brought it up in the interviews so far. I intend to be honest in the background check of course. Will this get flagged during backgr
- About to get laid off I’m in my sixth month at FB, and I’m really struggling. I’m on a project that’s going badly for a variety of reasons, and my lead and I don’t get along at all. I feel I’m doing as well as anyone could given the nature and parameters of the work, and I feel my project lead has a deeply unrealistic v
- vote Thinking of quitting Thinking of quitting my job in order to focus full time on preparing for tech companies outside India. I really want to experience life out of India while working there. If I am able to focus my full time in preparing I believe I have a good chance of clearing the interviews. Another reason for qui
- How bad is it to quit a job without another offer lined up? Long time lurker and not sure if anyone would have any advice. Currently working as a Business Systems Analyst (think functional/implementation consulting for ERP software). It’s fine at best, but everyone is being forced back to the office in a few weeks so the remote flexibility which was the one
- Microsoft New Grad - Travel Across the World? I've got an offer to work at Microsoft - I've heard about the WFH thing. Is it possible after a year of working there, with managerial approval for 100% remote, that I can travel around Europe/Asia as a holiday for 6ish months and continue working from there? I want to travel but don't want the res
- PM seeking PM roles Learned today that my (6 months so far) PM contract at Oculus is ending in 4 weeks as contractors now require specific project and scope. I support multiple projects and no FTE heads open yet. Is anyone on the Puget Sound Eastside (preferred) looking for Senior TPMs? I spent several months unemploye
- 8-12 month gap on resume after graduating I graduated during summer 2018 and initially took a few months off to vacation, with a plan to find a job during the September new grad recruiting cycle. In mid September my Dad became extremely ill and it was looking like he wasn't going to survive. Long story short, I'm thankful to say that he ev
- vote How do Employers and Recruiters view you if you did Open Source Work Full-Time for a Year? I got laid off from Covid and I got a good paying offer from Amazon in Seattle (3 yeo and 225K). However, I'm not too excited about the work as I got placed to a random team, especially the tooling (I've worked with better tools). I'm more excited about doing open source contributions that are more
- I’m a junior SDE with ~1 years of experience and quit my job due to burnout a few months ago Hello, I graduated in May 2019 and started working in the fall (got a full time offer from internship). So long story short, I was crazy burnt out mainly due to covid (literally didn’t see anyone for months lol). Wanted to take a sabbatical for a couple months but my manager said I’d only get like
- Right time to switch for a Front-end Dev in his first job? I am a front-end developer working with React. I joined my current company in July of last year (Bangalore office) and as of today I'm in the 8th month. Prior to this, I worked at a startup consultancy between Dec '19 to Jun '20 (5.5 months). This brings my current cumulative professional experien
- How to start coding career Folks, need advice. I have been a manual QA engineer for several years in a tech company. But I never got a break in automation. Finally, I quit my job and started to take programming classes. I did all three - Python, Javascript and Java. Python is my favorite, and JS is a close second. Java class
- Quit before having another job? Hi I am working in a big Wall St investment bank as an SDE. ( Using my wife’s login here, as did not want to give away the employer’s name) Yoe: 15+yrs, TC :200k Completely bored at work. No scope of growing, no chance of getting any interesting work in the future. No chance of TC increasing much ei
- Shift from big tech to top startup (YOE < 3). Advice? I accepted an offer from Google about 2 years ago as a new grad, and rejected offers from FB/Snowflake/Robinhood/Databriks and many others. Now I feel like a completely a moron. I never realized that joining pre-IPO companies can be that rewarding (considering the risk is not that high). The work a
- Sharing Google Team Match Experience Past two weeks I've been through 5 team match calls with HMs. I know this is nowhere as many as others, but it wouldn't hurt to add more data points. First of all, you can't prep TM like onsite or phone screen. In fact, you can't really prepare at all. The questions are all over the place, so you'r
- vote Should I quit before my first day of work? I am about to start at “Company A” in a few days but I’m not excited about it. I’ve heard very questionable culture issues about the company only after I signed. Me dumb I know. I’m interviewing with other companies but won’t get an offer before my start date at Company A. What should I do? Benefit
- What if I'm not a neither a "pure" software engineer nor a "pure" roboticist? My BSc and MSc Degrees not strictly focused on CS or robotics. In fact I'm mainly in the robotics/embedded area and I happened to do a ton of C and some C++. Started appreciating Python a lot (coming from a MATLAB/Simulink background). I love designing algorithms that make robots move, and writing
- Does industrial espionage exist between Fangs? Say FB wants to collect intelligence on Googles internal infrastructure down to the code level, or to know what Googles new products are in then works. Is it feasible for fb to send one of their employees to interview at Google, say a E6 to an equivalent position at Google. So to boost his chance
- 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
- Is it a bad idea to take 1 to 2 years break? I am in late 30s, mid-level management role, close to 500k tc. Recently I cannot find the purpose of the work I am doing now beyond earning money for my family (single income family). I reall want to break this golden handcuffs, but I have no idea what to do instead. So I thought about quitting the
- Quit job. Expecting a baby. Interviewing. A rant about my situation. I recently quit job to join my spouse in the Bay Area. Initially considered pursuing grad school. Got admits to top private and public colleges in the Bay but decided it's too much time and money for obtaining a student work permit (OPT). After months of waiting, I finall
- Nurse Practitioner seeking medical affairs role Hello, This is my first first post on any "public" forum...EVER. I am currently a Nurse Practitioner (NP) working in home care/transition of care for a start-up now being wholly acquired by our primary capital venture (UHG). I am seeking to move into medical affairs with any industry- pharma or med
- Fuck Dana-incorporated interview I really had a bad experience with the Dana Incorporated manager interview. I did not have a recruiter screen before this round The recruiter was not aware of my skill set And he did directly forward my résumé to the manager and the manager agreed to interview me. But when interviewing me it looked
- 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
- Meta/FB vs HFT vs Hedge Fund in London - which offer to take? I am struggling to decide between my top three offers, which are for Meta, a Hedge Fund (think Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc.) and a London based HFT firm (you'll likely know the name but want to protect my privacy). The offers are: Meta (E5): TC ~£203k (109, $420/4 years, 15% bonus), plus £
- Is this wrongful termination??? I am on H1B and my wife has a dependent H4 visa with employment authorization document(EAD). Her EAD is literally dependent on my H1B status and it renews as and when my H1B is renewed. In Pre-COVID times, it used to happen either simultaneously or with 1-2 weeks gap. My wife is/was employed with a
- pls help, should i accept this offer? So I was a Bloomberg contractor (Jr python developer) and my contract ended about a month ago. it was an 8 month stint and i started applying to jobs about 2 weeks ago. I am not able to do questions past Leetcode Easys (The bloomberg contract interview was very easy) so I am not able to crack full t
- Taking a year long break at this stage of the career? Extreme Burnout/Depression. Hi, I am a guy with ~8 years of work experience in software engineering and I am extremely depressed and burnt out at this stage. I have tried lots of different techniques for the past 3 years(like meditation, exercise, diet change etc.) that are mentioned all over the internet to deal with this bu
- 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
- Raised millions in startups switch to MAANG Product tldr I have been wanting to get into MAANG or tier 2 companies as a product manager. Not sure how my experience carries over into the large enterprise tech vs the startup world. I am curious to hear from people that have made the jump. Unfortunately non of the startups popped enough to be on anyones
- need advice Having one of the most difficult times of my life in work and family. To start, I used to love my day to day job. I built few projects from scratch and successfully delivered to customers at scale. I was passionate about it that I found myself working on the weekends very happily. I was really happ