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- Google L3 New Grad Negotiation I recently passed Google interviews and will be negotiating over my offer tomorrow. My offer is for SWE L3 (New Grad). I have done 4 internships in the past from local big tech companies in South Korea as well as in uni labs and that’s 15 months in total. Would it be possible to use this to pump u
- How is the Entry-level Cloud Architect role at GCP Professional Services? Hey everyone, I had a call with a Google recruiter last week about a role. I have been working as a Software Engineer at IBM Software Labs since close to 4 years now. The recruiter mentioned that the Cloud Architect role is a Post-Sales role and that this role would be based on Big Data domain. But
- Looking for Referrals Looking for referrals for New Grad or Entry Level positions. Interested in referrals for following companies. Already have referrals for Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Not really concerned about TC right now, would love to join a company with good learning opportunities. LinkedIn Twitter Apple Airbnb
- 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
- SWE internship referral for fall 2020 Hi all, I'm seeking fall 2020 SWE internship at Unicorns or Big 4, especially at: Linkedin, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Uber, Uber ATG, Dropbox, Splunk, Okta, Airbnb, Slack, Cockroach Labs, Datadog. I'm currently a rising senior at a top 20 CS school in North America. As for work experience, I have SW
- SAP Product Owner Want to understand how this PO role at SAP Labs differ from traditional PM roles? Is it too Technical, requires customer engagements, consulting, solutioning, heavy in project Mgt? Also, in terms of org level, which level this translates into? How do we compare this to an entry level L7/late L6 Ama
- FANG research internships during PhD I got a CS PhD admit from a college which ranks 25 in the US. The professor I'll be working with seems to be a productive guy with over 20k citations. Next summer I want to do a research internship in a FANG company (hopefully FAIR / Google brain) We see that FANG don't discriminate when they hire
- vote Money VS Green card in 4 years Hi guys, I am confused, please help. I just graduated (P.h.d) and have an offer from Google ( L4 ). On the other hand I have another fulltime offer ( Govt research lab ) that might get me a green card (EB1B) within 3-4 years. The dilemma is between money and green card. 4 year job at Google means
- vote Join Google before or after stock split? Joining as L5 and still have yet to team match. I have until September 12 before my Meta sign on bonus fully vests, so I'd have to pay back a prorated amount if I join now. With the announcement of the stock split, I'm not sure if I'm going to lose out on a bunch of upside if it splits and then rise
- Advice needed. Keep getting near misses. Google: Apparently a single person in HC killed my offer. Recruiter strongly recommended trying again in 1 year. Walmart Labs: manager liked me, but director said I was strong L3 but not L4. Team is only hiring L4s. They never asked me to write a single LOC— interview process was strange and level
- Referrals Hi, I'm looking for referrals for ML engineer/Applied Scientist roles. Currently have 5 years of experience and looking for a role in FAANGMULA+ or any product-based company. LC 200+ 5 YOE TC:200k #referral #Google #Facebook #Linkedin #Netflix #Stripe #Square #Doordash #instacart #Apple #Coinbas
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- Google versus Facebook - Wireless/Cellular Internship I have internship offers from Google and Facebook Reality Labs in their wireles teams for next summer. Google is the Power Optimizations System team and FB is cellular firmware. Would like to know what people think is the better opportunity ? I’m an international student and would probably want to r
- Facebook knowledge for Product Manager interviews? Well, Google and Facebook (Reality Labs) both came out of the woodwork with Product Manager roles and siren-songed me into applying. 😁 Had screens and now onto the loops in June. Facebook recruiter says many questions will be about Facebook, so to get familiar with Facebook newsfeed, stories, event
- Reaching out for inspiration Hey blinders, First off thanks for creating this community! I am a fresh grad and got offers from Walmart labs, Cisco, ADP, and another small scale company. Considering to join Walmart labs or small scale company But I see a major shift in my mindset reaching end of my masters. Always thought big
- Learning Azure worth it? I currently work in front end for walmart labs and am interested in gaining backend experience. They primarily use azure services as the backbone of their cloud infra. I have been told by a mentor friend of mine in faang (20 yoe) that azure isn't worth it. Though I disagree considering my specific
- List of Washington DC / DMV / NoVA good pay tech companies that aren't exclusively government work / security clearance? I am looking to find out about tech companies in the Northern Virginia, Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland (DMV) area that pay decently and don't exclusively do government work requiring citizenship or security clearance. I put what I know below, will edit based on comments. I group them based on
- Feel like a loser w/ low TC I graduated Summa cum laude from a well known university. I had high expectations for myself and my career. I ended up joining Raytheon and have 3 YOE. I busted my ass off for the first 2 - mechanical and electrical engineering lab work + project management + process improvement stuff. The past yea
- Leetcode bar for companies I am preparing for interviews and wanted to get some idea as where do I stand. So will appreciate if someone could clarify leetcode bar for different companies. I am measuring it in time required to solve different complexity leetcode problems and I am dividing companies in different categories Lik
- Breaking into ML at google I’m at Google right now on a non-ML team. I’d really like to break into an ML team. I have several papers and patents in ML. I joined google to be able to break into an ML team as I believe the ML here is world class but I could not match with an ML team (I’m sure you know how hard team matching is
- Companies that pay > $400k for Senior I'm currently IC5 (two promotions above new grad) at Meta (Reality Labs) with 3.5 YOE earning ~$420k TC. Assuming Meets All ratings and no promotions, once I hit the 4 year cliff I estimate my TC will drop to around $400k, and the subsequent year it will drop to around $360k. This estimation factor
- vote Are Sr+ backend engineers a dime a dozen? I'm currently a L5 embedded specialist in Google. The specialty is nice in that it's extremely easy to break into divisions that need my niche (e.g. AR/VR, Self Driving, IoT, etc). However, there are a couple of downsides that I see relative to my peers in backend: - Niche specialty means that I'm
- Advice for Breaking into Tech My fiancé is currently working as a researcher at a University lab but wants to break into tech, especially since we moved to San Francisco. He has an undergraduate in neuroscience which is what he’s doing research in. I wanted general advice on what is the best way for him to start out. Should he d
- Why does every SWE want to go into ML, and the ML want to go into SWE? Is it funny? I'm ML researcher by training and want to be more of a SWE. My reasons are that SWE skills open up more job prospects and pays as well. Also not sure if ML is a hype/bubble. I see SWE as safer in the long term. Granted I'm not the superstar researcher from Lecun/Bengio/Hinton lab, so
- FINAL ULTIMATE SWE Company Tier List Ordered based on various factors (compensation, engineering talent, WLB, prestige, etc). Tried to keep the companies in each tier ordered but if they are close together its fairly equal but something at start of T1 > end of T1. Let me know if you have any company to add. TC: 240k YOE: 0 - not a
- Pay progression of a UX Researcher I’m currently working on my PhD in Human Factors and am lucky to be involved with a research lab that trains students to be UX researchers by working with companies (i.e., Honeywell, Dell, Google). Many of my peers end up in the Bay Area working as Senior User Experience Researchers a few years afte
- Amazon is fucked up Sharing a friend's experience. One of my friends recently got an offer from Amazon and what a shitty offer for L6 in the Seattle area. @Amazon recruiters stop being cheap like Bezos and if you want to hire the talent they pay what they deserve. Bezos minting billions by doing shady shit like competi
- How to choose ex-colleagues from whom to get a referral I am going to be reapplying to Google this summer. I have several former colleagues who work there and who can refer me. I have several with whom I did a PhD, one was in the same lab and several others were in the same doctoral program. I got my PhD 6 years ago, so it was a while since I worked with
- Looking to transition from Healthcare sales to big tech sales Been an AE at McKesson for 1.5 years and have gotten really bored. I do sell some software, but mostly lab devices and supplies. Territory does around $3million/year in revenue. The work isn’t challenging or interesting to me. I want to work on more innovative things. Looking to transition to a sale
- vote What are some low stress companies with good TC? I left a really stressful team at Google, and took a few months off to recover mentally. I also have mental health issues that I needed to address, but I feel like I've made enough progress to come back to work now. I'm definitely not stable enough to work for Facebook or some startup where people w
- vote Do you think your PhD was worth it? Most of my friends are now either tech leads or senior engineers at Facebook and Google. Since I graduated PhD in 2018, here I am, working at L4 and I don’t think I have what it takes to be L6 yet (and in the near future). Moreover, they got to work between 2012 - 2020, the best 8 years for stocks.
- New Grad Referrals Hi everyone, Hope you have a great start for 2022. I have a friend looking for SWE new grad positions. He’s a very smart and hard working guy (we work in a research lab together) so I want to help him out by looking for referrals. If you’re kind to help, please comment below and we will DM. Thank
- Seeking Robinhood Referral Hi everyone, I am super interested in working for Robinhood. I enjoy the Robinhood product and I use it almost every day. The mission of the company also resonates with me a lot. A little bit about myself, I am currently interning at Google as a Software Engineer Intern. My project mainly involves
- Didi Labs a good choice for a new grad? So I got an offer for DiDi Labs (their self-driving division). I'm broadly interested in computer vision and SDC, but unfortunately I couldn't get offers at other SDC companies. One concern I have is that I'm not sure if it'll "look good" on my resume compared to FAANG. One nice pro about DiDi is t
- Amazon L5 ML scientist offer Hi everyone, I have an offer for ML scientist role at Amazon Lab, the role level is L5, and the team seems to be a great one, having many smart people and professors, doing cool research in ML. I’m just confused about Amazon leveling. I’m already a senior level, with 3.5 years of industry experienc
- Data Science and ML - Referrals I'm looking for FANGMULA+ and startup referrals for Data Scientist and Machine Learning engineer positions. I have a STEM PhD, work for a national lab. Started here at the height of covid last year when most of my interviews were canceled (really bad timing and this was a safe bet), now ready to mov
- Referrals/suggestions for software role in LA Hi all, I'm currently working for SAP Labs in Bay Area with 2 years of experience in full stack web development using MEAN. I get outstanding evaluation every year and had experience of being a tech lead for a dev team of 3 people. I decided to move to LA/Orange County in two months and are activ
- Google GHip and FSA I'm joining Google on Monday next week. I'll be selecting the GHip PPO plan, which has a 10% co-pay for office visits to the doctor. I'll also be contributing the max to HSA, but do not plan to use the HSA balance until retirement. Instead, I'll be relying on my FSA contributions to pay for ongoing
- vote Do you agree with this Linkedin post From a Linkedin post: I never understand why is FAANG(Facebook , Amazon , Apple , Google) so popular among freshers. There are companies like 1. Salesforce 2. Atlassian 3. Adobe which have equally well or better paychecks and amazing work-life. There are companies like 1. Tower Research Capita
- Got laid off. Need help with referrals Hi All, I got laid off last week. Using a friend’s profile as my official email is already locked. Based out of India and was working at an outsourcing firm. Was working at a Non-Tech role focused on Corporate Strategy, Process Improvement and Product Management. YOE : 5 years ( 2 years post MB
- Looking for learning 📖 Hey guys! New to the Blind community and thought you guys would know this the best. I’m a Boston based SWE (platform side), graduated with my bachelors like a year and a half ago and I’m looking for good studying resources. I am not super into video learning, kinda makes my brain turn off from just
- Looking for a referral at LinkedIn, Ola, Uber, Goibibo, Facebook, MakeMyTrip, PhonePe, Flipkart Hi everyone, I am looking for a refferal for LinkedIn, Ola(ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd), Uber, Goibibo, Facebook, PhonePe, Flipkart, Walmart Labs for a SDE 1 position. Looking for location at Bangalore(preferably)/Hyderabad https://repher.me/r/-M-_gYVc0IzDuPAshliA I am adept in Data structures and Alg
- Any Googler can help me with Winter host matching? Hi Googlers. I'm in google host matching for a while now for winter internship coop. The internship is going to start in January, so I have like 2 to 3 weeks to find a host. If anyone can help me find a host, it will be pretty nice. I've been evicted out of my apartment recently and living in my f
- link [India] Thread of new grad SWE TC in India use Guys please post the standard new grad offers from the best companies in India By TC I mean first year compensation ie First year signing bonus + first year base + first year bonus + first year stocks. Google 32 LPA Sprinklr 36 LPA (They changed base from 25 to 30 recently) Microsoft 22 LPA (13 +
- Numerical Modeling PhD (NOT a SWE). Any teams at FAANG in need someone mathy to tackle tough modeling problems? Hey Blind. PhD with strong numerical modeling background here. Have largely worked in computational mechanics but am absolutely qualified for roles that extend beyond that. Think strong in numerical formulations and solutions with ODEs, PDEs, integral equations, probability, stats, etc. I code
- Getting Hired at a BigCo with an Oddball Resume I spent my 20s working on passion projects. I founded some startups, studied some science, volunteered at labs, even wrote a book. Now I'm 30 and I need to get a corporate job, and my CV looks... Odd at best. That said, I have a ton of desirable skills - software engineering, data science, project m
- Scale AI and it’s pitiful reality I had recently interviewed at Scale AI for Sr research position and boy was it a sad experience. Total 5 onsites, tech difficulty was on the easier side, 3 tech rounds and 2 behavior type of rounds with 2 engg directors. Tech rounds went well, two of the interviewers were smart and humble, one guy
- What Exactly Happens when On call? #engineering #software #swe #amazon #facebook #google I've often heard friends working at Amazon saying that they are on call. As someone who works in a no on-call env, I never understand how on-call works. What exactly do you do in on-call? I mean at VMware, if a customer has an issue, there a
- link Need Help in Getting better TC and QOL Hi my fellow blind members, I am working in a FinTech bank, India as a Sr. Software Engineer having 9+ years of experience in Java and related Backend Tech Stack and involved in Designing and Architecture phase of couple of Payment Products as well. But i feel i am severely underpaid. Also WLB suck
- Looking for ML referrals Hi guys, I am currently working as a data scientist at a startup in Canada but would like to move to the US for better career opportunities. I'm looking for referrals to large companies or cool startups for Machine learning SW Engineer or regular SWE in the Bay or Seattle. I already have scheduled