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- vote Why haven't you quit? It appears that TC for senior level SWE new hires have gone up 20-30% in the past year. (If you're entry level, never mind.) That's serious FOMO territory here. That is the kind of increase that you won't see with a typical merit pay increase (mine is already cancelled out by the US inflation rate).
- vote Do Bay Area residents actually like living in Bay Area? Are you a bay area resident and are you living here because you like to live here or are you living here because of good job opportunities or other reasons? I’m wondering what would happen to the real estate market as more and more companies hire fully remote employees? I understand that companies w
- Wayfair Offer I had written a similar post a couple of days back, but got numbers today for a wayfair offer for l3 (down leveled from l4). Base - 192k RSUs - 1300 shares over 4 years Sign-on - 60k. I am undecided as to whether to accept it or keep trying elsewhere. I liked the Hiring Manager, but am also very ha
- How does hiring and promoting for diversity help a company succeed? In large US corporations there's an emphasis on hiring "diversity" candidates and promoting them to leadership positions. At Microsoft this year a very large percentage of interns are underrepresented minorities or women, so presumably there was some preference in hiring that occurred there. What'
- Crazy Amazon Interview experience I just went through Amazon interview loop for L5. One of the craziest experiences I ever had. I was getting about 5 emails from Amazon recruiters every week and I decided to entertain one for Practice🤣. Went through the Phone Screen. Was asked 1 question here - The easiest question I ever had to
- Apple 🍎 recruitment SUCKS big time and the pay is 🥜 plus 🍌 Here is the data point: Had 6 Virtual onsites with different teams resulting in 25 - 30 hrs of interviews: 3 teams recruiter never told me the results of the full panel Ghosted me! Shows how much they care to hire! 2 teams rejected me: atleast after a week I got a email 1 made offered but serio
- Don’t join AWS!!!!!!! I joined aws 1.5 years back. All the stories you hear are all true. I thought it would be different for me, no it isn’t. Very bad wlb, sickness, stress what not. Keep working at that small company, there are other companies with good wlb, don’t come here. Dont be the human who says we’ll see for ou
- link Azure Kubernetes service is hiring I am a hiring manager and I am hiring for Azure Kubernetes service, the fastest-growing service in Azure. We have numerous openings so that I am posting here to see if someone is interested. We have positions in Seattle/Atlanta/Denver/China/Remote We have openings from 59 all the way to 65. Here i
- Why do you care about hiring bars? I see hiring bars mentioned a lot around here. It seems people actually want to work at places that make you grind Leetcode for 1-2 months… my question is why? Do you actually enjoy having to jump through so many hoops to find work? I personally am put off by hiring bars. I want companies that pay
- PLEASE - Don’t panic during Solution Design interview People who come for design interviews. Don’t panic. It is no different than your every day conversation with your coworkers 1) Don’t dive deep too early. Your success doesn’t depend only on an architecture diagram. 2) You DO NOT need to cover everything. 3) Understand what is asked by asking que
- Microsoft hiring mediocre engineers Another rant post L67 here! This is something I’ve noticed in past 1-2 years, Microsoft is not what it supposed to be couple of years back and hiring bar has gone down dramatically!!! Due to the lower than the industry pay standards I haven’t been able to hire top talent from outside, whoever is m
- Interview with AtoB I’m currently going through interview loop with a company AtoB. The hiring manager is 25yo something who graduated university a few years ago. Is this the norm here? How is the company doing? Anything I should be worrying about before accepting offer? It sounds like 2nd tier company that recentl
- Stop circle jerking about “high bar” Your company isn’t special because it asks 4D dynamic programming. It’s just clueless on how to hire talent. You hire a 🤡 who can’t engineer a single thing but happened to study the useless pattern you asked about. I have hired multiple TT-rated candidates and all you need are medium level questi
- [AMA] Hiring manager - performance/digital marketing in Tech Hi all, I've been a hiring manager for the past few years, and work in Big Tech (apple, facebook, eBay, now Indeed) for all my career. I see lots of threads here on "how to break into tech". Ask me anything. I'll try to share both hiring manager perspective, and my own career/interviewing learnings
- Google Interview - This is how likely you will get an offer after onsite interviews (updated with larger sample size) This is an updated version of a previous post. If you have read the previous one, scroll down to the end to look at the new findings in this update. All stats are updated based on the new sample size. ****** I recently did a poll to collect data from Google on-site results. In this post, I would l
- No opportunities in SoCal? What is your take on tech industry in SoCal? While we have some companies down here, many are requiring to work on site once the world is back to normal (and some even today). Only a few tier 1 companies down here are actually hiring, mostly they have some small office here. I feel like this is n
- vote Are there any bonuses that recruiters get by low balling candidates? Title says it all. Recruiter buddies here please provide us some insight. We all know that most of you are not happy about lowballing candidates but still its very common. Why? Tc: 113k #tech #recruiting #hiring #interview #compensation
- My friend got fired from Facebook Just reconnected with an ex-colleague and found out she was let go from Facebook last week. She’s one of the smartest people I know and I’m shocked to hear that FB dares to fire people during this time. Like can they even hire anyone new right now?!? She was there for only 9 months and apparently di
- link Amazon 🔻10% AH after Q1 earnings Where's the guy who said AMZN will be the only company hiring in 2022? Oh here he is https://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-will-be-the-only-company-hiring-in-late-2022-ALVk4aQD #amazon
- Who’s hiring EM now? My org in Meta is being axed and all ICs/EMs need to find a new team. There are tons of opening inside but I have been here ~5 years and it’s time to look for something new. Whos hiring outside? TC: ~$500k ish (after crash) 3 YOE Management, 15 YOE exp. Location: Seattle. Prefer remote friendly
- Uber referrals #uber is #hiring and looking for smart and talented people to work here! If you are interested in working here please DM me #uber #tech #referrals #hiring #referral
- Why Coinbase offers are Non Negotiable ?? Most of recruiters negotiate the initial offer and consider the candidate existing situation (rsu, competing offers, other needs like immigration, relocation etc) and based on that help match the number for the successful closure but Coinbase offers seems rock solid numbers which are defined based o
- vote Is remote work future? I believe always be the first one to jump sinking ship. thinking remote is future now because of the reasons: 1. Remote work making talent pool larger (can hire from entire US why pay bay area folks 400k) 2. Unsustainable housing bubble which might/might not pop (bath cases are bad for non homeowne
- India compensation rundown - need your input [This is specific to India] The job market has been unpredictable lately. Amongst the race to hire talent, people jumping ships everywhere and with startups in the mix, comp ranges have changed significantly over time, and is difficult to track now. As such, many times people don't know how much t
- What to request for L4 SWE comp at Google I passed the hiring committee at Google and my recruiter followed up by asking what comp I wanted and saying that they would push for whatever I asked. I said I didn't really know what to ask for and they gave me some example numbers: base 165K - 175K equity 140K - 200K (I assume over 4 years) bonu
- Working mom/dad - call for help - what is your daily schedule exactly? I'm a single dad for a 1 year old. I find myself very busy all day doing regular chores and my work but effectively haven't achieved anything at the end of the day. I have a mortgage and cannot afford any help for hire. I'm looking for day cares but nothing available yet. This is driving me nuts an
- vote Should I join Google SWE 3? I am currently working at Amazon as SDE-1. I am expecting to get promoted in Q1 next year. I love the work and team here. I recently got an offer from Google for SWE 3. Google is hiring lot of candidates and the hiring bar has also decreased. I always wanted to be a SDE 2 at Amazon. I am confused
- link What happened to that kid at Amazon whose post about his manager blew up on LinkedIn? I know he eventually got transferred to a different team. What about the manager? Did he do the needful, in the end? Edit: since some of you missed it, here is the link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C?utm_s
- link Coinbase is hiring aggressively Coinbase is very much still hiring people to help us build an open financial system for the world! If you're interested, reach out to me or check out open roles @ https://www.coinbase.com/careers Edit 1 - Please add your linkedin profile to dm. Super helpful if you link your leetcode profile with l
- vote Work Laptops being given out right now For recent new hires, what did you get? Talking about large tech companies here TC: 220K
- Amazon - Payments Services - horrible PIP story I heard this horrible story from my friend yesterday and thought of sharing it with the larger community for their own benefit. Both of us think that Amazon is a great company to work for as long as you are choosing the right team and management. The guy I am talking about has been part of Amaz
- Dara, Nelson and Nikki need to go. As someone who has been at Uber for 4+ years and survived multiple mass layoffs (i.e. IPO, COVID, etc.) - I am very disappointed in Dara's recent email. A few times today, I've attempted to reflect on the intention behind the email and I'm stumped. If the intent was to encourage the broader team, Da
- vote Google VS Amazon I am in a very difficult position. I joined Amazon 2 weeks ago and recently received a hire from Google as well (team match is pending). Amazon offer: L5 TC: ~300k CAD Base: 195 CAD, RSU: 60, JB: 100k CAD for 1st yr, 75k CAD for 2nd. Google: L3 TC: unknown Recruiter told me that they won’t exactly
- Google interview process What is HC? I already have the team I’d be working on and am talking to the HM today. What to expect from here? Tc - $280k L6 Amazon
- Will I pass google HC? Here is is my feed back for google rounds Tech 1- Hire Tech 2 - Hire Googliness - Lean Hire. Tech 3 - Had audio issues So messed up the coding and explanations a little Lean hire YOE 1 What are my chances ? What is reasonable Comp to expect ?
- link Is Amazon really this bad? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C I hear stories here on Blind, but something about being anonymous makes it less real. But seeing a real person sharing this on LinkedIn is a different story. There could be so
- Intel giving big $$? Is it fair that Intel is giving big $$$ to new hires even college grads while people who have been here for years get 🥜 Tc: 135k
- link Hiring for Microsoft Azure - New Product I am building a new team at Microsoft Azure to lead the development of new Operational Intelligence products. You'll solve challenging technical problems at the intersection of Realtime Stream Processing, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. Hiring for multiple levels in Redmond and Atlanta: 1.
- From Uber layoff to Facebook hiring Used to work at Uber till the layoffs happened, just joined Facebook. Facebook is still hiring. DM if you'd like a referral or are interested to know what it's like here. #layoff #referral
- link Meta Hiring Freeze FULL MEMO So many posts, no actual memo. Pasted below. Seems to have been sent today (Wed, May 4, 2022) Source here (thanks to Wish on the cache tip): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fread-the-internal-facebook-memo-detailing-company-wide-hiring-fr
- Interntal Transfer at Qualcomm Hi Folks, In March this year, I applied for two positions within Qualcomm. For the first position, I started interviewing mid March through beginning of May and Manager called me early this week that they want me in the team and start the transfer process. For the second position, I started inter
- Unsure about offer Apple ICT6 So I am having this offer for Software in Apple, and I think they are low baling me based on what I have read here: Base: 260k RSU: 700k Hiring Bonus: 75k 15YOE experience. #apple #intel #google
- link If anyone is looking to move to Tokyo, I can do referrals Mercari is in super hiring mode. One of the top paying company in Japan. Solid culture and great WLB. Japanese not required. You can find current openings here. Feel free to DM me. https://careers.mercari.com/search-jobs/?dep=engineering #hiring #jobopening
- Why hire good engineers? I know this sounds stupid but hear me out. I used to work as a developer at a non-tech company in the Midwest. I joined Amazon three years ago thinking that I was going to learn to write great software. The code here is atrocious. Rediculously bad. I used to get paid 60k and the code was 10000000x
- Need BIE(Business Intelligence Engineer) Referral Working for Amazon but wanna move out because I feel only external hires get compensated well here. Instead of being a good performer for the last two years and getting a promotion, my pay here is <35-40% of what external candidates are getting. Not complaining about wlb since I love what I do, bu
- Will google give 550k for L5 Before the stock fall, salary was around 460k as L6 sde. If I make it through interview, team match and HC, can I leverage my current salary to ask for 550k for at least 2 years? I don’t have competing offers. Location: Seattle Happy with the team here but want to try something new. But if the pay
- Why does Snowflake have an $80b+ mkt cap on only $334.4m quarterly revenue and $154.9m net loss? Meanwhile they compete with AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, etc. What am I not seeing here? TC: 180k (after appreciation, recent hire) YoE: 0
- Ethical hacker to hire? Anyone here knows an ethical hacker to hire for a simple task?
- link MSFT March Hiring Events Let’s connect Would like to connect with fellow engineers (future MSFT engineers) to prepare together for the March hiring event. if you’re interested please comment so that I can reach out to you. thanks 😊 #engineering #Microsoft #software Guys you can join WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DFi
- Requesting referrals Hello kind community, I’m currently looking to switch jobs and would appreciate any referrals that you can provide.. I’m currently in SoCal and would like opportunities here or remote if possible. My wife is currently studying here so relocating would not be an option for another 2 years. Any assis