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- link Ppl working at FB, IG and SC, do you feel guilty/ashamed of yourself? There’s tons of studies coming out showing that social media makes people unhappy and contributes to mental illness. For those of you working at FB, IG, Snapchat (and to a lesser extent Twitter), do you feel guilty/ashamed of your impact on the society? At this point, it’s really no different from w
- Badass Boz What does she actually do at Uber? Based on how she portrays herself on Instagram it seems like she’s spending most of her time hanging out with celebrities in Davos and building her own celebrity. Not saying this is a bad thing given how positively she’s perceived VS Uber’s awful perception proble
- link I'm a FIRE blogger/podcaster retiring in my 40s. AMA 08-19-2020 UPDATE I will no longer be checking this AMA, so if you have any new questions, please reach out to me via the "connect with me" options below. I had a great time chatting with all of you! Thanks for the fun experience. :) About me: - I’ve been heavily involved in the FIRE community for
- Contingent worker on resume Hello, Sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but just wanna double check I’m not doing anything wrong. Also would appreciate advice from other people who’ve been in this situation. I’m technically working for a WITCH, been doing so for the past couple of months. Have been contrac
- ask for ux portfolio review! hi, would anyone be interested to review my ux portfolio? (esp those who currently/previously work at FAANG) I took a big bet in applying to facebook and instagram but super curious on how would they see my portfolio thanks in advance :)
- vote Do you send goodbye emails on your last day? How many of you send goodbye emails to a bunch of coworkers on their last day of work to stay connected on LinkedIn or whatever? example: Beloved colleagues, Today is my last day at Sony. I had a blast working here and I value the time I had here sooooo much even though I literally sent out my no
- Interviewing at Facebook as a non-user I am about to do my on-site at Facebook, and I am concerned about how exactly I will answer the questions about why I want to work there, as I am currently not a user of Facebook or Instagram. Can anyone from Facebook advise on how I might approach these questions? I'm not trying to game the inter
- Answer “why do you want to work here”? How do you all answer the lame question “why do you want to work at xyz company?” in an interview? For example, someone in their 30s is unlikely to use snapchat. If they interview at snap and get asked this question, what are they supposed to say? Similar examples are meta (noone uses facebook anym
- Fb team selection Got intern offer from fb and in process of team selection Possible selections are Growth Ads and business platform Instagram Infra Core apps Messenger Can Fb ppl provide me how it feels to work at those orgs?? I am thinking of abp and infra at the moment Thank you
- Does all the animosity towards Facebook come from a place of jealousy? Let’s face it, Facebook employees enjoy the best perks and highest pay. Their products are the most ubiquitous. Doesn’t matter if you have an PC or Mac, iPhone or Android you probably use a Facebook product. If I talk to a nice looking woman at the bar and tell her I work at AWS, she has no clue w
- Weird "Blind" hate for Meta/Facebook From the last few days, most of the hot posts in my feed are about Meta and its stocks, and how even folks from companies like Amazon or Apple are bashing it and speculating the fall of Meta (lol). Im sure most of these blinders are having 0-3 yoe or they are just too much active on Blind then the
- Workplace by FACEBOOK feels like facebook by FACEBOOK.. from 10 years ago I used to like using FB 10 years ago. The way we use workplace now seems a lot like how facebook was used back then; only it feels a lot more forced than like a thing to be doing. I mean, it's like ship a feature write a post, change a gk write a post, have a question write a post. WhatsApp and Inst
- Snap work culture Can anybody talk about how it is working at Snap? Blind has a negative sentiment on how they hired a lot of Amazonions and that ruined the culture. Is it just because they're bringing in Amazon practices or they're incompetent? Recruiter reached out to interview and they're working on something whic
- Work / Life Balance at F What is the work / life balance like for engineers at Facebook? Is there any balance? I always had the impression they were pedal to the floor all the time, but I wonder if that has changed as the company has grown up. Does it differ by group/division? How about at subsidiaries like Oculus or Insta
- vote Aspire to do UI for consumer products Hi fellow frontend engineers, I have two years of web development experience, mainly using react + typescript. I have general understanding of how things work, but only have actual work experience implementing UI features. Now I have two offers: 1. one is more towards full stack (api for payment se
- How much do the LinkedIn "Entrepreneurs" make? I'm referring to those LinkedIn profiles with a (fake) connection of 10k+ and a headline of: 🏅Entrepenur, Author of <XXX>, Digital Marketer, 💰💲Cryptocurrency Partner, Sales Programmer, Innovative Salesman, Motivation Speaker, etc. How much do they make? There must be a reason why they keep p
- What is it like to work at a Facebook acquired company? I recently started working at a company that’s in the process of getting acquired by Facebook. My employer will become a Facebook company just like WhatsApp and Instagram. They’ve notified one of the departments that their jobs will become redundant in 12-18 months after acquisition. I haven’t been
- Facebook design culture compared to Google I'm a former UX Googler, who may want to rejoin Google or another FAANG company. Facebook has a few interested openings (including IG) but I've heard mixed reviews on WLB and culture. Anyone on here willing to give insight? Especially with how remote work is going as some of the roles have options f
- When is data too much data? I’m currently working on a personal project where I try to flag Instagram bots to understand why the platform didn’t ban them yet. I already collected about 20.000 profile with their public data, photos and know I can easily go for 150k-200k. I know that the more you have the better it is but is th
- GCP interview tips TC 325 GCP have changed their interview process. For customer/sales engineer roles they've added white boarding and leadership questions instead of building a technical demo. RRK & Googlyness questions are still there but no more GCA What type of white boarding scenarios should I expect? Are they
- Why does Facebook need so many people? This isn't to be facetious or insulting, I'm genuinely curious. There are ~40k FB employees, but it doesn't seem like the scope of work to keep FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger all running warrants so many people. On top of that, they apparently are leasing out huge swaths of offices space aroun
- Need motivation Day starts at 10. Need to login at 10:30. All day long sitting,eating,meetings. Doesn't feel like working as no one cares. Give some random update in scrum and that's it. In the same posture clock shows 5:00 PM. Eating another lot of junk food and then to bed. Need not to mention 24*7 insta,whatsap
- Facebook iOS team with opportunity for promotion? I'm stoked to start Facebook bootcamp soon. What to expect in the bootcamp? How does the team match work? Is it easy cruising or intensive to prove yourself in 6 weeks? What iOS team has the best opportunity for quick promotion to E5 at Facebook with not too crazy WLB? I'm thinking Instagram since
- How do you react if things don't go as per plan? I plan many things (Ambitious) Like finishing office work, LCing, basically any personal or professional gaol for that matter. If I don't accomplish I react by watching YouTube, Eating, Smoking, Drinking, Instagram, Sleeping etc.. These thinks are overall affecting my life. Stuck at same job for 4
- My FB Sr. PM interview questions thought would help others I had the sense and execution interview yesterday. Product sense questions 1. Product feasibility analysis of a lending App. I focused individual borrowed over institutional borrowers for the MVP, and suggested both individual lenders and institutional lenders on the lending side. Emphasized on re
- How much preference falsification is there in tech right now? Political signaling seems to be at an all-time high now. Everyone expects to see that stuff on FB/Twitter/IG, but seeing it subsume LinkedIn has been shocking; I have always thought that personal politics should stay out of work as much as possible. As someone who generally has dissenting views and
- FB bros, what are you working on? Started interviewing with FB recently. Still going on. Wondering what kind of projects FB guys are working on. Apparently the current products do not seem to be very cool. Facebook - pretty much dead? None of my friends uses it. Instagram - Doing fine but teens and the early 20s are getting away qu
- How does global video application work? Like TikTok and FB? So I was watching the scaling instagram video on youtube and also working through the system design questions. I am not able to confirm how does video metadata work for global audience. Scenario: Video uploaded in US Video viewed in Entire world. Now for better availability and low latency of com
- FB DE teams Can someone from FB shed light on DE teams ? I’m contemplating on which team to pick ? Someone from fb responded(see below note) this on a different post but it doesn’t answer my question. I’m not coming from a coding background. Which DE team is not coding heavy and still has good WLB ? Note: If
- Grokking instagram system design doubt In Grokking's instagram system design, it says "One of the most important requirements to create the News Feed for any given user is to fetch the latest photos from all people the user follows. For this, we need to have a mechanism to sort photos on their time of creation. To efficiently do this, we
- How do you focus when WFH? I recently started a new job and it isn't as consuming as my role at Aptiv used to be. Unfortunately that has resulted in me slacking quite a bit. My manager isn't on my toes yet cos we're still ramping up our team but I realize I need to step up before it's too late. I start my day on time and am
- How to get more youtube subscribers ? Cracking the algorithm? I just recently started a YouTube channel, and wanted to get more information about how the YouTube algorithm works. I have a couple of directions I can take my channel in terms of content, but I want my content to also allow me to eventually get more subscribers and maybe even earn some money. Si
- FANG obsession? What is this obsession with fang? I’m sorry but these companies are destroying the world and you all want to be a part of it? I don’t think you all realize how POWERFUL your skills as a software engineer are. Please think about how these companies are shaping society. Facebook/ Instagram is direct
- Dealing with Harassment -- asking for a friend I have a friend working at a larger tech company and she told me about some issues she's facing dealing with some guy coworkers who basically shamed her for some of her pictures on her instagram, basically insinuating she was a slut for dressing the way she does....Does this happen at any other comp
- What happens to engineers at startups that get acquired by Facebook? 1. Does a new offer letter with different terms get drawn up? 2. How does the startup’s structure meaningfully change? Or does it just become its own self contained bubble? 3. Do layoffs and purging of talent happen at some point? And if it’s not “if” but “when”, then when? 4. How can internal mobil
- Instagram locked my new dev account and their "help" section is an endless loop of death It took me years to finally get the nerve to admit I want to make a radical change and go into tech. I don't use social media for anything besides a little online business here or there Decided this was how I would ever use social media, got the perfect name, signed up on Github etc. So that I can
- Citadel/Instagram/Netflix choice EDIT: Choose Netflix Recently got offer in these three. Netflix is in bay area, the other two will be in NYC. TC is similar but with different stuctures. Citadel HF: backend developer position in hedge fund department. Comp is heavy on bonus. Instagram: E5 with top TC with structure you can expect
- vote Facebook or Twitter Ok Blinders I’m sure I can guess how this poll turns out but want to consider more than TC. WLB is important when you have a family. Interviewing skills improved and landed senior at Twitter just missing out on staff. Then today FB confirmed E6 offer, numbers pending. So what are the wlb thoughts.
- What is my FB recruiter expecting from this question? I got a mail from an FB recruiter today considering me for an SWE role. In the mail they have asked one of the questions as: What types of projects are you excited about or would like to work on? We can't guarantee that you work in this area but we would love to know. Being an outsider I won't be
- Pinterest L5 engineers, how much is the comp range? What is the comp range for base and RSUs Pros: - people seem to be very nice and genuinely like each other and like working there - still seem like a small company and a lot to do. Particularly, if they monetization then it would be massive - genuinely interesting problems there (and small enough
- Why does Blind consider FB/G better than AMZN/MSFT? Amazon is the largest public cloud and largest retailer, has innovated in Drone technology and supply chain. Microsoft is the consumer desktop giant, produces leading Office suite and is the second largest public cloud. Microsoft Research is considered to be #1 in the world. Google is a search eng
- vote Mobile Snap vs Meta (FB) offer Hey all, received the following 2 offers and having some trouble deciding. For reference I'll be a mobile engineer at both, so that may play in to the day-to-day at each company. Offers are at their max and no more negotiating can occur. Meta (E4) - 370k TC with sign-on , 295k TC without sign-on 1
- How to teach a teenager some programming My 10th grade neice told me that she’s interested in learning programming, possibly as a career. I said I could teach her some programming while visiting for Thanksgiving. I was planning on live coding in Jupyter notebooks a simple user registration system with passwords stored using a hashing func
- FB Referral, but not even a phone screen? I am a PM who was referred to two product roles at Facebook/Instagram. My referrer said an interview was guaranteed, so I expected a recruiter would at least give me a phone call. To my surprise, they sent me an email saying they have reviewed my background and chose not to move forward. Is it abno
- Instagram wants me to pay for promotions I have a drone photography page with 1.5k followers. I used to get 200-300 likes on my good photos and 100-120 on my okayish photos. Around mid April, there was a point where everything just switched and my best photos get around 90 likes now. Nothing changed on my side. I even tried to post with be
- Jealous of Instagram fashion / style influencers I am a female, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, YOE: 9. Was in India earlier, recently moved to US. Ever since I started earning, I have been very interested in fashion, especially dressing up. I feel VERY happy and proud when someone appreciates how I dressed up. I never spent a lot though, m
- Wish - a fraud company exposed Wish just raised my interest because it pays good at par with US based positions in Canada even for < 2 YOE. Apart from the money, I don’t see anything positive about this company. Product is awful, I think customer reviews are fake in the app as I saw reviewer having same review for all the pr
- Google PM interview - Technical part preparation tips? I'm interviewing at Google for a general PM role (not for TPM). The last interview is going to be technical. I don't have CS background and I can't find a good source of information for how to prepare to it. From the material Google suggest reading, it seems like "System design" questions may be a
- Getting a dog? I'm thinking of adopting a doggo. I'm 21 and about to start my first new grad job. I have 0 experience with pets except a fish when I was young and following dog instagram pages lol. I know dogs are a lot of responsibility, but I was wondering what your experiences have been with getting a dog and h
- Losing interest in technical subjects For the last few years, I have been working on highly technical projects, such as compilers and distributed systems. Lately I have found it difficult to concentrate on my work and I no longer have the drive to perfect my work and dive deep into technical subjects like I used to. What caused this ch