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- Professional networking on LinkedIn I have a LinkedIn account with more than 500 connections, some of them were my coworkers or classmates, the rest are either people that I met once or never. I used to check who has viewed my profile and check their profile, but don't check any more. Also used to review the feed and read some of th
- Would I get hired if I wasn't a user? Would I have any chance of getting hired at say, Facebook or LinkedIn if I didn't have an active account? Hell, would I even have a chance of getting an interview if I didn't? I'm a fan of both but I'm a bigger fan of my personal privacy and am afraid this may end up being a blocker to finding a new
- Need referral for LinkedIn Writing on behalf of a friend who don't have a blind account. Can someone please refer me at LinkedIn for SDE 1 role? Can't find any openings. Good at DSA , currently SDE 1 at Zomato. Previous internship experience of 1.5 years at top startups. TC - 17L Exp - <1 year
- vote IBM vs Alteryx Currently account executive at IBM looking to join alteryx. Is it a good move? How does Alteryx brand look on resume? Anyone that worked for both and willing to share insights? #ibm #alteryx Current TC 180k Prospective TC (not sure) Edit: it looks like more people are going from Ibm to Alter
- vote Why do hiring managers advertise their “Challenging projects”? I see on Linkedin that almost all people try to attract applicants by saying “we have several challenging projects in our group”! What is the point of that? The more challenging a project, the higher the risk of its failure! Of course you have the oppotunity to learn too! But only worth it if you w
- link Help Folks In Need My son and his friends have created a non-profit organization called Genuine Global Foundation. They have been doing projects in order to help folks who have been affected by COVID-19. One of the projects they are doing is getting LinkedIn Premium accounts and are distributing them as a tool for peo
- Are tech co CSM/ AM jobs good opportunities? I’m a senior enterprise account manager at a digital marketing agency and looking at getting into a real tech co. I’m seeing AM, CSAM, and CSM roles at Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Adobe, Oracle, Twilio, etc that seem like a good fit but are these real, contributing roles with growth potential and sol
- Message colleague on LinkedIn about work? Hi Blinders, I’m a new grad with 3 months of experience at a medium size startup (this blind account is my friend’s). I noticed that another new grad has been hired with the same title as mine but she is in a different team. My question is would it be weird to text her on LinkedIn to ask her about
- Referrals India Posting on behalf of a friend who doesn't have a Blind account - * CS from NIT * Working at a unicorn - 1.5 YOE * Interview Prep: Working on DSA (LC: 200+ Easy/Mediums 30+ Hards), Pretty comfortable with System Design * Current TC - 12 LPA Looking to bump up TC to match market rates. Open to refe
- Required - Referrals/Job in Accounting/Finance/Reporting Hi Blind Community, I'm looking for good job opportunities in the field of Finance, Accounting & Reporting. I'm currently residing in Sunnyvale, California. I have good industry experience and have managed various projects & teams. I would appreciate any job referrals/leads. Below is my summarised
- Microsoft Data Scientist, Experimentation team Interview Has anyone interviewed for the Microsoft Data Scientist role with the experimentation team? I have an interview coming up and just wanted to know how to prepare, areas to concentrate or any other inputs that would be helpful. Thanks so much. PS: I don't work for Amazon. Using my SO's account to av
- Music industry? Any advice on getting into music industry whether it be the streaming companies (Spotify) or big labels (Sony,universal, etc)? Early in my career looking for business development roles. Saw an account manager role at Spotify on LinkedIn but it got taken down after a few hundred apps in 3 days...musi
- vote Frontend Meta vs Linkedin Offer (E4/Sr) First year comp TC of meta is higher by 37k (TC 380k), but next year difference is minimal not accounting for refreshers which I assume would add 10k? to TC / year. FB / LI 21 PTO / ?? (PTO+DTO+OFF Days... hard to tell how much off days are at LI) = LI prob wins React / Emberjs = FB wins Tech stack
- Looking for referral ! Hello Blind Community! I'm looking for referrals to any company. I am interested in the following roles: Financial Analyst, Credit Risk Analyst,Business Analyst Qualifications: Masters in Finance,Bachelors Accounting YoE: 2.5+ Thanks! #finance#google #Microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #twitte
- vote AE role Gartner vs LinkedIn I am currently close to the final stages in talking to both. TC at gartner is about 60% higher OTE but with 85% less accounts. Basically one fumble at gartner could get ugly I'm guessing. Both are a combo about 60/40 renewal / new business. I know LinkedIn against Amazon is a no brainer but don't kn
- Trust repher.me for non-company emails? I asked for a google referral and repher.me told me somebody wanted to refer me but his email is in the form firstname_lastname@outlook.com. I searched the name up on linkedin and it is a google employee, but anyone could have made that email account. Is there any risk with this stuff? It feels sort
- vote Do you feel compelled to use your company's app? I use LinkedIn often not because I'm pressured (ok, subconsciously there is some peer pressure, maybe mostly self-induced), but mostly because I enjoy the product (got me multiple jobs through it). I'm now interviewing with FB and TikTok but I haven't really used any of the products consistently in
- link Discord for H Visa stamping date Hi, Creating this discord server, purpose of server is to report if a stamping window is available and also discuss about questions about stamping. Could not find any discord for this and i was part of a telegram group, which is OK, but search is a pain there also you can't ask any questions there.
- Relative Order of Difficulty of SWE Onsite Interviews From your experience, what is the order of difficulty among the following companies for L4 equivalent roles? Google, Facebook, Databricks, Doordash, Instacart, Snap, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Robinhood, Coinbase, Snowflake, Plaid, Stripe, Brex, Square, Amazon, Microsoft Rules 1. Commen
- vote amazon offer for L6 The team is in Seattle, but the recruiter gave me an offer in the Bay area to match the other offers (He said it's hard to create a Seattle offer to compete). The recruiter told me I can relocate to Seattle later without lowering my base/bonus/RSU. Is it true? The TC is about 630k, is it worth acce
- 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
- Interview Timeline Questions - FB and Google These are for non-tech positions in Accounting/Finance. I did my Google onsite virtual interviews on March 24 then my FB onsite virtual interviews on March 25. I sent my thank you messages via LinkedIn and followed up with recruiters only once last week. Silence. Given the current COVID situation, I
- Looking for motivated candidates for a new team I am hiring for a digital IP team in Austin, and as usual finding it tough to get right candidates. I got a few good guys, still have several positions. I can vouch that the culture in the team is going to be great as I come from a startup background and got groomed under great managers. I also saw
- Tech writing at Facebook? Saw a post for a Documentation Engineer - Technical Writer job post from Facebook on LinkedIn. I’m curious especially after reading a salary range on Paysa for this sort of FB position that blows away what I’m now making. Is a base salary of $140k plus bonus and equity totaling over $200k a year wh
- Please Help. Referral for SE Entry-level Hello All, This is my first post on the blind. I have B.S in Software Engineer from SJSU. Struggled for almost a year to land a job. Solved more than 150 leetcode questions on the main account and about 40 on the shared premium account. I went to a couple of final round interviews at some start-up
- 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 Advice on moving from AWS to GCP, MSFT, or others? About me: L7 at AWS. Specialist Sales/BD. TC $480k. 13 YOE. 3 years at AWS in BD and Sales roles, looking to move for better WLB (GCP MSFT pref; open to others on advice) Need help with following questions: GCP 1/ How are large/strategic customers segmented? Any Global, Strategic verticals or ac
- Noticed payout for the last pay-period not received after resignation There were some complications for my last timecard so my manager said he'll do an historical edit and so I sent him my hours in an email. On my last day, based on the numbers on my bank account, looks like I only got paid for my PTO payout+the week after the last payroll period( the one my manager
- India | Looking for referrals in PM role Hi, I have around 9 yrs of experience (3 yrs in PM roles, rest in strategy roles) and currently working with a startup as Senior PM. Looking for new opportunities and higher TC. I have experience working in Indian and SouthEast Asian market. Current TC : 60 LPA PS: never worked with Paytm, using
- Tech company tier list for the average person who isn’t in tech. Yes, this is another tier list and yes, I am cringe. The following is my tier list of companies for the average person who isn’t in tech (i.e. they don’t know much about TC/ interview difficulty). The likelihood of the average person actually knowing what the company is is also taken into account.
- mega backdoor roth same year different employer? Uber does not allow mega backdoor, however i am maxing out my PRE-tax 401k with them this year if i were to join a company that DOES have the after tax 401k and in-plan conversion (like let’s say...linkedin? apple? amazon? github?), does this interfere? because i already maxed my pre-tax 401k with
- Why is LinkedIn so shitty? I don’t understand how something that has been around for this long, with this much ubiquity, is still such a steaming pile of shit. The feature set is extremely buggy and poorly thought through. The search features are pathetic and schizophrenic. The design is so piss poor, you know that no one
- vote social media background check- should I worry? I’m pretty nervous about this social media check. I had a couple of people social media stalk me (googling my name, email, phone number, fb, insta, twitter, etc). It turns out that things that were most obvous were my github, linkedin, angel list, medium articles I wrote, events I spoke at, etc. All
- Roll 401k entire amount to Mega Backdoor Roth Have 2 questions. - When someone change job amount in 401k account (pretax), can this be moved to mega backdoor Roth assuming 401k amount is more than 100K - (Not related to above question) ,I do understand yearly i can have about 40K put in ROTH IRA, how exactly it works. Do i need to open a tra
- My fiance feels I spent too much time on blind and wants me to Uninstall it 🙃 Is anyone addicted to blind? My fiance thinks that I am very addicted to blind and wants me to uninstall it. He thinks blind is toxic and raises my anxiety levels through inflated TC posts. I am kind of addicted to blind and always feel I am underperforming as compared to other folks. Should I unins
- vote Best Paying Companies for ML/AI - < 5 YOE Which companies pay the best for an MLE with <5 YOE? I realize this may change as one gets more experience since smaller companies may not have as many staff/principal staff positions as big tech companies. Also, I have excluded fintech and hedge funds since they are on a different level. I am lo
- Principal Data Scientist @Walmart Labs to LinkedIn I am posting this on behalf of my husband ( he does not have blind account). My husband is currently talking to few recruiters at LinkedIn and they are considering him for Staff Engineer Roles. He has over 9 years of experience and has worked for big names <MSFT , eBay , AMZ etc>. is Sr. staff a
- Internal career development opportunities Which companies have the best internal career development programs? Can be technical or non-technical. For instance, I've heard LinkedIn and Adobe both have developer "apprenticeships" for non-traditionally trained engineers to get up to speed. Lyft has a Udemy account with a bunch of free courses
- Ideas and actions to stop the war I would like to create an open space for ideas without judgment but intention of stopping the invasion of Russian army on Ukraine. Only ideas, no opinions. Here are some examples: 1) Apple and Google to allow peace organization send push notifications to all Android and iOS devices in Russia with
- Amazon Alexa AI SDE onsite interview I am using someone else's account, so I don't work at Rubrik. I have an Amazon Alexa AI onsite interview coming up. I am a master's student in my final year in data science. In the past I have worked as a Strat/ Quant at Goldman Sachs for 3 years. I have not done a lot of core computer science class
- Countries ranked by number of tech opportunities I went on the LinkedIn "Jobs" section to search for how many "Software Engineer" openings there were in various countries. These were the 10 countries with the most openings: 1. United States - 107,162 2. India - 36,246 3. China - 27,235 4. Germany - 24,135 5. United Kingdom - 18,232 6. South Afric
- Good resources to learn ML? I'm an SWE with experience in Cloud and distributed systems trying to diversify my skillset and move to an ML based team. In my free time outside work, I've been looking up courses on LinkedIn Learning which is available for free as part of corp account, but there don't seem to be a lot of detailed
- New grad offer comparison Posting for a friend who is still in college and doesn't have a blind account. He has 3 offers (completing masters from a decent college, 0 YoE outside of internships). All Bay area offers for SWE LinkedIn: 145K base, 35K sign on, 200K RSU. SWE title. Google (Waymo): 150K base, 50K sign on, 180K R
- Referral for SWE Intern (MS Student) | 3yoe @ LinkedIn Hi everyone! I’m looking for referrals for a friend of mine who’s a MS student and left her full-time SWE role at LinkedIn where she was working for 3years before moving to the states. I’d highly appreciate any help, she doesn’t have a Blind account so posting on her behalf. Please comment if you
- link Indian LinkedIn Shitfluencer scam Hello, blinders! While some of you might be already aware of the situation, If you are tired of Influencers posting spammy posts on Linkedin and tired of this behavior. Ziya Mahammad (Swiggy, "Quotes/Reach++ wale bhaiya") -Archy Gupta (ServiceNow, Quotes wali "Didi") -Jaideep Prasad (Mentro, he jus
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- Help with Referral Help with Referrals Greetings Blind Community, Hope you all are safe and well. I am writing this message to reach out to fellow Blindians to seek your referral for job opportunities in Finance domain at Associate Level (Analyst roles also welcome). With 5 years of experience in Public Accounting
- Project Manager Job/Referral Help! Hello! Looking to get back into the tech industry into PM role remote or in Austin, TX. Experience: - (Almost) 2 years Project Manager / Account manager at a commercial real estate company. 75k TC - 1 year tech sales before this with various clients from NoSQL databases to security applications t
- Should i apply via linkedin or search for referrals I am applying for ML and new grad roles in various companies, right now i am just exploring opportunities on linkedin and haven't applied. I am confused while applying that should i find some referrals first and then apply or i can just apply for the roles without any referrals. And if i apply via l
- link Amazon might have a new max base salary but... ... I saw this on LinkedIn. My heart goes out to that person who's going through mental trauma and stress right now. #JusticeForJW ===== Hi LinkedIn connections! I am ready for my next journey with your company! After I received an offer from Alexa AI, I expressed my intention for an internal tra
- Companies which are least impacted in this coronavirus lockdown. Hi everyone, Just wanted to know what all sectors/companies will be impacted least and most due to coronavirus pandemic. Some of the companies, which I feel will be least impacted are: 1) Google 2) Facebook 3) Fintech sector companies 4) Microsoft 5) Apple 6) Amazon 7) Netflix 8) Walmart Affected