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- Meta Program Manager Role Hi, I'm new here - I'm looking for guidance on what to expect from a program management interview process at #Meta and to get thoughts on the initial offer I'm a current product manager with 5 YOE, really like being in product and a bit apprehensive about moving to program management from product b
- 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
- List of companies to conquer. Apple Tower Research Uber Directi ( / Media. net / Zeta / Flock ) LinkedIn Microsoft Amazon Adobe Cloudera Twitter Flipkart Yahoo Rubrik Salesforce Slack Oracle MindTickle Paypal Rippling Goldman Sachs Intuit De Shaw ( / Arcesium ) Walmart ServiceNow Xilinx GitHub Nutanix InMobi NortonLifeLock Coden
- I’m a Cresta AI swe. AMA and were hiring full stack and ML Hi, I saw some questions in blind about cresta, and would be happy to answer them. A little bit about us: we’re backed by a16z (Ben Horowitz), sequoia (Carl escenbach), and other great investors. We were originally a spin out of the Stanford AI lab, and sebestian thrun is the board chair. Our cor
- 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 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
- Take a contract role at Meta or keep trying for direct hire? Been trying to make the switch for way too long now. 5 YOE mechanical engineer interested in Reality Labs. For about 6 months now I’ve been doing work on the side from my Boeing job doing AR/VR hardware work for a startup, and now that I’ve added it to my resume and LinkedIn I’ve had some agencies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 3rd party recruiters are misrepresenting me Couple of recruiters are harrasing me on linkedin. they claim to represent bytedance. they are some 3rd party company from Beijing. They got my resume saying one thing and are now circulating it without my concent to all the Chinese companies. Now I am not even sure if they are an actual company.
- link Negotiate hire rank, But Failed?! What can I do next? Talked with the hiring manager to ask for a higher hire rank, but the manager vetoed all my arguments, and even made some untruthful statements. What can I do? Specifically, my arguments are(I did not provide arguments in this details of course) 1) Levels.fyi info, Senior Staff at Qual, Intel
- 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 +
- 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
- AMA - How I got multiple offers from FAANG and Tier 1 companies I see a lot of folks asking about interview preparation and topics to study for the SWE roles at FAANG. Here's a list of topics that I studied and managed to get offers from Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Linkedin, and Amazon. If you study these topics and once you develop a knack of identifying patterns an
- Would you recommend being a PM at these Big N companies? Title. Companies such as FB/IG, LinkedIn, Spotify, Airbnb, DBX, Square, Verizon/Oath, Uber, Salesforce, Twitter. TL;DR: They're a junior at uni trying to transition in PM. They're interested in your exp based on the title. Also, any feedback for transitioning to PM based on their general info below
- List of gem 💎 companies Not super well known (the likes of FANG) Great WLB (<= 40h, no or low on call). Good culture, no stack ranking, nice people, family friendly. Ok salary, enough to live but not for the TC chasers. I’ve heard good things about Expedia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc. Can you share your gem company?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- vote FANG obsession Why so much hype to get into #fang ? Nowadays everyone on LinkedIn just share FANG interview success stories. I found Google took advantage of this company pride culture and started down levelling people. It’s another wrote learning and rat race like SAT, JEE and other competitive exams. Nobody uses
- Updated TC thread of new grad SDEs in India Hola blinders! I'm compiling a list of new grad SDE TCs in India. I know this has been done before but the other posts haven't been updated in a while and quite a few companies have increased their TCs this year. Please comment and add to the list and rectify any errors in the data. PS: please n
- 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
- Good Paying Data Scientist / ML Engineer positions in India I am currently working on building ml models for AMEX and pay here is peanuts. I am a top performer among the team with managers looking to add me into their teams. But since I joined as a graduate fresher from IIT, there was no chance of TC negotiation. Now I am looking for a change and am research
- Established Tech Company Landscape / Comp Groupings ---------------------------------------------------------- BigCos GAFAM (US): Google, Meta [Tier 1] Apple [Tier 1: AI/ML / IS&S / SWE / HWE; Tier 2: IS&T] Amazon, Microsoft [Tier 2] BATXJM (China): Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu [Tier 1] Xiaomi, JD, Meituan [Tier 2] -----------------------------------
- To the Amazon guy with the humiliating experience You didnt have to delete that post. A coworker who openly humiliated you in front of the entire open floor environment due to some supposed inferior skill set is a shitty deal to be sure. But I want to leave a word of encouragement here which I hope others find should you think your situation is h
- How Long To Getting Interviews So I'm from Palm Springs, CA and I attended not a no-name but not super elite school in New England. I did do a semester and research at an elite school in New England. I couldn't get an internship due to personal reasons. Namely my family needed me around the house to support them as certain family
- SWE TC across companies, how much NW and growth to beat the TC? TC Display: Top Tier: Pinterest: 450k~600k Stripe: 450k~600k LinkedIn: 450k~600k Facebook: 400k~600k Airbnb: 400k~580k Snapchat: 400k~550k Netflix: 450k+ 1st tier: Uber: 380k~600k Lyft: 380k~480k Slack: 370k~500k Dropbox: 350k~600k Twitter: 350k~550k Google: 350k~500k Apple: 350k~450k Splunk: 350k
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- How rx6800xt can beat rtx3080? Nvidia invested 2.8 bils in while AMD spent 0.5bils in R&D? 🤷🏻♂️ Should I buy AMD stock instead? Engineers at AMD are so much more efficient?
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5