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- Mentorship: How do you choose your mentors? How do you go about choosing mentors at work? #faang #linkedin #google #facebook #amazon #apple #tech #mentorship #mentors
- vote Is it appropriate to be active on LinkedIn while employed I want to grow my online presence. Create videos about my interview experiences. I’d like to be active on LinkedIn and humble brag about my leetcode progression. I want to thank my mentors for mock interviews and tag them on LinkedIn. Is this appropriate? Does everything have to be a secret?
- How do I get a mentor? I see many people with mentors and I'm so curious as to how everyone snagged themselves a successful tech leader to mentor them. I wonder what I'm doing wrong when reaching out to people in LinkedIn Are mentors supposed to find you, like the cliche imposes?
- How do I get a mentor who is successful? Seems like any mentors I know of are still working in their 50’s and not financially free. Where’s the super successful mentors that everyone wants? The ones who know what it takes to get to the next level... LinkedIn?
- Companies that invest on their employees What are some tech/fintech companies that invest on mentoring their employees more than the normal FAANG? Heard that LinkedIn does, any others?
- Referral for Google, LinkedIn, Adobe or Slack I’m a Senior UX Designer with 11 years of experience. I’m an active mentor on ADPList.org. I’m looking to join one of these companies based on my work history and portfolio. Let me know if anyone has a referral. #Referral #adobe #Google #linkedin #slack
- Finding Mentors Is it weird/unprofessional/negatively-impactful to reach out to employee's who work in your desired position at your top company to try and develop a type of mentor relationship? Note: By reaching out I mean through LinkedIn not through other social media's.
- What’s the e-mail format for AWS, Amazon, Google and Meta? I want to reach out to recruiters to discuss future opportunities as I will be making a career pivot/ industry pivot. I have their name but since I am not on LinkedIn, I need to e-mail them. How do your organizations format the e-mail address at your company? I am interviewing for a management con
- Onboarding at LinkedIn Joining LinkedIn next month! I’m getting more nervous and more excited about the new job: I wonder how the onboarding experience was for folks who went through this before, will I get an onboarding buddy and/or a mentor to help me along the way? Still remote onboarding? Any tips or suggestions for t
- Referrals I’m looking for referrals or connections with recruiting or any tips for getting my resume in front of a recruiter. I’ve hired resume writers, applied for numerous roles and nothing pans out. Any help, feedback or mentoring welcome! #microsoft #TikTok #instantcart #apple #apple #facebook #pinterest
- Looking for mentor Product Management Hi All, I'm looking for a mentor as I want to grow my career and possibly new opportunities as a product manager. Would anyone like to mentor me for interview prep and resume reviews? Thanks and Regards. #pm #product #productmanager #techcareer #paypal #zoom #adobe #fb #netflix #netflixhiring #lin
- LinkedIn recruiter lowballing on the level I talked to a LinkedIn recruiter regarding interview. I am currently an E5 at Facebook, whose LinkedIn equivalent is Staff Engineer. (According to levelsfyi) My yoe is 5 years. However, she told me that they offer staff only to people with 8+ years of experience. She told me that if I do really
- LinkedIn is turning into a virtue signaling Facebook with ego boosting attempts and less substance People who use "ex-facebook", "ex-uber", "ex-google", etc. after their name on LinkedIn are the same people who moan when they wipe their ass Seriously, its not that unique or special to work at FANG, you don't become the king/queen of tech. Ya'll go in the same category as people who label themse
- Graduating In May Current progress: homeless man in walmart parking lot -> Cashier at Walmart -> Manager at Walmart Degree in Business Analytics 30yo, married GPA 3.7 I know SQL, Python, and tableu. Setting up projects for my linkedin. My strongest skills are interpersonal skills, particularly in developing
- 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
- Looking for a PM Mentor at Google, Airbnb, Netflix etc - looking to break into big tech this year I have been a sr-level / director-level Product Manager at various smaller / non-big-tech companies and have been trying for 3+ years to break into Meta, only to get rejected for a 3rd consecutive time and again at the on-site round. I feel my efforts will be better spent trying to break into a diff
- Referrals Hello everyone, I would very much appreciate referrals to any FANGMULA + unicorn companies, for SDE 2 roles. I'm looking to switch jobs in March 2022 after a stock vesting. I'm a full stack SWE at MSFT and a top performer in my team. I have demonstrated success in designing moderate sized features
- How to find mentorship Who here has experience dealing with/finding a mentor? I am trying to transition careers and am looking for someone to come to for advice, etc. I have tired doing cold outreach via LinkedIn but haven't had much success, and I am not close to anybody that works in finance. Just for context, I am woul
- Is my linkedin etiquette proper? I am making a career transition. My current manager/teammates have been really great to me, and my mentors also helped me a lot. Actually it's my current manager who helped me identify this new role which suits my interests more. I want to make a linkedin post to announce my job change and thank a b
- Reflecting on Amazon resignation posts Reading all the Amazon resignation posts on LinkedIn, I am struck by how different the company they describe is from what I have experienced. This is especially true from the recent GM/VP departures - looking back the number of times they failed, the people who took a chance on them, the mentors the
- how to maximize technical growth ? Dear blinder when you are job hunting how you find the company that provides the best career growth form technical side and impact side. let’s assume my goal is to stay on the IC track and become the CTO of google !!! do you look for brand new projects ? company at very high growth phase like pinte
- vote Should I put this in my resume? I'm so D&I and woke?! I'm so fucking woke without knowing it. Recently the wokes have started going after people for not mentoring and graduating women. This is in ML and AI field. Was updating my resume... Then realized 100% of my past students and mentees were women. Ok admittedly sample size is small but still 100%.
- How do people get interviews and offers from all of FAANG (or several) at a time? I have really good experience compared to my YOE in terms of knowledge and skill, based on my performance reviews and my manager/mentors feedback and my own assessment against those in my position. I have a really nicely formatted resume. However nobody looks at my resume from big name companies.
- 3 YoE SWE LFR Pretty burnt out of Amazon leaderships, and org has been in an absolute dumpster fire which burned out everyone. As a result, all but 1 of my beloved coworkers who all agreed to quit and are now job hunting together <3 Mainly backend engineer with a hint of frontend. Certainly not TT material, bu
- Looking for senior SDEs Hello fellow Blinders, I am looking for senior SDEs (IC5 and IC4) for critical services in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infra). If you have experience in distrbuted systems/cloud services, want to solve a problem bottom up (own the problem space), are interested in building services from scratch, love to desig
- vote Apple any systemic racism as you move up levels/hierarchy? I was having a conversation with an old friend in India who works at Apple, he moved from the US (Amazon) earlier in 2021. As part of regular career growth discussion one of the points he mentioned was that there was a systemic bias against Indians and some other minorities in positions closer to e
- How do you find a (female) mentor? I thought of pinging someone on LinkedIn but I'm not sure if that is out of the blue or intrusive. How much of an existing relationship do you need with someone before you can ask for them to be your mentor? How do you gauge and test if someone might be interested? I would prefer a female mentor be
- vote Help me decide if I should stay or leave - L5 sde @amazon Staying at Amazon Pros: Great Manager Great WLB and coasting currently - Not Important at this point No LC & Sys design prep Cons: Cliff after Nov vest Too much mentoring junior engineers nowadays Getting bored & no growth - Important 6 weeks only paternity leave - Important Comp even after 1-2 ye
- My goal next year is to get hire by Facebook even if is as a Janitor My goal has always been to join Facebook at some point during my career. I’m a college dropout with 16 yrs of experience. The funny part is that I’m now part of the University’s board of their business school as a preferred mentor for their mentor program. I started my career with JPMORGAN and stay
- 3 YoE SWE LFR Pretty burnt out of Amazon leaderships, and org has been in an absolute dumpster fire which burned out everyone. As a result, all but 1 of my beloved coworkers who all agreed to quit and are now job hunting together <3 Mainly backend engineer with a hint of frontend. Certainly not TT material, b
- Company trying to get me to work in person Company said the position was remote in the job description on LinkedIn but asked me a couple times during interviews if I was open to relocating. Today I got a verbal offer and the recruiter said the team feels like it would be better for my career and mentoring if it was in person. How should I
- Please help. I am facing a tough time finding work Hey everyone, I am a new grad (student visa) trying to secure full time work. I have a degree in Data Science but my past work experience is in Software Engineering. I received some calls in the past but I wasn't able to crack those interviews because of lack of preparation. Now I am working with a
- India Best Software Companies List Compilation Note - This was an old Blind post by someone which no longer exists. I'd the content copied. https://www.teamblind.com/post/india-best-software-companies-list-compilation-QYzFSoX4 Here it goes. - I noticed that conversations about top companies and startups on Blind is mostly US-centric. So dec
- Performance improvement plan I have been working for less than a year at LinkedIn and have been put on performance improvement. I have previously worked at good start ups. This is my first big company. It had been less than a month since I joined and covid started so I didn’t get a chance to build a relationship with the team.
- vote Rejected after full interview round, then failed a different online assesment I felt like my interview went really well. Answered all technical problems and vibed well with the interviewers. The assesment was timed and I approached with a poor solution for a long while before having a duh moment, then I explained how I should have solved the problem in the comments (all I ha
- Breaking Into Product Management in India Hello everyone, I am a recent graduate working as a software engineer and I am interested in transitioning into a product management role in 2021. So far every PM I have talked to from Walmart has told me that they recruit APMs from MBA colleges and typically even they have 3+ years of work experie
- AMA - Recently got FB PM offer and cleared other PM interviews with the pure intention to help others during these tough time i can snswer any questions you might have about the prep, interview process and negotions for PM job at FB, LinkedIn and Amazon where i recently clear interviews and accepted FB offer. thanks to fellow blinders for the help, motivation
- Anyone from BMW here? Preamble: At my previous job I had a student whom I was tutoring (or mentoring, not sure how to call it, I was a lector in university as well) for his MS. This year i was in job search and went to BMW Munich (not directly, thru the recruiter in LinkedIn). On the first interview we figured out with
- Senior engineer and management opportunities So I’m a senior dev at a big tech company about to hit 9 years and my manager wants to know the path I wish to venture down next. I can go staff or go manager. I like the idea of manager but what are career opportunities like as a manager? I find I have lots of options and got nearly 7 job offers fr
- When to talk level? Got a reach out from apple about a team that sounds quite interesting. Thing is, it'd have to be pretty senior and high comp to be even worth spending time considering. My current TC is ~1.1M, and the apple thing would have to be ICT6 or somewhere high on the M ladder to get even within a distance o
- link Request for Analytics Referrals in Tech/Fintech/ + FAANGMULA+ Startup companies in London/Berlin/EU Request for Analytics Referrals in Tech/Fintech/ + FAANGMULA+ Startup companies hiring from India for any openings at your firm at Senior Manager/Lead Manager/VP/AD levels I'm looking for a way out due to multiple re-orgs/ 4 manager changes which has hampered my growth both on professionally & comp
- I have PTSD from being mis-hired before. How do I recover? I was a mis-hire for a startup company that I joined at 1.5 YOE. They had about 30 people in total when I joined. The interview was actually pretty easy. It was the only company that gave me an offer (TC: 125K + paper stocks at 1.5 YOE) and I wasn't able to pass anything else at the time. I worked
- link Analytics Referrals at Tech/Fintech + FAANGMULA+ Startups in India Request for Analytics Referrals in Tech/Fintech/ + FAANGMULA+ Startup companies in India for any openings at your firm at Senior Manager/Lead Manager/VP/AD levels I'm looking for a way out due to multiple re-orgs/ 4 manager changes which has hampered my growth both on professionally & comp. in last
- vote Seeking advice on Next Career move, Please help ! Hi Blinders , Currently I’m working as a Lead Engineer where I get to design ,code & review , mentor juniors . But looking at long term picture , I feel I should make a move in some time (buffer 12-18months) before getting married . While moving forward , I see few probable options : 1. Indian M
- Blind Community Please Help : New PhD Grad Seeking MLE or ML-SWE interview advice Hi Blind Community, I would really appreciate every cent of your advice. No trolls, please. About Me: I am a Ph.D. grad focussed on ML research. The 2020 year was a bumpy life experience for me as I got covid, met with a road accident, my leg got amputated, and stayed in bed for 7 months. Suffered
- link Anyone willing to refer a good candidate to their company? Hi Blind community, Posting this on behalf of a good candidate (“good” because he is having good industry experience and generally does well in Leetcode/InterviewBit questions) - he is looking for a switch to a new company for a software development related position. He is open to most of the good/
- SDE to SDM transition Hello Blind family, I have recently been promoted to L5 and have been thinking for over a year to make a switch to management. I know folks will be wondering for reasons, so here you go : I am not a bad SDE but not the greatest and I don’t enjoy it a lot. Rather I see myself driving projects, men
- Should I block "mentor"? Yesterday in LinkedIn I chatted with executive about the opportunities. He asked me to send my resume. After that he gave two prompt feedbacks that my resume has too much info and it has info about both finance and data. Which one I am? I accepted his first feedback but for the second one I was ske
- Product Marketing Leadership roles- Interviewing is a challenge!! Guys, I've been interviewing for PMM leadership roles for a good 6 months now and the more roles I interview for, the more challenging it gets. The roles I interviewed for primarily revolves around building/mentoring PMM team. In my last three interviews (full loop). the hiring manager was either
- Best month to start interviewing if you need H1B? September? Hi folks, I left the US around 7 years ago to build something with a woman in Europe. Didn't work out, so I've already started LCing and preparing for interviews. Remote from the EU I don't think I can go over $150k TC and the lack of mentors/peers is definitely detrimental to my career. Plan is t