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- 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
- Help 🙏 Hello Blind community, I graduated from California state university- San Marcos and received my EAD (work authorization) and I have less than 20 days left in my OPT unemployment period. I am posting as I am in a desperate need of a job and would appreciate a lot if I can get your support. I am look
- Is job search supposed to be this taxing? I'm a backend dev with 2.5 YoE in Java. I started my job search in October 2020 when Amazon sent me inmail on LinkedIn. I got on the leetcode grind and applied to several companies in the Bay Area while doing so. Finally finished interviewing with Amazon 2 weeks ago only to be rejected. Obviously, t
- vote Need Advice ! Job Change AEM vs Backend Dev Role Hello fellow blinders, Iam currently working as a AEM(Adobe experience mamager)product support for my client, but recently I ve been doing some LC, and other training to get into backend dev. So ive been trying to get an entry level job for backend development through LinkedIn, but i have not been
- [India] Need referral and advice Hi, I am 2021 graduate. I am working in service based company. I am on support project, not much to learn. I need referral for any good product based company. Feels 5.5 months training + 2 months full time all wasted. LC: 290 TC: 6.7 Need referral for any good product based company and advice wha
- My experience with Interviewing Signed FB E5 offer few weeks ago. I had started looking for a new role 5 months ago, interviewed for ~40 companies; ~25 onsites; 10 offers along the way. Blind was my go-to tool all along this road; damn this community is filled with rich content about every company. Here's my small contribution for
- Application strategy for Data Analyst roles Asking for a friend: "Analyst in healthcare company with expertise in data visualization (tableau, powerBI) with Excel and less emphasis on SQL/SAS(basic knowledge). Finding fewer roles out there matching my experience. I'm just looking at LinkedIn and companies' career pages and reaching out to co
- Resigning from Amazon and joining linkedin Hey everyone. So I got the linkedin offer and would be resigning from Amazon soon. Had a couple of questions 1. For those who've resigned from Amazon can you lmk how long the entire process took? I have a joining date of Jan 3rd from linkedin and don't want to waste unemployment days however I thin
- vote Is calling an internship a full time role on my resume ethical? Tldr: internship at now defunct start-up was more like a full time role, is it a bad idea to just call it a job on my resume? Worked for a no name startup. They have since closed up shop. I was hired on as an intern but was the only engineer working on a large job (I owned 1/3 of the core product)
- People on LinkedIn asking for referrals I keep getting messages from people on LinkedIn about a role at my company (not Pru). This role requires some level of subject matter expertise, if not at least some mathematical rigour. Some people have no business being in this company since they do not have the right training (in SME or mathemati
- link What are the reasons behind companies not wanting to sponsor H1-B's I've had multiple phone calls with recruiters where they like my work experience, I'm a good fit for the role in their opinion, we discuss all sorts of things and then they ask what my work status is, and once I mention that I'm on my STEM OPT, that's when the conversation comes to end, as they let
- Got my last reject for 2019 Got rejected after a case study round for Curology, feeling pretty low and depressed going into 2020. I am looking for roles in Supply Chain as an Analyst/Consultant. To-do things for the holiday week and going into 2020: 1) Network thru family/friends/Linkedin. 2) Complete my Supply Chain certi
- Unexpectedly removed from the company. Need referrals. In a very bad situation due to visa issues. Hi, I got removed from the company around 6 days ago. Looking for a job ASAP and referrals. This situation happened at the worst time possible. I was waiting for my STEM OPT to get approved, which I applied 63 days before(05/11/2021).It is still in pending status. I talked with the lawyers and they
- HIRING! Tech Recruiter/Sourcer - Remote Currently seeking an IT/Tech Recruiter (5+ yrs exp) to join my team at PRA Group, Inc. We are a global, publicly traded (PRAA)debt buyer with around 5000 employees. Our global HQ is in Norfolk, VA, but you can work remotely. Amazing WLB, fun team, ability to work on a variety of IT and Data Analytic
- Working at Apple Safari team Hi Applers, How’s the Safari team and what is it like working there? There is a UI open position listed on LinkedIn. Here are my more specific questions: 1) Safari’s quite old. I am assuming there’s going to be lots of legacy code in Objective-C, which makes annoying to work with, or it is not so?
- Job options for H4 EAD My wife completed her Bachelor's in Computer Engineering in 2015 and moved to USA on H4. Couldn't start working due to authorization, but eventually got authorization last year, but it is getting really difficult to get a call for an interview for software engineer, as she does not have any experien
- WFH/Hybrid/Back to office companies Master thread Creating a master thread so can track which companies are WFH vs hybrid vs old school back to office. This is what I have so far. Update in comments about any company you know and I will update the list or correct this list if you work for any of these. Amazon is mostly appearing to be hybrid or
- vote Im new here, give me advice Im a new software engineer, I have an EE degree and landed my first software engineer role in Jan2022. I don’t have anything other than training from work. What advice would you give me to land my next role, my manager is kind of a hard ass who I found out was talking about me behind my back. Hopin
- New grad DA/DS Referral I am looking for referrals for any new grad level DA/DS positions for a friend. Data science masters graduate looking for DA/DS jobs preferably in bay area. Skills: Python, SQL, Tableau, Data structures, ML, Jupyter Have referrals for Amazon/Uber/Microsoft. Looking for other places, really appre
- Free fitness training(weekends mostly) Hi, I am a nerdy SDE fed up with my introvert life till now. I would like to meet new people in my field and learn from their life experiences. I am super fit with skills in Yoga and weight lifting. I always wanted to be a fitness coach but we all know SDE career pays well. So, I am thinking to prov
- Requesting SWE Referrals! Hello fellow blind users, I am looking for referrals to any of the MAMAA/FAANGMULA+ companies, or any other top recommended companies to work for. I left my prior job for a new one but quickly realized I was lied to in the interview process. My new team was severely understaffed and overworked wit
- Seeking SWE Referrals *Repost* Hello everyone, I am looking for referrals to any of the MAMAA/FAANGMULA+ companies, or any other top recommended companies to work for. I left my prior job for a new one but quickly realized I was lied to in the interview process. My new team was severely understaffed and overworked with a lack o
- In any field, second player definitely survives. But do you think 3rd player gets a decent share close to 2nd player? Uber vs. Lyft. Zillow vs. Trulia Uber vs. Ola Uber vs. Careem Amazon vs. Ebay Gojek vs. Grab Google vs. Bing Airbnb vs. VRBO Swiggy vs. Zomato We rarely see third player making it big. 1) Is it because we don't hear or red about it, 2) or the third player is not big enough to second player? 3) Or
- Help 🙏 Hello Blind community, I graduated from CSUSM and received my EAD (work authorization) and I have 13 days left in my OPT unemployment period. I am posting as I am in a desperate need of a job and would appreciate a lot if I can get your support. I am looking for immediate full-time opportunities in
- Strategies to find job for spouses on H4-EAD What are some ways to find job for wives who are on H4 EAD visa in the bay area with little/no-tech background (like civil bachelors from home country )? We tried everything like talking to consultancies, BA Training, direct referral, linkedin requests, job centers, bank jobs etc... but nothing se
- Meta trouble - rumors vs reality Rumor # 1 - Meta is having financial troubles and has to do a hiring freeze. Fact 1 - Meta has hired more engineers in first 4 months of 2022 than entire 2021. If you pay top of the market and reduce the hiring bar, this is what happens. The hiring freeze is only for SWE roles and MLE roles and also
- Referral Hello, Looking for referrals almost anywhere. Recently graduated from UIUC and have past 4+ years of work experience in Data Analytics field. Currently on my student visa and ready to work without sponsorship on my OPT extension as well. Just want to do hard work and learn. I would really appreciat
- Companies with good wlb? non-eng.. i am finishing 4th year at uber soon and despite our team growing exponentinally, the workload for me has been crazy irrespective. i have given my best and i think its time for me to explore outside. my current tc is 220k i am ok taking a paycut if needed upto 10% but dont really want to work anyw
- Looking for SWE referrals - New grad (2 non-us yoe + 1 year co-op at bay area startup) Hello, I'm a new grad(dec 2020) looking for full time roles. I have interviewed for 8 companies so far most of the roles were ML/NLP and new grad swe for Google. Unfortunately got reject from HC Google new grad and for others I was rejected in final rounds citing more experience required. Currentl
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- Need a Data/Business Analyst Job (Urgent) Hello everyone - Am currently pursuing my masters in Data Analytics and will be graduating this May and I hardly have 3 months of time to get a job since my opt will start in July. Am looking for a full Time opportunity in Data/Business Analyst/Business Intelligence Engineering/ Data Science role. R
- vote Does LinkedIn conduct stress interviews? I had an on-site for software engineering recently and one theme I noticed that was different from other companies (or interviewers in general) is that the interviewers kept stopping me and asking details on why I did X, what’s Y, and sometimes even saying “ok you solved the problem efficiently, but
- Rejected from Amazon. Where do I go from here? I feel hella discouraged atm because I made it to on site and after grinding out leetcode for months, I was rejected. I was told that while my behavioral parts were really good, I lacked big time in my system design interview. That being said, my goal still stands strong. I want to work at a faster
- Referrals Hi everyone, I am looking for any entry SWE jobs YOE: 0 years (1 summer internship) I was a fullstack intern at a startup company. Did from backend to the frontend, AWS and database management. (Skills: Python, c++, react.js, graphql, sql, aws ..) I am graduating this semester and looking for fu
- Quitting to learn (insights data science) I am working as a analyst for linkedin. My background is not in tech (phD in chemistry). I moved from china to the us after my degree. here is my problem: I do not like my job, pay or my manager. I am doing meaningless work and get paid fairly bad. I got acceppeted into insights data science, which
- I feel useless and devastated. Am I too late to the party? I'm not a US citizen. I graduated high school at the age of 19 in my home country (that's the age everyone does). 5 years at college to graduate with an engineering degree (+ 1 year as an exchange student abroad in between), followed by 2 years to get my masters in the US. As a result, I started my
- How do I get a Facebook/Meta SWE interview? My background: < 1 yoe, bachelor’s from a very well-known school for CS, ~3.8/4.0 GPA, previous internship experience at Amazon, joined Google as a new grad. Currently on F-1 OPT and have 3 tries left for H1B lottery. I have applied to Facebook twice for internships, once for a new grad role pri
- Can I create new UAN account while joining new company? [india]] Long story short, I joined company O (old), didn't like the work hence switched to a new company N (new). But I didn't tell company N about O because they would have not considered me. (told them that I was taking a break). My manager at company O is arrogant, forcing me to serve a notice period ti
- Switch or not to switch for the 2nd time in 1 year YOE total 3.5 : 1 year experience in India in DS + 1.5 years hardcore DS/ML research + 1 year experience in the US. TC : 112k base + 15k sign on + 25k stocks Publications : 1 NeuRIPS (w/ best paper award in a category) + 1 minor conference both in ML/ Deep Learning research So I recently change
- Quit job. Expecting a baby. Interviewing. A rant about my situation. I recently quit job to join my spouse in the Bay Area. Initially considered pursuing grad school. Got admits to top private and public colleges in the Bay but decided it's too much time and money for obtaining a student work permit (OPT). After months of waiting, I finall
- HELP: Looking for job/referral | Laid off Hello, I’ve been interning at Millipore Sigma since June 2019 as a Database Developer and recently got laid off due to COVID. I graduated in May this year with a MS in CS from SUNY Binghamton. I’ve been applying a lot for Data/Business Analyst roles but haven’t been receiving any callbacks. If anyo
- You Were Really Helpful Before, So.... Hey everyone! Recruiter here. I previously posted about landing a gig with a FAANG company. Everyone was really nice with advice to help ease me into the tech space, and I thank you! I'm in my 3rd week now and wrapping my head around, well, all of it. Making the leap from small/mid-sized agency wit
- 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
- link SpaceX Horror Stories II I decided to speak up about SpaceX!! I will start posting the horror stories I had while working for SpaceX a few years ago. I will tell one story at each post. I worked on Starlink, layout team. Story number two: Keep employees scared to keep him at 200% all the time. Just finished all the ori
- Accepted LinkedIn Engineering Manager offer After interviewing at many places I have finally accepted LinkedIn offer for Engineering Manager position. I know LinkedIn is not part of FAANG but I am still very satisfied with everything. Since there are not many posts on Blind (and in general on internet) about what to expect or how to crack en
- Interviewers/recruiters - should I mention my side hustle? I'm planning to interview at FB and Google soon. Been at MSFT 13+ years and I'm currently Principal. My main objective is more total comp over the next 2-3 years, although gaining more non-MSFT experience would be nice as well. I code almost exclusively in C++ for work, but I started a side hustle
- 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
- What should this old man do? Is Google hell? Here's me: 20+ years in software development, stalled career. I've had software engineering jobs at several mid size companies and two jobs at one faang. I have been a technical leader of small teams, but nothing like where I think I could have been. Not a principal engineer. Not a director of deve
- vote Is joining a consultancy the only option for Indians on OPT who don't have a lot of work experience or amazing academics #workvisa #sde #jobhunt Hi guys, As the title says I only have about 2 years of work experience as a software engineer. About 1.5 years as a associate software engg back in India and about 6 months as a software engg in the US. I graduate in May 2020 from a okay university with average grades. I a
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu