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- Give up or try? I feel I dont have much skills for this industry yet. I have a Master's in Computer Science. I know a little bit of everything like java, python, javascript, linux, networking, sql, AWS..... But, a very basic knowledge of these technologies. I have a lot of anxiety now. Should I give up? Or still
- Prep before joining Facebook I would be joining FB after 2 months as E6. I have mostly worked as backend distributed systems engineer and familiarity with C++, Java. Can existing folks at Facebook give me some pointers to things that I can ramp up so that my transition could be *less bumpy. Thanks in advance for the help ! A
- How to prepare for linux/os round Hi, I have a new grad interview lined up for systems engineer/sre at google. I have 2-3 weeks prep time and a basic understanding of os and decent usage of linux. I wanted to know how best I can prepare for these two rounds for my onsite? What book should I use? And what depth should I go to for t
- Facebook follow up design interview focus on performance After virtual onsite for FB, I got feedback that a follow up design interview is required. I did bomb the design round and this is what I was hoping as the best case scenario. Coding and BQ rounds were overall positive. My recruiter said she is looking for specific roles that "better match my backg
- Facebook Enterprise Systems Engineer - Interview Prep I have a Facebook Enterprise Systems Engineer interview coming up and the recruiter was kinda vague in terms of what to prepare for the interview. It was mentioned that a few rounds would be on standard coding questions like data structures and algorithms that I can prepare from leetcode. However,
- How hard to switch tech stacks mid career I have been at Microsoft for the last 4 years out of college, working with windows OS and .NET stack. Looking to move jobs. A lot of other companies seem to use Linux and other programming languages (java / python). I have not used these since college. What has other people's experience been from
- Tiktok SRE negotiation phase Did 4 interviews: Coding Linux / Networking Coding again Hiring Manager After those 4 interviews I did an HR call where I was asked to think about the compensation I would like to have and come up with a number. I did very well in all interviews (solid performance). However, competing offers are
- Got inMail from G and FB this week Talking to G recruiter in a few days. Never interviewed at FAANG before. Never done LC before. I don’t work with web stuff. Currently doing C++ on Linux for HW (semiconductor design) applications. I use graph and optimization algos at work, but would need to brush up on all these obscure DS/algo c
- Amazon Support Engineer Phone Interview Hello I have an upcoming interview for a Support Engineer role at Amazon. I am a recent graduate with a Bachelors in IT. I wanted to ask if someone can walk me through the process as I do not know if they expect me to know Data structures and Algorithms or do any type of coding. I am familiar with B
- MS peeps. Does win10 "pro" have a product manager? Or anyone with vision behind it? I realize pro doesn't guarantee a specific level of functionality, but broken vlan tagging with Intel drivers for over a year? Exponential chance of BSOD with anything above 4-5 gpus? If it doesn't do enterprise networking and it doesn't do stable cuda compute, what... Would you say it does? Bind t
- MSFT -> G : how was your transition experience? Having worked on Microsoft stack for quite a while, the jump looks quite overwhelming, particularly because of the tech stack used . How does it go in reality? Been ages since I typed in linux commands...How important is it to brush up? And how long did it take for you to get comfortable? more stup
- Advice: Production Engineering Intern role @Facebook Hi, I have a production engineering intern @facebook interview scheduled in a week. Need some advice on what kind of questions are asked majorly for such a role. I’m brushing up linux skills, networking. I am not sure how difficult will be the coding interview for this role. I am not completely done
- vote self managed DB or DB as service what do you prefer and are you using currently in your work or side project a managed database in linux VM or DB service like AWS RDS or GCP cloud sql. one case is you can first start with self managed DB and can migrate to managed service when you need to scale. some of you guys might be using se
- Did I bomb Facebook PE interview ? Facebook Production Engineering . Did I screw up?? Any similar experiences? I was asked two coding questions. I ran over test cases for the first problem, explained how I could scale the problem , edge cases etc and interviewer seemed happy. We spend sometime chatting on the above and switched to
- How to transition from defense to tech Hi Blind, I graduated in 2019 with a BS in comp sci and through a weird series of events ended up working at a defense contractor straight away. Earlier this year I went from 80k to 190k TC but I'm sick of defense. I feel like I don't have much experience in tech stacks that tech companies look fo
- vote Apple vs Amazon AWS I am a new grad from top 30 cs schools in US. I currently have 2 offers from Amazon AWS and Apple. Would love to hear your insights. Apple- Role: Devops Tech: Python, Ruby, bash, CI CD pipelines mainly jenkins Pay: 140/110/20 - base/stockworth/joining in thousands Location: Cupertino Amazon AWS Ro
- Getting a Job as a Quant Trader I work in Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning for a big defense company. I have been doing signal processing and machine learning design and implementation on embedded systems for about a decade now in the same space. I have been thinking about jumping ship and getting into some sort of
- Google SRE(SE) vs. Facebook PE interview Have an interview coming up with Google for SRE role (non-SWE). I did most of the PE interview at FB but then they had a hiring freeze and I was told I’d probably get contacted in 6-9 months. Could have been a reject but wanted to be nice for future opportunities? For the PE role I read and took n
- Want to sell bullions online I can reliably get gold coins/bars at very good prices and I have been arbitraging for small profits between precious metals dealers for over a year. So I want to write up a website similar to apmex .com or jmbullion .com etc to see if I can sell my stuff online. I can most likely beat their prices
- SRE Linux pivot I'm an SRE, devops, etc, whatever this years hip term for the role is. I'm something like a 60/40 ops/coding split, but could code more too. I'm great at diving into operational issues, automation, etc. I'm not a pure sysadmin GUI clicker type (there are sadly a lot of those around here that call t
- vote Thoughts on Apple vs Amazon I am a new grad from top 30 cs schools in US. I currently have 2 offers from Amazon AWS and Apple. Would love to hear your insights. Apple- Role: Devops Tech: Python, Ruby, bash, CI CD pipelines mainly jenkins Pay: 140/110/20 - base/stockworth/joining in thousands Location: Cupertino Amazon AWS Ro
- Amazon Support Engineer Apprenticeship Opportunity I have my on-site interview tomorrow with Amazon for a Support Engineer Apprentice position in Herndon, VA. Apprenticeship consists of 12 weeks of instructor led training (Linux+ and other training) followed by 12 months of on the job training. While in the program they pay $32.93/ hr (~$68.5k). A
- TikTok SRE Interview- FInal Round Hi Blinders, I am new to this app. I am currently interviewing for a Devops Engineer role at TikTok. I have had the following rounds: 1. Initial Phone screen 2. Hackerrank - Medium Coding (Video) 3. Hackerrank - Linux/ Networking (Video) 4. Hiring Manager-(Went well) I have been told the team want
- Request for Referrals | 3 YoE SWE Brief Profile: ~ 3 YoE Domains worked in: - AdTech, - Storage Management and Data Protection Current stack / work: C++, Protobufs, gRPC for building Distributed System Software. Interested in C++, Systems Programming, Linux and want to learn/work in HFT/Finance. Good at OS and Computer Networ
- recommended path options for high TC? Trying to figure out a good way to up my TC. Im not in SF or Seattle so maybe my options are limited (im in NC). any advice given my background? experience (chronological): 2 yrs developer (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs senior devops/sre (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs devops/sre manager (commer
- Rejected for Google (last two years) Hi all, Thanks for reading this! I wanted to give somewhat of a background and hold an open form to help me figure out what exactly is going on and maybe there may be some people in the same boat that I am. Background: I moved from the mid west into San Jose and pretty quickly fell in love with Go
- vote should i stay until i vest or should i go now tc 85k in ny... smh. im an analyst and recently realized ive made some dumb life choices. for my work, i mostly rely on sql. i had an interview with amazon all the way in Seattle. after reading a bit about salaries, when asked for a range for the sr business analyst role i said to myself "im not
- Real Motivation for Open Source I'm really having hard time to understand the people behind very successful open source projects like linux etc. I also check open source people's LinkedIn profiles to see where they work. They mostly work at no-name companies or academia rather than high paying gigs. If the motivation is helping th
- Amazon Senior SA looking towards the future. What's up everyone! So, I'm a 45 year old male with over 10 years experience in Linux sys-admin, SRE and DevOps work. My python is good and I enjoy it, but, I don't want to do full time development work. Things like making API calls, anything cloud computing related and building infrastructure (K8s
- link Terrible experience at Microsoft, what is going on Recently jointed Microsoft and I’m absolutely stunned at how bad it is. TC: 210k For reference, I’m in the Bing WebXT org as a remote engineer. I guess if you’re reading this don’t join please. I had to explicitly tell them to not send me a desktop (where the fuck am I going to put a desktop). Th
- How did you FAANG guys prepare to get an offer? I have recently FAANG onsite interviews 3 times just for 2.5 months. But, I failed all and it is quite frustrating. Just wanna share my experiences and receive some advises from FAANG guys. G: I received 3 coding + system design + behavior. 1. Priority queue: LC medium: Presented an optimal solutio
- link Looking for a referral for FB London - Partner Engineering Hi! I'm a 3 YOE backend engineer currently working at a leading S. East Asian unicorn. I'm looking for a referral at Facebook London for their Partner Engineering role. I'll DM you the job posting link and my resume. About me : I'm looking to move to London this year. I already have an offer fro
- Google SRE onsite - tips? Dear Googlers/ex-Googlers, I have an onsite in 2 weeks for SRE of the general SWE track (so no networking, no linux internals...etc). It will be composed of 4 coding + 1 design. In an effort to set myself up for a success, I wanted to ask you guys for some tips, please. 1) While the recruiter se
- Offer. Take it or leave it..? I got a job offer for twice my current salary in 2xx range. It's one of the big tech comoanies out there. I don't feel comfortable naming it here. Although it is a lucrative offer, I have some concerns. The work is mostly infra related, where my primary interest has been backend application developm
- Worst interview experience ever Interviewed at a e-commerce unicorn, this guy asked "how to scale a database?" in a super condescending manner, and I was like "Bro, can you clarify what do we want to scale? Read? Write? Random lookup? OLAP Query? Memory efficiency or else?" He was like I don't care, just tell me what you know. Aft
- How many Years of Experience would you say I have? / Any advise? I'm studying to get a SWE role @ one of the big tech companies. I have a bit of a mixed background so I want get an idea of how many YOE these companies would/should say I have. I'd like to get personal opinions so I know if I'm being lowballed. I started working as a Network/Linux Engineer 11 yea
- I coast at work a lot... do you? I work at a startup where I lost complete faith in management and the new swe people who are being brought on board. Being a very early employee and having built major projects in the company in the past, everyone else is essentially leaving me alone, so on a good day I do maybe 3 hours of work, an
- How to escape Quality hell? I am working as a quality engineer for an enterprise software company. I am interested in hearing advice about transitioning from QA to software engineering. I majored in chemistry in college and went to med school for a year before failing out. I wound up doing a professional master's in bioengine
- Facebook PE IC4 in SEA Hello Blind, I recently interviewed, negotiated, and accepted an offer from Facebook, and I decided I would document my experience for others. TL;DR: Location: #Seattle YOE: 7 Old TC: $145k New TC: $235k I previously interviewed with FB for EE in Austin ~2 years ago, had an onsite, and then a fol
- System Design interviewers who ignore System Design and dive deep into their domain... Am I the only one gets these interviewers? If I get a respectable System Design interview, I usually pass with flying colors. But a good chunk of the time I get interviewers who stop the whole design mid-process and deep dive into their realm. For example, today I just had a question about a desi
- FAANG Interview Experience - Security Engineering I thought to share my experience interviewing for security roles at FAANG+ for those who wonder how it's like. Offers: FB, MSFT, Apple, AWS Rejects: Google (They didn't have a role in my location, I just interviewed anyway) Microsoft: Interviewed with two teams. Team 1 (MSRC): Phone screening wit
- Always feeling like I am not ready for an interview I have read a couple of posts where people are applying for jobs and not getting responses back. My case is different. I am not applying for jobs at the moment. However, I have been preparing towards landing a security job preferably on the Google Enterprise Infrastructure Protection team. I keep
- Imposter syndrome, physical pain and stoicism. I am an L4 PE at FB. Started a year ago. I graduated with a master's from a business school, but didn't enjoy the job I got after graduation. I quit. Five years ago, a start-up in China hired me for pennies. I had almost no skills. I did a Fibonacci generator in Python, knew a few Linux command an
- [Rant & Qn] Can I get a SW-Engg-Mgr role in FB/Google/<Fancy-or-LowName-Tech> without Coding rounds(esp. LC grinds) I have 12 years of experience as engineering manager software development mostly in 'backend' with C/C++/Java and mostly on UNIX (yeah, including linux). Rant-Start> I can talk, reason arch/design/patterns/and all that shit including low-levels (yes, the shit about ns/ms every programmer is suppos
- Need to escape the black hole of a Government job TLDR: TC: 99k YOE 7, hate being underpaid and need advice getting into the private industry. I work for the government. I moved up the ranks and gained a lot of respect in my organization but I realized too late that I should have gotten out a long time ago. I've always been a high performer at wor
- SRE offer at Duo Security, Advise please After a rich/wonderful 5 years at my company, it's time I transitioned to another role/company to diversify and expand my skills in more relevant technologies today. To clarify I've built our existing Microsoft SQL server analysis services team from scratch and implemented s ton of backend automatio
- Vancouver - SAP - Senior Developer Please ping me if interested I can refer you :) Job Title: Senior Developer, Data Management and Platform Infrastructure Team COMPANY DESCRIPTION SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how busin
- Getting an offer in the bay tips? Currently live in Chicago but have been planning to move for a long long time. Was looking to pick between Raleigh and SF Bay. Decided to go for the bay due to more opportunities cause I don't feel like coasting anymore. Have a B.S. in IT switched for BS CS to IT cause management was breathing down
- Ready for a Challenge? We are a growing, successful, and award winning Managed Services Provider based in the greater Boston area with a presence in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. Size, less than 200 employees. We are hiring. Constantly. We are primarily looking for IT Support professionals, but also have
- No one still wants to hire me? Super frustrated. Made a post a while back posting my basic anonymous credentials looking for some advice. Still can't get a job. Giving a bit more background. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Exp