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- vote Should I take the TikTok Offer? No competing offers (G onsite reject, Uber phone screen reject, FB ghosted after follow-up interview). I'm still negotiating but I'm debating If I should take this offer as I'm mostly worried about WLB and culture. I have a great team and good WLB in my current team. I was initially hoping to inter
- Feeling a RED market tom - my picks, what are you buying/holding? Have a good feeling tomorrow will be a low day in the market given all the news. That said, good time to buy when levels drop and even following day. That said, what stocks do you still think have room to grow? What positions are you building? In all of the below - feel free share thoughts Person
- Hello hybrids! I have been an interaction designer / ux engineer for about 6 years now. My equal obsession with design and front end dev never let me settle down on one stream and I have managed to find roles which sit my skill set. However, since not many people choose to be in such a position , it has been hard
- Almost cried - Amazon Work load From last week I was on-call with full task for project work as well, plus a third stream of work. Although there were only 1 sev-2. But this drained me completely, I felt like crazy miserable, shuffling between my 3 task lists, including project, few part of which was implemented by my ex-colleag
- vote Help a new grad choose: MS (bing ads) vs. Palantir (gotham) About me: undergrad in CA, studying CS. one prev. internship at a startup. Goals: Make a lot of money in the short and long term. Work hard to start and then chill more as I have kids. Offers: (base/stock/signing) MS - max new grad apparently 110/150 over 3.5 yrs/50 =~ 167/yr over 4 yrs AI/R - Bi
- Want to go (Technical) PM -> Dev switch; is a company and role switch at the same time too ambitious? Some background: I was streamed into PM by Microsoft but I've found the role not to be right for me. I like really hands on technical work and I miss it, and I've additionally found the partner management aspect of this role emotionally draining and depressing. It's not that I can't do it at all, bu
- 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] -----------------------------------
- vote Am I idiot ? Background : Database Consultant at Microsoft, took break for a year, then LeetCode grinding 600+ LC, to try my luck in the new field (for me) of Development/BayArea/FANGotronics. Onsite at Amazon for SDE-2: 4 rounds - 1 sys design, 2 coding, 1 OOP. Aced both coding (including bar-raiser). Bombed h
- vote Need career advice I'm a software engineer from Bangalore (India). I always wanted to go to the US for MS (Master of Science) and work there. You know, mainly because of tech salaries and improve the overall quality of life. Due to personal reasons, I deferred university admits and continued working in India. My TC h
- link Giving back, offer details from Meta, Robinhood, Snap, Stripe, etc Thanks to everyone, all the data and conversations here helped a lot in prepping for interviews and negotiating offers. To show my thanks here is all the data I have from last month's search. - All Seattle offers - Some numbers slightly adjusted for anonymity - Breakdown is base/Yearly RSU/signing/
- Pee on Urinal Floor (POUF) So, there has been a lot of threads about bathroom COWs (cup-o-water) and POUF (Pee on Urinal Floor), at least in the MS lounge. Well, the pouf problem has had exactly zero explanation as to why it occurs, so here goes. And this is important. Basically, the pee has to go through a dual-purpose hose
- Please Find Flaws In My Plan #engineering #software #career Currently new grad at Bananaland - Seattle. YoE: 0 (?) TC: 150k Want to minmax TC where I make as much as possible as early as possible for maximum opportunities. I feel good about my team, manager, and job stability for the foreseeable future at AMZN. Given these
- vote What to do? Hello everyone, I'm a senior software engineer and working on really cool AI engines. I am really interested in the project/work assigned to me, but I hate the company policies. I believe that the policies are not employee friendly and I feel really frustrated while working. I quickly want ask you
- Should I get out of DoD work? DSS? Microsoft? Meta? I’ve been wanting to get out of the DoD industry because I feel like as a SWE, I’m underpaid and not being challenged. I also don’t have a particular passion for the Space Industry and the program I am on is more focused on hardware functionality over software technology. Don’t get me wrong WLB is g
- 10 companies and 7 offers in 1 month Giving back here to the community with the details of the 10 companies that I interviewed with, the outcome, and the offers with the TC and breakdown. I took upon myself a challenge to open my LinkedIn to “open for opportunities” and then interview with any company that reached out. I then did solid
- link The Worst Epidemic - Child Porn on Tech Platforms For those who haven't heard it yet have a listen to Sam Harris's latest at https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/ So let's discuss as an anonymous tech community what practical steps we can take to reduce child porn. Obviously there are no silver bullets. A highly technical community wi
- NYC companies with strong engineering culture Trying to come up with a list of NYC companies where the tech part is strong. I'm not talking about prestige or brand, what I mean is: * good approaches (examples: proper automated testing, high-quality code, reasonable architecture) * sane stack (for example statically compiled languages) * reasona
- Machine Learning Engineer vs Software Developer Hi all, Need some suggestion. I am in 6th semester (3rd year) in India Current Situation: I have option to choose my career in Machine Learning (got internship at Japan based startup paying ~70k stipend with good ppo conversion rate and base 20+, works on Computer vision) and SDE (I've went to ICPC
- link Thanks Blind. Cleared Google HC for L6 IC Google India. Got HC approved for L6 Waiting for offer. Will update with numbers once I have them. Thanks to all info and encouragement on blind from LC to system design info Preparation: Started LC premium around 9 months ago, but on and off. History below. Did easy ones to get confidence. Then
- vote Product Security Engineer from India looking for career advice I'm currently working on application security mostly (60%), and sometimes system security (15%). I'm good with security processes (25%) too as we manage security response and handle embargoes but I don't think this is any special skill anyway. I do not have any certification like CISSP/OSCP. I'm no
- vote Principal/Staff Offers Evaluation.. + Prep Strategy [AMA] Interviewed with lot of companies in last 2 months and narrowed it down to below 6 companies based on team, level & TC. Priority: Long term career growth, Scope of work, company culture. Company: Level TC: Base + Bonus + Equity (per yr) + Sign-On Team (if known) Meta: E6
- link What exactly do you expect on System Design Interviews? (FB) I have a FB interview coming up, and I would like to hear ideas and thoughts on what exactly do you expect on System Design interviews? A little bit of background about me, I have more than 6 years of experience working on an Infra team (we handle queries in the magnitude of a few thousand QPS, def
- link Google Interview Experience ML - L6 I just finished my interview loop with google for a ML engineer position(remote) at google. I have benefited a lot from reading other peoples experiences and I have decided to document my own experience. Additionally, the blind community has several posts for software engineer, but is lacking posts
- link I've started my FIRE journey in India! (Part 3: Miscellaneous Odds and Ends Before Leaving US) Here are links to my other writings around our FIRE journey and returning back to India: Part 1 (Intro and Net Worth): https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Part 2 (Financials Before Leaving US): https://www.teamblind.com/post/ShzXbLBN Below is an account of all the miscellaneous stuff I had to a
- Under Budgeted Start Up I been working for this start up as "I am doing everything" Data Scientist. For about 2 years (5 months for free) I worked creating and developing ML and data pipelines for this product. The idea was that I was going to start company share vesting as soon as I started getting paid (after the 5 month
- Product Manager looking to leave team/company Hello community, I’m a PM1 at MSFT with a little over 1 YOE. I joined straight out of college from a engineering degree (non-CS) and have been working remotely due to the pandemic. I started off great but started to notice that I was struggling over time and not performing well. After receiving neg
- link Is it possible to negotiate an up-level at FB/Google? I've recently finished interviewing with a handful of companies, and I'm feeling good about receiving offers from all of them. I did the on-sites at an E4/L4 level with the assumption that I could be up-levelled to E5/L5 if I did well during the interviews... unfortunately, this seems to not be the
- 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
- Referral Needed Looking for a referral. I need a fully remote position for personal reasons. I do not mind sharing why in my DM. YOE: 16- leadership roles. Do not mind being a individual contributor. Do not need to be a manager but I am great with people. Current Title: Capacity Planning Manager Education: Master
- Anyone hiring SDE with 1 year experience Anyone hiring SDEs with 1 year experience. Currently at Amazon and don't like the team. It is impossible to move within Amazon at L4 level. #tech
- vote Should I buy stocks on or after Election Day? What you guys think? #Amazon #Apple #Google
- Rationale behind a 15-min interview, and what to prepare? I've got an interview scheduled with a hiring manager of a BB bank and was told by HR that the call will be a 15min. I was curious who has had experience doing a 15min interview as an interviewer or /viewee and can share what was the focus of the call during the short timeframe. Also, if you were th
- Facebook referral Hi, Can someone refer me at Facebook for a SWE position? Really appreciate it! #tech #software #referral #job #opening
- vote How Much Are You Spending on Healthcare? I realize I'm spending a ton on healthcare (premiums + out of pocket). I have a couple of health conditions but I'm not dying. I'm averaging about $1100 per month this year. How much do you spend per month on premiums and out of pocket combined? #healthcare #health #personalfinance
- H1B appointments in India Reaching out to understand the current situation with H1B in COVID. I visited India in 2019 December and got H1B visa (previous employer) on my passport. I started with new employer in February 2020 (with new H1B) and have not visited India since. I have a few questions w.r.t. this: 1. Do I need to