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- Why Google uses C++ a lot? Googles core products are web services. Unlike few companies like Microsoft which do have legacy of old world desktops products and technologies built in C++ which these companies then ported to cloud, Google had the luxury to be born in web from the beginning. Google could have easily streamlined i
- Becoming EM or PM in Fintech L63 to L64 IC at Microsoft. 11 YoE. 3 years manager in military, rest are IC (and some startup time). Disabled vet, male, Hispanic. Security clearance. Experienced in cloud architecture, DevOps, and product management. TC ~250k USD I’m looking to make the jump to fintech, I’d prefer pre-IPO, but I’
- Fresh out of university: What should I keep learning? I have recently graduated from a decent university in India. I have joined Microsoft as an SDE-1. I want to know what things I should start reading/learning that will help me become better in Software Engineering. In terms of architecture and coding. Any recommendations for books/courses or any web
- Referral - Looking to do more Looking for a #referral or #jobopening. YOE: 4 years Currently a TT L5 SysDE in VA with L6 well underway, but I feel I can do more. Previous experience in DevOps and Systems Eng. Strengths: Python Linux Distributed Systems Parallel Processing Micro-Service Architectures Algorithms & Data Structu
- Looking for Referrals Hi all I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microsoft. ~ 5yrs Microservices, NoSql
- Software Engineering Courses. Will these ten courses be sufficient to gain the required software engineering training at a college? This is for MS in CS with specialization in software engineering. 1. Database Systems Concepts and Design 2. Introduction to Information Security 3. Software Analysis and Test 4. Software Architect
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- How is the growth as a service engineer/SRE? I graduated in 2020 with masters degree. I will be joining Microsoft soon as a service engineer in Azure CXP team. My day today work will be on azure services, cloud platform. Mostly on system, network engineering stuffs, Handling escalation from the support team, reviewing architecture/design, main
- Microsoft Visio: a lesson in mediocrity I am an Architect and my job involves building system architecture diagrams and share them with my team. My company uses MS office heavily and thus Visio is available as the standard diagramming tool. When I use this tool I feel abject hatred for Microsoft. As a user I feel that Microsoft has a cul
- Moving teams at Microsoft How easy is it to move from one azure team to another azure team in Microsoft. From all my conversations with the team and manager it feels like the team is not doing anything interesting. The product they are building is very mediocre. Thinking of accepting the job and then applying in a differen
- Technical Program Manager vs Program Manager @ Google Hi all, I was reached out to by a recruiter for a few positions and I’m trying to determine what these roles are. 1. TPM vs PgM @ Google 2. Any differences in pay? 3. Are TPMs valued/respected more? 4. Career Growth difference between the two? Roles: PM, Youtube TPM, SWE Current Role: PM @ Micr
- Do you feel leetcode actually makes you better at your job? I've been a professional software developer for around 8 years. 2 weeks ago I started leetcoding to see what all the talk was about. While I see some value to it, there's a whole lot that goes into software engineering (architecture trade-off, source control strategy, communication, ability to coll
- Transition from oil & gas to big tech (energy) Anyone here was able to transition from oil and gas to energy section of companies like amazon, microsoft or google? Not trying to get into hard core technical positions but a manager kind of position which works between tech and energy company? Few days ago I saw a LinkedIn post from someone who
- Meta E4 - Competition for E5 I have been in the industry for almost 12 years. I wear a lot of hats before joining PwC. But have always stayed close to coding. I mean during development phase, I spend 80% of time coding. Since, I didn't have a badge to prove that I can be an E5 or E6 (or may be based on the examples I used duri
- Actively Interviewing - Referrals Hi Recruiters, Developers and Managers I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microso
- Landscape Architect / Project Manager switching career. Referral needed for Rivian Irvine location Hi all, Hope everyone is having a fantastic day! I have been working as a landscape architect / project manager (multiple phases) for about 11 years. I love what I do for living… however, I’ve also been a huge automotive enthusiast for about 15 years… i am passionate about cars and it flows in my
- Salary for Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Pro Hey Everyone, I'm seriously considering officially applying for a Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Professional position. Informal discussions have already started. I could really use some advice to prepare myself to negotiate salary. Here's the job description • Strategic Sales
- MSFT Virtual on-site interview Hi, In two weeks I will have my virtual interview in #CSE and I have a couple of questions: 1. I applied for a senior software engineer position but now I see the position changed to "all levels 59-63". Is this something usual, does it change the requirements? 2. How does the virtual interview codi
- Best company to get Senior Swe level with Coursera ML Good coding/sys architecture skills No real world ML experience Good ML fundamentals through MOOCs, stanford online Ml courses, good knowledge of basic math (stats, linear algebra) used in ML Any good companies (like Goog, Amzn, Linkedin, Msft) where you can get L5 level on a ML focussed team wit
- Rate my sabbatical plan Motivation • Currently “just” a generalist software engineer at Microsoft • Working on the same team for 6 years. Spent too much time optimizing for current job. • Struggled to interview externally (2018), struggling to interview internally (2020) • Idea: 10-month sabbatical to learn machine learnin
- vote FAANG Prep Hey all, Thanks so much for your help on my last post “Canada vs US”. I wanted to get some help to understand how long would be good enough to crack FAANG interviews ? I do come from coding background but haven’t coded in past 3 years(worked mostly on technical architecture - multi-cloud n hybrid
- Verbal offer from Microsoft Hello Everyone, Yesterday I got a verbal offer from Microsoft (AI and Advanced Architecture team, Senior Software Engineer, Deep Learning Compiler) , but the recruiter said they were able to proceed with the offer only towards the May end due to logistic reasons. There is no discussion regarding th
- Referrals Hello friends! I would very much appreciate referrals to any FAANGMULA, Startup Unicorns or to any product based companies. Open to remote. I'm based in Canada, would need H1B or TN visa sponsorship. Currently working as a Senior Cloud Architect. I also advise a YC startup on the side. (technical
- VLSI Jobs India vs USA Currently I am planning to go for a MS in ECE in US taking the VLSI specialization. But I have also heard that in India there are good amount of job opportunities and growth in VLSI and after a time the company will pay you to study part time Masters. I would like to know how much correct is this
- best way to prep for tech portion of Product Management Interviews More and more often Im getting asked to prep how to talk about tech with engineers on PM interviews. basically “how technical are you” type questions. We engage in some systems deaign and architecture, designing of mS here but I would like a better way to approach this line of questioning. Usually
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- Review my Google interview prep plan Hello ppl, please take a look at my Google interview preparation plan. I am currently L61 in MSFT targeting L5 at Google. I hope to have an intensive preparation of system design with a System design book, along with hobby projects that make use of various systems architectures, to internalize syst
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- Referrals @India Hi Blind, * Working in current company MS for past 3 years * Mathematics and Computing dual degree from IIT * Interview Prep: Architecture/design are strong areas, working on DSA (LC: 100 easy, 200+ mediums, 50+ hard) Companies I need help with referrals: Atlassian VMWare Airbnb App Dynamics Zeta
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- Seeking referrals for SDE and Product Design Hi everyone :) About my background - I have a past career in Architecture, the buildings kind (YOE 7, Master's degree at an Ivy). I specialized in design and VR use for architectural visualization, with design research and user interaction components. This work introduced me to programming, which I
- Recommendation for Urban Designer, City Planner or related jobs Hey all, I just want to know if there are any related field especially in the tech firm field where there are city planning, urban design, or related positions. It’s quite different from my architecture firm but want to learn from a different industry and if hire for a similar work position. Probab
- Transition from RTL design and verification to technical program manager and eventually product manager Hi, I have been in the hardware design and verification for about 5 years now. I got my masters in RTL design and computer architecture and have worked in auto,storage and now cpu processors/architectures. Prior to my masters I have also been in product design ( storage) for 2 years where we made e
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- vote Switching from Microsoft I am aged 30, working as SDE2, L62 at Microsoft Azure, Redmond with 140k USD base pay for past 2 years. Total yoe is 9 years. Fundamentally I am a very mediocre person. - I have not worked on any open source projects. - I have worked only on C#/.net and not on Java. - I am reasonable good at crac
- Microsoft India L64/65 interview loops Hey guys, I have a virtual onsite coming up with Microsoft and they have shared below rounds with me. Round 1: Coding, Problem Solving and Passion to learn Round 2: Low level design( LLD), Complex Problem Solving , Coding and Drive for results (Design/Architecture) Round 3: High Level Design (HLD)
- link System Design Prep: What's the best resource to build a Web application end-to-end? I'm from a non-CS background but took some undergraduate courses (OS/Architecture/Assembly/DS/Algorithms/Networks) to learn CS. I worked with web applications before and I can understand the high level system design architecture. I read Designing Intensive Data Applications and worked through a few
- Technical question for Google Product Manager interview The recruiter email says that during the onsite interview a member of eng team will “evaluate technical competence” and to be prepared for a whiteboard coding question. Honestly this surprised me. Do I really need to practice leetcode for a Product Management interview? I absolutely agree that PMs
- First year didn't practice LC before interviews, got offers... Interestingly this is the first year I went to onsites without practicing many LC problems, for the past few years I've all allocated 2 to 3 months to practice LC before onsites. LC problems practiced last year is around 500, only got offers from Salesforce and Microsoft. LC problems practiced thi
- Help me become a better software engineer!! Hey guys I'll try to keep my story short and I'm asking for any help/guidance from senior devs and experts out there. Backstory- Began my sde career 3 years ago. Have changed a company since then. Realised the only way to get good offers and better TC is to leetcode grind and learn system design. S
- PM coding/tech requirements? Curious to hear from those in product roles how many of you all get into the technical weeds as some job postings indicate? It seems like a lot of pm roles expect individuals to be vetting code and making api and system architecture recommendations. I have a bs and ms in electrical engineering and
- Feeling stuck at job Working as digital design engineer with MS for last 5 years. However, due to bad management or my bad luck, the type of work I am doing is miserable. Mostly integration of IPs and some RTL design. I have studied really hard over past few months to GTFO and applied to lot of companies in Austin, but
- vote Fellow Software Dev Managers, please help me choose! Currently a Dev Mgr at Broadridge with 6 reports, don't like it there at all due to the amount of red tape, legacy technology, and inability to innovate. Current TC: Base 182k, ~12k stocks (no incremental vesting, vests after 2yrs), Bonus is ~20% 6 direct reports, 6 matrix reports My goal is to wo
- Unpopular Opinion - Amazon is great for productive engineers Amazon is a great place to work for the productive and efficient engineers, we don’t need 50 year old SWE spending all morning checking emails without a single diff getting the same pay as 21 year old pumping out milestone goals. Like they need to leave at 3pm to pick up their kids, really? 3pm are
- Enterprise to Professional Services Consulting? Looking for some advice in moving from a large enterprise (not current blind company), think Big Bank to Professional Services? The consulting firm is Premier partners of AWS, Google and Microsoft. They're fairly well known in Tech, have a good Work life balance (less than 45hrs a week), and is get
- Sick of Civil, looking to break into Tech I'm a civil engineer (BS+MS) in traffic and a US citizen if that makes a difference. I live in Seattle and I'm quickly realizing that tech is the way to go. I have a pretty strong background in statistical modelling and can work in R and learning Python right now, but I have no real experience outsi
- Should I take EM role in Microsoft? I applied to Microsoft for level 61-62 SWE. I received very good feedback after the interviews and they came back to me offering me level 64 Engineering Manager or Senior Program Manager. I will receive the offer very soon. Do you guys think it's a good idea to take it? I am a little bit scared abo