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- vote Uber vs C3.AI vs Dremio SWE Update I ended up joining Uber. Currently SWE 2 at MSFT CTC is 180k (130k + 15k bonus + 35k stocks) it has been 3 years in Msft, YOE 3. Offer from Uber fulfillment Persistence/Framework/Edge platform team SWE 2 location SF. 275K (165K base, $86K per year for 4 years, 25K joining bonus, 23k avg yea
- HELP! - Need referrals or any kind of help to get calls I got impacted by the Cisco Layoffs. Please ping me or comment about open positions in your company. Applying for jobs is Stressful. Looking for software engineer roles I got impacted by the Layoffs. Please ping me or comment about open positions in your company. Applying for jobs is Stressful.
- Referrals in India Hi Blinders, I am looking for referrals in Cloud Domain with experience in Cloud Security Assessments, Cloud Automation, Cloud Architecture Design & and Development. - Worked on various engagements that involved assessment of the entire Cloud setup with respect to Cloud Security Well Architected Fra
- Meta PM interview prep 20 YoE+ and got reached out by Meta recruiter for a PM interview. I have scheduled it 3 weeks out. My experience is more on the business PM and Product Marketing side. After reading through Blind and watching several videos, I feel like these are super competitive and I am keen to know: 1. Are cou
- Python/C#/Front-End Developer Location - United States I am working as an intern at a startup which has monetary issues. I am a student pursuing MS in Computer Science. I work on multiple technologies and have nearly 5 years of experience developing web applications end-to-end for different clients. As I am looking for a full-
- How to get back into the market? So for the past 7 years I've been working at a comfy job but one where I didn't get to grow as much as I should have as a JAVA backed engineer. Have a MS Software Engineering degree but suck at technical interviews. Have been really demotivated to the point I just took a year off and just lived on s
- PM Interviews ARE COMPLETELY BROKEN Let me preface this by saying I have been a PM at Microsoft for the past 11 years where I have led massive teams and literally made the company billions of dollars and another 8 years of product experience at various startups before that, including my own which was acquired by Microsoft. About a ye
- Can't sleep properly, feels like giving up everything Currently I am working as software developer in India using tech stack (c++,scxml,nosql)state machine framework , which you might have not heard of. I am trying to change job from this company as most of work here is bug fixes now . Earlier I worked on developing portal on other project for a year.
- vote Microsoft Vs Expedia - Please Please Help Banging my head! Suggestions please! Expedia - I hated my team and so I started exporing opportunities outside. I interviewed with MS and got an offer, at the same time I shifted by team here at Expedia. Now I love my team and the work I am doing (customer facing stuff). Doing leadership stuff (mos
- link Is working on WinForms career suicide? Im a new grad working as an associate SWE, mostly working on .net framework/core web projects and background services. Recently, a ~50 employee company(owned by a larger parent company) is offering a mid-level SWE role with more of a focus on WinForm applications supporting hardware; some asp.net mv
- SDE Referrals needed NYC/Remote Terribly underpaid than market value and looking for a good switch, preferably in the NYC location or remote position (for family purpose) Hoping to switch to a company with good wlb, no office politics and good coding work (Java preferred). 4+ YOE Current role : SDE 2 Current pay : 78k on paper, 6
- Looking for job & career change from QA to DA/DE/DS Hi, I am currently working with Land O’Lakes QA team as QA Lead and I am looking to switch jobs in the field of data analytics, data science, data engineering and business intelligence. I have extensive experience in Automated testing, ETL testing, ERP testing, and many more. I have recently comp
- Big Data Engineer vs Data engineer I started my career as a java developer and moved to working with big data development using map reduce( later spark), nosql etc and then using some kind of rest framework(spring/play) to develop and expose the results via api. I did my MS in CS with a focus on parallel data processing. During this
- Which Language/Framework to Learn Other Than Javascript? Hey all, I am currently working a Full Stack Javascript Dev(MERN, GraphQL etc.) and I am quite good at it. Apart from that what other languages/frameworks should I learn? In almost all the JD(s) I can see that Java with Springboot/Akka etc. are preferred. Some are also looking for Golang experience
- System Firmware Engineer available at Marvell Santa Clara #jobopening #referral Hi guys, Our team is recruiting a system firmware engineer, here are some basic info --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOE: New grad with 0-2 years of experience Location: Marvell, Santa Clara Prod
- [India] L63 IC to FAANGMULA Manager: Need guidance Hello, I am currently MS L63 engineer(IC) joined around one and half years back. I have 15 years of exp. I can stay in Ms in current org or move to a different one. Or I can take this new EM opportunity. I have few points. You will see I am comparing my work-life before Ms, in MS and in new org....
- Should I change my career from software engineer to any other IT field? I’m extremely confused, feels like I have hit a roadblock or made all wrong choices. I have 5 YOE and I’m looking to switch companies, I interviewed with a few companies but they all seem to focus on data structures and algorithms and problems from leetcode. My work experience seems to irrelevant to
- Salesforce MTS India Hi folks, So I had asked for a referral for salesforce MTS position from a few folks at salesforce. One of the referrers had an opening in his team itself. So I was directly contacted by the manager. I couldn’t get what he was saying for some part. But I think the team is in Engineering Experience
- What TC/level for a startup founder at Google/Facebook? Hi for the past 2 and a half years I have been working on a startup, self funded as the sole engineer to build a product which is on a par with a new mobile operating system, or a programming language, or a IDE, or a machine learning framework like Tensorflow. Sorry for reasons of anonymity I cannot
- vote Plz Vote! Internship: Amazon VS Microsoft(C&AI) Hi, I just got two 2022 summer offers as a software engineer intern, both are in Seattle. It's my first formal internship. I will do it for a return offer. But as a student, I really don't know which tech area is more popular, where I'd like to do (what I learned so far is general), which company is
- Need advice-Switching from Engg. to Product Management I would like to switch to Product Management, but really feeling lost and confused ☹️ Would appreciate if fellow Blinders can provide some feedback: 1> Should i focus on Leetcode if I need to get into Google or Microsoft? 2> I am interested in Cloud technologies but do not have any experience
- Not learning anything new in my ML job I am an applied scientist at Microsoft, working on ML problems. My work is sometimes mindless. Nowadays, there exists so many ML/deep learning packages that take care of most of the ML work for you. I feel like my work is just to figure out what type of problem it is, import some relevant models, tw
- 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
- OPT looking to get a job I had to resign from my current job because of some issues related to how the organization was run(I can elaborate if you want). It wasn't a decision I wanted but after the incident I didn't feel like I could work there anymore. I am looking for entry level Software engineer/Software developer jobs.
- link Why is there so much automatic disrespect for companies using older tech? It seems like there are a lot of companies that people won't even consider because they're not using the latest buzzword framework or have legacy code to maintain, but many of those companies are much more mature and have more technical talent than companies that exist to put dog noses on people's f
- Got Facebook Offer, What next? Hi everyone! I recently got the offer for SWE Intern at Facebook for the summers'21 and looking forward to the next thing? In the current summers'20, Facebook has rescinded all the intern offers because they can't manage interns remotely(becz they don't have any engineering office in my country).
- How can i get into these 150K/250K high paying jobs ? Hi All, May be i am being too ambitious,but i am wondering how can i get into those high salary jobs like in Google/FB/Microsoft/Netflix etc.. I feel that my career path is not in the right way.My technical background and professional timelibes is shown below. YOE : Total 6 years. 3 years in Ind
- India: PhD Student Machine Learning/Operations Queries Hello blind community, I am a newbie here. I am a PhD student (at a Tier-1 institute) with a focus on Machine Learning and Operations. My work tries to make operational processes such as delivery, packaging efficient. Also, I recently started looking at NLP. I am planning to graduate by the end of
- Need referral Hello Everyone, My brother is looking for software engineer summer internship for 2022. He is currently pursuing bachelors in computer science and will be graduating in 2023.It would be great if anyone could help hi with referrals for internship positions in any roles like Software Engineer/ Softwa
- Transitioning from Hardware to Software I have been contemplating moving from a hardware role to software, and would appericiate some advice. A little about myself: I do hardware development for Apple in a pretty niche area and make decent money for my work experience (~240k TC with 4 yrs work experience). Lately I've been feeling burned
- To the people who quickly moved up the ladder During the break I am constantly thinking about what I am doing, how to excel in the current role. I consider myself lucky in last few years to land in amazing team (alexa) and worked at massive scale and worked with smart people. Recently joined as staff @ Mongo. I also consider myself lucky to mov
- Have you ever heard about SAP hybris? (Would you work at it?) From what I understand this sap hybris thing is a cms for generating e-shops, similar to Magento and zencart, only it is written in java and is owned by SAP. It has a monolith architecture and from what I saw it is based on pretty old tech (jsps, lots of xmls) and a lot of custom stuff. The fact th
- The next opportunity TL;DR: M1 at MSFT seeking advice on the next career step. 1) Join another big corp, 2) join a startup or 3) create a startup/business of own. I am lucky to be in a situation where the possibilities are limitless. However, this limitlessness also puts me in limbo. Here is the backstory: I had
- link PM Interview Prep Plan: How I got PM offers from Google, Expedia, Microsoft, and Facebook Five months ago I got fedup with the crap culture at Amazon (needs a separate post) and decided to start working on my game plan for interviews at tech companies. Now, I have three offers from the tech companies - Expedia is travel not in the same league I know. No trolls please. Profile: CS Engine
- The tech industry we grew up with is over. Welcome to the new Wall Street When I started programming in 2005, the SV and startup culture was counter cultural. They were the little guys standing up to the giants, trying to make a positive difference. No one thought Google or Yahoo as evil back then, Microsoft was the big bad evil empire -- the scourge of the planet. It wa
- LinkedIn is shit! Here is my rant: Been in LinkedIn for 2 years now. This is the worst company I have worked for!! Why? 1. The tech stack is sooo freaking old and weird 2. We build everything in-house and that is kinda like burning money (we have been trying to reinvent graphql for the last 5 years I think - like eve
- vote Why is there so little information about SDET -> SWE transition? I am currently an SDET at a networking company. I mostly work on internal tools and automation frameworks. Internal tooling sometimes involves some dev type work with front end and backend technologies. I kind of enjoy my work but I also want to switch to SWE in the near future (partly due to the f
- vote What roles to target ? ML or SE ? Hi, I am a Senior Developer currently working in a CPG Industry in Midwest USA. For the last 3 years, I have been involved in different projects and got to work on building Machine Learning pipelines (Labeling, Training, Evaluation) on both AWS and GCP. I have also built data pipelines, deployed M
- vote Sad about missing my big payday and joining a smaller company I had taken a break from work at the start of this year due to mental health and am now looking for a job. Been interviewing at all the big firms and got a big NO cause I underestimated the importance of practising LeetCode (was more of a pen paper solver) . I have 2 offers -- one from Zeta and anot
- From Solution Engineer Mgr to SWE (which level?) I am thinking about switching from my current role (Solution Engineering Manager) to Software Engineer in a big tech. firm (Google, Microsoft or Amazon). I am pretty confident that if I prep well I can crack the interviews, but based on my background (see below) which level should I target ? By the
- SDE1 to internship YOE 4.5. Both at 200 person sized midwest tech companies, no names in generally, especially the tech industry. Gotten phone interview with google, onsite with fb, onsite with amazon, onsite with yelp. All rejected. Onsite still up for microsoft. Now I know I have improved at LC question. And prolly
- Season of giving back - Resources for product role Happy Holidays everyone: In the spirit of the season of giving back I am creating this quick summary of useful resources that I have come across this year in my effort to get better at product management and find a new job at one of the product companies in Bay Area. While I am yet to get an offer
- Landing an Interview as an Indie Developer Hi Team Blind! I’m a self-taught indie iOS developer from non-tech background currently making about $60K with my app. And I’m wondering how you guys think about my chances to get an engineer interview. About myself: After getting out of my previous non-tech job where I spent about a year, I’ve s
- Microsoft Promote IQ - Engineering Org Culture Insider Info I've seen several postings asking about the culture in the Engineering organization at Microsoft Promote IQ. I am a member of the organization and can provide prospective employees some inside information. The engineers in the organization are very good and on the whole are good collaborators and v
- Career Guidance India Hi Folks. Need help. Kindly read with patience my long post. About me: Revealing TC YOE would reveal my identity. Consider mid-range YOE (4-8) and mid-range TC (25-35LPA). Senior Engineer. I am Python/Django/React generalist SWE full stack background. No system design / distributed systems exp. Coa
- Can't Find Good Jobs To Apply To I'm from Palm Desert, CA. Mainly into computer vision and robotics, but I also do web dev (aka soy dev) stuff for profitability in between semesters. React, Svelte, WebAssembly, Flutter, Flask. I worked on using Nvidia Jetson and Intel Movidius for mobile robotics in a research lab at uni. I did a c
- What are some current startups with impressive founders? Like: - Mark and Gates, who were already programming prodigies before going to Harvard (and in a similar vein Dbx founders and MIT alumni Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi). - Steve Wozniak, went to UCB and an absolute prodigy with computers. - Bezos, who studied EECS at Princeton before becoming a
- 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
- What are the 7Rs of Cloud Migration Strategy? Introduction Cloud migration strategies are high-level plans adopted by an organization to move their existing on-premise workloads and data to cloud environments or switch from one cloud service to another. The choice of cloud migration strategies varied according to the levels of agility, scalabil
- Referrals in Tech Hello seasoned Referral-Peoples and fellow Blind Society (braille / text to voice when?), I posted once a week ago but my time has come to drive this forward. I have meditated on the mountains, played 5 rounds of hop-scotch, and have revised my resume more times than I have had coffee. I'm a Produc