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- Looking for SDE 2 opportunities at Hyderabad/ Banglore Hi Folks, I am looking for change and it would be great if I can get referal at below firms #salesforce #atlassian #vmware #adobe #oci #intuit #gojek #microsoft #tech #sde2 #cisco #Lowe Please do chip in for other great firms with good work life balance Total Experience 3 yrs TC 19.5 Tech
- Is Microsoft office crapware? I joined EMC and I got a monstrous 17 windows laptop. I have been an Apple user for last decade. The machine is terrible, slow, cheap and plastic. But that’s not the main problem. In order to access the corporate email I started a tool called outlook. I logged on to the exchange server and can acc
- Too late for engineering? I’m 34. My whole life I’ve been either and artist or a web developer (the HTML and CSS and Ruby kind, not the cool Node servers and React kind). Working at Microsoft as a PM with some incredible engineers for a year made me realize: software engineering is really cool. Algorithms? Weekend fun! Data
- link Full stack Dev TC I am a Microsoft full stack developer (ASP.NET C# SQL-Server MVC) contracting at mostly big companies with over 20 YOE. I am making $85/hr W-2 with no bennies. This is the most I’ve ever made and usually 130k is a good year. Not gonna lie, my field is flooded with H-1Bs. I live in SoCal and see
- Offer from Microsoft - Customer Engineer, Security Hi all, I’m looking to get some more context on an offer I got from Microsoft. The initial offer is for a Level 61 position as a ‘Customer Engineer, Security’ (formally known as Premier Field Engineer) Offer is: $125k base $5k sign on bonus $30k sign on stock over 4 years ($7.5 per year) TC: $137.
- Need referrals for remote Data Analyst / BI / Data Science Current Role: BI Analyst II Looking for referral to tech sector remote Data roles. I have been a BI Analyst at a small transportation company for 5 years, which has been interesting, but my heart is in tech and I can't take the data illiteracy from the old culture employees any longer. Remote requ
- System Design Interview Preparation Tips Hello, I am just starting to prepare for SDE interviews, primarily targeting FANG, Microsoft , Uber, Lyft, Dropbox etc. Regarding system design interview what is the general expectations in terms of depth. Like if we take the question “Design YouTube” , the scope of the question is huge. So how de
- .NET Core vs .NET Framework The .NET core vs .NET Framework debate has been going on for a while now. .NET Core and .NET Framework are two different framework implementations from Microsoft, with one having evolved from the other. Wondering what is .NET used for? Though both the platforms are used for building server-side appl
- FAANG+ Company with the best documentation and internal processes I've spent most of my career working on teams with sparse documentation, ambiguous requirements and non existent processes. We feel more like a loosely organized mob of engineers than a fortune 500 company. Anytime something needs to get done, all of the information about our systems and procedures
- Should I switch to SWE or can I continue as a BIE? I have about 10 YoE Business Intelligence. Started with MS SQL server, became a consultant/trainer in Qlik and some tableau. My last role pushed me toward DevOps by having me stand up the new reporting servers. I learned PowerShell and automated a ton of my admin role. The platform is stable and I g
- New grad sde, Amazon or Microsoft? So I got offers from those two and I'm not really sure which one to accept yet. The compensation is more or less similar and so is the work and team. Here's pros and cons that I think of but I'd like to hear from you as well. Amazon Pros - Stock refresher, java/Linux development environment which I
- Please help me break into Tech! Hi Everyone, I am interested in breaking in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Growth/Marketing Insights Role within Big Tech - and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on technical skills (or even certifications) which I would need to be qualified/competitive for the aforementioned rol
- Referrals for Data Engineering / BI jobs in Europe or Canada Hi All, I am hoping to get some contacts or referrals for Data Engineering / BI job opportunities in Europe or Canada. I am currently working in United States but willing to move out, either in Canada or Europe ( Netherlands/Germany/Switzerland/Norway ), essentially English speaking positions. H
- 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
- vote Wayfair-getting better? Hello guys, I recently got an offer from wayfair as L3 in data engineering team. The team looked good but didn’t ask many questions on the tech stack and work. It felt like They’re using GCP mainly. However, after coming to blind and reading about the lack of cloud access and about the php code ba
- Data Engineer role skills My skills are : 1. SQL Server as a developer and as a DBA.Worked in other relational database systems as well. 2.Not so popular BI tool for reporting/ETL. 3. CSS/JavaScript UI work as part of reporting 4.Have MSFT Azure fundamentals certification. No real cloud experience. 5.Been learning
- link Help with System Design (paid) mock interview I am an EM at Microsoft (L66 - almost L67). TC - ~400k USD I have been appearing for Google L7 EM. I have given all 5 interviews (Org Strategy, People Management, Tech Leadership, 2 System Design). I have reasons to believe that I did really well (very strong hire) in all rounds except system desi
- Github Onsite Hey Blinders, I have an on-site with Github coming soon. I heard the interview loops are different from other FAANG and FAANG-like companies. - Can anyone from Github give me a pointer on what to prepare? - Do you ask system design questions ala. "Can you design Twitter?" ? - Do you ask LC questi
- Alternative to GMail Trying to gradually reduce my exposure to Facebook and Google knowing everything about my life. Next step is to get my email away from them. Gmail is a good product but it's unfortunately a Google product, and Google simply knows too much about me. Not convinced that Outlook mail is going to be a
- Ouch, Amazon Just spent the last two months prepping for an interview with Amazon for a Solutions Architect position in LA. Found out Monday after completing The Loop last week that I didn't get it. Massively disappointing, especially as they do not provide feedback as a policy. Trying to view this as a growth
- Microsoft - Tiktok Acquisition Business/Technical Feasibility Sharing a list of questions I have around on how it will play out - 1. The discussion is predominantly around buying US operations. What does that mean? Will there be a new app in app store for US users, i don't think how otherwise business/engg will be separated. 2. If yes, then who gets to keep n
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 2 Part 3 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 This is part 2 of a series. Here is part 1 which has a long intro: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-System-Design---Part-1-4yufM3RY 0. Preface Let me touch on some points from Part 1 flood of comments: Is Nathan
- What are examples of tasks that look good on a resume bullet point which show professional SWE experience in big tech? Tasks that show in-industry experience in big tech and make you look like a professional developer. Probably tasks that someone would not have done if it were just a small personal project. For example, Here are some tasks I've worked on at Microsoft so far which I probably would not have done from
- 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
- If you have been fired, share your story I’ve been fired twice in my career, both times back to back and both times because I wasn’t doing any work. The first time I was 1 month into the job and I totally saw it coming. I was just completely uninterested in the code base but the job paid well. I thought I could coast for a while but I was
- 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
- Crumbling State of AWS (Ops Overhead) Lately, to me it looks like AWS is going to loose market share. Here are my reasons. 1. So many rants on Blind about majority of AWS work being done on OPS only. Does this indicate that AWS's architect is bad? 2. Are the other cloud providers have some other advanced mitigation techniques which AW
- [Rant] Microsoft India Interview Experience. Recently had a really bad interview experience with Microsoft India. They reached out to me via LinkedIn. I specifically asked if it was a drive, they said no. I asked this because in previous exp i was put in a drive and had bad experience where the interviewer was disconnected from my expertise a
- Chances at getting noticed for PM ? Hello Blind! I have a bit of an odd background so I’d like to get some opinions on it. I’m going back and forth about whether or not it would be worth it do a bootcamp like Product School or just straight up start practicing mock interviews and applying for jobs. I have a degree in Manufacturing E
- 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
- vote Should I stay at my current company? Okay, I am quite happy with my current company where I work as a sr. data engineer and here are some reasons: 1. First, pay is good. It is not FAANG level high with stocks but it is good. (40 LPA with stocks/4) and benefits for 6 yoe. Last two increments were also good. I am a level L here. 2. My t
- Leaving job and setting up team for success. I am leaving my job of about 18 months as a data analyst. When I came on there was no one managing data. Over time i built out pipelines using Python and MS office (automate, power query for ETL, etc) as well as a bunch of dashboards that are used across multiple brands/departments for BI. This led
- Failed AWS Sr Solutions Architect Tech Phone Interview + Questions List So I recently had a first phone interview for a senior SA role at AWS, I felt really good after the call but got the rejection this morning and was devastated.. The interview started with 2 behavioral questions then a small customer scenario (so was neither a role play or a system design but somethi
- 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
- vote Do you love tech for tech? I genuinely love tech, computer science, coding etc. People sometimes meet me and say, "good choice - you picked a field that's high paying/in demand". Thing is, I didn't get into tech for the money. When i got introduced to coding in 9th grade, I had no idea what type of jobs there were for it or h
- 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
- Complained about my bad manager to HR , got placed on a PIP I told HR my manager has been assigning work to me that should be done by other employees. My manager has explicitly told me that the additional work should be easy for me to do. I told HR my manager marks all my projects as top priority. I am being ask to summarize and make things less technical f
- 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