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- Is working at nest = working for Google (alphabet)? Had several recruiters ping me from Nest on LinkedIn. Is working for nest the same thing as working for Google in terms of interviewing bar? Are employees free to internally move to other companies in alphabet from nest? What's the culture like at nest? Same benefits, pay, perks?
- FAANG Are acquired companies like nest, audible, ect. considered FAANG?
- Alphabet How non-Google alphabet companies (nest, fiber,X) are doing?
- Transfer from Nest to Google If you’re a current Nest employee, say a Software Engineer, how hard is it to transfer to Google? Do they require you to go through another interview process just like others outside the company? Or do you just talk to Nest HR and they’ll work it out with you? I heard someone saying that Nest HR wil
- Alphabet companies interview difficulty It owns Google but how about other companies under alphabet, easier to get in than Google? Eg nest, waymo, loon, wing, verily etc. TC 210
- Google Acquisition - Pay Increase or Decrease when google acquires a company, do the employees from the acquired get leveled based on google’s payband or keep the existing TC? @looker @nest
- vote Google Team Match Play vs Store vs Next L3 Had a call with 3 team matching teams at Google. 1) Google Play - Deals with publishing applications on play store, auto updating android applications, auto updating play store itself. Backend role. 2) Google Store (Backend role) - Team that facilitates order returns/ replacements 3) Google Nest -
- vote FIRE seems attractive to 28 year old single guys only FIRE is a concept that’s attractive to a single 25-30 year old but IMO very few people actually can do it . Life happens and there is a lot of randomness that goes along with it . Marriage , kids , house , education, healthcare etc . It’s good to build a nest egg for emergencies or retirement but un
- Recent Nest News There's been some buzz and a recent article about the CEO of Nest, Tony Fadell, putting down the engineers from the Dropcam acquisition as "not good as he thought they were." The CEO of Dropcam wrote a medium article in response to the article. What are your thoughts about Nest, the company, and a
- vote Who do you trust less with your doorbell data? Google or Amazon Debating whether to get a smart doorbell either a Ring or Nest. All my phone, location, blah blah blah data is already owned by any company with an App, but feel like the home front has been the one place Of refuge and privacy (Google earth aside). Now I’ll be giving a live feed of my house/neighbor
- Employee hardware discount What discount do employees get for company hardware? Apple (iphone/ipad/macbook/etc) Google (pixel phone/nest/google home/etc) Amazon (echo devices/ring/etc) Microsoft (surface devices/xbox/etc) : 15%
- Internally Moving From Alphabet Subsidiary to Google My recruiter for one of Alphabet's subsidies told me that it's easy to transfer to other companies under Alphabet (including Google) without having to re-interview. So long as the job I'm applying for is similar in another Alphabet company, I was told that I would just need to put a packet together
- Google cooldown How does Google cooldown work? If you apply for some specialist position and fail, can you apply for a general SWE ? Or one failure puts you in the cooldown? What about other companies in alphabet like Waymo and youtube? Is failure in one automatically gets reflected in sister companies? #google
- IoT, Home Automation, Wearable HW Companies I am a Hardware Engineer looking to transition into consumer facing product design and am passionate about IoT, Home Automation, and Wearables. Here are a list of companies I am already looking into: Nest, Fitbit, Google, Amazon Labs, Apple Any other promising companies out there you guys recommend
- Coast careers What companies or career paths are suitable for an ex-SWE once you’ve accumulated a nest egg for retirement? I don’t mean completely slacking off, just lower stress roles with TC >60K. Edit to further clarify: <40h work weeks No on-call No up or out No forced attrition No politics No arbitra
- Constantly make it to the final stages of design interviews but don’t get the job I’ve interviewed with Google, Amazon, Nest, Palantir, and some other companies. I make it through every stage flawlessly but at the end don’t make it through. It’s definitely not a question of skills. Does anyone know common reasons for this? Maybe I just don’t fit in with them?
- Corporate Nepotism Is Corporate Nepotism an issue just at Google or in other tech companies as well? For example - hiring of friends from past employers and elevating them to broad Scopes and positions without them having earned it while others have to prove themselves and work their way up the ladder (which based on
- Help me choose an offer Have offers from Google, Uber and Apple for SWE role and not sure which one to choose. Google L4: Google sounds stable but boring. TM done. Need to choose between Nest and GCP. Nest team seemed better. Numbers not given yet. Location: Bay Area Apple: ICT3. AMP org. Team looked good and offered ro
- Lyft vs Nest vs Amazon I have verbal offers from these companies for software engineering roles ( I have around 3.5 years of experience along with a Masters ). Will hopefully get the numbers this week. I am inclined a bit towards lyft as its still young, seemed to have good culture and felt like the work will be exciting.
- Interview question Asked a following question in faang company interview and would like to ask people how this can be done in 35-40 mins. Write a program which takes a json payload and path as input and return the element that exists at the path, if path is valid. Note : Handle corner cases in the program. In gener
- Verily New Grad, is the company promising? Can anyone in Google who knows Verily / ex-Verily SWE or is a Verily SWE tell me if the company is a promising place to work? More specifically, I want to know if comp and career growth is similar to Google's and if the company is doing well. How is transferring to other bets and Google in case I'm
- why someone’s code is not readable I had a coworker, whose code is disgusting. They have been working for 15+ years, and their code is the worst I have ever seen in my 7 year career. I don’t know exactly why their code is making me uncomfortable, but they have a lot of >500 line functions, and a lot of nested if-else, of which the
- Alphabet hiring bar and internal transfer I have gotten the sense from some Googlers that the hiring bar for SWE is different for certain parts of the company. If you apply to Nest, could you later transfer to cloud and vice versa? It sounded like people applied to the part where they would interview best, then after one year, transferred
- Got rejected by Google with employee Referral Hi Googlers If any of you were in a similar situation I would love to hear how you managed to tackle the situation to eventually land that or another position at Google I applied with a referral for PMM Google Nest coming from a background in mechanical engineering and brand management for a consu
- Smart Camera Hacked !! Hacker talking Hello everyone, I am a co-founder of a cybersecurity company looking for feedback The other day I spoke to a mom about how a hacker breached her smart camera and was talking to her children. That was scary, which means that sometimes a lot of people may have been breached but are not aware. Pleas
- FANG obsession? What is this obsession with fang? I’m sorry but these companies are destroying the world and you all want to be a part of it? I don’t think you all realize how POWERFUL your skills as a software engineer are. Please think about how these companies are shaping society. Facebook/ Instagram is direct
- Building Apartment Communities in India similar to US? I have been in US for close to 4 years and have usually rented apartments which are managed very well. When I moved from east coast to west coast, I just booked the apartment online without even visiting. One company owns the entire portfolio (100+ apartments) which makes it highly scalable. In I
- Google Bangalore: Projects, Promotions, & Compensation? I see too many job openings for Google India especially Bangalore region, however, there seem to be *very few* interesting teams/products that are being worked on there, considering Bangalore to be the silicon valley of India. Google Bangalore has the following teams: Google Home & Nest, Search, GP
- New Parents savings advice Hello, We’re fresh off the mill new parents! What are the best savings advice to help us create a nest egg for our baby? Here’s our situation and balance sheet: * Spouse’s company folded while on Maternity break. * They’re on pending H4 right now while recovering from the delivery * Savings: $200
- How to learn advanced SQL quickly for DE interview I have an interview externally for a data eng position at a non-FAANG, but kind of large company. I work in a non-technical role at amazon - but I can code in Java/Python quite well and have solved 600 LC problems. Trouble is most of those were for DS&A, as I was trying to become an SDE . A friend
- Retire with $5M in the Bank? I’m 38, married, dual income, two kids under 10, own my house, live in Silicon Valley, and generally hate every aspect of working for a company. Unfortunately, I’m not an engineer or entrepreneur, so the corporate grind is my only option. My wife and my goal is to stop “having” to work in our earl
- Looking for a company that has good WLB and allows living/working in two countries I've worked at Amazon for more than 7 years and I think its time for a change. My dream is to FIRE and live multi-nationally, and I think I've saved up enough of a nest egg to start looking for a job that actually cares about the people working for them. I'm looking for a company with good WLB that
- Yet another Masters in US vs L1 post from an Indian I have seen a lot of MS vs L1 posts on blind but the answer always tends to depend on the situation of the person. So here's mine, - College hire, L59 (will be L60 in the July cycle) - I have close to ~9.5 CGPA and generally like CS - I like the idea of living in the US and have come to realise that
- Terrible onboarding experience. I wanna quit. I’m only 2 months in, but it’s been hell. The onboarding experience has been the worst. I haven’t had a formal reoccurring 1-1 meeting with my current manager and every time I ask about it, they say they’ll get around to scheduling it. My onboarding buddy also went on PTO so I never had a go to per
- Developer Burnout I appear to be doing well career-wise, with a senior development position with good pay and benefits. I am definitely in a privileged position. But I am feeling completely burnt out. I have worked at this company for a long time and am tired of the politics and subject matter and the thought of goin
- Seeking a mentor to break into fang to turn around my sudden bankrupted life Long story short. In past couple of weeks, I bankrupted my life by burning up 680k which is my entire current saving/retirement fund or 20yr saving at current rate. I don’t want to talk much about why i did what i did or dwell on past actions that I cant change. As much as I am depressed, Only way I
- vote Got offer from a FAANG but worried the impact on WLB with a high schooler I used to work as a manager in a major FAANG company but got laid off right before the pandemic hit, after multiple interviews finally I got a job for an IC role at a start up in August last year. It has been really heart breaking to lose such a promising job that I used to love, but at the same tim
- vote Worth learning OOP as a Data Scientist? Hello blind. I’m less than a year into my new role as Data Scientist with no other technical background. I create, tune, analyze models in functions and nested functions. They get me the results I want and I just continue to improve it from there. My peers are satisfied in my coding (aside from add
- vote Help me achieve my chess dream. I was a relatively strong chess player in middle school (~2200 USCF at age 14), but quit due to parental pressure to focus on academics and college admissions. However, looking back almost a decade later, I think that was the last time I was truly happy. People throw around the word passion a lot, b
- Interview tips for laid off engineers or those preparing for interviews Yesterday's layoffs at Uber, and other ongoing layoffs have many preparing for job interviews. For those Blinders who struggle a lot with algorithmic interview questions and/or are rusty on their coding skills, I'd like to share a few interview tips that have helped me interview at FANG++ comp
- X-Treme Long Distance Commute??? TPM Google Newly created one-off L7 Was contacted direct by a google recruiter who told me that the specific team for this position had seen my LinkedIn profile and was very interested in me (they hadn’t even seen my resume when they offered me an interview) The position requires two different worlds of exper
- vote A Facebook interviewer told me if I didn't get the maximum stock gain in O(n) time, I won't even go to onsite interview I went to a first round Facebook interview, and I requested to be on campus, since the phone can be unclear. *It was for a web front end dev role* So the interviewer asked me to solve the "Maximum Stock Gain" problem. Simply enough, given an array of stock prices, such as from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of
- link 125 cold applications to 5 offers AMZN disclaimers: Not on PIP. Good team and work. meh comp. Blind Tax: 230K, L5, 7 YOE 125 cold applications across 40 companies 21 phone interviews/online assessments 15 virtual onsite interviews 5 offers Interview Summary: - All interviews were targeted for Senior/Staff Software Engineer roles.
- link Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2 I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc
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- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?