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- Anyone know Lattice Engines? Got a very tentative sounding verbal offer from them - no comp details yet. I liked the people I met and the tech stack is familiar. OTOH, they're small/obscure enough I know nothing about them and there's nobody in my network there... so I have zero visibility into how they're doing or what the p
- Easiest way to get into FAANG/MANGA without leetcode Currently I work for a startup as a swe, I spend like 50% of my time on calls with customers debugging all kind of issues from networking, operating systems, dns, disks to distributed applications, etc. The other 50% of the time I spend it doing full stack development and application security stuff
- aws lightsail case study So I am interviewing for a cloud solution architect position at a start up im in the final round they asked me to create a lamp stack on a cloud of my choice with git as my repo so i chose aws long story short, my kid had to go to the e r and have been dealing with that.. i dont have time to fi
- Software eng -> quant transition I’m a few years (a “senior software engineer”) into my career as a full stack software engineer in San Francisco. I’m getting bored of full stack web dev and thinking about transitioning to the finance world as a quant – I want something new where I could learn a lot and I’ve been interested in the
- am I pigeonholed? Fresh grad here, I might be overthinking, but I am scared I am pigeonholed into switches domain. I started at Arista because I thoroughly enjoyed the network course at my school. Back then, networking stuff looked cool to me, working with packets and all. I love the projects that I am working on at
- vote Best PM resume brands for capital raising Seeing a lot of Standford grads, ex-google, and ex-Meta engineers raising capital from VCs and angels. Very often, their rounds are oversubscribed. IMHO there’s definite brand-driven cachet when the founding team is stacked with Standford and Google (and other prestigious brands) Eng. What’s the e
- Offers from VMware and F5 Networks. How do I negotiate ? I got offer from VMware last week, I accepted the offer verbally, background check and other things were started already but I didn't accept it yet in the recruitment portal. Meanwhile I received offer from F5 Networks. I'm not really good at negotiations,How should I negotiate ? (may be I shall try
- Hiring SDE-2s and SDE-3s for leading development of new AWS products @ Seattle We are building new products in a rapidly growing and innovative space. You'll work on a wide spectrum of technologies- distributed systems, browser technologies, video streaming technologies, IoT technologies, systems & network engineering. A great opportunity to join these product initiatives at
- Declining an offer | Please help I have already accepted an offer from a bank for a platform Engineering role with Java tech stack. I recently received an offer from a networking company for a Jr. DotNet dev position which is paying me 13% more but it has a 2 years service bond that I had to sign. Despite the TC raise, I’m not at
- Specializing in mobile infrastructure Hello all, I’m an iOS engineer interested in learning about mobile infrastructure teams at bigger companies (especially Google and Facebook). Currently, I work on all parts of the mobile stack but I would like to move away from working on the UI and spend more time working on non-user facing featur
- What's the best way to upskill? I feel like I've spent initial stages of my career doing work I wasn't interested in, but now its all I have to sell myself on. If I wanted to switch specialties to networking or full stack, what are the best opportunities to learn so I can land relevant opportunities later? Considering a master's o
- vote Need help choosing between internship offers I'm fortunate enough to have these internship offers for the summer, and I'm so worried I'll pick the wrong company. I'm still interviewing at Google, LinkedIn, and a few other companies. All numbers in USD. How would you rank these offers? I've listed them in my order of preference atm. Sift
- Anyone looking for a technical cofounder in Seattle? I'm looking for cofounders with solid startup ideas. I'm an experienced software engineer who's been all over the stack. Main strengths are backend development, and also have experience with Machine Learning systems in production. I'll be upfront and say that I'm open to any startup ideas besides
- vote CS study, Bootcamp, or Leetcode? Trying to figure out what's most important at this stage of my career. Want to move around in the next year-ish and already have recruiters from Meta and Amazon reaching out now, but I'm still trying to prepare for those interviews. I have a bachelors in IT and about 6 years experience (1 as a SWE,
- vote Giving non-technical cofounder 47.5% too much? Hi, I've been working on a B2B SaaS (HR tech) startup on the side for a few years: -Product half-way to MVP (initially B2C, recent pivot to B2B - currently adding/editing features). -Novel approach to neglected problem (can't come up with this w/o deep problem exploration). -Target Beta launch mid
- How to decide on the offer Got an internal team offer. But have other external interview scheduled in mid to late this month. What will you do? Upper side of this internal offer: Team is technically strong, has core business to the company, manager has good influence and being professional, the techniques they are building i
- What should I build in C? I have done a lot of side projects in the past, mostly for fun and learning. Used to do apps and websites then built some distributed systems things like a simple service mesh, etc. I made a game with Unity, and I've also done a few ML projects. Now I'd like to do something "close to the metal" in
- Software engineer referral needed Posting for my friend who is in college: Beautiful people I am in need of a new job. I have completed 100+ leetcode (medium and hard included ) and I am still working my way up. I am graduating in May 2019 I have about 1 year work experience and I have done multiple internships. I love working wit
- Finding a New Job I've been looking so intently -- and tapping my personal network -- trying to find new PM or Data Science roles at a different company, but I haven't had success getting interviews. I've gotta get out of Amazon...I'm so exhausted and tired of the boring work I'm doing. I'm a very qualified candidat
- Truth Social - HIRE ME! I think most people are underestimating how large Trump's following is and what the potential growth story of a new social network without the threat of censor to conservatives would be. I don't care much for politics, but the idea of having an alternative platform that isn't hostage to the politica
- link Facebook production engineering Interview mega thread I been to onsite but not able to clear interview and this thread to help others from my and others experience. I find from time to time , question related to the same and this thread will help interviews for Linkedin, Google, Twitter, Apple kind of Tech SRE interview as well. Here is the interview
- vote Breadth vs Depth in Tech Skills Breadth vs depth in technical skills? Which is better? Breadth - work on a team that covers a little of everything, some device side work, some console work, some backend work, some data analysis work, some ML work, etc, but everything is only scratching the surface, doing just enough to get it to
- G Security People in Chicago? Would love to meet sometime and chat! I’ve seen a few roles posted here and there for G security roles in Chicago. I have a few contacts at G but none in security roles so they had little information. I’ve worked for a few start ups but always wanted to see if I could make it at a FAANG but also now getting a little further in my career
- Looking for advice to land SWE at Apple Hi All, I am looking for advice to land a job at Apple as SWE. Masters, New grad 2020 with multiple past internships exp , some side projects and currently full time with exposure to tech stack like django python api development react , starting with microservices on current job. How I can plan wor
- Companies worth to apply in Seattle area or remote Going to make interview round in April/March. Not going to leave Seattle are and like to interview with those who have office in Seattle or accept remote permanently. Looking Senior Developer or above. I did a lot with Microsoft stack before, but like GoLang and currently do a lot Cloud things with
- Entry Level Requirements Attempting to career switch here amidst Boeing voluntary layoffs coming, which accelerates my timeline. What is expected in terms of portfolio for entry level at non-FAANG Tier 2/3 companies? Aiming for a role that can at least match my current comp. Aiming for entry level backend/full-stack roles
- Working as an AEM Architect in Cognizant Canada. Looking for a career change after moving back to India next year Hello, I am currently employed in Cognizant Canada as an AEM architect which is 60% Java and 40% front end technologies like React for 5+ years. But I have to move to India for good next year due to family constraints. However, the salaries in India doesn't look good for AEM as the scope is only li
- Job prospects for 1.5 YOE software engineer Hello, I am currently a junior software developer with a little over a year of experience(not at Intel) and no computer science degree (have an engineering bachelors not related to coding). I was wondering what my job prospects would look like a few months out from now if I started to apply? Are the
- Machine learning career Hi Blind community, Back in the university, I really enjoyed neural networks course and now I'm thinking about changing my career path into that direction. Especially, I'm interested in deepfake, video recognition etc. But, I don't know where to start. Reading books and theory is good, but what's
- Give Back Time! Thank you blind for all the help! I am here to give back to fellow blinders with prep materials. 12 offers secured so far: Verkada - 285 Google - 260 (low balling and crying they won’t budge if u don’t have FB - L4) LinkedIn - 290 Bloomberg - 270 Goldman Sachs - 240 Twilio - 260 6 other series C a
- Entry Level Data Engg jobs Posting for a friend - He rejected an offer on East Coast to look for jobs in Bay Area just before COVID after his MIS degree. Had interviews lined up and all vanished in March. Then he had to settle for a smaller company due to the slowdown right after. It’s a badly managed place with very taxing h
- What is the onboarding process and benefits of Microsoft Bangalore? I am going to join Azure Networking team in Bangalore. Level:62, TC: 58L, YOE:7 Tech stack: C# .Net and C++ I wanted to understand a few things. I have always used Linux or Mac and I heavily use terminal(Bash/zsh). Will I be asked for my choice of laptop and if yes can I select Mac Pro? Do manage
- Can i list volunteer experience in Normal work experience section of resume. I'm a new grad(canada) and didn't have much experience apart from one internship( Full stack Mainly worked on backend- Nodejs ) at a startup. I'm not even getting calls 🥺. Applied to tons of jobs 50% rejections or never received any response. Apart from the internship i have worked on developing a
- Yelp Offer Evaluation Posting this on behalf of a Friend I have an offer from Yelp London IC2 role. Compensation - £75K + £8K + £9K + 5% annual bonus + 75K USD stocks (4 years) YOE: 2.7 years Blind Tax: Current Compensation: 33K + 20K ESOPS(4 years) SDE2 at an Indian startup(Poor WLB) I am looking for * Tech learnin
- Does FAANG ask anything else besides DS/Algos/System Design in the tech interview? Just as the title says. Do interviewers for mid-level positions in USA ask anything else besides DS/Algos in the tech interview? Like knowledge on networking, object oriented design, design patterns, api design, operating systems, if you have experience in a specific tech stack? I find it hard to
- vote Meta vs. Jump offer eval Meta TC: 470k + 100k signon (E5) Jump TC: 450k (guaranteed) + 150k signon (core dev) Meta Pros: - Unprecedented upside opportunity at a public company with all-time low stock and great offer for my YOE. With stacking refreshers the guaranteed comp here is rock solid - Large networking opportunity
- Referrals from former colleagues now in FANG? I have several people in my LinkedIn network who are currently in FANG companies who I originally met in my university or part time jobs. However I generally haven't chatted with them in several years, and I'm not sure how well they actually remember me, if at all. Is it worth trying to reach out t
- Google’s Boq Wiz Soy framework Hi, guys. I heard Google uses Boq, Wiz and Soy as frontend/backend technologies. How do you guys think about it? My wife is going to join a Google team using these technologies. She don’t know is it a good position or not. She is going to be a front end engineer and maybe a full stack engineer in
- trust glassdoor reviews? So I recently accepted an offer from a law firm for an IT infrastructure internship. However, reading the glassdoor reviews now, EVERY review talks shit about the CIO... when I interviewed, they mentioned their tech stack was behind times, but also said that they are "working" on fixing this. My m
- Negotiating non disparagement before getting fired at FB Best way to go about this? My team works 80-100 hrs a week and I’ve documented it, where you can see when they submit code and many of them do so at 2 am on weekends on top of working late hours during weeks. I work in ads and it’s a shit show. Antiquated tech stack, no senior eng leads, just a mes
- Careers in Crypto-Related Companies? Hi everyone, I'm currently looking to switch jobs and been receiving interview opportunities from crypto companies (e.g. crypto firms with running revenue model and Series A-Z funding - e.g. CHZ, Storj, LivePeer, Stacked, etc.). The roles are specifically for Data Science. Some of them made it cl
- vote Facebook vs Uber: Backend Services tech stack I am from networking background. I am deciding between Facebook and Uber. One of the main criteria in my next job is to pic a team, which has a better tech stack, something that will be useful to me outside of the company as well. My area of interest is Backend services and distributed systems. Ube
- next steps after infrastructure? hi everyone, I have almost 3YOE in IT at my org and have worked in our infrastructure stack the whole time. I started off doing physical work, then network/server config management, and now work in public cloud. I have a CS degree from a state school (CSU in CA). I would like to earn more, and afte
- Leaving defense for tech interview problems I'm currently trying to get out of defense and ideally into FANG or Nvidia (I'm working in embedded and like the domain, so would prefer to avoid full stack/web stuff), but am interviewing with a lot of big companies. I'm having trouble describing exactly what I've worked on at Raytheon since all o
- [Google][HC Passed] L3 Team Matching Hello, I have recently passed google HC with very strong onsite feedbacks. Posting here to find an awesome team to join. experiences: I am very familiar with C/C++/Python/Go/javascript/scripts and I have working experiences in full-stack, backend, applied ML, embedded systems. I also have knowled
- How is Okta Bellevue as a place to work for? Trying to decide between some offers, wanted to get the inside scoop from some Okta folks. My own impression has been excellent while interviewing, but what is your experience with: 1. Unlimited PTO: how much vacation do you actually end up taking while still feeling comfortable? 2. Okta integrati
- Request for Referrals | 3 YoE SWE Brief Profile: ~ 3 YoE Domains worked in: - AdTech, - Storage Management and Data Protection Current stack / work: C++, Protobufs, gRPC for building Distributed System Software. Interested in C++, Systems Programming, Linux and want to learn/work in HFT/Finance. Good at OS and Computer Networ
- Resume Review I'm re-entering the job market and trying to break into a higher paying remote role. $180k+ base would be great, but I also want there to be a focus on personal growth opportunities, a focus on learning new skills or stipend to support this are a bonus but not required. Title wise I don't care but w
- Not asking for a Netflix referral (but need help) I know Netflix referrals are personal, so they don't make sense for Blind. This morning I was thinking about what COULD I ask for because I found my dream job (on MLE team). Would anyone be willing to do any of the below: 1. Connect on LinkedIn to network and just talk about ML models and the tech
- suggestion for a role based on my exp. i have a very unique set of skills. I am a jack of many trades. Ive accepted nothing but technical support roles, but i can program in 10 different languages, including .NET, python, php, and javascript. i know how to run advanced queries in SQL / MYSQL and can manage most databases at an interme