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New Grad Severance
- Possible to move to top companies with less than 2 YOE? I've noticed this trend of several top companies removing the traditional new grad hiring pipeline in place of just having a strong internship program that they can hire from directly. Lots of these companies, at least on levels.fyi, don't show anybody joining with *between* 0 and 2 years experience
- Uber offer rescinded seeking for advice and referral Hi, I am a new grad master student and did an internship at UberATG. I was informed that my return offer was rescinded and started to look for a new position as a software/ML engineer. My OPT will start soon because I planned to join uber directly after graduation, so now I only have until August b
- Uber offer delayed due to "leveling" Had an onsite with Uber early in September for a new grad eng position. I was told during the onsite I'd hear back by the end of the week, and I made it clear that I had a deadline the next week. 3 weeks pass, with no word from the university recruiter--after several emails restating my deadline. I
- Facebook Team match before bootcamp Hi all, I got a verbal offer today and the recruiter said I need to do team matching first before the official offer will be sent out. So he will schedule several calls with HMs from different teams. I want to know what are the key things that I should ask during those calls in order to find a decen
- Is Invisalign worth it? Several teeth of mine are not aligned well. I lived with them for 26 years without any problem. The doctor says doing Invisalign will make me look handsome and make the force on teeth distributed more evenly. I got a quote of $7000 from the dentist when I did dental cleaning today. As a new grad, i
- Folks from “Average” universities I reecently graduated college and I am starting my new job in San Jose in a couple of weeks. Profile: MS CS TC: 145k (all stuff put together) My college is ranked 114 in the US. I have worked really hard in my studies both undergrad and grad school. Had 2 internships in undergrad and 2 internahi
- Apple New Grad ICT3 offer Hey Blinders, I recently received a new grad offer from Apple for ICT3 in Cupertino, CA. Base: $130k Stock: $120k / 4 years Sign-on: $30k I've done several internships at Apple and Google in the past and have significant YOE from working on my own applications and part-time dev jobs. Please keep
- Microsoft new grad SDE TC? I am a new grad from U of M Ann Arbor, and I have gone through onsite process and expecting an offer as of now. What is the expected compensation as of now, and how far can I push for higher TC? I do not have an offer from any other big companies but have several offer from Michigan that essential
- Graduating in May, but haven’t started recruiting due to mental health issues. What do? Long story short, I was supposed to graduate this month (December 2021) from UC Berkeley with an EECS BS, but I had to withdraw in October due to a severe bout of depression / OCD onset by going off my medication (and not receiving adequate therapy throughout college.) Since then, I’ve been attendin
- Feeling a little ashamed joining at L3 with 3 yoe Google downlevelled me to L3 with 3 yoe. I am coming from a no name start up, so i see why they'd do that. I have accepted the offer and am joining soon. However i am feeling a little ashamed joining as l3 and working with bunch of new grads with probably very shiny credentials. I think this is a sy
- I’m kind of an idiot without Adderall So my whole life I’ve struggled with mental and physical health issues. Depression, anxiety, I’m constantly underweight, and my Junior year of college, I was diagnosed with ADHD by a new psychiatrist. I got through all of my upper division cs classes well, but then my therapist and my doctor convin
- Rate Microsoft L60 New Grad UX offer This is the initial offer and I have two weeks to work on it. I'm still very happy to have the offer and wonder if you guys have any ideas on negotiation. I'm new to whole this kind of thing so welcome y'all 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥! I have several other interviews waiting for the result but I feel like joining
- Google interview performance Q Did my first Google interview for full time new grad. And I want to post my review but first I need some input from you all that have been through the same or work at Google. 1) If I completed a solution in optimal time, space and the interviewer was satisfied but helped me along the way like 3 tim
- Why is it taking so much of time? I was done with my last online assessment at Amazon for new grad role on September 14th. I got a mail on October 3rd that I have cleared the rounds and the final stage of interview would be scheduled in several weeks. But haven't received anything after that. Could anyone let me know why is it takin
- Bay Area vs. SEA New grad here. I know this question has been asked several times already but I'm just wondering if there's a more up-to-date opinion on the matter. Here is my pros and cons list: BAY: + HQ + Networking + Food + Weather - Crowded - Isolated (far from big city) - Commute - Tech homogeneous - Expensi
- Whats after Andrew Ng ML for Data Scientist role Im studying for Data scientist interviews and come from a physics non-CS background with several years of coding experience on toy projects. After completing Andrew Ng coursera ML class, what should be the next course to study in order to pass new grad data science interviews? ps: Andrew Ng did no
- Almost L5 at Google, getting E3-4 at FB? I’ve been very lucky at G. Because of multiple reorgs and people leaving the team, I got to own several projects. I’m going for L5 promotion this month even though I joined as a new grad L3 in late 2018. I wanted to try interviewing for some other companies...but my FB recruiter insisted that I wou
- Amazon PIP Story Let's grab popcorn and check out my PIP story. I was hired as New grad SDE in 2020 year. Everything was going good until the manager changed. The new Manager was SDE2 in the team, and they became a manager. This new manager was incompetent, and never talk about anything except work in the 1:1. Firs
- Referrals for New Grad Posting this for a friend. He is graduating in MS CS this December from one of the best universities in US. He is looking for full time opportunities in SDE/Data Science/Research Engineer roles. He has several publications and cgpa of 3.82/4. Would really appreciate if could get a referral in below
- Feel Dumb in Role Hi all! Wanting some advice on my situation. I’m a new grad hire (L59) at Microsoft that’s been here for 3 months now on a team of mostly 10+ YOE folks. So far, I’ve been running several processes pretty much on my own, getting good feedback from my manager and teammates, and have been getting more
- How to be a senior engineer? Hi, new grad here. I didn’t think much about leveling up until I met some very bright engineers who never make it to Senior with several YOE despite how hard they try. A large factor I see is with a few years working in FAAMG/big corps, their skill sets and knowlege got outdated, let alone not hav
- As an SWE do you worry about job security? While humorous, I feel that there is some truth to the saying "You don't want to be competing with college grads for promotions once you have other responsibilities". This is just one of several examples of things that threaten SWE job security. Others include: you've peaked at your level and the c
- How else do new grads spend their newly found TC irresponsibly? I am an early 20s male who just got into MS. Although on blind standards my TC is peanuts, this is quite a jump compared to what I was making with odd jobs in college and stuff... I really love cars. As soon as I knew I had the job, I spent all my savings from summer internships and leftovers from
- How important is it to get an internship? I really want to work at a large tech company like Google or Facebook and I’m worried thag if I dont get an internship there next year, I won’t be able to work there for a while. I know in most cases, the internship interviews are 2 45 min phone screens (+ host matching for G), but if I apply new gr
- vote When is the best time to change job? I am junior software engineer with 1.3 yoe and I really hate my first job due to several reasons, but mainly because of I feel there is no learning or growth opportunities in my current team. I prepared for over 8 months to find a better job and will be starting my new job next month. However, alth
- Solution to Amazon’s PIP Problem Every year, Amazon needs to fulfill its 6% URA quota. To prevent having to PIP anyone who’s doing a decent job and has any ability to code, why doesn’t Amazon just mass send offers without any assessments or interviews to everyone who is currently unemployed (this information should be available thr
- vote SDE1 offer evaluation Current compensation after pcs: - INR 20lakhs BASE - INR 2.25 lakhs BONUS - 2 stocks vesting next year Compensation offered by another tier 1 publicly listed US firm: - INR 24 BASE - INR 0.5 JOINING BONUS - INR 7.5 lakhs STOCKS ($40,000 vested over 4 years) -performance - 15% Yoe ~ 1 Had competin
- Notice how this place is full of PIPed Amazon LEs but not much from FB or Netflix Even though Netflix openly declares that being “good” will lead to a “generous severance package” and Facebook fires anyone who doesn’t keep getting promoted in time, these companies aren’t trashed here like Amazon is? Why? I think I know the answer. Amazon is willing to give a lot more new grads a
- New Grad Referrals for NYC/Remote Hello Blind, I’m a CS student graduating this may, and looking for new grad opportunities at top tech companies. I have a year of internship experience at a tech company and several freelance projects that are in production (e-commerce and brand websites) Any help would be appreciated, thanks in a
- Google Team Matching process I applied for the SDE new grad position for Google and was told I made it through the hiring committee and don't need to do any more interviews and just needed to wait to get placed into a product area. It's been several weeks where I've been waiting for the results and I got a call from my recruit
- Passed over by Roblox for no good reason Since I haven't seen anything critical of Roblox on Blind, I guess I could share my interview experience. The interview process took months. If I remember correctly it consisted of a hiring manager round, a coding round, the virtual onsite, and an executive round. All rounds were passed with flying
- Is Boeing safe from layoffs for at least 3 years? Seems like Boeing is hiring like crazy. I've lost teammates: 4 new grads during 2020 (ILO'd), 1 mid-lvl (ILO'd), 1 Tech Fellow (VLO'd). During 2021~22, 3 mid-lvl left to new companies, 1 lead internally transferred out. But we only had 3 internal transfers to fill back, and no new person hired from
- Need advice on career path Hello Blind, I graduated in December 2018 with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. I got into Cisco as a new grad straight out of college and was told that my H1b Visa would be applied for. I am currently on an F1 OPT visa with potential to extend (STEM extension) for two additional years. Due
- Any ex-academics here? I moved into industry this year right after finishing PhD. I was a bit of an overzealous student in grad school - I published often, was very active in research circles and participated in several conferences and workshops. The expectation from academic folks that knew me was that I would continue i
- Only getting rejections for SecEng positions, is my CV too weak? Do I need more Exp.? Hey, I'm currently applying for new grad level to 3 years exp. (Application/Prod) Security Engineering positions, hoping to get into next years H-1B lottery, but only getting rejections. What am I doing wrong? Or is that expected? So far about 110 applications to 31 companies (FAANG etc.). My CV (
- link Amazon New Grad Offer TC and Negotiation I just received my return offer from Amazon (L4, ex intern new grad). EDIT: Note that this offer is for L4 SDE after undergrad. Base: 116k RSU: 86k over 4y with Amazon's awful 5/15/40/40 vesting schedule Bonus: 37k + 23k signing over first and second years, 7k relocation First year TC: 116 + 4 + 3
- vote Wanting to join Google late 2022... can I work another job before? Hypothetically... if I signed an offer to start FB in Dec 2021 several months back but I also just got an offer to start in 2022 for Google, can I still work the FB job (Google has no idea I am joining FB right now), or will there be trouble with the background check? Since Google HC results are va
- Salesforce MTS vs stripe IC1 new grad offer compare I’m a new grad with master degree and will graduate next year. Recently got several full time offers and I’m deciding between salesforce and stripe. I don’t know which team I will be joining and Stripe promised to give team matching based on our preference. I put career growth on the top priority as
- Deloitte layoffs UPDATE: Several people offered referrals. It is only the beginning of a beginning, as still neither employment nor housing is secured. I received support in ways I did not expect and am grateful to everyone who reached out. I mildly edited the post for better clarity. I have received an offer and s
- New engineer hire issues A new eng (been here around 6 months) constantly interrupts me to ask questions, show off his progress (ie., Omg he implemented a thing where you can click a button and an error message appears! Wow!), even go over 2-3 lines of code he's written. The guy isn't a new grad and already has several year
- Repher.me if you dare Hi fellow professionals! I'm a New Grad in Silicon Valley and find it quite challenging (but not impossible) to land a Software Engineering position. There 3 internships behind my back (2 iOS and 1 in blockchain), 1 freelance job in Data Engineering, 1 blockchain club founded, 1 senior project brou
- [India] Scared of getting fired again Grad 2020, joined as JD for ML in a early stage startup with my knowledge and previous experience. Within a month I was given a task of team lead, no hike, which I did well. Completed phase 1 of their product (I had no prior experience in that domain or techstack as they put me as a Full stack dev).
- vote [SWE] Where can one TRULY work on "moonshots" these days? Full stack SWE employed at Google. Joined as a new grad excited to work on (positive) world-changing technology several years ago... Now L6, much more secure, a little tired of the TC-maximizing game (so empty), and looking for self affirmation and brilliant motivated peers. Really interested in app
- Seattle vs Bay Area I know this has been a topic of high contention and I have gone through several past Blind threads and blogs. I am trying to rationalize decision analytically. I hope this thread will help many new grads/ yuppies. About me: mid-20 single straight indian male, industrious machine learning engineer i
- vote Programming language poll Fellow blindlings, I'm a hardware engineer looking to improve my software skills. Clearly, the relative value added to end customers by software (new features and experiences) has been steadily increasing, while that of hardware (better computing performance, lower power) is declining, partially du
- New Grad in Tokyo Japan Hi folks, My friend looking for referral to companies in Japan, especially in Tokyo . Leave a comment if you can, I’ll dm you. Here is his background: At this moment, I am an international student at Language school in Tokyo. I have bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Software Development.
- Help me estimate myself TIA for your input. In Boston right now. Here's the rundown: Interned in college at a large finance company. Company really liked my work, I stayed on as a part time contractor for two years of undergrad, doing full time each summer. During this time I was the only developer on several projects all
- Anyone who has recently gone through the Interview Kickstarter program. I saw this thing on a blind ad and decided to attend the webinar since it’s free. I have 0 YOE and will be graduating soon so I’m going to start interview prepping and thought I’d check this company out. The webinar felt very “sales pitch-esque” and overall my initial thoughts were that I wouldn’t
- Negotiation deadlines? How committed are you to an offer once you accept it? I'm a soon-to-be new grad approaching the end of an internship. I'm in the interview process with several companies, and I could also get a return offer from the one I'm interning at. If I get offers from multiple companies, which is likely, how am I expected to handle it? I know I can tell them wh
- Good idea to join Amzn willingly? Would it be a good idea to study for and join Amazon software if I am currently in a engineering role but not in software? There are a couple of reasons and I needed some guidance. I am definitely overthinking a lot of stuff here: 1. I dont have a lot of time to prepare for other FAANG level softw