As a fresher, you'll have a lot of breadth to learn.
The business isn't growing and therefore no new challenges, especially for senior employees.
I recently got offers from Walmart and Quora. Which one would you say would be a better bet for a first time PM? Walmart Offer ( Sr PM ): 165k base, 20% bonus, 90k RSUs and 5k sign on. Quora ( PM ): Don’t have the numbers yet but the base range is 130-150k. #productmanager #product #pm #walmart #...Read more
Are there AI or ML engineers that switched from FAANG to any self driving startups or robotics industry. Did you have to take a pay cut?
What to expect - more of the same leetcode? Also, thoughts on starting career at Quora?
Curious to hear from people who have worked at both - which is better for TC and career growth? By prestigious large startup I’m referring to companies like Stripe, Lyft, Pinterest, Databricks, Quora
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Google keeps posting a role called Software Engineer, Early Career. A random thread on Quora said that its different from SWE role and it takes 3+ years to promote to SWE L3 if you perform good. Is it really Software Engineering role and should I join it having my YOE 2+?? Posting(India based locat...Read more
Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinh...Read more
How do blinders view the differences between Google’s SRE vs SWE roles in terms of: - Compensation (i heard SRE pays more since there is some element of being on live support where you get compensated extra) - Prestige - Career growth - Opportunities for learning - Opportunities to code Starting ...Read more
It feels like you don’t see all that many people from Stanford/MIT at FB/G anymore. Relative to their size of the companies you see many more going to more secretive and niche financial firms like HRT, Five Rings, Ansatz Capital, etc or other startups that I’ve either never heard of or are moderatel...Read more
Companies like Yahoo, Quora, Groupon, and etc, that used to be really popular but are not anymore, are said to be dying/sinking/etc (I'm not actually saying they are dying. Just saying those that are 'said to be dying by some people online'). Even though the product itself may be losing users, the t...Read more
Recently met with Quora at career fair, mentioned I was looking for new grad roles and had interest in ML. They reached out and asked to set up interview for SWE-ML: should I expect standard algo/ds or more ML focus? There wasn't a new grad role specifically for ML so not sure of their expectation, ...Read more
I am new to the corporate technology world and the levels. While I see most FAANG companies follow L3/E3/IC3 upward, while MS have a different leveling system. The question is what % of SWEs and equivalents are spread across these levels? One Quora post mentioned most people do not go past L5/E5 in...Read more
I’m talking like reeally smart.. ideally these folk work in smaller firms that are extremely secretive or are top startups. I’m looking for a job switch. I moved from a top tech company (tier-1) to my current company and lost my motivation and passion as I got used to working with some of the brigh...Read more
Market neutral hedge funds like Two Sigma have insane pnl (30% according to quora). Since two sigma is private, is the best bet to high TC and Net worth as a new grad to join one of these companies and invest? On the TC note, supposedly all I care about is TC, would it be a plausible career pivot t...Read more
Hi all, I (31M) am privileged enough to have both US Green Card and the Canadian PR, but it is impossible to keep both. It is time to decide for me and my wife (both software engineers at Amazon: SDE III / SDE I) to choose one of the two. We prioritize bringing our parents to live with us and have...Read more
Hey guys, I’m a software engineer with ~2 years of experience working in Canada looking for opportunities in the states for better career development, especially at Airbnb, Quora, Lyft and Slack. I keep applying for these companies, but never got a chance to get a single interview with any of them...Read more
Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to a larger company. I'm a career switcher with 6+ YOE in consulting. Have been doing freelancing and personal projects for over a year now. Looking to join a larger company full-time. Any help will be appreciated! #swe #engineering #software #referral #hi...Read more
How does Facebook Seattle compare to FB Bay Area? I have been thinking about moving to Seattle, is Facebook a good option? I did search on Google/quora/blind etc but didn't get a good read, and also info is outdated. What teams are there? Are there enough career growth opportunities? Is there pari...Read more
>Can you create a tier list of best companies to work at as a SWE, based on overall factors like total compensation, prestige, benefits, potential advancement, coolness of tech / product, work-life balance? Create 5 tiers, from tier 0 to tier 5, with tier 0 being best obviously. Don’t make tier 0
Hi. I have an upcoming interview at Facebook for a data scientist role (they call it data science, it's really product analytics). This is the role: https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/209905326241987/?q=data%20science%20analytics&location=menlo-park I want to make sure I'm really well prepare...Read more