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- slack . code review interview what they look for in the code review ? should I be more strict or generous in code commenting .. I have no idea how they judge it
- Slack Take-Home Code Review Test Has anyone done a take-home code review test for slack? Any idea what's exactly is expected? What are they grading for since its language agnostic and i'm not supposed to write code? Just find bugs in a PR? #slack
- Referral for Slack Hi there! Would someone from Slack be interested in reviewing and referring my resume!
- Snitching a coworker just merged his PR without a review. What should I do? Keep the secret? Bring it up at a retrospective or standup? @here him on slack?
- Slack vs. Stripe Offer Eval Hey All, I have 2 competing offers from stripe and slack, and wanted to get yall's thoughts on which one would be better to take: Stripe (L2; Software Engineer): Base: 190k Equity: 120k/year (yearly grant) Bonus: 9% Sign-on: $0 Slack (Sr. Software Engineer): Base: 203k Equity: 64k/year (255k/4 ye
- link @wuz is now famous Anyone have the link not behind the paywall? @wuz rocked Amazon. This was much needed. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-slam-performance-reviews-pip-on-internal-slack-channel-2021-8 #amazon #pip
- Tired of Slack, Email, and Zoom I’m tired of living my work week in 30 minute increments, constantly needing to check Slack, review and respond to Emails, be on Zoom. What are healthy habits that actually work for you that keeps the anxiety of “being on” at bay?
- Switching teams within a year i am a BA L5 at Amazon, i have been on the team for 4 months. i am literally slacking off and the data i work on is shit. is it advisable to switch teams or wait for atleast 1 review cycle?
- Slack - Interview Tips & Engineering Culture Can anyone comment on the interview process at slack? It sounds different than the typical FAANGs, with a take home component, code review, and focus on team/soft skills. Also curious on the eng culture there and stack/ecosystem - only company I’ve considered that is using Hack-Lang…
- Of Backstabbing & Ruthlessness Last year when my manager asked me to review a teammate for promotion, I wrote all the good qualities they had so it would help them with their promotion. This year, the same teammate gave me a pretty damning forte review (specifics in that review clearly identified them). He had made blanket statem
- Whose non-leetcode tech screen is the best? There are tradeoffs with any tech screen and leetcode for sure has upsides too, but I’m curious who folks think has the best non-leetcode tech screen, and why. Both from candidate side and the insight it gives you as a reviewer. I did some realistic ones with Slack, GitHub, Square, and Stripe and w
- Slack Offer no RSUs? Hey y’all, I recently joined slack (post-acquisition) and am overall really happy with my offer EXCEPT for the fact that it lacks RSUs. The recruiter had told me that they don’t give RSUs for the first year and that I’ll have an opportunity to earn them based on my performance reviews. Questions: 1
- Is having too many review comments on your PR considered bad ? I take review comments as a discussion between team mates and it's definitely more now that everyone is remote. Some discussions that could have been done by simply pulling a chair over ( or casual chats around your desk area) I prefer them over PR now than slack. But I am getting a feeling that it
- Referral request I'm a senior software engineer at Sony PlayStation. I've been doing a combination of Leetcode/EPI and reviewing system design for the past 10 months. Would appreciate if anybody could help with a referral. Looking at the Los Angeles area or remote. Thanks! #airbnb #confluent #doordash #dropbox #g
- How much actual work do you do? When I take out meetings, email, slack, social time with colleagues, learning, standups, updating JIRA, bathroom breaks, lunch… I am at 19 hours in a week. Much of that 19 hours is design docs, code reviews, some coding, ops, … in other words things I think I am being paid for. Senior looking at s
- referral help! Hi, I recently got laid of from work due to COVID-19. I would love Blind community’s help in referral or resume reviews. I have 4 years of client success, and project management experience at a fast pace startup in digital, social analytics. Looking for referrals in those fields at companies below
- Slack final rounds I’m done with github code review and wondering what to expect in upcoming rounds. Based on the recruiter the next step is a system design round and a technical round. Do they ask LC questions for coding? Or something totally different? On glassdoor I found the coding questions are pretty arbitrary
- Fuckin Mondays Looking forward to another week of - emails that I won't read - slack posts I don't care about - Jira tickets that have been around for days - Meetings to fill up manager's time - Responding to inconsequential product requirements - standup where I just blurt out more nonsense - Bugs that I don't c
- Data Engineer referrals at FAANG, YOE 6 Looking for Data Engineer / BIE or similar roles ideally at FAANG. 6+ yrs of experience, core strength in SQL and python. I’m currently working as Sr.Sql Developer at an European investment bank. I would also appreciate if you could comment below some relevant titles that I should review based on m
- Am I Blessed, Lucky, or Stupid? I feel like I just get promoted from mistake to mistake. I don’t think I’ve successfully pulled my weight or led a project to completion in years when I ask for context on a project, I usually have to hear it 3 or 4 times and the person gets really tired. Somehow there’s always some other team that
- In an 8-10 hour work day, what does your time breakdown look on average? Are you ever working on multiple projects? Just want to see how our time really looks like. For example, I typically work on 4 projects (totally new projects, building new features, bug fixes) - I spend 1-2 hours in meetings - I spend 2-4 hours actually coding - I spend 1-2 hours researching or debugging - I spend 30min-1 hour documenting,
- Complained about L6 manager I recently complained about my L6 manager to L7 regarding micro management. In few days I observed behavioral changes in my manager and he seems least interested in my project, he stopped attending my design meeting or ops review meetings. Yesterday my manager was sharing screen and He accidentally
- Apple Work Attire Coming from a much more conservative industry, my attire was dress slacks and a button down shirt at minimum - no exception. I’ve never worked in tech but am aware of the more casual nature of the industry with mixed reviews based on where exactly you’re at. I’ve recently been hired at Apple and w
- List of all companies that support remote and have good WLB Here is my unscientific list from Blind company reviews, anecdotal posts on Blind, and Levels data. I'm only interested in companies that have either gone fully remote or they heavily support remote hiring. I tried to avoid companies like Google that could possibly be remote but seems very unlikely/
- vote Unhappy with my company and job, do I hide my discontent at work or communicate it openly with my manager? I got my first annual review at Microsoft and I'm disappointed in the outcome. I got "top rewards" after helping my team deliver multiple critical tasks, but the difference between my reward and someone who slacked off and did the minimum is barely a few shares over the next 5 years. I.e a few hundr
- Not G/F, who else is like MSFT culture wise but with better comp? Everyone wants G, but it's hard to get in. Are there any big tech companies where the culture is more msft (and G) like as opposed to F or AMZN like? Culture wise means no force pip backstabbing culture, no circle jerking peer review culture. WLB doesn't need to be super slack, I'm most against pol
- Amazon Internship Manager from Hell So I'm currently a winter intern at Amazon. Got off to a shaky start when during my design review, my L6 manager got roasted by my L7 skip manager (for reasons I wasn't really sure about, but it seemed like L6 manager wasn't informing L7 about having interns and other stuff). Oh well, it really didn
- link Need Referrals | India Hello everyone I am a software engineer with 1YOE. I am good in problem solving and solved around 850 problems on leetcode. YOE: 1 year Current TC - 15LPA Currently holding an offer from NetApp (Please review if it is a good company to join) #referral #india #Walmart #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #T
- Resume Review Service I've been doing resume reviews for people on Slack, Discord, some FB groups, etc pro-bono. Over time, I've collected insights and helped people get their foot through the door for FAANG+ companies with helping them transform their resumes. (For most people on Blind/in FAANG, you probably already ha
- TPM to PM Hi all, I’m currently a PM at Microsoft and feel like my role is a mix of Product and TPM. I want to be more Product focused but I cant seem to get any external Product Interviews no matter how hard I try. what can i do to better position myself? are there any teams at Microsoft that are more pro
- Managers : what hints/signs can I spot that Im about to get fired ? Cant say too much to not get dox-ed but I believe I could be fired soon. Roku doesn’t have formal performance review, so unlike a Meta employee getting « meet most » or pip-warehouse/AMZN focus plan, employees here get fired suddenly (one morning your mgr slack you « hey can you chat now ? » and yo
- Help 🙏🙏 Hello Blind community, I graduated from California state university- San Marcos. I am posting as I am in a desperate need of a job and would appreciate a lot if I can get your support. I am looking for immediate full-time entry level opportunities in domains including Machine Learning, software de
- vote Top 3 offers from FB, Slack, Snap Currently negotiating between my top 3 offers in Data/ML, with 10 YOE. How would you rank them overall, based on WLB, compensation, prestige and durability, future stock outlook (based on competitive landscape), and culture? FB - E5 is 200k base, 650k RSUs, and 50k signon Slack - Staff Engineer (L
- How to avoid wall of text? I tend to write excessively, whether in review comments or slack messages or whatnot. I try to give reasons why X is done and maybe why not Y, considerations from other interacting systems, etc, to give a full picture rather than having the convo feel like I'm giving others just enough rope to hang,
- Long hours and stress taking a toll on me Ever since I joined FB, my stress level have been high due to the PSC pressure and the move fast culture. I am consistently doing 60 hours per week to meet expectations. Most of the time goes in fixing production issues, fighting fire as many systems are fragile. My gf recently broke up with me as
- vote Will GS match my offer of 84 LPA? Joined GS as a Product Manager in a new revenue generating division approximately a year back. Recently got an offer from a startup for TC of 84 LPA (73 base + 11 bonus). Will GS match this offer? Current TC: 53 (45 base + 8 bonus) YoE: ~8 yr Additional data points: 1. I am the only PM on the team
- It's the holiday season 🎉 Just imagine No broken dev environments No broken CI No broken staging environments No on-call pages No code review nitpicks No bullshit meetings where everyone feigns interest No 1:1s No PMs who think their work is the most urgent No clueless managers trying to squeeze work No directors who remain
- Junior SWE/ Web Developer Post Layoffs I was let go yesterday morning, and my work slack and email were disabled that afternoon. Absolutely didn't see it coming, as we just had a town hall meeting where our CEO mentioned that he'd do his best to retain everyone's position. I was hired as a web developer in January and I left my chemical
- vote Should you get a raise after a year of meeting expectations? More specifically, lets say an engineer has worked at a company for a year and got "meets expectations" in the performance review, didn't slack off, but also no outstanding accomplishments. Should s/he get a *substantial* raise, that is >2-3%? My personal opinion is that a salary should reflect a
- How to genuinely give a “micromanaging” feedback? There’s a new manager on my team and he is the micromanager type, that asks updates of tasks all the time on slack. He was just upgraded from ic to manager, and I think this micromanaging thing is just he struggling/learning how to manage and to impress. The previous manager was very chill and is ki
- Designers – how do you safely copy design files from your work computer onto your personal computer? I’m a designer at a mid-sized tech company. I’ve been working here for a while now, and I want to start updating my portfolio and creating some case studies for the projects I’ve worked on. I’ve thought about this a lot of different ways, and I can’t think of a way to safely make a copy of my desig
- First time parent How are first time parents (or any parent) manage their work and toddler? I have a 14 month old. She was staying home until a month and I had a nanny. This didn’t work out as expected as I still spent time in cooking and feeding baby. Now, my daughter is going to daycare but from a week she is sick
- People at work are making me miserable ... Switched job recently. I only listed a couple here that happened 'within' a week ... #1 I shared my work and asked for feedback, they raised a bunch of issues that were previously discussed and decided which I pointed out. I said I really am not sure how to proceed based on the discussion and asked
- So tired of reading thanks to WFH I’m literally getting burned out reading things while we work from home. Here are the things that I have to read every single work day - 1. Slack messages 2. Emails 3. Tickets 4. Code reviews 5. Issue requests 6. Design docs 7. Promo docs 8. Deployment plans . . . It’s wild, there’s a cognitive o
- Promotion at aws Been here 2 years. Joined with 3 others to the same team at l5. The manager got one of his pet promoted to l6. He always did 9-4 no long weekends, 3 minor feature design. Slacked away on tickets with vauge comments but always got praise from manager. Last week he got promoted. Me and the other 2 peo
- Junior SWE seeking referrals!! Hi Blind, I’m currently searching for a new SWE role in the NYC area, and have been having trouble getting responses from cold applying with my resume despite positive feedback from Rooftopslushie resume reviews. I guess the market is still not that great for junior engineers at the moment :( I’m
- M1 losing technical edge; how to re-aquire the groove? I'm M1 mgr here with 5 reports. Have been "slacking" big time for the last several months. Let me explain that. I simply delegate, attend meetings, some 1-1s, some occasional code reviews, guide my team members once in a while if they're stuck with direction, sit back and relax. My team doesn't real
- Junior SWE looking for Referrals Hi Blind, I’m currently searching for a new SWE role in the NYC area, and have been having trouble getting responses from cold applying with my resume despite positive feedback from resume reviews. I think everything is still up in the air marketwise. Even though I’ve somehow made it into the pipe
- Coworkers are assholes, company getting acquired soon - need advice My coworkers are major assholes and i thoroughly hate going to work everyday. My company is getting acquired soon and I was hoping to get some advice on what my options are. I’ve started to look for a new job but I don’t think I’ll have one by the time I have to sign the offer letter for my new com
- Anyone have formatting nazis on their team? A coworker of mine doesn’t contribute any PRs but “code reviews” every single one of my PRs with formatting “””constructive criticism”””” I understand the concern, but rather than looking at the functionality of the code, they are caught up being my own personal linter It’s worth to mention this c