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- Where do you buy your work clothes? Looking for recommendations for well fitting dress shirts and slacks. I’m in NYC, a great tailor recommendation would be great too Blind tax: Yoe: 2 TC: 170
- Referral for sales roles at Zillow, Dropbox, Slack (non-tech) Anything in sales/Biz Dev/Cust Success for companies above; mid-senior or management level; non-tech. Blind tax: $125k; TC: $150k YoE: 13 #zillow #dropbox #slack #referral
- Slack on personal email? Do you guys use slack at work? On your team? Do you guys use your work domain account or just personal emails?
- vote Blind <> Pay Equity I’m convinced people on Blind are just among the upper echelon of employees. If you look through the Pay Equity slack, people are reporting much lower comps across the board. What do you make of it? I saw one for $270K for L6 SDM in Seattle. I get a lot of people get lowballed, but is Blind a small
- Looking for Referral in Uber/Slack ---- India Hey Blind! I’m looking for a referral to slack, Uber in india. It’s for an SWE 1 role. Would appreciate the leg up so I don’t get stuck in the application hell. More than happy to send my details so you can see if there’s a fit. Current CTC: 29( 13 Base + 16 RSU) YOE : 2 (Including 6M Internship)
- Companies that Thrive during WFH / COVID19 What companies do you think will be successful during this crisis? Who are the winners and losers? I'll start... Winners: Microsoft - because of Azure/Teams Amazon - because of AWA Atlassian - because of Jira/Confluence Slack - because of Slack Zoom - because of Zoom Losers: Airbnb Uber What else
- Bad days to interview? I feel like mondays are bad day to interview. People are just catching up on email/slack, prepping for meeting. So is friday afternoon, when everyone is not on the state of mind so can’t provide good fedback when returning to the team. For this reason I never select friday afternoon/mondays for av
- Just curious, how are we suppose to use Slack just courious. at some place, when you slack your coworker, they wouls come to talk to you in person if it is hard to elaborate in writing. in my team, people would not say anything in person, most (95%) conversations are on slack. sometime they would ignore you even when you were next to them. I
- Need slack interview help Hey blind, I’m currently interviewing at slack and there is a system design question in the first interview. Anyone know how to prep for this? I obviously have prepped with leetcode for coding problems, but don’t know if there are any resources for system design questions. This is my first time doin
- Is Blind the only internal communication tool at FB now? Heard that everything including their own version of slack is down. How can they debug without a communication tool? Folks can still use blind to fix it. TC: 🥜
- Interested in being mock interviewed? (Software engineering) I'm thinking I'll create an anonymous Slack (blind group costs money) for those interested. We can take turns mock interviewing eachother. Or is there already something like this out there? If we talk before hand on slack, we can ensure that less experienced folks don't end up interview ones with m
- Referral for Salesforce and others! Hey blind community, I'm looking for referrals at Salesforce, Deloitte, PwC, and Slack. YOE: 6, 3x SF certified Types of positions: salesforce solutions engineer/consultant/analyst Thank you! #referral
- Seeking referral for Technical Program Manager Hi Blind family, Im looking for TPM referrals to the following companies. Already have interview planned with FB. Appreciate any help! Thank you. Apple Google Uber Lyft Twitter Slack Stripe Hulu #apple #uber #lyft #twitter #salesforce #netflix #slack #stripe #hulu #applecareers #amazonhirin
- self-centered co worker How do you deal with self-centered co worker who won’t pick up any slack for the team? It’s so annoying to work with someone who plays the blame game and evade any work common to the team.
- Are employers spying on us? Are employers able to see an individual’s incognito web browsing? Can they search an individual’s Slacks at will? What else can they see? Which function does the spying? Is anyone here on a team that does employee spying?
- Looking for referral - India I'm working at Amazon as SDE 2. YOE: 5 years TC: 46 LPA INR total = 30 base + 16 stocks I'm looking for referral from below companies at India - preferrable Bangalore, Chennai or Remote locations. Looking forward blind members help. Thanks in advance. - Twitter - Stripe - Twilio - Rubrik - Coinba
- I have my MVP but now what? How do I effectively gather users? I am planning to build a community app similar to blind or reddit but for niche a domain and slightly different purpose. Instead of building an app, I set up a Slack workspace as MVP because Slack is easy to set up and already have most of the features I need. My leap of faith was that there are pe
- Pip process takes too long! On focus, been slacking off super hard, I’m really burn out and tired of the team meetings, the project seems shitty, shitty bugs, shitty excuses , some people that are definitely performing worse than I did when I got the focus plan, new joiners keep pinging me on slack with their stupid questions
- Referrals Needed. On Notice Period: 60 Days I am currently working in an eCommerce startup and have good knowledge of Backend Development and Algorithms. Our entire team got laid off recently. I will happy if you can refer me to Linkedin, Uber, Atlassian, Salesforce, Airbnb, Slack, Google. Location Preferred: Bangalore and Hyderabad. TC: 24
- slack user opinions What are your favorite features of Slack? Is it really worth it? I've heard of teams loving it, but I'm skeptical of yet another collaboration/chat tool. TIA!
- Need Referral for Data Science Manager / Data Science Director Hi, I am a Director of Data Science with 12 years experience residing in SFBay. I am leading a team of 10 currently. I am currently working in a 200 people private Fintech company. I have a background as an IC and have 150 LC and solid DS/Engineering background as an IC and as a technical leader.
- vote Is the usage of #metoo ok for non-sexual harrassment situations? In my team, when someone sends a message to our slack channel to say they are working from home, orher team members follow by saying “me too” but a couple people say “#metoo” specifically. I feel like using the hashtag is disrespectful to the movement. what do you think?
- link Microsoft teams goes down? What do you think about this? Will the current infrastructure(like aws, gcp, slack, teams etc) hold when everyone is wfh? https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-europe-remote-working-coronavirus
- Turn off camera when video conferencing with coworkers This regards video conferencing on Zoom, Skpye, Slack, or whatever for some routine/daily meeting with your team. Just talking and someone sharing a screen. Nothing formal. You do it with the camera on or off/covered?
- amazon chime amazonians, how do you feel about being forced to use Chime instead of Slack or MS Teams at your workplace. or do devs not really use these collaboration tools much anyway?
- Referral request Hello Blind community! I would greatly appreciate referrals for the following companies that have open positions in NY. Thanks in advance! YOE: 17 TC: 300k #coinbase #slack #squarespace #apple #Dropbox #twitter #referral
- what interview questions to ask about WLB & see if it's a toxic team? Was in a first-round interview for a startup, the ceo said they would love to move me to second round. Then I fatally asked: "how frequently do employees respond to Slack after hours" (which I took from a blog post), and then I didn't hear back lol So how do you indirectly ask about WLB, or even sn
- Looking for Data Engineer Referrals Hi Everyone, I have joined blind few months back and this community has been really helpful. I realized my worth and don't want to settle in terms of learning and TC, both. I have been grinding LC and prepping for interviews, and looking to get better opportunities. Please help with DE referrals.
- Why Microsoft is bad at Consumer Software Products? Ex. Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams? Everyone thought it might be Slack competitor but MSFT is only interested with Office 365 Suite? Why? They should release as a consumer product as well. It will be really great if they do. PS : I like MS Teams so far.
- Anyone here work at Dropbox/Pinterest/Slack/Quora/Carta in Canada? Would love to know more about the size of the offices/the teams present/estimated new grad TC, any info would be appreciated really. #dropbox #pinterest #slack #quora #carta #toronto #canada #vancouver #engineering #software #swe
- Referrals for Customer Success roles Hi blind, I’m looking for referrals for Customer Success Manager roles at any of these companies. I’d really appreciate any help! TC $100K @ Series B startup in San Francisco #Carta #Rippling #Lattice #Calm #Asana #Udemy #Mailchimp #Loom #Slack #Bolt #tech
- Brex vs. Stripe Anyone have any insight on what life is like at Brex? I joined Stripe from Google ~6 months ago and it is a nightmare. Team is locked in a perpetual sprint. Regularly getting slack requests from my manager at 230 am. Absurd quantities of fire drills. Internal data is a mess. I’m looking to make a mo
- 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?
- Looking for referral ! Hello Blind Community! I'm looking for referrals to any company. I am interested in the following roles: Financial Analyst, Credit Risk Analyst,Business Analyst Qualifications: Masters in Finance,Bachelors Accounting YoE: 2.5+ Thanks! #finance#google #Microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #twitte
- Referral for Customer success roles in India Hi Blind! Looking to apply for a customer success role at the following companies in India, would appreciate a referral- #aws #microsoft #adobe #amplitude #mixpanel #slack #cisco #mendix #razorpay Total years of experience- ~7 years TC- INR 19 lakhs per annum
- (India) looking for referrals in notice period Currently serving notice period and looking for referrals Delhi & Bangalore based positions. Blind tax: Tc: 32.4 + 10 (RSU) Yoe: 9+ #recruiting #jobopening #hiring #flipkart #myntra #razorpay #zetaglobal #zeta #inmobi #cred #sharechat #swiggy #postman #coinbase #curefit #intuit #salesforce
- Tools your startup/company uses? What tools does your startup/company use everyday? Asana, Trello, MailChimp, IDEs, etc etc What are everyday tools you guys use to engage with your team, collaborate, communicate, and actually work? What’s your daily work look like from a product usage perspective other than just slack.
- How's zoom increased 4x? The product is so buggy and it has a lot of competition right? Between MS teams, slack, Google meet, WebEx (kind of) and I think FB is jumping in this field too. Are people actually moving towards zoom or is it all speculative?
- Slack (salesforce) referral Hey Blind! Hope you all have a good long weekend. I’m looking for a referral to slack. It’s for an insights role. Would appreciate the leg up so I don’t end up in the application void:) More than happy to send my details so you can see if there’s a fit
- WLB at Facebook London office I see posts all around Blind about poor WLB at FB. How about the London office? Is it the same? Given that the compensation in London is much lower than that of MPK, do they cut some slack?
- Sentiment working at Slack Hey, all. Can anyone working at Slack give me an idea of what company morale is like, especially with the Covid situation. Is the competition from Microsoft Teams taking any toll? Thanks in advance.
- How to switch teams within Amazon? I want to switch teams (six months into AWS; L7) and have emailed/slacked a couple of hiring managers for advertised roles that seem like a great fit my background. Not a single person has written back/replied. Why? What has been your experience switching team/org within #amazon ?
- Looking for volunteers (alpha-testers) to try an app (Slack bot) Hey Blind! I’ve been recently trying to build a niche Slack bot for improving your well-being. Alongside with a few peers, we managed to build a small MVP which we would like to try out on the target users and see if it’s helpful or not, get feedback from you and improve. 😊 Requirements: 1) You us
- vote Doing work vs Appearing like you’re doing work How much of your time is spent appearing like you’re doing a lot of work to your manager/team/company? vs actually being productive E.g. exaggerating in stand up, bringing up concerns on slack to look like you’re diving deep on something, etc
- Good WLB Teams at Meta/FB NYC I’ll be joining Meta shortly and wanted to know of teams with good WLB. Not looking to slack off, but not looking to burn out either. Will be my first time living in NYC and I’d like to spend some of my waking hours actually exploring the city.
- Staff Level Referrals with WLB Looking for referrals at companies known for somewhat sane work life balance at senior levels with high TC: Slack or Salesforce, Twitter, LinkedIn any others? Already have scheduled on-sites that could not play well on WLB depending on team: Meta, AWS, Stripe. And a few in the WLB + TC category: Go
- Referral Sr. Data Engineer Hi Blind Team!! I am looking for Senior Data Engineer in Canada, If anyone can give me a referral, please DM me. #Dataengineer #de #engineering #referral #hiring #jobhunt #toronto #canada #apple #coinbase #coursera #dropbox #doordash #facebook #instacart #intuit #lyft #linkedin #microsoft #mon
- Looking for referrals for remote or Utah companies Hi blind, I’m have interviews setup for Google in 2 weeks and would love to get interviews scheduled for any of the companies below. Companies must allow remote work or be based it Utah 😁 I am a full-stack SWE, my teams dev ops SME, and I was asked to lead a new team next quarter as their team le
- MSFT or LinkedIn: how often do you use non MSFT products? Curious if MSFT or a subsidiary of MSFT uses any Gsuite/other products or if it’s all homegrown stuff (I.e excel vs gsheets, teams vs slack, etc) Interviewing right now and it seems like a stupid question to ask in a formal interview but still curious
- vote Should I just quit? Been at Amazon two years. Ran into a really tight deadline, other team members slacked off and put me in a really tight position. Management pressuring to get it done, been working overtime for weeks. Should I just put my two weeks in? I’m absolutely miserable and good at writing software. I’m not u