How many focused hours of work do you put in each day as a software engineer? What do you do if you finish your sprint super early? YOE: 2 TC: 130k
Anyone has any ideas to make the sprint retrospective a fun process and improve engagement? #sprint #agile #scrum #software #engineering #swe
Do all FANG companies have sprints and stand ups for a software engineer? Any companies that don’t have daily standup?
Hello software engineers of Blind, What are the usual consequences of story/task slip ups in your team? By slip ups I mean not able to finish in the sprint and the work rolls into next week. How often is the expectation for developers to stretch and who is usually accountable for it? #software #swe...Read more
I am in this trade-off between having good Google FI coverage (Sprint+tmobile) and having good Android software updates. Prioritizing FI coverage: Pixel phones work perfectly with FI, but I'm incredibly upset with its limited lifetime in Android updates. I was quite shocked when IT told me I no lon...Read more
I got a new offer. I haven't told my manager about it yet. I need to make use of all the holidays around 2 and half weeks so took those holidays and returning to office tomorrow. Also there is some sprint planning tomorrow morning.. Should I inform my manager about quitting tomorrow before sprint p...Read more
2 week sprint = 2*40 hrs Is this normal in other tech companies such as FAANG, Microsoft, Unicorns? The team does both ML software development a d ML research. Putting hours in feels like manufacturing or retail.
Hi all, We as a team are frustrated and hence want to know what other people on Blind think about the scenario. We are a small software development team of 6 people, we have 2 week sprints, our manager does the following from time to time: 1. Changes sprint tasks in between. 2. Adds sprint tasks ...Read more
intuit offer senior software engineer 170k base + 15% bonus +180k stock ( 4 years) +25k sign on.(bay area) …rally health offer - principal software engineer 200k base + 10% bonus + 140k stock(4 years)+ 15k sign on ( fully remote- mid west) Current company: sprint Current tc : 100k Yoe: 14 Askin...Read more
Hi blinders, I was wondering, how often are these Backlog refinement meetings held in a sprint? My team follows two weeks sprints and has Backlog refinement meetings 5 times per sprint. Each meeting goes over an hr. I often feel these are too long and my PO discusses too much stuff, unnecessary deta...Read more
There is news today about a potential purchase/merge with Sprint. Thoughts on how this will impact software engineers currently at the company or the company in general? What will this merger do to my stocks or options?
Hi, I work for probably 4/5 tier company. I did had offer from Amazon last year did not went so yes I guess I am worthy of FAANG. Anyway, the campany I am at right now have very less expectaion example my sprint work is: a button which is enabled and disabled based on few simple logic, it took me a...Read more
Hello all, Are there companies in tech that do not follow the scrum/agile software dev lifecycle. Kinda fed up of the two week sprint lifecycle - been doing it for years and find it boring and monotonous. And would like to explore something a bit different. TC#200
I am wondering what approaches/strategies people use to progress from a senior level Engineer. Using senior as a general term (as it might slightly differ from company to company) where you are a SME for your team and interact with neighbouring pods for architectural discussions and design decisions...Read more
I personally love IDEO and frog design. Their influence can be seen all over the Bay Area and abroad (design thinking, Stanford D-School, Google Sprints, etc). I just don’t see as much conversation about them as I do about FAANGGGGG. Is it because they are perceived to do more hardware than softwar...Read more
I’m joining @meta soon as E5 MLE. I’m curious what are expectations from E5 engineers at meta? Do you guys have grooming sessions and decide on tickets for the sprint to work on? Or each person works on what they like? Does your manager tell you what to work on? #engineering #software #swe TC 560k
Retros are super fucking boring, on a Friday (when our sprint ends), and I hate going to them. Now I’m supposed to lead them for my team. Has anyone ever been part of a sprint retro that wasn’t mind numbingly boring? Any ideas to make it less of a chore now that I’m leading them? I’m at a <100 per
Due to personal reasons, I would not able to relocate to Redmond . I will be joining Microsoft soon and communicated the same to my manager. As per the latest update on post-covid, he expects the team to meet face to face on every sprint planning meetings. I proposed to him that I would be willing t...Read more
Two-day sprints, weekly demos, people pointing fingers at people, stubborn boss, excessive attention to scalability and features around a core experience that is still far from being good, micromanagement, lots of software rot and tech debt, list goes on. Is this normal for a 1yo company? Burnout is...Read more
I recently joined Google Software Sprint Cycle (formally known as CodeU) For those of you that know or took part in SPS, can you tell me how it was like for you. Are the projects good? Does it help you convert to Google Full time? #google #University #newhire #engineering #software #swe #CodeU #sp...Read more