Excellent benefits, great people, remote-first culture from pre-COVID, great work/life balance.
The company used to have a rich culture of supporting the development of community, but since current CEO joined and company was sold, it’s had major cash flow problems and management does seem to know how to react. Then GenAI came around and all strategy and vision went out the window.
What was the rationale behind this decision? Not that I was using it to post questions or search for answers, but it was definitely useful for notifications when someone would answer my question. I think the app could have been improved instead of being discontinued.
The tech industry experienced meteoric growth in the last 2 decades primarily because of the Fed's monetary policy, which tricked down in to the hands of a group of people who managed to leetcode well. These idiots think they know everything because of their ability to LC, looking down on those who ...Read more
Hello Python developers! Sorry for turning this into stack overflow but I think Blind has more technical talents I have a server built on the popular framework fast api. My app has very fast real time transactions so it does not make sense to do offset based pagination. I want to implement cursor ...Read more
Stack: React-Native, node, express, postgres, mongo Hi blind, I am self teaching to become a SWE, mostly JS and React currently. I often find myself with a lot of questions during the process. At the moment, they’re mostly design questions / best practice questions for basic web apps. Stack over...Read more
A nOOb learning Scalability. Not much real world experience in scaling out. Doing a side project to learn scalability and the pain points. Started with a MVP and now planning a load test and slowly up the load to say (3K Req/sec and may be more) to see how far my design can hold. 1) Will this teac...Read more
I accepted an offer as a new grad SDE1 at Amazon. I have read lots of horror stories on Blind about the awful WLB and how Amazon is a pip factory. I am completely unqualified for this role and there is no reason I should have received an offer other than luck; I have no internships, one pretty jank...Read more
[EDIT: I left out TC: $475K (assuming stock value stays the same as at time of offer)] I am wondering about how people deal with the problem of sharing non-proprietary reference notes between work and home computers? I was using the Dropbox app to sync notes between work and home, but now that se...Read more
I told HR my manager has been assigning work to me that should be done by other employees. My manager has explicitly told me that the additional work should be easy for me to do. I told HR my manager marks all my projects as top priority. I am being ask to summarize and make things less technical f...Read more
Blind wont let me post a google sheets link so here it is in raw format. It contains 95% of companies with more than 10 reviews. company ratings career growth wlb compensation culture management overall Formidable 12 4.7 5 4.3 4.9 4.6 4.7 Boston Scientific 38 3.6 4.9 3.5 4.2 3.8 4 Hudl 14 4.4 4.9 ...Read more