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- Companies to target for infrastructure/distributed systems roles I am trying to curate a list of companies that have good infra/distributed systems SWE roles (not to be confused with DevOps/SREs). I am going to list some I know, please list more in the comments: AWS/Azure/GCP Databricks Confluent Cohesity Nutanix Facebook infra (?) #engineering #software #swe #
- vote Epic (Systems, the healthcare tech company) or Target offer? Hi, I'm a new grad with two offers at the moment. Which one do you think is better? Epic: $110K base, $10K relocation Target: $85K base, $5K bonus I have to move for Epic but not for Target. #target #epic EDIT: Target is at least temporarily WFH. My main concern is career growth, learning, and
- Start prepping for L5 at Google. Targeting Summer 2022. Especially system design. Tips to get started. I'm planning to give my next round of interviews from Mid 2022. About a year from now. I'm decent at LC, with about 350 questions done and can easily achieve 500+ by next summer. However, my system design isn't much that good. It's been my Archie's heel forever. Given I've a year to do so, I'd li
- Indian SDE wanting to relocate to USA at 1.5YOE TC: 28LPA INR (37k USD) Tldr: Title sets the context. What companies should I target to make this easier than brute force approach? Reasons: I just want to experience a different culture, economy, country before finally settling down in India - I have a solid ZERO interest in settling abroad. I w
- Is it normal to have only 1 round of system design for Amazon SDE 3/L6 I’m targeting SDE3, but my onsite only has 1 round of system design and 3 coding round, no domain round. Each round will be 20min on leadership principal, so the design will not be super complex. Recruiter said if things going well, there will be an additional system design. am I being targeted to
- Negotiations and offers Year of experience 5 plus, Offers in hand Target Banglore 22 fixed plus 2.2 lpa, java plus react EPAM pune 27 lpa fixed, react Which one is better? Will Target negotiate? I just started my notice period, should i negotiate at the end? Current ctc 14 lpa Target EPAM Systems
- System design prep Am an engineering manager for the past 2 years. I feel that my performance in system design interviews has been only borderline. How do I get better at it? Any recommendations for intense prep - preferably that can help me make progress within a short timeframe? Targetting for E6 level. Dont think
- Meta and google interview prep💰💰🤑💰💰🤑 Blind family Have done bunch of onsites and expecting few offers. Kept meta and google for last.. focussing on Meta and Google most as i feel my other onsites will be done in prep of these 2 My upcoming onsites are - E5 at Fb - L6 at Amazon - L5 at google - 5a(i think) at uber - might get a 63/6
- Fb system design e4 vs e5 My recruiter said I'm targeted for E4 but i have 2 system design rounds. Does this mean i can get E5 if i perform well? Tc : 330k
- Bridgewater Offer - Opinions? Got an offer from Bridgewater - investment engineer, productionize research strategies 185/80/50, bonus - target 80, range 0-160 based on personal and firm performance (1-5 rating system for both) Last year TC - 190 ~2 YOE Some other processes going on. Have a couple of days left for 2 weeks, sho
- How do you decide if you are ready for an onsite What target do you seek to achieve before an on-site in terms of coding and system design prep
- Need guidance to double my tc Current tc 120k. Interested in field of distributed systems. Yoe 1 . Target is to get 250k plus work should be challenging. Write now my tech stack is golang and kubernetes (for refrence). Apart from lc and system design what should i do?
- Google area of expertise interview What should I expect for the distributed systems interview? Target level: L6 yoe 8 tc 600
- Is target date funds for 401k bad? I’ve always used the target date funds for my 401k but recently i’ve seen people manually just buy VTI etc. Can someone help me on this? New to the US and the 401k system.
- SystemsExpert from Clement, is it worth it? Howdy! Has anyone tried SystemExpert from Clement? They have a couple of products targeting Algorithms and Systems Design, I was wondering if the videos he offers on System Design mimic the real interviews? Thank you! #algoexpert #systemdesign #systemexpert #interview #facebook #google #interview
- What FAANGish companies can I target for Dallas area? I’m doing prep for Leetcode + System Design interview. I’m in Dallas. I’m wondering what companies can I target in Dallas area. TC: $175K YOE: 10
- Does the difficulty of coding questions at Google vary with YOE of candidate ? Is the difficulty level of coding questions asked during Google interviews same irrespective of the candidate's YOE/target level or does it scale with experience/target levels ? Asking about DS/Algo questions, not system design questions.
- Questions to ask Google recruiter before on-site? passed phone screen and am expecting to hear from the recruiter this week. what questions should i be asking at this point in order to better prepare for the next steps? level? target comp? all coding questions or system design? or too early for things like that? applying for SWE
- vote FB vs Snap vs Citadel vs Twitter vs Google Base / RSUs / Target Bonus + Signing Bonus + Target Refreshers FB: E5, NYC - 205 / 150 / ~30 + 100 + ~150 - Year 1: 485 - Year 2: 422 Snap: L4, NYC - 190 / 187 / ??? + 50 + ~187 - Year 1: 427 - Year 2: 428 Notes: Bonus / refreshers not guaranteed, heard they have been unstable in the past. Signing
- Database systems to get familiar with for SDI Planning to get basic knowledge of a few DBMS systems to be confident during System Design interviews. What’s a good set to target ? Thinking of the following for now. SQL Server (ACID) Cassandra (Key-Value, Wide-Column) Mongo DB (Document DB) Are their any decent microsoft equivalents ?
- Mock Sys Design Peers Hi! I am interviewing for L5/E5 SWE roles with background in distributed systems (4.5 YoE). If anyone is targeting similar level let's practice mock sys design interviews. Feel free to comment below. US timezone preferable. #mockinterview #systemdesign
- Advise for non-FAANG engineer I'm a mechanical engineer with 11+ YOE in an system engineering and program management role with very less coding knowledge. Any advise on how to go about targeting FAANG jobs? Is Leetcode a requirement for all FAANG+ jobs? Any pointers would be helpful!
- Mock interview recommendations Any recommendations on in person mock interviews in bay area? Esp. if you used it yourself. System design and algorithms. Targeting L5 FAANG. Happy to $.
- FB onsite loop structure Can someone derive swe target level by looking at the onsite interview structure at fb? It had 2 coding, 1 behavioral/coding, 2 backend system design, 1 ml system design for an ml software engineer role. Thanks in advance.
- 6 YOE starting the grind for high TC/FAANG. Any tips from people in similar situations? Sitting at around 250k TC fully remote (6 yoe working building large data systems, Senior level), I want to get up closer to 400. I'm targeting FAANG/adjacent or companies paying in a similar pay range. I'm working through Sean Pradhads leetcode patterns and doing system design work ad well. I'm
- Nvidia Target Bonus I recently got an offer from nVidia as system software engineer. The recruiter says there is a target bonus of 20%. Seems higher than other offers. Is it common to get full bonus?
- Deep dive in system design I’ve been given feedback to “dive deeper” in system design mock interviews. I know it comes with experience in building large scale systems but are there resources that I can use to address it in short term? I’ve interviews in a couple of weeks. Targeting L5/E5 roles.
- System design mock partners for L5 level Hi, I'm looking for mock partners for system design interviews for Senior level. DM me if you are interested. Looking for people >=5 yoe as I'm targetting L5 level. Tc: 220k
- How much time did you spend preparing for system design during your interview prep? I have around 2 yoe and targeting Sde2 level positions at various companies. What is the expectation on system design questions at my level? TC : 175k
- Starting a group prep for SDE's Trying to break into SDE, so this would be targeted towards more beginners. Basically we quiz each other in system design, do code reviews, etc. Who wants in #engineering #software
- Qualcomm Offer Toronto Evaluation Base: 150k RSU: 130k/3 = 43k Target Bonus = 14% = 21k Cash Bonus = 90k/3 = 30k TC = 244k CAD Location: Toronto, CAD YOE = 10 Level: Senior Staff SOC Systems Engineering What do you guys think? Is that competitive for Toronto? Keep in mind these are CAD.
- Google L4 interview format? Can I target at L4 with 1.5 YOE? Do I have to go through behavior and system design interview? Does google have better WLB in general?
- Advice on preparing for LinkedIn interviews? (SWE) Happy Thanksgiving. Any advice on preparing for LinkedIn interviews? I'm currently doing top 30 tagged Linkedin Premium questions and reading system design books. I'm targeting SWE 1. TC: 195k
- Data engineer interview - system design resources. Looking for system design interview resources for data engineers. I do know about designing data intensive applications but realized it is more targeted for software engineer interviews. Anything DE specific?
- With 4 YOE, how much should I focus on leetcode over system design? Never done a system design interview but I felt like I got a lot of practical experience in system design at Amazon. Meanwhile, my leets might be rusty. If I have a stellar system design round, would that look better than stellar coding rounds for most places? Looking at Stripe, Robinhood, Facebo
- Need Coinbase referral. Please help me out. YOE 3 LC 130 solved entire interview bit Decent at system design for sde2 level. TC is shitty. Other target companies Fb, Databricks If anyone at coinbase can refer me then it will super helpful. Thanks in advance
- Meta SWE Onsite : Product Design vs Systems Design Interview I've heard that in the Meta SWE Onsite, we will choose between doing either Product Design or Systems Design for the design round, i'm wondering what the difference is between these two and what kinds of things they might ask, and how best to prepare for them? Is it simply Product Design = more Cli
- System Design Mock Interview Buddy Multiple on-sites coming up. Would someone like to pair up and take each other’s mock system design interview. Targeting Senior/Principal level at FAANG. Ideally you are already at Senior/Principal level (as am I) YOE 11 TC 250K
- Onsite at Meta for MLE Meta/fb MLE role. Have an onsite scheduled for MLE. For some people I see 5 rounds with one system design and one ml design and for some it is 2 ml design, what's the difference? Recruiter said they are targeting level 5 for me. For me they are mentioning one system design and one ml design. Yoe: 5
- Which orgs are easier to get into at LinkedIn/Microsoft? Any particular orgs like product/infra etc that are easier to get into for LinkedIn/Microsoft? Targeting backend roles as I am trying a career pivot. PS: By easier I mean they focus mainly on Lc questions, less on system design and concurrency.
- India: Low Level Programmer Companies/Openings I want to grow as a systems programmer. Currently working as a backend web dev in a startup, writing mainly CRUD apis. What companies should I target? Which skills to mainly focus on? TC: 11 LPA YoE: 1
- Referral at Facebook/Meta Looking for a referral for Facebook/Meta position. 20+ years experience with infrastructure and automation. 6+ with on-site cloud and API integration. Targeting a remote position as Windows System Engineer. Resume and LinkedIn on request. Thanks in advance! #facebook #meta #referral #tech #remo
- Looking for senior engineer to do mock interview with. Targeting FB e6 or Google l6 or similar roles. I have 21 years of experience and well versed with distributed systems. If you are interested in mock interviews please DM me with current company and years of experience
- Excellent at system design but dislike coding Okay - I don’t really like to code from scratch. Stackoverflow is god. I love to do system design. I’m really good at them but I despise doing coding interviews. With such strengths, what are the best roles and companies I should target? TC 400k
- Looking for Preparation partner for FAANG Interviews(python) for next 3 to 6 months Anyone looking for FAANG coding interviews(Python) prep partner. I am looking for someone who can pair up with me for mock interviews, problem solving discussions, system design topics. Targeting to start interviews from February or march 2022. I am not targeting any specific company want to prepar
- vote what levels/comp should I be targeting given the current market? 1 yoe at Apple, non sde but technical role over 1.5 yoe at amazon as L4 sde, planning on leaving as I near 2 yoe coding abilities/general knowledge average, weak on system design front due to lack of exposure given my team's product (also the reason why I haven't been promoted). confident in leetc
- Facebook reality labs (FRL) embedded system design Any pointers on what to focus for FRL’s embedded system design rounds? The recruiter told me that there won’t be any grokking style interviews, but said that it would focus more on a single system. I am going through OS concepts, anything else that you guys suggest that I can ? Tc: 200k Target lev
- Anyone pulled off asking for an interview loop at a higher level? Say the recruiter mentioned there won't be a system design round which makes it seem like they're targetting you for a lower level. Have you successfully pushed back and asked for say a E5/6 loop?
- Uber annual stock award Does Uber give annual stock bonus anymore? I heard for senior sde it was around 80% stock and 20% cash. Does it change in the new system? How much is the target now? Much appreciated.
- link System design interview for mobile developers (iOS) I was looking for some resources where someone can prepare for System Design Interview for iOS Platform. I checked a few resources that are the following: 1. https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview 2. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 3. https://www.h