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- LiveHomeRoom Anyone invested via livehomeroom (https://livehomeroom.com/invest)? Any reviews?
- STAR Method Interview Tutor/Reviewer Got a loop coming up and it’s my first time preparing STAR method answers. I reviewed some YouTube examples and prepared accordingly, but did a few mock interviews and got the same feedback to set the scene more, make the problem bigger. I think I was putting too much details before and not enough e
- Crossover Trilogy Anyone's currently working in Trilogy via Crossover ? It's remote work which is extremely well paid (via Indian standards). Though I do see Glassdoor reviews with issues on micromanaging and the spy agent. Any benefits apart from the pay? Like wfh equipment ? #tech #trilogy #crossoverforwork
- ~2hr transfer at Schipol to US - doable? Actually it's little less than 2hrs. Online reviews are mixed. Anyone flown via Schipol recently with a similar tight transfer time, would love to hear your experience! Thanks!
- Reviewing products on Amazon Is it safe to be paid for reviewing products on Amazon ? Some Asian sellers keep contacting on social media to test and review their products and they ll pay back the amount including taxes via PayPal … I understand that Amazon can block such sellers if they find out that they r getting fake review
- Questions for designers on collaboration How often, on your team, are you redoing other peoples work, or having yours redone? Or, is this done in reviews/ via feedback, instead of in Figma with new designs? I’m curious about your teams collaborative process. Tell me all. What works for you? What doesn’t?
- Why is Glassdoor worth a billion plus I know the same can be asked of a lot of companies. Somehow Glassdoor being worth that much seems wrong, their salary data is barely reliable, their reviews are stacked with fake reviews by management and I have never heard of anyone finding a job via Glassdoor. Is this a surest sign of a bubble or
- Getting rejections on my resume, will someone review? I’m applying to large companies in the Bay Area, but I’m getting rejected quickly. Wondering if someone can review my resume? Please reach out via chat if you’re willing. 10 YOE Frontend Engineer TC: 84k € #engineering #software #swe #resume
- Looking for Facebook referall I am looking for supply chain role referal in Facebook. I have 14 years of experience in engineering and Supply chain functions in CPG. Can resume via DM. Anyone open in reviewing my resume and provide referal ? Current TC - 180K #supplychain #facebook
- Microsoft Business Analytics Specialist Applied to a Business Analytics Specialist position at Microsoft 20 days back via a referral. No one has reached out yet. Profile shows up as under review. Is this normal or should i consider this a lost cause? TC: 120k YOE: 7
- Do interviewers sit in the debrief room after interview at FB? Do interviewers sit in the debrief room after interview? Or do the interviewers just submit their feedback via a tool and then a different committee reviews all this feedback and decides on the level? Does each interviewer make a comment on what level the person should be hired for potentially in
- Amazon - How long before you get official offer letter Offer accepted via email on 5/12. Background check completed on 5/18, clean (contacted background check company and asked). Amazon Job dashboard says "Under Review" I said I was going to start 6/5 but it's taking way longer than expected... Also hard to plan relocation with no official letter.
- Continuous Google resume rejection. Looking for advice. I keep getting screened out by Google, with or without referral, and I can't seem to figure out why. Can someone please review my resume and help me pinpoint any issues on it? Not comfortable sharing openly on this post, but I'd be happy to share via DM. YOE: 5 TC:180k
- vote Decline offer after accepting it from Amazon I’m thinking about declining an offer I already accepted from Amazon(AWS). I have accepted the offer via email and the recruiter already kicked off the onboarding process (e.g. review and sign documentation, order devices etc.) I know doing so will burn the bridge. I did speak to many team members
- Update: H1b transfer 2022 My h1b transfer was filed on Feb 2, 2022 via premium processing, received by Vermont facility on Feb 7, 2022 and as of Feb 8, 2022 it shows a status of “Case is being actively reviewed by USCIS”. Anyone on the same boat or got their h1b transfer approved with Feb 2022 as their filing month and any
- link Any PMMs out there , please help. Hello, Thinking of taking a Marketing Analytics course at Berkeley via EDX. https://www.edx.org/micromasters/berkeleyx-marketing-analytics If you have a few minutes, please review the curriculum on the link and advise on whether this can improve my chances of breaking into a PMM role. Thanks, #grow
- [Bay area] House with foundation issues Hello folks, Any thoughts on buying a property with sloped floors? House is 50 years old (common in the bay area) and has visible sloping in the floors. Seller has included a foundation report (reviewed and fix proposed by a structural engineer) and the cost of fixing is quoted as 20k. We essentiall
- Amazon job application status hey, I had onsite interview at Amazon bangalore on Wednesday(5 rounds) and on Friday job apllication status changed from ‘under review’ to ‘no longer under consideration’. It seems like i got rejected but it hasnt confirmed via mail. Any inputs on this Job application status? PS: 4 out of 5 rounds
- How’s TransferWise London? Considering offer Recently landed an offer in the product / UX team. So would love to hear any reviews you have on the general culture, eng culture, how teams work IRL and what autonomous teams really means? And since it’s blind what good TC is at TW :) More than happy to share further details via DM.
- Does real estate brokerage matter as a buyer? First time buyer and looking for an agent. I found a few online from different brokerages that seem good based on reviews and number of sales this year via Zillow. Does it matter if they are with Keller Williams, Berkshire, Compass, etc,? Do fancy brokerages cost more, or anything I should consid
- MSFT - HIREright background check So my background report was put together and sent to MSFT today. There was one job experience that was flagged as "pending security review". Here is what happened: In 2019, I got sacked from my former employer for reasons still unknown to me. All I got was my supervisor asking me to the office an
- vote Should I move to AWS with a L1B visa? Working at AWS for ~18 months so far in Europe. Performance review so far was good. I enjoy my team and manager, but not willing to stay in Europe. Considering going to USA via AWS internal transfer with a L1B visa (so wife can work). However, until green card, it's a constant fear, since I can't
- link Ask me anything about Google’s interview life-cycle, work and culture. 15+ years of engineering and leadership experience in the industry, most recently at Google across multiple teams. I have domain expertise in machine learning and large scale distributed systems applied to ranking and personalization problems. During this AMA, I can help shed light on the life-cycle
- Twitter hiring Anyone get an email like this from Twitter recruiting before, and did you end up getting an interview? “We received an overwhelming number of applications and our Twitter hiring teams are still reviewing your profile. We will have an update on your candidacy within 7 business days from today. You
- vote Google - on-site 2 weeks ago, update from recruiter today. Thoughts? It is a L5 PM role. Got the following response from the recruiter (super appreciate the fact that she provided the update via email directly) - “We are doing a final review to see if we can make an offer at the end of this week”. This is the first update from the recruiter after the on-site two we
- How to give feedback to a senior engineer ? I joined this team recently and did a code review for a senior engineer. One of the methods they introduced is written badly. I left some feedback to optimize which got ignored. They made one other minor change i suggested but the other bad code was sent back as is. Should I pushback or just gi
- FB Recruiter Ghosting. Common? Before holidays, the FB recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. I sent over my resume via email as advised. They confirmed that it will be reviewed by hiring team. After holidays, I have emailed 2 times to follow up, with no response. Is it common that they can’t even be bothered to let me know I
- Microsoft new grad position I applied to Microsoft for a new grad position in September and my application was archived after showing 'Routed to recruiter'. However, my friends are still receiving online assessments via referrals. I have applied to various positions via referrals and otherwise, but have not heard back yet. Is
- Switching from Security Engineering to SWE thoughts Hi Blind, I'm a product/app security engineer with around 3 years in the field. Doing mostly devsec/pentests/code reviews, while I enjoy the role and scope, i'm having thoughts to maybe try and go to a 100% SWE roles. I've never worked in SWE, came into the field via pentesting. Someone that made t
- Can I contact the interviewer after an onsite interview at Google? I did an onsite interview at Google with 5 rounds. One of the rounds didn’t go that well and the interviewer is a senior engineer. I’m a bit worried that he/she might give me a no hire and it would place a bigger weight on my reviews. I’m wondering can I contact the interviewers after the onsite (e.
- Recruiter call two and half weeks after on-site Three weeks back I gave an on-site for one of the FAANG companies for a leadership role. Today the recruiter reached out to me via email and said final piece of feedback will be in by Monday morning and wants to setup a call later in the day. Is it going to be a rejection? If the final piece is c
- "Senior" SWE seeking referrals to Dropbox, Salesforce, Twilio - 192 LC solved. Will be 200 by this weekend. - I've read 350/553 pages of Designing Data Intensive Applications. Will be totally finished by the end of this month in addition to reviewing other system design resources. - 3.5 YOE. Happy to send resume once we exchange emails via DM - Open to all
- Should I message recruiter on LinkedIn? Hi everyone. I applies for a SWE role (tech company in SEA) via Kalibbr. I see that my applications has been moved by the recruiter to "in review". It has been a week since then. My current observations are: 1. The job posting is ending in a few weeks... but it's hidden. I suppose they have reached
- Microsoft Virtual On-site (VO) schedule How long does it typically take for Microsoft to make a decision after VO? Completed 4 rounds of VO, 2 weeks ago & it has been radio silence since. Any advise? Tried to contact recruiting via email provided on Action center, no response yet. Thank you! TC: 180k Yoe: 5 Update: heard from HR, 2 hour
- "Senior" SWE seeking referrals to Apple, Pinterest, Twitter - 192 LC solved. Will be 200 by this weekend. - I've read 350/553 pages of Designing Data Intensive Applications. Will be totally finished by the end of this month in addition to reviewing other system design resources. - 3.5 YOE. Happy to send resume once we exchange emails via DM - Open to all
- Google Referral Hi Blind! Would any Googlers be willing to connect and review/discuss submitting my resume as a lead and/or referral? Got my eye on a entry-level sales position that matches my entire background and would love a shot at interviewing! Would really mean a lot to me, plus it would get you some referr
- Remote SWE for >= 230k salary+bonus and 400k sign on bonus? Which companies will hire a senior SWE generalist with a 99% remote work arrangement and 230k salary+bonus and 400k sign on bonus (can be via stocks that vest over <= 4 years)? I want to skip commuting nearly everyday and have the freedom to work from anywhere with fast internet. The company cu
- vote Msft Codility OA - chances to onsite Took an online assessent via codility for a sr. sw engg role. There were 3 questions. 1 easy, 1 bug fixing and 1 hard. I killed the first two, the easy and bug fixing. but didnt even get to 50% of the solution for the hard one. Am hoping the hard question will have more weightage than the others. w
- "Senior" SWE seeking referrals to Slack, Snap, Stripe - 192 LC solved. Will be 200 by this weekend. - I've read 350/553 pages of Designing Data Intensive Applications. Will be totally finished by the end of this month in addition to reviewing other system design resources. - 3.5 YOE. Happy to send resume once we exchange emails via DM - Open to all
- Workday recruitment process Can someone provide input on the workday recruitment process. The job opening was posted 4 weeks back, I was referred 2 weeks back and another friend reached out to the hiring manager and the recruiter via email. I have not heard from the recruiter and in the system it says “in review”. I was wonder
- Tech Support Job Title But Doing Development Work My official title is “Tech Support Engineer”, but my boss told me to just focus on development work and not worry about helping end users anymore because of the great value I provide through dev work. To describe my daily duties in a nutshell: Various departments go to my boss, describe a problem
- Looking for product manager job!! 1 yr PM experience and 4yr SWE experience Hi !! I am looking for a product manager job in e-commerce/ travel/ B2C products and services. I am currently working with fundraising platform but want to move to e-commerce. I have a solid experience in travel tech, I was one of the founding member of reviewers and ratings platform ( a competit
- New hire roles in Seattle area My wife is looking for new hire roles in business analyst , product analyst , product manager ,Data analyst , business intelligence engineer in Seattle area . She got only one call till now (from amazon ) . We are not sure why there are no calls for these roles . If some one can help us review the r
- Google - rejected in 24 hours Hi, I had applied to two relevant Product Manager roles via referral and got standard 'Unfortunately.....' email without any call in 24 hours. I had applied to 3 roles via referral at the same time. Assuming I got rejected on resume screening on an autopilot, is it even worth sending anything? But
- Request for recommendations I really want to work in tech however, I have no access to engineers at Faang companies where I'd like to work. How do I go about getting referrals? It's an effective way to land an internship but I don't even know anyone. It's recruitment season, please let me know what you think. Update: please
- Amazon comp system is broken. Board of Directors, where are you? Amazon's comp system is broken, and it reflects the poor judgment of our executives (..."Markets teach. The lessons can be painful" per Jeff B). Our Board of Directors approves this comp system that incentivizes the wrong behavior and imaginary forecasting. Forecasting problem. 15% YoY stock growth
- Best way to estimate development effort ? as title - how do you estimate the development effort when someone asked you about it ? Current what i do is - estimate effort via days: 1. Look into code, depending on the change, estimate the time needed (including testing locally) 2. Account for time taken to let my team peer review my changes
- Google split start offer I am about to receive Google offer as L4 Data Scientist for Zurich (for Ads, cleared SVP review, recruiter did not share comp yet, 4YOE). According to the recruiter I would join via a "split start": One temporary contract for Germany (my current location) such that I can wfh for the time being and a
- link Awesome Home Buying Tool Hi Blind, I’m working on a home search engine for the Bay Area. I believe this product is significantly better than Zillow/Redfin etc. for potential home buyers exploring the market as it has easy access to many realtors via Q&A + you can read thorough reviews for each listing to find valuable info
- vote [Meta] Do you think Blind will go the LinkedIn/Glassdoor route and degrade? We are already seeing HR infiltrating blind and posting fake positive reviews/comments and replies. While there's a lot of genuine and helpful content here, the larger and more mainstream this app gets (which blind definitely wants) - the more we'll start seeing targetted PR campaigns from companies