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- I’ll join Google I passed the phone screen interview. I passed the on-site interviews. I have been HC approved. (Down-leveled to L3) I have team match. I’m waiting for the offer. So happy that I don’t know how to react. TC :45K YOE: 1.7 EDIT : I got few private message and comment as of my experience with th
- Need suggestions on how to have hands on learning on building scalable systems I wanted to learn how to build scalable systems. I'm looking for hands-on experiential learning. Are there any tutorials or blogs or courses for this? Or any platform or community or anyone would like to volunteer (paid or free) where they mentor or guide me as I believe one can learn better via c
- 330% TC bump in 3 years - grateful to this community TL;DR - My TC went from 160K to 688K in 3 years and this is my journey. I am grateful of this community to provide me motivation and help me prepare for my interviews to find the right roles & compensation related to my experience/skills. I want to share my journey to help motivate someone else who
- Tech depth required for staff? Currently SDE3 at Amazon, get good feedback, work well with team, no perf issues etc. TC: around 300k However I always get imposter syndrome because I don’t know how Alfbus works or about DDB consensus algorithm beyond high level stuff, or VPC internals like the types of security you get inside wit
- Completed my TPM L6 Interviews with FB / G Want to share as much as possible with the blind community so someone else can benefit from this in the future.... Note, I'm not going to share my questions. Most of it is all found off the interwebs, educative, youtube, etc... anyways. Prep: I took 4 weeks off work, studied like my life depended
- Systems Design reading group As a lot of you here might agree, building up your systems design muscle for interviews can be challenging...more so, if you are doing this in isolation..why not form a community and help each other grow in this area...I have created a reddit community - https://www.reddit.com/r/Systems_Design/ The
- link My Approach to System Design It is not an exhaustive list and might not work for everyone. Also it is not a one size fits all thing but I hope it helps you to draft a plan and figure out how to tackle the sys design. Resources: 1. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 2. https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-s
- Google Team Match / HC Help Hi, I had an onsite at Google a couple of weeks ago. The recruiter said the feedback was that I was borderline L5/strong L4. He also added that nothing was guaranteed and the next step is HC. Prior to going to HC, the recruiter said it'd be good for me to get a statement of support from a HM (he c
- F***ed up interview process has made me depressed Interview process have reached the worst possible ever. They expect you to just memorise the entire LC and vomit in the interview. I feel like these so called youtubers have also played a major role in this, they will memorise the answer and solve it in one go for the video and quote "this is the e
- Stripe pm interview process (no offer) Finally got a pm interview for stripe and my first few remote interviews went pretty well, so I thought I’d share my experience. Very similar to the Facebook structure for the first couple interviews focused on prod sense and execution. I made it to the next phase which was a take home coding projec
- SWE Interview Prep Plan Going to start the interview process again and want to make sure I got a good plan in place so I can hopefully get multiple offers. I am in no rush to accept a role, so it's more of creating a solid plan I can implement over the next 3-6 months. Let me know your feedback/ideas: 1) Review Data Struc
- vote Rejected by Google. Heartbroken Hi Blind friends, Just got rejected by Google. Heartbroken as I prepared for it hard. Did close to 350 LC in 2 and half months. The feedback I got in the rejection email was to 'focus on coding'. I am a data engineer so never really focussed on SDE style DSA questions before. Cleared Amazon Data E
- link 3 YOE - 5 Offers - Seattle I’ll lead with this: I’m a straight white guy with a neutral-American accent and US citizenship, so I have a lot of unfair advantages in life that not everyone is lucky enough to get. Blind was a big part of what inspired me to seek out higher compensation and gave me confidence in my negotiation,
- vote Meta L5 MLE Hello, I had an onsite for a E5 MLE role. Had 5 rounds, 2 coding, 1 systen design, 1 ML design and 1 behavioural. I am an applied scientist at Amazon L5 close to promo. I got a strong feedback in all rounds except the ML design round!! Just a few month ago I was a noob in leetcode and system design!
- Creativity in PM interviews (Google) I am a PM in Google, and I happen to do a large amount of interviews. I think that many people on here state that creativity is important while interviewing, and I think that many of us just nod in agreement. What though does creativity mean? At Google, we are typically not formally trained to know
- link Meta | E5 | Interview Experience #meta #facebook #tech Hi folks, Blind and its community has helped me a lot in my preparation. I wanted to share my experience so that other people can benefit from my experience. Years Of Experience: 6 Offer Date: Dec-2021 Interview Timeline: ~4 Months Interview process: Recruiter Call - This
- link Applied for Meta rotational About 3 months ago I applied for Meta rotational engineer. I scheduled a mock interview a week later and my actual phone screen a week after that. I did pretty well on my mock, but i did get some negative feedback from the interviewer which helped put me in touch with the fact that I needed to stud
- Meta. Interview to Offer journey. Its time to give it back to the community. I am going share my experiences here, feel free to ask questions as you may (I will refrain from sharing any specific questions, however, I will try my best to help you) Warning: This post might be fairly long, the intention is to give enough details to h
- My interview day prep/ How I calm myself on the interview day This is directed at early career SDEs (cause I am one). But if this helps you, feel free to comment. Premise: We're talking about the interview eve and the day of the on-site interview. On the day before the interview: 1. First can of RedBull. Caffeine helps me concentrate. 2. I go through 1 leetc
- Google L4/L5 Interview Hey everyone! I'm currently studying for the Google interview, and I have around 5 years of experience in the industry. I spoke with a recruiter who told me that based on my industry experience, I'd be interviewing for L4 and L5 roles, depending on how well I do on the interviews. I was told I'd do
- Cleared multiple staff equivalent roles. Got rejected in multiple too. AMA I have got good help from the community. It is the time to give it back to the community. I have tried different companies at staff and equivalent levels . Cleared some of them. Failed some of them. I could be considered either as lucky to clear them or unfortunate to not clear the others(leaving t
- Is PM Hiring Broken? So here’s my experience interviewing for PM. 33 companies. Trying to land a remote job ideally. Finally landed an offer. New TC: 185k. 5 YOE of PM. I spent the last 6 months during COVID interviewing with various places - FAANGULA, F500, mid-tier public tech cos, rocket ship startups, and shitty s
- Critique my early retirement plan Hey, I'm only 31, but I've recently put together a plan for early retirement that I finally feel good about. Inspired by another thread on Blind I decideed to post it here. It's a humblebrag only to some extent - I'm genuinly looking for feedback on whether I'm missing sth from the folks who tried
- Referrals requested Hiya I would really appreciate any and all referrals for any position that will let me write some code. Remote is cool, but I'm not picky. Heck I'll even give one lucky person who helps me out a tmo discount code! Really though, thanks for commenting if you do :) Alternatively, I would be very g
- For cracking FAANG PM interviews - Exponent or Product Alliance? I am evaluating Exponent and Product Alliance courses to prepare for the PM interviews at Amazon and Google to be precise. If someone can guide me which one will be better given my profile. Brief about myself: * Total Experience 9 years * Plus MBA from the Ivy League [did after 6 years of work ex]
- vote Self Project vs Internship vs Leetcode As title mentioned, I have about half a year before I started my job hunting journey, just want to know which one of the following things I should be really focus on to help me get a SWE job: 1) Self Project I want to learn to develop a few apps which include web developing, game developing and etc
- My Google Interview Experience Update 2 -------------- My recruiter went on leave and a new recruiter took up my case. I received a call from the recruiter and unfortunately I didn't make it to HC or Team Matching. Disappointed. Surprisingly, not as devastated as I was about 5 years back when I first got rejected after the 2nd ro
- [India] Thank you Blind! Google L5 PM Offer YoE - 5 (3 Dev + 2 Product) Current TC - 40 LPA I recently had a call and signed my offer with Google Hyderabad. Blind went a long way in helping me in my course of action at the later stages. To give back to the community, sharing my experience below : Timeline - 1. Application and Rejection : I
- link I did it! Final Interview Results/Advice If you’re thinking about interviewing but are overwhelmed and feeling down from all the people on Blind who work at top tier companies boasting sky-high TCs, tons of offers, and don’t feel like you have what it takes to end up at your dream company, this one’s for you. I've learned a lot on Blind t
- My journey of getting into FAANG In November last year, I started to take a Data structures and algorithms course because I wanted to switch my job. I had never done LC even back in college. I'm a Machine Learning engineer but I wanted to work at a bigger company solving complex problems with Machine Learning. I was reached out by
- PM Interview Experience 2021 Hey Blind Community! Thanks to all the posts here I was able to prep better for my pm interviews and negotiate my TC higher. Here's paying forward and documenting my experiencing to help folks who're prepping for PM interviews. I started looking for jobs towards the second half of the year. 1. S
- link Google Interview Experience ML - L6 I just finished my interview loop with google for a ML engineer position(remote) at google. I have benefited a lot from reading other peoples experiences and I have decided to document my own experience. Additionally, the blind community has several posts for software engineer, but is lacking posts
- Interview Experience| FB E5 | G L5 | MS AS2 (62) | Seattle | May 2020 [Offers] ## Interview Experience (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) #### Profile: *YOE:* 4+, all at Amazon (Applied Scientist) *Education:* PhD in Machine Learning (ML) from a Top 20 CS school *Location:* Seattle *Current TC:* $270K *Interview dates:* Last two weeks of April *Facebook offer (MLE):* 205K/700K/100
- link PM Interview with Facebook (Meta) - documenting my experience ---------------- Update 11 Done! This process is a marathon, not a sprint. Nearly 3 months for me, although I got COVID which added 2-3 weeks worth of delays. I feel like I did very well overall. Execution was my weakest in both rounds, although my second Execution I felt was stronger than my f
- Google Team (Borg) That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20/inside-google-s-brewing-mental-health-crisis-claims-of-toxic-work-environment When Chewy Shaw left Google’s site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal. “I n
- link Passed L4 for G&FB - sharing strategies Giving back to the community by sharing the strategies/tips/resources that helped me get L4 offers from Google and Facebook. There are no innovations here. My goal for this post is to provide: - A few useful tips that you might not have seen yet - Strategies that worked for me Coding interview pre
- Google L3 from Electrical Engineer (Interview Experience, Accepted) Wanted to share my roller coaster experience with Google interview process. tl;dr: ~$200k + 20k signing; 9 interviews; highs and lows; great experience; great recruiting team Quick background. BS in Electrical Engineering from decent private university. Had only two classes in the CS department
- link UPDATED (08/10): Amazon Behavioural Interview Top Tips from an experienced interviewer I’ve been at Amazon for over 3 years and have interviewed extensively. Over time, when interviewing for partner teams (that is when your colleagues ask you to be part of assessing candidates for them) I took a greater interest in Phone Screens where I got to speak to candidates at initial stages. Wh
- From laid off to 6 offers and 2x TC Sorry this post is late, I know some people were waiting for me to write this TL;DR: Got laid off, was sad, studied hard, did a bunch of interviews, did a bunch of back-to-back onsites, got 6 offers, doubled my previous TC This is my story on how I went from someone that never leetcoded or done a
- link Thank you blind. My incredible success story. Warning. This is going to be a very long post. Feel free to ignore most of it and just scroll down for offers if that's all you care to see. I've fudged the numbers slightly for the sake of anonymity but they are more or less accurate. A few months ago I made this post and promised to follow up if
- How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs There is a very valuable post on blind about an interview process for engineering leaders from last year: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Interview-Cycle-Facebook-M1-Google-L7-Microsoft-L68-and-Local-Public-Company-dRQmWtbh This
- Interview Cycle: Facebook M1, Google L7, Microsoft L68, and Local Public Company Hello all. I recently interviewed for positions at a local public company, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and promised in another thread to recount the experiences, since there’s not a lot of Blind info for the experienced/higher level folks. So I don’t have to GTFO, TC is currently $396k (was $5
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(