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- Any good Home Workout Classes/Programs? What are some good home workout options that you guys are using? I don’t mean simply following Youtube videos. That’s cause my main problem is not being able to keep myself motivated to do a video based exercise for more than a few days. Need an instructor or peers to have some accountability. Anyt
- Job change from Hospital to Tech Been working in hospitality industry for 10 years (since junior year high school) started from dishwasher to now clerical staff in hospital. Been in current job for 4 years now and want to pursue a career working for Discord. Anyone have any advice on things I can try (courses, YouTube videos, bootc
- link Google interview. Is it even possible So, I was reading interview experience section at leetcode and the following post took my attention https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/407944/Google-or-L4-or-Warsaw-or-Sep-2019-Offer In short, guy claims that he had math and statistics background, no coding experience (like at all). A
- How is everyone and their grandmas solving 500 leets here? I am at 100, it took me a lot of time to get here. I started by watching basic videos on YouTube, going through grokking algorithms book, then moving to hackerrank. After I got comfortable with basic programming and data structures, I started LC. Struggled with even the basic questions and understan
- Looking for referrals at a tech company for project management roles Hi, I’ve been working at Lockheed Martin for 1.5 years as a project manager and an additional 2 years as a program management intern. I’m looking for a more fast paced and dynamic opportunity at a software company like Atlassian, Facebook, Twitch, or Google. A referral for project management posit
- Wife returning to work after long break Posted by my wife from my account - I returned to work after taking a long break ~9 years and feel bogged down by build systems/pipelines/ci-cd. I am in a non-tech role right now but have strong programming skills and would like to break into TPM roles in another 1-2 years but I know I need these co
- Career change to Project Management Hi everyone, Currently in L&D role pivoting to project management (non-technical). Other than earning PMP (exam next month), any certifications or experience to pursue? I’ve managed SaaS implementations, program development, research, and content development projects. Any advice welcome. Thank yo
- Presentation for panel interview The context is TPM making a plan to transform a monolith to a shared service architecture. 30-40 min including Q&A about 10 min. It’s my first time and the topic is huge. Read thru tips and tricks on YouTube. Got more than 1 companies (one of them FB) asking to submit before the interview. Questions
- Is SWE (in India) another JEE ? Nowadays, everyone from a freshman to a senior from IIT to XYZ colleges from every branch has listed some sort of competitive programming / leetcode stat in their linkedin bio. I have seen profiles with >800 LCs of students, with them posting their solutions, youtube links on linkedin. Apparently
- Introducing Java to highschooler - book with examples My highschooler is learning Java as her first programming language. She is slightly familiar with concepts of variables, loops etc ...but has no idea of object oriented programming etc . Trying to find a not so bulky book that introduces Java well , and has lots of solved examples and exercises tha
- link Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2 I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc
- 1980s-1990s: Were people more “tech literate” back in the day? This is probably a long shot, seeing as how most of this site is rather young! I was on a YouTube binge and came across some videos describing the growth of home PCs in the 1980s. It seems a lot of these devices had more a more “manual” setup, requiring people to use things like BASIC to execute c
- Any advice for an Administrative Assistant looking to get into Current Programming? I’m an admin assistant at a media and production company and haven’t moved up. More of a floater with my home base being HR. Looking for a raise within the industry, but honestly happy to try entertainment within Tech like YouTube (other suggestions welcome) or even sports for *higher pay.* HR is n
- How highly regarded is Salesforce mts viewed on a resume? I might soon be starting as a junior frontend developer at Salesforce, (amts). This is insane to me as I'm still pretty new to programming and only had slight familiarity with Salesforce. A coworker (who used to be a pm at YouTube) where I am now at a small no-name startup told me that I'm now In t
- How can so-called "scrum masters" unblock or coach anything for devs? they advertise themselves the ability to "speed up team delivery", "eliminate technical roadblocks", "coach developers". Now with the exception of SWEs who act as SM, how can a dude with a business degree and past experience as QA/BA/photographer/front desk reception can help, or even understand, a
- Stripe Interview Experience/Offer Wanted to share my experience interviewing with Stripe in Dec. Neither screen nor final round had anything like LC. Was definitely time pressure, especially in the final round where there was only 35 min for programming interviewing. Integration and bug squash rounds felt pretty straight forward.
- vote Should I take LinkedIn over Google/Youtube Hi all, just got email from LinkedIn that they would like to move on with an offer. However, I just changed my job from Indeed to join Google(Youtube) about 6 months ago(I actually got the Google offer in June but due to visa issue, can only join full time by Nov last year) LinkedIn: Pro: 1.They w
- link Referrals I'm looking for referrals for remote positions in typical United States time zones. Due to some family health obligations I'm tethered to my current city—so I CANNOT relocate. I'm a software engineer predominantly looking for backend positions, though I'm also alright with full-stack positions.
- Referral for Intuit Hi all, Hope you are doing well. I am a final year student looking for referrals at Intuit. I have a good problem solving skills, did over 500+ leetcode problems. I have been selected as Summer Intern at TCS by my performance of Codevita. I have a good background of Web development and did one in
- Is my preparation for Google right? I have been contacted by a Google recruiter. Since I was not prepared, I told I'll interview early 2023. So, I have plenty of time. The method I have been thinking to follow is this: Coding: Elements of Programming interview Leetcode 1 hr daily (mostly focused on Medium) with weekly contests to jud
- vote Square: Rate My Interview (L6) Round 1: Pair-programming - Got through 2.75 parts, all with working test cases. I didn't quite finish the third part in time, but the piece I was missing was trivial given what I had already written (just a reverse-case of what was there) Round 2: Pair-programming - Got through 3 parts, all with w
- link We did it!! My wife and I started preparing for the interviews a couple of months back. We aimed to land jobs at the top tier companies. Today the dream has been fulfilled as we both signed the offers for LinkedIn (my wife) and Meta (me). We started with the topic wise revision of DS/Algo to have strong fundame
- Anyone feel unmotivated or uninspired to Leetcode more or be a better software engineer? I was rejected from several onsites last month and I've stopped Leetcoding since then. I'm here looking at a simple tutorial about Golang (initially out of interest) but I find myself switching to something else like watching non-programming Youtube videos so I barely focus on the tutorial or follow
- How to prepare for Google onsite in one month? Asking for a friend. Hi everyone! I've scheduled google onsite for end of March. It's going to be 4 coding + 1 behavioral. Interviewing for L4 SDE (4YOE). Been preparing from a month. Leetcode - 60 medium, 13 hard. Trying to cover a wide area of topics. I'm updating the answers with the info I'v
- Suggestions for middle schooler's laptop Hey Guys, I have to buy a MacBook/Pro or some other device for my middle schooler. His primary use is for: - Google classroom, documents, projects mostly MS office tools. - Playing games like Fortnite, uses some VM for playing kid cart racer+ etc. - Screencast to make youtube gaming videos some
- Thoughts on increasing competitiveness in interview process specifically in India Nowadays almost every day I see 3 to 4 posts in LinkedIn sharing their leetcode profile or competitive programming profile. Even those who are 0-1 year experienced people are reading topics in High level design. Most importantly almost 1 out of 5 people who are joining top product/tech companies are
- 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
- So many good options... stuck with analysis paralysis. There are so many exciting things to pursue to try and learn, such as: blogging, writing ebooks, quantum computers and their programming (IBM Q cloud service), quantum physics, learning artificial intelligence (AI/ML/DL), anticipating new tech, learning algorithms, crunching Leetcode, creating new b
- How to transition from backend Java dev to C++ dev? I've been interested forever in low-latency C++ - literally have watched every YouTube video I can get my hands on about it. I currently work on a client-facing team inside a premier financial institution building trading tools, though not trading systems directly. Most of my work is in building ou
- What are the referral do’s and don’ts for FAANG and similar product companies? Also, refer me please? I made several mistakes as a grad student that led to rejections by the ATS even in the referral system with the few referrals I’d managed to get back in the day I’m looking for a job switch for an L5 or L6 product position. After having 1.5 yrs of work ex in the US and 3.5 before in India, I’m rea
- How to teach a 12 yo programming? My niece is a very bright 12 year old, she is constantly top of her class. She just finished elementary school and to reward her for being top of her class once again, I asked her what she would like as a gift. She could have asked anything, but she asked to learn programming!!! Well, I think I cou
- link Master list of Free Resources Copy and pasta what I found on reddit(https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/e4v755/master_list_of_free_resources/) ////////////////////// With the holidays coming up, I wanted to share some mostly free resources (well the books and some courses aren't free) that I've used for preparat
- link The best books/resources to prep for a technical/coding interview as a PM Which resources have you personally found most useful, up-to-date, and engaging? 1. Was Cracking the PM Interview enough in your case? 2. Are Cracking the Coding Interview and Leetcode an overkill? 3. What Coursera/Edx/Udemy courses were most useful if any? 4. Any good guides/articles and lists of
- 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
- 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
- Escape Tutorial Hell Hello, Trying to learn Python rn because a lot of startups seem to want people proficient in a scripting language, and also I feel like it’s a great language for coding interviews. And also why the heck not. I have a little over a year of Java experience so I’m not totally new to programming, an
- Intimidated by the interview process. Too afraid to begin applying. I want to switch jobs desperately as my TC is very low for my experience. This is my 2nd company. I tried asking my manager for a raise because even all the campus hires in my team get paid double than me. He told me that he'll consider it but it's Oracle. They don't care. If and when I leave, they'
- 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
- New Grad trying to be a half-millionaire to millionaire between 25-28 years old Hey software engineers and/or investors, It would be incredible if I could get an understanding on how you became financially free or a half-millionaire or millionaire in savings/assets? MY EDUCATION: In 3 years, I’ll be graduating (at 21 years old) with my BS in Computer Science at a large EAST c
- Switch from serviced based company to product based companies for 9 YOE I have been working in serviced based companies for the last 9 years. In these, I woked on non coding projects for the first 6 years. It is after that I upskilled into Java, Spring boot and Microservises, and also learnt AWS cloud. over these three years, I developed an interest and it become a dre
- link PM Interview Prep Plan: How I got PM offers from Google, Expedia, Microsoft, and Facebook Five months ago I got fedup with the crap culture at Amazon (needs a separate post) and decided to start working on my game plan for interviews at tech companies. Now, I have three offers from the tech companies - Expedia is travel not in the same league I know. No trolls please. Profile: CS Engine
- link I made it!! From 85k to 350k TC in less than 2 years EDIT1: looks like this post blew up!! Thanks everyone!! I promise I will reply to all of the DMs/comments later tonight! EDIT2: I replied to all of the DMs, but won't be able to reply to any more DMs/comments. It's too much for me to keep up! However, as I mentioned in most of my replies, I am givi
- link Need advice in moving towards next career move Hi everyone, This is my first post on Blind so pardon if a similar question has been asked. Have been looking through Blind, some youtube channels and also some subreddits; and I came upon the conclusion that succeeding in a CS interview boils down to practicing lots and lots of Leetcode questions
- Non Traditional Path to Google L5 SWE I've been on blind for a little over a year now and with all the negativity, I wanted to (hopefully) share some positive encouragement for those looking to break into FAANG. As the title states, I had a very unconventional path to ending up at Google. My undergrad was in Physics. Sure we had to tak
- 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,
- link Coding Interview Preparation in Seattle I see several posts asking for how to prepare for coding interviews. I commented on 2-3 of them with details about a few eastside coding meetups. Let me try to gather my thoughts here, will update if I need to add more. Here is how to Prepare for Tech Interviews * Time to Success: Depending on
- 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 Leetcode You know. It has only been 4 months for me and I just have to know. I... can't be the only one who gets incredibly turned on by leetcode, right? I'm sure everyone here loves an elegant O(N) time O(1) space solution... but an elegant solution straight up turns me on. Doing leetcode problems in genera
- Google, Meta, DoorDash, Microsoft Offers I recently went through an extensive interview cycle with many big tech companies. My goal was to land an exciting senior SWE job with top tier pay. In the end I signed with Meta due to best TC, exciting teams, collocation of office, and desire for a faster work environment. ————————- Final Offers
- Offers from Facebook, Google, Uber and 6 others | AMA I learnt a lot about interviews from blind community. This is my effort to give back to the community. This thread is not about TC, but for the curious ones, I have multiple offers around 550k and I still negotiating, I will start another thread with comp details. Offers I got - Facebook (E6), Uber