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- I FEEL STUCK I am a software engineer, with a year experience. I really want to get better at coding and solving problems. I seem stuck and I rely on YouTube to make tutorials. I have good project ideas , I just don’t know what to do . I use JavaScript for my backend and front end #engineering #software #swe
- Craze about PM role // Overhyped Ass licking competition? Every other PM is a LinkedIn influencer nowadays and selling their shit book which provide no value 📕 PM gurus are making YouTube channel to sell their own acronyms and secret mantra on “How to crack PM role” and asking people to subscribe their newsletter for weekly frameworks 🤣 Lemme try one,
- Project Manager referrals needed Hey there everyone! I'm a Project Manager working for big gov and I'm not the biggest fan... And so... I'm looking to break into tech. I'm open to both big tech and #startups! Looking for #referrals for project management roles. I have a PMP from PMI and Scrum Master Certification (CSM). TC: 105K
- Best team to work for at Google as a interaction designer? What is the best team to work for as an interaction designer at Google? I’m going through the team matching phase and would love to hear from current or former Google employees! I currently have a team match meeting with YouTube Core Commerce (Aaron Sagray is the manager). Looking for 1 or 2 off th
- PM advice please! Any advice for entry level project manager on how to get jobs? 1.5 year project manager experience 2 year swe experience Looking for non technical project manager positions. Getting a lot of rejections even though they're entry level positions. Any suggestions or advice on what I may be doing wro
- Seek Referral for Engagement Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager Currently a Senior Engagement Manager with 10-15 years experience in IAAS, PAAS, SAAS and very technical. Have PMP, ITILv4, Scrum Master and working on Cloud certifications Seeking Program Manager, Engagement Manager, Project Manager roles Thanks so much! #uber #facebook #google #grubhub #apple
- Upcoming Google UX NEW GRAD Onsite 🥵 Hey Fellow Blinders! 🌟 I have a Google UX new grad onsite coming up and I was wondering how to to practice for the white board challenge and find prompts that I can sit and practice on my own. Another thing : one of the projects in my google slides is for a client who allowed me to show it by cha
- Podcasts, books, YT channel suggestions? I'm currently a final year student and have a few months before joining. Looking for some good content to consume as I have a good amount of free time these days. I'm doing leetcode and working on a project but still have a lot of free time left. Please recommend interesting podcasts (tech/non tech
- Applied RL Research or RL in prod? Hey blind, do you know of any promising (deep) reinforcement learning applications or successful deployments to production. For example, I have heard a couple use cases within Alphabet: YouTube recommendations, TPU chip design, data center energy allocations. Also, Tesla seems to be using an AlphaZ
- Google Host Matching Summer 2020 Hey all! I've been lucky enough to be in Host matching for summer 2020 for 3 weeks now but still haven't heard back from anyone and am getting worried. I tried to make my questionnaire as open as possible because I would love to work for any project and get the experience of working at Google. Does
- Needing some NLP advice ... Hi guys, posting for my brother . Thought I’d take some advice from Blind fam who are into Natural Language Processing. Since this isn’t my Masters area of specialization.. I wanted to take advice from subject matter experts. This is his query in his own words ..... I recently started learning Natu
- Technical interview prep/plan Currently preparing for technical interviews. Here’s my plan: 1) Go through CTCI as a start 2) Leetcode ~200 questions mostly focusing on mediums 3) Leetcode specific company tagged questions to the places I’ll apply for. Maybe do top 30-50 questions 4) Read up on system design (grokking the system
- Project Manager Job/Referral Help! Hello! Looking to get back into the tech industry into PM role remote or in Austin, TX. Experience: - (Almost) 2 years Project Manager / Account manager at a commercial real estate company. 75k TC - 1 year tech sales before this with various clients from NoSQL databases to security applications t
- Can you get a L5 Sr.SWE position without much design experiences at work Current working as a L4 engineer in a boring infra team, doing mostly maintenance and devops tasks. Not much experience on system design from work. Manager is also not able to find me projects that involve design within the team. I am exploring outside opportunities, so far landed 3 on-site intervie
- Uber interview tips (ML) Hello fellow blind folks I am in process to interview at Uber Eats for an ML role (SE II) Done with the code signal test (scored 844, did not expect that! Please DM me if you need more information of that, I would like comments to be specific to the help I require) I was expecting a direct onsite b
- vote I’m a tech lead now, oh wow Ok so I’m leading a project this year and manager said if everything goes well, I will be promoted to senior in 1 year and manager also said I have easy path to ICT5 after ICT4. I looked at senior salaries for apple and it’s like 300k, which is 🥜 for senior. I’m thinking of jumping to coinbase for
- Help! Seeking Opportunity for 6 yoe Civil Engineer & 2021 MBA Grad Hello Blind fam, Need your help! I’m a civil engineer with roadway design and healthcare construction/project management experience (1 and 5 years respectively). Currently finishing an MBA this summer and interested in tech. I’ve been learning BI and AI/ML codes on the side (Thanks to Youtube and
- How to add the right bgm to vocals? Not sure if the Quarantine is making me try random stuff. Anyways: I built a side-project where you can swap vocals and instrumentals from two different songs. You enter two Youtube URLS: i.e Freddy Mercury - Bohemian Rhapsody (Instrumental) and Justin Bieber - Baby (Vocals) so we have Baby Rha
- Non technical data science manager I am a data scientist (Ph.D.) & report to a non-technical manager who has done MBA strategy who is in the company for a long time... I have a hard time during my 1:1 & while explaining the project status during the meetings. if I say this model is overfitting that person has no clue.. If I say I a
- 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
- Data Science to Engineering? Let's say I want to land a swe role in 6 months. I've had good exposure to the data engineering side in my career so I'm decently familiar with pipelines, databases, unit testing, AWS, version control, APIs, etc. all in python. Just... not at swe level or quality I think What should I focus on most
- Will poocoins make a comeback? Safemoon down huge, is it worth holding for a year or two will it come back long term? Sheeshmoon is a joke rn I bought in thinking tech guys are smart hardworking and Google engineers wouldn’t care about a project that yields only $500k split amongst 3 people so I figured they would push it and su
- Early 30s - need hobbies to live life and diversify away from work Don’t give an F about work anymore. Got screwed by some re org. And no opportunities for growth. Type-A personality and wasted my 20s doing this rat race. Don’t fully regret it. Few things I am thinking so don’t regret my 30s: Get pilots license Get in shape Read Indian and US history. From india
- Google team match advice Hi: Looking for some advice around team match at google. I am at the team match stage with google now and hr start to sent teams that are interested in me. Background in front end and some backend works as well. Here are some teams that have shown interest: 1. Google search quality team(area in
- unlucky software engineer? Just sharing to know how many of us here are in same boat - Started my career in 2011 in some shitty consulting firm. Did some good enhancements & features on c/c++/mainframes. I know, wtf. 2012 changed project and ended up in shell scripting. I was literally writing parsers and what not in perl/aw
- Advice needed: How to get of rut Hello, I am Sr. Software Engineer with 4 YOE. I feel like I am wasting my time at my current company. Work is not challenging at all and there’s too much politics which I have no interest in getting into. Sometimes, I just waste entire day watching youtube videos. Other days, I will have some motiv
- Looking to upgrade laptop, suggestions needed. I need to upgrade my laptop, I primarily use it for developing my side projects and the like, along with some light browsing and some YouTube, Netflix, etc. on the side. But primarily I need something that's very portable, has a great screen, and is powerful. I've been waiting to see what Apple ha
- Help me escape - DS referrals needed Hey guys, my background and my interest is in predictive modeling. Currently I am stuck in a team that doesn't do any ML work anymore. My boss blocked 2 internal transfers attempts and he has me doing some data analysis and visualization. He's saying the team will get more ML projects in the future
- 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
- Boston Dynamics Seriously, I thought BD was THE coolest acquisition Google ever did. I was also throughly jealous of Andy Rubin's job where he get to be surrounded by world's best robotics experts to work on moonshot projects in world's most resourceful company. It didn't seem to get better than this. Then he left
- vote Google Team Matching Help Going through team matching at Google for L4 and curious what y’all think. I’m split between these two teams: Channels and Playlists Infra (YouTube) - Work consists of making the service more efficient, scalable, reliable, etc to handle YouTube’s projected growth. Also, involves integrating other t
- Money Making Trends TL;DR: Where do people discuss trending money making strats that are hot off the press? When we start hearing about NFTs, Amazon FBA/Affiliate/KDP, Drop-shipping, new alt-coin ico's, new forms of mining (file/energy/hnt/etc), and all these income generation trends in public forums and in the news,
- 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
- 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
- How to deal with teammate whos lagging all teammates behind? I worked with this guy last year and felt very uncomfortible due to his inability to write code. (He is Applied Scientist2, converted from SDE) I am not sure what his major was (or thesis) but clearly he cant handle any issues in terms of coding at least. 1. Recently found out that he was asking s
- 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
- What do you do to stay inspired and focussed? I used to be someone who was very driven to read up on whats new in tech and was constantly reading articles on budding startups , AI/ML and everything new . Was also very proactive in seeing what projects are being pursued in teams across my organization ( a FAANG i worked at before). But now .. I
- Switch to pure Backend Roles from Full-Stack Dev I have worked 3+ years as a Full-stack Dev contributed in both frontend and backend equally using technologies like Backbone/React/Java Spring/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/SQL Server/ Nginx/SOLR/Redis/RabbitMQ. I wish to transition to a role focussed on Backend / Distributed Computing role. I have curren
- 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
- 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
- Why is Netflix a FAANG? I don't get it. They seem like small subset potatoes next to Google and Amazon in particular (Prime Video, Stadia, YouTube, Twitch). They also seem to be more of a content company than a tech company at this point. Seems to me like multiple orgs have more of a claim to being on this list, most clea
- link 10 yoe TC ~$160k . I need to get out! ASAP Context[below is US based]: - It's 2012, economy still bouncing back from recession. TC 55k, no leetcode, interviews are like what is a java interface? - now 3yrs exp, barely learnt anything for 3+ yrs TC 65K - it's 2015, no clue interviewing landscape is drastically changing (thx Gayle McDowell?).
- Uber ML Interview Expectations Hi, I have a on-site scheduled in few days, and its for a Sr role. I have never interviewed for a ML onsite so was curious if someone at Uber/ anyone who is familiar can guide me into what i need to accomplish before the day. I have worked on many ML projects, working with millions of data E-2-E. I
- vote Google or Uber or Tiktok Got offers from Google, Uber, Tiktok. All L4. YOE 3.5 Google Youtube: 330k avg first two years, 290k avg 4 years, frontload Uber Risk: 330k avg first two years, 280 avg 4 years, frontload Tiktok Ads: 298k avg first two years, 318k avg 4 years, backload TC looks similar to me. Say Uber and Tiktok i
- Boost confidence in Sys Design Interview I have been interviewing for last couple of months and I keep on bombing every single system design interview. I do read a lot of articles, blogs and YouTube videos related to scalable systems but cannot build up confidence out of these efforts. At my current work, I don't work on any distributed sy
- vote Needs suggestions: Meta E4 vs Google L4 Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to land a new job, and luckily got 2 offers as the title suggest. However, I found myself cannot make a clear decision based on my own information. So inputs from your guys would be greatly appreciated. Meta MLE Base: 180k Equity: 450k Target bonus: 15% Signon: 75
- 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
- ~9 YOE, what base and TC should I target So I am unhappy in my current role and am planning to leave. If you were me, what would you be looking for $$ wise for new jobs? Want to make sure I’m not leaving money on the table. My background: role where I developed a b2b partnerships & conceptualized and developed a new product for the compa
- 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
- vote WLB + Side Hustles or Career Growth? Google TC: 420k + 50k, 33/33/22/12 L5, Bay Area Refreshers: ~110k for Meets All, no refreshers first year. RSUs vest monthly and G stock can be treated almost like cash since it's so stable. With Google, I'd be picking a good team, resting and vesting, and working on side projects to make some money