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- System Admin Roles at Google? I just found out that Google has System Administrator roles through their YouTube channel. However, when I search for it on Google careers I don't see any openings in the US. Are these roles hard to break into at Google? Also I saw that the pay was pretty low on glassdoor relative to other roles at
- vote Free time, how do you surf internet? Once I am done with my work, I find that most of my free time is spent surfing internet randomly for fun (watching youtube or Netflix, social network sites, searching stuff etc). I feel like I have little control over my free time and am mostly surfing aimlessly or randomly for fun. Curious how man
- link Disney furlough https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/04/11/walt-disney-world-to-furlough-43000-workers-after-coronavirus-shutdown/amp/ i am still not able to digest the fact that the company with 10B in box office in 2019 which is highest ever by any studio and most successful launch of D+ is furlou
- 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
- Skipping Google phone screen I hear from a lot of people that they "somehow" skipped the phone screen for Google and were directly go on-site. I believe phone screen is good and always enjoy taking it. But the more I hear that people are "somehow" able to skip the phone screen I'm getting a feeling why take the long route. Ini
- Tips to help when feeling “overwhelmed” with onsite interview prep? I have an on-site in a few days at a known mid-sized company in the LA area. While studying for the onsite (leetcode, YouTube, etc), I’m finding myself just completely overwhelmed by the amount of material. Combine this with the fact that I could be asked any puzzle/question from this set of 1000+
- Uber and Linkedin Onsites Hey Blind, I have two on-sites in two weeks with Uber and Linkedin for SE2/senior positions. I have solved 70% of the Leetcode problems for both companies and studied a book for system design and watched a couple of videos on youtube. Any advice on the remaining of the preparations? Also, if you h
- vote System design experience! In real world I’ve only built services which seemed pretty straightforward. For example, I’ve never had to use Paxos/raft/saga. Most of the trade offs were about designing the APIs, which database to use, which compute to use (EC2 vs lambda vs something else). Otherwise, Amazon has a pretty good ser
- Google on-site System Design Hello I have an upcoming google on-site in a week . Just few clarification questions on System design round 1. Will it be based on past experiences or more generic like design a Instagram feed/youtube/whatsapp ? 2.Being a Software Infrastructure engineer should I put more weightage to Bandwidth
- 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,
- 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
- link Side business (active income) while on H1B - no actual rule on USCIS site? So this guy on YouTube keeps advocating that you can do side business on h1b as long as you pay taxes to IRS and have ITIN (for business) - https://youtu.be/f3X_0cpuKXo He claims he sent emails to USCIS, DOL, IRS, secretary of state etc.. and everyone said it should be fine or not under our juris
- vote Eval my Apple ICT3 offer? Hi guys, would love to hear your thoughts on my apple offer. Base: 160k Rsu: 250 over 4 years Target bonus: 10% Sign-on: 50k Yoe:4 Current tc: 230k Did over 400+ leetcode questions and lot of system design stuff. Have an on-site with Amazon. No other offer in hand. Edit: Lot of people have been
- Scared of Interviewing I’m a new grad with 0 experience. Ive been preparing religiously everyday for 6-8 hours for the past 1.5 months while applying for jobs online. I have 3 on-site scheduled over the coming 3 weeks and I am riddled with anxiety. I am scared that I’m not ready. This is making me anxious and I’ve been pr
- Amazon - Principle Product Manager interview questions or leads Hi , got shortlisted for PPM role for a team responsible for their mobile apps. Have a recruiter call scheduled for next week - do I need to be prepared for any LP related questions or this is just for me to ask about role and team based questions ? Have a phone screen scheduled in about 8 days , q
- What made you click into studying for interviews/bettering career? Sometimes I “click” into focus, but I lose motivation over longer period of time. I was super motivated a 2 months ago and now my life is totally in shambles. I have on-site and phone screens very very soon. I’ve only done 30 LC (15 easy, 15 med). No system design study besides reading a book a mon
- Most people here don't understand the Metaverse Perhaps, it's because you don't have family and friends abroad. Perhaps you are fine sitting and consuming lame TV or YouTube channels without any interaction. For people who are away from their family, having remote presence will be healing. For people who feel cut off and don't have friends local
- SWE core skills for FANG companies especially FB and Google Just started to learn coding, and I'm kinda like it, I'm wondering what does it takes for me to get a job as an SWE Infrastructure at FB or Google SRE? Can someone breakdown what skillsets I need to master in order to have a good chance to be success in those roles? I've seen someone on Youtube men
- vote Found interesting side hustles. Worth trying? I stumbled upon a YouTube video where a very creative guy shared several unconventional money-making ideas. Here are a couple that blew my mind: 1. "Rent" out your credit to those who want to improve their credit score. If you have a decent credit (700+) and low utilized credit cards, you may add
- 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
- Confused about the level of granularity for system design interviews I have ~4.5 years of experience and have an on-site with Stripe coming up in the next several weeks. I currently work at a major (non-FAANG) company and have exposure to large scale systems, however I've still done/am doing the following: 1) Read "Designing Data Intensive Applications" front-to-bac
- Emdedded software to generalist engineer I have 12 YOE as an embedded software engineer. I know C only and never developed with anything else. I am currently an SDE 2 in Amazon and got on site interview at Facebook for E5 position. I checked the design interview and damn lol... I am screwed :). Load balancing, sharding, back end vertical
- vote CMV: A lot of zuck hate is for the wrong reasons. Hello. Please feel free to change my view, I'm honestly willing to listen and learn. For the record, I'm not a zuck shill because I work at fb lol -- in fact, I don't like a lot of facebook's policies, but I think people hate zuck/fb for the wrong reasons. I hate fb's policies that end up allowing p
- IBM - Hybrid Cloud Hello, is there anyone that works in the hybrid cloud/red-hat department at IBM. IBM is clearly working on gaining market share in the cloud wars with AWS, azure and Google cloud having a large market share. I work with a consulting firm called Thechumeffect.com that links the African market to the
- Leave EE for Tech?? Currently working in the Automotive industry in the Midwest as an EE. Have been getting really frustrated and disilusioned with the field every now and then, definitely enough to know that I am not happy where I’m at. Go on job sites for some ideas and it just seems like tech/swe is so hot and ever
- vote Google iOS interview in on-site Hi guys. Luckily, I'm being in the interview process for the iOS engineer position at Google. I expect to get an iOS interview as one of the interviews in the following on-site interview. I have no idea for prepare the iOS interview for google. Do you have any advice and tips for preparing the goog
- 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
- vote Urgent! Please help picking an offer.. Hi there, thanks for your time in advance! As title suggests, I would really appreciate some advice on suggesting my next career move. A little background about me: I graduated 3 years ago with a B.S comp sci and B.A applied math, have about 3 YOE in Data Engineering. I currently work in a mid siz
- Stripe system design interview? I’ve got an on-site loop with Stripe coming up soon. Part of the loop is the typical system design interview. Looking at my interview day schedule, this is a 45 min interview. This seems like a less-than-usual amount of time for a system design interview, especially if you factor in the usual 5 min
- Product management is seriously overrated! Product management is so overrated and overpaid. Every one thinks that product management can change the world. Honestly, as a PM you are not the CEO of the company but you need to convince the CEO on what to do next and deal with all the shitty incapable non product teams who claim to know product,
- How mediocre engineer got Microsoft/Linkedin offers using Blind Tl;dr Thanks Blinders. You basically gave me a job. I’m a mediocre engineer at best. I started coding when I was 22 because I was dumb in high school and then decided to study a rando major in college for 3 years. I transferred to a top 3000 CS school in the US (out of 4000ish universities) because
- 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
- 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
- vote Finally hard work pays off after lots of interview Hi Blinders, After applying to almost a hundred companies (Austin/Bay Area), here are my results from last November till today. I know this is nothing compared to Blinders, but still wanted to share and let every one know that don't give up!! 14 Phone Screen -> 8 Technical Phone Screen -> 4 O
- [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
- Interview Prep /System Design advice needed Hey everyone, I initially thought it was a good idea to schedule all my on-sites in one week (Google,Amazon,FB,Palantir) since I plan to take that week off of work and also know all the decisions around the same time. I have been prepping leetcode for a few months now ( around 350ish) , and star
- Thank you Blind - meta offer I have joined Blind since 2019 and following since then. A bit of my journey. I have more than decade experience on financial domain, I have been financial software engineer doing backend stuff. I was a part of the investment banking bandwagon victim, however I enjoyed all time in this domain. It wa
- 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
- On-sites coming up, need advise L5 at amazon. 5.5 yrs exp, joined straight from college. Promo timeline unclear because there are lots of senior engineers in my sub-org. Feeling burnt out as I feel underutilized and get only grunt work. On-sites lined up with apple, fb, uber and google in next few weeks. If none of them pan out I
- link [US only] Need System Design Mock Interview? I’ve been interviewing for a couple of years now and have been on 50+ interview panels. Been a Bar Raiser at Uber and also preparing for Staff level interviews next year. YOE: 6 TC: $400k I’m ready to help out anyone who needs help with mock interviews for System Design. I usually take 1.5 hour s
- In 2014 Kalanick proposed "Bo_ober". What happened? (Compensated Dating) The closest thing I see in the world is an app called Ohlala, but that looks like it is only available in England and Germany. There are news articles talking about a USA (New York) launch but it seems that never happened. I remember reading a while ago the hottest app on the Chinese app store was
- New Here: Prepping for Interview Hey all. I'm kinda new here. I'm planning to start prepping for interviews. I've been out of school for about 6 years (so 6 YOE) and honestly while I was in school I never fully understood Alogs and Data Structures. I'm currently a manager and looking to bump my TC. Just had a kid and want to provid
- Does anyone believe ad products actually work? Here’s my take on digital advertising after 10+ years in the industry and having worked at Google, Snap, and in the agency world. I’ve personally spent hundreds of millions of dollars throughout my career. ———————————————————— -Attribution is still absolute dog crap. No one knows how to properly
- 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
- 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
- link Sharing the love (but mostly bragging) Hey Blind folks, Thank you for helping me get here. I prepped intensely for about 3 months and switched to Google from a mid-size unicorn. This is for ML engineer IC with ~10 years of experience in the Bay Area. I thought I should share my journey to give back. I interviewed around 10 companies an
- Google PM on-site interview coming up - tips welcome! 🤗 TL;DR I've read all the threads on this over blind. I'm looking to getting tips on more things i can do to ensure success! I'm scheduled to have a PM on-site interview at Google soon and would like to see if anyone was willing to PM me some insight into details they wish they would have known earli
- 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
- 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