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- Where's the overtime and stress in Day In Life Of a software engineer videos on YouTube? I mean, we all now this job is not a 9 to 5 one. All the day in life of a swe videos on YouTube make it look like a perfect job. They all sit there relaxed and (like they were scrolling on Facebook) do the work. Check ✔️ the work done at exactly 8 hours. Where is the stress, where are the energy dr
- Shamelessness of Google Due to stress of working at Amazon I saw a psychiatrist on the 31st of March. She later sent me an email to my gmail with the list of things I can do to reduce stress. Today YouTube is only showing me ads of prescription medication which I can use to treat depression. Ad tech companies are truest
- How to succeed as a new grad at Google? Hi everyone, I recently interviewed with Google, and I was lucky enough to pass HC as a new grad. This for a SWE L3 position. I’m currently in the team matching phase, and I’ve actually matched with a team at YouTube. I have no idea what to expect on this team, but I know I want to succeed. Are
- Uninstalled youtube from my phone And i feel so much better. Youtube is very addicting (i don’t do facebook or instagram and youtube is my only digital addiction) and i have been spending about 3 hr daily on it on my phone. I already have dry eye issue and staring at my small phone for that long is not great. Now that i have survi
- vote Burned out !! All I think of is work, even over the weekend, the stress of unknowns keep bothering my mind even at the times I am not working. Stress levels have become really high. I am unable to focus due to this high stress at times and ends up wasting time on youtube or video games, which inturn further incre
- vote Is it possible to do not have time to do sports? Can being to busy as a software engineer be an excuse for not having time/energy to do sports? I count a 10 minutes workout from youtube as sports also. Motivation for doing sport in this case is to have more energy (I hope I am not talking stupid things) and reduce stress.
- What helped to improve focus? Noticing my attention span is very bad. It’s getting worse and worse. Is it a sign of mental illness? I can’t focus on a single thing for long. Youtube is the biggest waste of time but somehow i find a reason to open it. Even on phone i get bored with an app and keep jumping between same set of ap
- What’s the big deal about product management? I see so many guys/gals want to become a PM with hopes of becoming next pichai. All these boot camps across the world are ravaging LinkedIn posting stuff and luring candidates charging ridiculous fees claiming this is the only good thing out there . I am seeing 3-5 YouTubers posting content day in d
- Has anyone ever made a complete career change OUT of tech? I'm guessing these kind of people wouldn't be lurking here, but worth a shot. I'm thinking in terms of the FI part of FIRE, doing a job that you're passionate about without stressing about the money (if your passion is genuinely software engineering, more power to you). Lowkey thinking of quitting
- Google Zurich team preferences Role: SWE-SRE TC: 225k CHF I have a choice between Google Ads, Google Cloud and YouTube for SRE-SWE. Which team should I pick if I prefer: a) Faster promos b) Good work life balance c) Learning I’ve worked in Azure and it was a shit show in terms of WLB and extremely high competition for promos,
- Husband indulges in options trading everyday My husband has recently started to buy and sell options on an everyday frequency , obsessively listening to some investment guru on Youtube and plays with his set of savings in stocks on Robinhood based on that. He sometimes brags to me about his wins and sometimes stresses about the losses. Stayin
- Interviews coming up in January. Cannot code for 2 weeks. How can I make good use of my time? Lost my glasses over the weekend. I am borderline blind without them, so it’s hard for me to look at screens, and write code. My new pair will be arriving in 2 weeks. Have a bunch of interviews coming up in early January, so period till then is critical, but I am deprived of my normal vision. Any
- Getting severly bogged down by so much information I want to prepare for senior SDE roles at FAANG. I have 8 years of experience and some design experience but its nothing like I have worked on very hard core system designs in real life , say working on a database (which I consider an epitome in engineering) . Now my problem is when I am youtube wat
- Worst Google Interview Experience I'm sure this is a one-off, I've read about a lot of great Google interviews for PM's - Cancelled multiple times - Multiple No Shows - Wrong resumes sent out I was reached out in October of 2021.... 6 months ago to schedule an interview, the coordinator was out of the country and constantly OOO.
- Somebody makes US$4000 a month, spend $1500 in Asia, she seems happy and rich As opposed to me, earning $200k base, but after tax, and all high expenses in the Silicon Valley, I almost spent it all every month. (ok, maybe I can save $3000 each month, but it is not even enough for living expenses for a month). Together with the high stress, I feel like I am in bad shape. I k
- Good Front-End teams at Google Hello, Thank you Blind Community so much for everything. I've just heard from Google that my hiring packet was approved by the Hiring Committee for SWE - Front end! I will give back to the community (Another post coming with resources that I've used etc just to give back for interested folks) I'm
- 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
- Harassment in Software Engineering Jobs Recently, I read a lot of posts here on Blind which includes pip'ing of Employees, imposing stressed work for H1B visa employees in form of Cheap labor. I watched a video of TechLead on YouTube where he talks about continuous competition between co-workers to get good performance rating. Sometimes
- Interviewing in January. Any tips? Happy Tuesday, Blind folks. Interviewing for SDE2 roles at companies such as Coinbase, Twitter, Slack, Brex, etc from the 1st week of January. My LC count is 250 (100E, 141M, 9H). For system design, I am following The System Design Interview and CodeKarle (Youtube), and Educative's Grokking the SD
- vote Think I botched my Google PM Phone Screen Spent the past 2.5 weeks studying like crazy for my Google PM phone screen... literally spent hours studying estimation and analytical questions (I struggle with these). Only to find out that the question was super easy: "Tell me about your favorite product and how you would improve it?"🤦♀️ Youtu
- Building app/SaaS/etc instead of LC/FAANGMULA? Everything about my job is nice except the TC is low. I was WFH before COVID, my boss is laid-back, minimal stress, excellent WLB, friendly coworkers, etc. I've done around 250 LC problems. But due to COVID, I heard its become the norm to be asked LC Hard and expect to get the optimal solution in l
- 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
- How to visit all 50 states and major national park Came to the US for the travel, freedom and quality of life. The last few years has been me climbing the stupid eng ladder. Completely lost track of what I want in life. Goal for 2021 and 2022. Whenever things open up is to visit all the 50 states and major national parks. Has anybody in our profes
- link Squarespace hiring mobile devs (full remote welcome) Hey y'all, so I got headcount for 4 mobile devs (2 Android, 2 iOS) to be filled by EOY. Expecting additional headcount for next year so the number should grow. Looking for any and all good talent, fully remote positions welcome. If you're looking for a new opportunity, hit me up. Squarespace has
- link Joining Google as L5 Coming from a name brand company as L4 equivalent (this is a throwaway acct). Joining google soon. New TC: ~400k, had some competing offers. RSUs are 33/33/22/12 vesting so TC is going down in Y3 and Y4. Don't want to go into specifics about the breakdown or competing offers. Some questions: 1. Wh
- Desperate for Salvation from Abusive Manager at Facebook Hi Community at Blind, I'm at your mercy, please hear me out. Ever since entering Facebook, I've began having disturbingly negative thoughts because of the stress from work. I maintain my PSC, but my manager weaponizes any and all feedback from anyone about me and verbally abuses me in closed-doo
- System design interviews when you've never built a distributed system System design interviews stress me out a lot because I'm basically faking them. I don't mind the ones that are more like google doc tech spec designs because I actually do those at work (e.g how would you design the "someone is typing" feature for slack). But the questions about how I'd design youtu
- Why do I feel so sad leaving my current company? I told my manager that I’m leaving for a new job two weeks ago. The main reason I was looking for opportunities is becoz my current pay is way too low. My manager and I had several discussions about moving me up when the time comes!! There are a few “up” openings and I know I’m capable! But my mana
- My career is thriving; I am not I'm a SDE at amazon on a team with exciting work with high-impact assignments and support from management. I truly believe there is a clear path for me to stay with Amazon (or hop tech companies / etc) and keep gaining more comp as a manager or IC and just keep climbing. I have the ambition, technic
- How to balance FIRE and mental health Any advice on balancing mental health and FIRE goals? A bit of background. I am a 27 year old software engineer and currently make about 275k from my job with about 350k in cash/equity and an additional 100k in my 401k. My job requires me to put in a lot of effort and is manageable, but definitely
- 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
- Eye Floaters and Eye Strain Hello Guys I have developed eye floaters while leetcoding and preparing for interviews. Actually I started interview prep in Oct 2020 and started doing LC heavily. 5 ques a day with my office meetings and work. I applied in few companies like FB and G etc and got the call for phone screen as well.
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- link Amazon Interview Prep Long Post Ahead. I had well over 150 people reach out to me asking for help with Amazon interviews so I am making this post. I wish everyone reading this the best of luck and I have written my perspective and things that worked for me. A lot of people asked me about switching fields and I am not the
- System Design interview pattern Hi Blind Community, I am preparing for interviews in the future and am stressing more on the System Design part. Generally, I get blanked up during interviews if I am not able to figure out anything, and it's affecting the rest of the interview. For those scenarios, I wrote a general structure(after
- 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 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
- 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 ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch
- vote Do you trust Wealthfront retirement projections? I was planning retirement at 55 but Wealthfront says I'll have more than enough at 50 which is only 7 years away for me. I'm leaning toward rest and vest at this point because I'm running out of funks to give! Do you trust Wealthfront?
- Expected TC change after potential Biden’s presidency? So basic economic theory says that if the government raises the tax on some goods, the price will rise and how much it’ll rise would depend on the elasticity of the supply&demand curve (which side is more sensitive to the price change). Given that, do you think TC of overall tech companies will ris