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- Seeking product management internships Hello Blind community!! Hope everyone is doing well. My friend is looking for product management internships for summer 2022. She is currently pursuing her full time MBA with a concentration in product management. She has 8 years of experience as a staff software engineer and as a product lead in
- link AWS Solution Architect interview questions & concepts Please add questions as you see fit. Good luck! #amazon #aws #sa #interview Security IDS encryption at rest/in transit symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Web Application Firewall Vs Firewall? Where are customer encryption keys stored How would you mitigate a DOS? What is identity management? St
- Offer from Amazon. Aim is Google/FB/MS Hello. I received an offer for Sr. PM from Amazon post the conclusion of my MBA internship recently. I wasn't in the high tech sector during my 5 years of work before MBA. However, I networked and prepared and mocked my way into Amazon for the summer. Now that that is done, what would people suggest
- Digital marketing manager/director looking for referrals! Hey everyone, I’m a digital marketing manager/director based out of NY with 5+ years of experience leading growth programs at tech startups, e-commerce, and financial services. I’ve been consulting the past 1.5 years but am now looking to go in house. I know the Blind community is great at networki
- Digital marketing manager/director looking for referrals! Hey everyone, I’m a digital marketing manager/director based out of NY with 5+ years of experience leading growth programs at tech startups, e-commerce, and financial services. I’ve been consulting the past 1.5 years but am now looking to go in house. I know the Blind community is great at networki
- looking for new job opportunity business analyst/product manager/data analyst They lay offs has just kicked in .! i am looking for a new opportunity .! A result-oriented Business Data Analyst with 5+ years of experience in Finance, Networking, Telecom , Sales and Marketing Domain with extensive exposure to analyzing user requirements, business modeling, process simulation da
- Product management career advice Hello Blind community!! Hope everyone is doing well. My friend is looking for product management internships for summer 2022. She is currently pursuing her full time MBA with a concentration in product management. She has 8 years of experience as a staff software engineer and as a product lead in
- What's a good stepping stone to FAANG/Bay Area companies? Hey Blind! I'm a software engineer 2 with a little over 3 yoe in Minneapolis, and I've been looking to get into a tech company for a while (something on my bucket list haha). I'm currently at a consulting company and haven't been able to pass resume screens for roles in the Bay area (startups, tier
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- vote Car recommendation Hi fine folks of blind! I'm looking to purchase a car under 60K. I want to try EV but people recommend against them due to range. I live in bay area. I think the charging network is good here and in California in general. I travel less than 30 miles per day but that can change in future. I don't w
- vote 20-yo tech millionaire – advice? I'm posting this knowing it will attract some envy/hate, but I'm genuinely looking for advice. Originally from Europe, came to the US for college, dropped out after 1 year, got a E-2 Visa and moved to SF. For the past years I've been running multiple tech businesses and made enough money to not wo
- vote McKinsey BA vs Microsoft PM (New-Grad) I'm a UG senior from a T-10 school majoring in CS and got these 2 new-grad offers. Both are in a MCOL Southern City and the difference in pay is negligible. Ultimately, I most likely want to go to big-tech Product Management long-term, but also keep the door open for operator roles at high-growth st
- Fintech, Crypto, or Something Else? Input on my next step. Recently left Workrise as part of a significant RIF - they shut down the entire business unit my team was in. Now, I'm thinking about what's next and would love some input from the Blind collective. Here's my objective: Stack cash for the next 2 years at a name brand company where I can build a st
- link Web Developer in Game Industry I like my career as a web developer, but I've been losing interest in working at a typical e-commerce company, making websites that I don't have an interest in/passion for. I want to try to break into the game industry but still make use of my skills as a web dev. I'm open to making customer-facing
- Why isn't Microsoft a "major tech company" anymore ? Recently there have been a lot of articles on the news about things that have affected "the major tech companies." Then the articles list examples of those "tech" companies. They usually mention: Google (tech company) Facebook (tech company) Apple (tech company) Tesla (not a tech company) Uber (no
- Wife looking for MLE/DS co-op starting Jan 2021 (3-8 months) At present, She is a graduate student in DS, northeastern university, seattle campus. Previously she did her bachelor's and masters in mathematics from Delhi University, india. Prior to masters in usa, she tried a startup in blogging space for 2 years but failed and before that worked for 3 years
- link Real estate networking event, Coquitlam BC Hi everyone, I am a former computer engineer turned real estate investor. I will be hosting a networking event to introduce people to the power of real estate investing: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-real-estate-investing-tickets-94221911273 It's no secret that people on Blind like to
- competing offers so i recently got a job at a company entering the CBD space, the work is super straightfoward frontend work aside from cleaning up a disaster some brand agency produced but w/e. The team is super friendly and have an awesome network, however a super exciting robotics company i was interviewing with
- vote Senior DE (IC5) at FB from EM (Worth the Move?) Is it worth leaving an EM role at a CPG (within eCom / automation group not IT) - current TC $185k base /no RSU / $70k bonus / $40k signing for becoming a senior DE at FB (offer $195k base /$100k yearly / $30k bonus / $50 signing - IG team). Didn't clear the bar for DE M1 so was downleveled an offe
- How many YOE do I have? My career so far has been on the ops side of tech - Networking, Linux, Cloud (AWS primarily but with some GCP, Azure, Openstack, VMware + proprietary private cloud exp), Security, “DevOps”/SRE. I’m applying for my first SDE role. I got contacted by an Amazon recruiter. The email asks how many years
- My FB Interview Process - Offer I've had a lot of anxiety throughout my interviewing experience (although my recruiters were great - it was all in my head) and did a lot of soul searching through blind to figure out my chances of advancing at every step of the way. Hope this helps some people. TLDR: This is an in-depth reflection
- vote AMZN stock split and buyback sounds desperate like GOOG, FB Hi all, I’m a long term stock research enthusiast and have been following the last few earnings calls from tech companies. The way Amazon used their Rivian investment to overreport their earnings per share as ~$27 instead of ~$4 pumping up their stock to $3250 in Jan-Feb looked like a great selling
- Career Advice Hi all, 20 yoe, 140k tc (unless i get my bonus, read below). I am currently working for a startup as the only technical person. The company is in manufacuring and is family owned and funded. I built from scratch a microservice arch with 7 services and 4 different Angular frontends. It's all hosted
- What can I do to improve my chances for interviews? Hey Everyone! I've been applying to APM roles and haven't been able to get past the resume screen for any of them so far. What can I do to better my chances of getting an interview? I realize the programs are very competitive and I might not be the ideal candidate (no ivy or fang internships) so I
- Noticing changes in friends since I’ve elevated So I recently got a new job as a PM at Facebook (contingent worker) and before that I was at Google as a Producer (TVC) and even though I am not an FTE, I’ve seen an elevation in my career and in my finances. There is a level of respect that I get that I did not get before when I was working in the
- vote Should I pursue PM or strategy - and with which offer? Hi Blind I am post-MBA (Mech E. pre-eng so non-coder), 2 YoE Strategy (MBB), 2 YoE product (primarily 0->1 or even 0->Alpha/Beta). Current TC (240, though in Aussie dingaroos) Interests/goals: What I really get a kick out of is identifying novel product opportunities and seeing them translat
- Public companies involved in blockchain Then there's the option to purchase shares of companies developing or making use of blockchain technology, such as Walmart or Starbucks. Incorporating a digital ledger system can make a company leaner and more profitable, and higher profits equal higher share prices over the long term. But there ar
- Career Planning/ De-risking entrepreneurship Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place to ask for advice. I'm on my 3rd startup right out of school (ivy) and I never really thought I'd be in SF or in tech. I'm a history major turned data scientist and now I'm doing BizOps at a bigger startup. I've been very lucky so far. First startup (200
- Where’s Your Tegridy? Important disclaimer: this is an opinion thread. It’s based on my observations using this app in the last couple of weeks. Take it for what it is. Before i make my hypothesis, I’d like to share my observations of the Blind community. 1) Many of the people using this app are intelligent, higly moti
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl