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- Microsoft Onsite Interviewed last week with ***** team in Redmond. It was ok, but not one of my interviewers asked me anything really technical, or anything about my previous work history. I had four interviews with team members, and a manager at end. Feedback from one team member during interview was that I had pr
- vote Help me choose: Palantir versus ActionIQ (Internship) About me: Studying CS. Goals: Maximize learning for summer internship. I want to start my own company down the line so am looking to get the technical and leadership skills, network and business acumen for that. I am also looking to maximize TC in the short and long term moving forward in terms of
- link 🚨 MARKET UPDATE 🚨 From your neighborhood 🌈🐻 Since mid March, equity markets have rallied hard with drastic action taken by the FED. While stocks are wildly disconnected from reality in terms of valuations, they represent the market looking for yield with negative yielding bonds and higher inflation expectations. Inflation (especially high inf
- My 🇺🇸to 🇨🇦 move experience & more importantly TC 1.1Mil CAD As there are quite a lot of posts here lately on debating the move to Canada, thought I would share my experience after 4 years of getting my PR. I was one of early applicants in express entry back when the program started in 2015. The reason I ended up applying was pretty obvious as my H1B lottery
- $1.98M net worth with $560k in debt in 8 years I’m just thankful to God I’m really thankful to God for everything I have. I have worked @ MSFT for almost 8 years 4 years in India & remaining 4 in US. As regular IDC move when moved to US I had peanuts MSFT stocks but doubled my salary in 2 years(thanks to few SSAs, fair team & two promos). My networth today is ~$1.98M w
- link warning: Stay away from Pinterest TLDR - Pinterest does not treat employees well and you will have a chance to work with real stupid people in your day-to-day life. More likely your manager stabs you in the back and none of their promises will be true. People who actually do things are burning out and not rewarded. If you consider y
- UX Engineer, Design Engineering or not This is a story about not fitting in with most traditional company org structures. I consider myself a UX Designer or Design Engineer. I am comfortable having conversations with C title, product, designers to front-end and backend developers. I am also comfortable with discovery sessions, white-boar
- How much time is required to ramp up? I am a new grad and have just completed three weeks at my job. I have been assigned a small task which a person familiar with the internal tools and the framework would take a couple of days to complete as per my estimation. However, as I am unfamiliar with both the framework and the tools, the task
- Dataiku and company culture Hi! I know Dataiku has a very impressive Glassdoor rating ans I don’t see the company here to be able to tag them, but it would be great to hear from anyone who may have worked there in the past, on these questions: 1) Whats the culture like there? 2) Are they hierarchical? What’s the leadership li
- What should I say if this happens? So I was job searching recently and ended up accepting an offer. I joined this new company (Company B) and left my previous one (Company A). Immediately after joining Company B, I ended up receiving another offer (from Company C) that I would much rather take and ended up accepting it. For the backg
- How to find rental properties with good cash flow? I read bunch of AMAs where newbie/pro real estate investors talking about how they make good money on rental properties of all kinds (commercial, Single Family Home, Condos/Town houses, multi-family units, apartments, lands etc). I saved a bit (~$250k) to start invest in real estate for cash flow. I
- link PM Interview with Facebook (Meta) - documenting my experience ---------------- Update 11 Done! This process is a marathon, not a sprint. Nearly 3 months for me, although I got COVID which added 2-3 weeks worth of delays. I feel like I did very well overall. Execution was my weakest in both rounds, although my second Execution I felt was stronger than my f
- [GME Loss]Is active/day/momentum trading even worth it? I’m one of the morons who will be left holding the bag on this GME fiasco. AMA. I got in too late (330), and will have to sell at a 50% loss. At first the math and conceptual reasons behind the short squeeze convinced me to invest. Then I doubled down as the fervor built, as I figured this thing ne
- link Want to work for a publically traded, rapidly growing, profitable company with a modern tech stack? TL;DR I'm a Lead Data Engineer at a company called Doximity, and I'm trying to help hire more folks for my side of the org. You can ask me anything about my experience here in the comments. TC for most Senior positions is currently about 150k base + 100k RSU, so about mid market. Currently, Data En
- Anyone try Ledn or Celsius? Now that BlockFi is done I'm looking for alternatives. The two ones I'm most strongly considering are Ledn and Celsius. Wondering if anyone has any experience with either, especially Ledn. Ledn Pros: - 6.1% btc interest - insanely fast responses from customer support - No Ledn token, they just make
- [Plz Guide] System Design (This is not another typical System Design post) All Amz SDE3s/G L5s/Sr. SWE/P. SWE and above, couly you please guide us (me) how to prepare for System Design interviews.. I have studied all the usual material like Github primer, utube vidoes, data intensive .., tech blogs. I am able to come up wit
- link THANK YOU Blind! Got offers from everywhere I got to the final rounds for! It’s been the toughest 5weeks but it was worth it. Said ‘almost everywhere’ since I’m waiting to hear back from one company. (Update: got an offer from the last company) Feel free ask me any questions- I got tons of tips from Blind so would like to give back. Some companies I got offers from: Stash
- There has been some interest on 'Moving back to India' related topics. I want to share my experience! Who am I - A Sr. Software Dev (L6) at Amazon. I have close to 12 years of experience. Out of those 12 years, 6 are at Amazon, around 3 at Microsoft and the rest at Cisco. 11 out of 12 years I worked in the US and a year in India. I moved back to India just a year ago (internal transfer to a paralle
- 1+ year at OCI. Feedback TLDR; I joined as an IC4 early last year. Wanted to create a post with unbiased feedback as OCI is trying to hire too many engineers since last two months. Hoping this may help a few who are interested to learn about the OCI. I joined OCI with these expectations: 1. Majority of the azure fundamen
- vote Would you join my angel syndicate? Ok so I guess my post was flagged and I was asked to verify my account. I couldn't as I'm no longer @ Google so I had to create a new account. And yes, "Bias Capital" is the name of the syndicate. Feel free to visit the website (bias.capital). I saw some of the responses before I was kicked out of m
- How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs There is a very valuable post on blind about an interview process for engineering leaders from last year: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Interview-Cycle-Facebook-M1-Google-L7-Microsoft-L68-and-Local-Public-Company-dRQmWtbh This
- link Another data point on industry hire in the bay ..great read :) Found this post on Reddit and seems really helpful . Just posting it here . ————///——————///——————///——/ Hi everyone, I just went through a round of interviews and wanted to share a data point. I wanted to share some interview tips that you may not have seen before. I'll also answer questions in A