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- link I’m a (real) Eng Manager at Uber. AMA Following the AMA where the person running the AMA gave no real answers and was probably not a manager (https://us.teamblind.com/s/TKPTt5zW), I’d like to step in for a proper AMA. Some background on me: at Uber for a few years, started as an IC and moved into management via the apprentice manager t
- AMA: I have interviewed >250 PMs at a a big tech, ask me anything. It seems many people don't understand how PM interviews work. You have to do a minimum of 5 case interviews as part of the process. Sorta like McKinsey, except I think PM case interviews are harder for various reasons (some provided below). This is the type of interview that I do, and the part of t
- Interviewed at 12 companies, AMA Moving from Meta -> Series A startup I started at Meta after college (undergrad) as a contractor, and converted to SWE shortly after. I have just under 3 yoe and interviewed with lots of companies when making my move, including Amazon, Tesla, DoorDash, Robinhood, Snap, Brex, Noom, Ramp, Series C
- AMA: Technical Recruiter @ Amazon Hello! I am a technical recruiter @ Amazon, specializing in hiring engineering managers, technical PMs, and software engineers. Please feel free to asking me general recruiting questions or questions specific to Amazon and I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities. Shoutout to Eve@FB for
- VC: Ask me Anything I’m a VC. Ask me Anything?
- Offers from Facebook, Google, Uber and 6 others | AMA I learnt a lot about interviews from blind community. This is my effort to give back to the community. This thread is not about TC, but for the curious ones, I have multiple offers around 550k and I still negotiating, I will start another thread with comp details. Offers I got - Facebook (E6), Uber
- First week in Facebook. AMA!! 4yoe $350 (stock was based on April 9th price so a lot more) leetcode: 45 questions
- Awesome Guy AMA Only awesome questions will be answered.
- I am a TransGirl AMA I have started to transition 3.5 years ago while working at Microsoft. I am the Board Chair of a Transgender Rights non-profit. AMA.
- Leaving TikTok/ByteDance after 8 months, AMA I am leaving TikTok/ByteDance after 8 months of working as a software engineer here. I am giving up $130k in RSUs that would have vested in 4 months. AMA. YoE: 2 TC with RSUs: ~$330k TC without RSUs: ~$200k
- Reached $4M net worth. AMA I have reached $4M net worth (not including primary residence). I am single, 37 and in good shape. It was a very difficult, slow and methodical process and took 15 years that got me to $4M. Stock, real estate and being in Tech was helpful. I shop at Marshall, grocery outlet and Goodwill. I own a M
- Turned down Google, Meta, Apple and Stripe and joined Amazon AMA I know Blind hates Amazon although I don't get why. After a couple of months of hard preparation, I collected offers from Google, Meta, Apple, Stripe and Amazon. I made a decision based on (Not in any particular order): - TC (and stock performance) - Hiring manager - Team culture - Growth - Company
- vote 22 and making 450K a year, AMA Graduated from a tier 1 university and got hired as an L4 (SWE II) at my current company, I started when the company was 17.7B and few weeks after I started working the valuation doubled and hence my current TC is around 450K including RSUs. I don’t have much going for me IRL so might as well flex
- Hit $4M today. Need to humblebrag. Also AMA. Hit $4M today across all accounts and some real estate. I am generally shy about money and don’t share with family (except spouse) and just needed to say it out loud because I’ve worked incredibly hard for this. I’m 40 btw. $600k in 401k $1.5M in stock $200k cash $300k equity in a rental condo $150
- >$1MM compensation. AMA... except identity revealing questions.
- Old TC: 502K, new TC 700K. AMA Just put myself through a bunch of staff/Senior Staff/Principal interviews. Collected offers from Stripe (staff), Shopify (senior staff), and Snowflake (principal). All pretty standard processes. Took the offer from snowflake for 270+20% and 1.5M/4 years. Got turned down at Coinbase. I just kinda
- Interviewed with 30+ companies. AMA! I am a mid-level engineer who took advantage of WFH and just did interviews with 37 companies, did all 17 interview virtual onsites I got accepted for and I got 9 offers over these past three months. I got downleveled by Amazon and lowballed by Microsoft. I also got ghosted by Twitter and Citadel mu
- Fixed my body - AMA 18 months before: Underweight, disrupted sleep schedule, low energy, slow digestion, feeling depressed all the time. Now: Normal weight. Regular 11pm - 7am good sleep, sustained energy (can do intensive sports such as 🏀 for few hours), regular digestion, good mood. I delved pretty deep into fit
- Bar raiser - AMA *** NOT TAKING MORE QUESTIONS. THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING. *** In lockdown and bored. Yellow badge. Tech bar raiser with around 500 interviews. AMA. Only civilized questions and follow ups please. No TC, YOE or other stuff on myself. Need anonymity.
- link I am fully recovered (and now immune) to coronavirus/COVID-19. AMA I had my first symptoms mid-afternoon on 3/2 (Monday) - fatigue & a pretty bad headache. Chalked it up to work stress from my new project & didn’t think much of it. When i got a fever that night, i also didnt think much of it. When i woke the next day, i had no symptoms & thought i slept it off. Bu
- AMA: Got offers from Fb, Snap, Google, Two sigma Hey SWE here, recently I interviewed for L4 at Goog, Fb, snap and two sigma, and somehow was lucky enough to get offers from all. Ended up picking Google bc of comp to wlb ratio. Thought I’d give back to the community :) so AMA TC: 300k, 3yoe
- I live in Tokyo, AMA. Been here for 2.5 years. Looking to relocate back to Seattle for family reasons (better support network for our kid). (About to go to sleep, so I'll answer in 8 or 9 hours)
- [AMA] I've interviewed >150 PM candidates at Google. Inspired by another post. Giving back to the Blind community. Ask away. Anything related to Google Product Manager interviews and PMing in general. I will try my best to answer them all. TC: 540k YoE: 15 yrs (8 yrs as PM) [Edit1]: I'm trying my best to answer all the questions. There are way
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- IC6 @ Facebook, AMA I’ll be happy to answer questions or give advice where i can
- EB1A - i140 - Approved! - AMA Hello Blinders, Just got my EB1A-i140 approved. Sharing my experience to benefit others. Profile - Indian born - hence EB1A route. - US Masters - 10 YOE - TC: 4xx k - 6 approved patents + 7 pending - 1 paper published - 3 conference reviews (PC) - Senior Member IEEE EB1A criteria - Evidence of y
- vote Just failed pip AMA waaaaa what do i do ;_; i've been doing lc and system design videos so I can pass some interviews where they want me to uplevel to L4, but I feel like at this point I can't even pass an L3 interview because apparently i cant make an Amazon L3 equivalent. Also as my pip closes should I try to do FML
- link I am a wealth manager in Silicon Valley/San Francisco, AMA • I help tech employees/entrepreneurs manage their money • Have worked in wealth management in SV & SF for 10+ years • Our firm manages ~$4B and I head our San Francisco office. I'm also helping to build BrightPlan (digital wealth management solution) & teach personal finance at UC Berkeley Extensio