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- On Life Support I graduated from college back in May as an F-1 int'l student. It's been almost four months but I haven't landed a job. I moved to Seattle from a small town in Louisiana with hopes of building career here. In the process, I incurred $15k debt, and only now am I realizing how much of my precious time
- Any thoughts or experiences working in the startup scene on Sydney? I'm thinking about moving to Sydney to take on a product manager role at an Australian-based startup. It's successful by many measures and it's clear that there's a large expectation that I move up in the ranks fairly quickly to lead a team (at least, more quickly than Google, as I am not yet L7). T
- Series A vs Meta vs Amazon(current) offer eval Got an offer from Robust.ai which is a series A startup. I'd be their first QA Lead but I think the offer is way too low. Base: 175k Stocks: 65000(units) /4 years They actually offered this as a % ownership of the company (~0.25%) and did not explicitly share the current outstanding shares or the
- Should I contest or move-on? Tl;Dr : got rejected at an interview for a position I wasn't interviewing for At the beginning of the phone call, the interviewer switches language to C++ -- I ask him if it would be ok to switch to Python -- he mentions the position is for a C++ role, and the recruiter should have told you about t
- Offer rescinded - what would you do? I got an E5 offer from Square, TC 280. I turned it down to join a different company bc I thought the other team was more exciting. 6 months later, I hated my new job and needed to leave. I talked to Square again to ask if I can re-interview and they assured me that I won’t need to, I just need to do
- Hiring Manager Leaving Company in Middle of Sr. SWE Hiring Process? Just want to know if anyone has experienced this before, or advice on what to do, if anything. Had a great final onsite interview at Reddit, and my recruiter said that he would get back to me today with either a "yes" or a "try again later". It turns out that my recruiter said that the hiring mana
- Google vs FB offer Non-Eng Role I have been interviewing at Google and FB for 4 months. Facebook made an offer first (no extra HC). Because of the fact that Google was taling so long, i had to accept Facebook’s offer. I’ve also worked at Facebook in a different role in the past, but I was willing to come back if it w
- Amazon interview experience To begin with, I have done PhD and Post-doc in pure math and working with an I-bank. I had a bad experience during my previous interview at Amazon for Applied Science (AS) role. In my previous interviews with Amazon, the interviewers were usually juniors and ask me pointed questions (like reproducin
- Verbal offer reneged at Twitter after 3 months of waiting Had a very disappointing and unprofessional experience with Twitter recruiting team. I was approached by the recruiter around early December and went through the entire 6 rounds of interviews over 3 weeks for a data engineer position. I was made a verbal offer before the holiday week in December. I
- Oracle immigration voes I want to start by saying I love working for Oracle. We are building ☁️ and I believe in the leadership. I have been here for 10 months and love every moment of it However I am having a lot of trouble with the immigration lawyers. When I was in Microsoft immigration was smooth. The recruiter told m
- Would you ask your current boss for a reference? I am currently working as an assurance manager for a public accounting firm. I went for a job interview for a financial controller position of an automotive part manufacturer, and according to the head hunter, they liked me and ranked me as their first choice even though I had no experience with man
- The Reality of Blind The more posts I see on here the more I’ve come to realize one simple truth about almost everyone who ends up trashing someone else, or getting in some pointless argument: nobody want to feel like they made the wrong choice. Almost invariably, the arguments I’ve seen are between two people who clea
- [REAL] SDE2 @ Amazon India on PIP, looking to get severance TE: 7y+ TC:50L Hi, I got to know that I have been put in a dev plan, my manager hasn't shared any documentation regarding the same though, he will share the dev plan this week perhaps. From what I got to know about the tasks for my dev plan(PIP), it looks like it has external team dependencies and it feels that m
- Dilemma about joining company..... please help... There is this company A who offered me an offer in Sep 2018. Since i needed sponsorship, i had to wait for visa transfer. This company took a little long on that process and started only late December. That made me doubtful and thought of other opportunities. They assured me and had my process don
- Google Recruitment Surprisingly Disorganized Experience A sourcer from Google reached out in November last year and connected me with a Recruiter for a role she thought I would be a good fit for. Recruiter didn’t respond for a week and then after two follow ups asked for my availability. Provided my availability to which she said she is no longer availab
- vote [Racism] Going crazy moving to North America from Africa This is a bit about me, I spent most of my life in Africa and I moved to North America less than two year ago. I have never hear of racism before and I still don’t understand why someone will think other people are inferior to them. I don’t know anything about the politics of US, please don’t make
- link Rooftop Slushie: Google Cloud Platform TAM Interview What is the best way to attack this scenario-based question? You can answer and get rewarded too: https://www.rooftopslushie.com/request/GCP-TAM-Interview-622 ------ Begin Scenario The customer is an established SaaS company and is on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They completed the migration rece
- Why would you mislead and pretend to be a mentor? I’m a data analyst trying to get into product management because I love contributing to building something rather than just analyzing it. Due to my non-CS background I never got a chance to prove my creativity and worthiness in product. Just wrong place, wrong time I guess. But I reached out to som
- Sundar Pichai’s email to employees (on sexual harassment) “Hi everyone, Today's story in the New York Times was difficult to read. We are dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action.
- Amazon interview and hiring Experience Hi everyone, A very weird thing happened, so sharing my experience. I applied for a job L5 QAE ll role on the amazon portal and gave 5 rounds of interviews on a single day. post-interview, on the very next day, got a call from hr stating we are happy to let you know that you are selected but for
- Should I join amazon ? Hi, I've been trying to move to Canada for a long time now. Reason : Want to have a good life with my boyfriend where the LGBTQ+ laws are flexible and people are open minded about this. As a couple, we had to deal with some hateful situations in India. I've heard from a friend in amazon that the be
- Free fitness training(weekends mostly) Hi, I am a nerdy SDE fed up with my introvert life till now. I would like to meet new people in my field and learn from their life experiences. I am super fit with skills in Yoga and weight lifting. I always wanted to be a fitness coach but we all know SDE career pays well. So, I am thinking to prov
- Getting unstuck: London or NYC? Single thirty something American who took a job in London while going through some major life changes (dad died, brother died). This pandemic is clearing up, and I have the option to quit my team to manage a new one here or head to NYC to join the bulk of my current team which is illustrious but has
- Today was one of those days with Passive Suicidal ideations Idk man. Today was one of those days. I have a disability that embarrasses me all the time. I don’t want to mention what it is to avoid doxing myself but it’s one of those disabilities that you can see or hear. This time I embarrassed myself in front of an audience of 20+ people in a meeting. I smi
- Read This if you are traveling by flight! My close friend and his wife are expecting a baby. The sister in law flew by an American Airlines flight. She flew from Montana where the infection rates are not that high. AA assured her that all safety protocols are in place . She has tested positive for COvid 4 days after taking the flight. my fr
- Does turning down a Facebook offer put you on a blacklist? Negative impact? Positive? No difference? Wanted to ask some more people to get more opinions. I recently passed my Facebook interview and began the offer stage with my recruiter, but ultimately turn her down. The entire process was about 10 weeks. I started the process in February of 2020, had my first round in March, then my virtual onsit
- link Called up by HR for posting video A friend of mine posted the following link on a slack channel in her office meant for “random funny casual topics”. https://youtu.be/Fx8JnW0mY-k After 10 min, her boss asked her to take it down stating that a few reported to her that it was “inappropriate”. She took it down without argument. A mo
- Are there people who think like me? Update: I think I should provide more context. I like my job, I am good at it. It gives me sense of accomplishment. In fact always have been ambitious. Used to work really hard (can’t wait for Monday’s etc) but since covid found work life balance. Love my family and have been taking long vacations
- Help! looking to get a new job So, my situation is I accepted a SWE offer from my company about a year ago, and are still currently with them, but have been looking to move out. Everyday I have been applying to about 10 to 20 companies in bigger areas like Seattle and the Bay Area for junior level and entry level positions but I
- New Grad 2022 looking for Data Scientist referrals I graduate from a T10 school in May of 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a specialization in Applied Math. I am currently searching for Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer roles. I hav