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- Career growth reflection I just wanted to write this out because I have a bit of time…I’ve been self reflecting on what I achieved over the course of 4 years with regards to my software engineer career in the Bay Area. 2 years ago I was a software engineer at PayPal earning 96K TC straight out of college with B.S. in CS. I
- Looking for Preparation Advice for FAANG | Tried Earlier But Got Exhausted Midway Hello to awesome people of the Blind community. I have had prepared for around 4-5 months from last December to April but failed in my design rounds - HLD and LLD. Because of which, I got really disappointed that my 5 months of preparation, which was primarily solving 300-350 leetcode problems, came
- vote Career Path from BIE Working in Amazon as a L5 BIE. TLDR - What's a good career path for a BIE? DE or DS or TPM given that they have an year to prepare for these roles ? Have never worked in a SWE type role before but did manage a small BI team before joining Amazon as an IC. BIE is a dead end role at Amazon or anywhe
- SDE Interview Experience at Apple London Hi I am from Bangalore, India. I recently cleared the interview for SDE role at Apple London. Level will be ICT3 and offer not yet disclosed. Hope my experience helps someone. All the best. I applied for a SWE(ICT in Apple) role about ~8 months back which suits very much to my experience and sudden
- Data Science Interview study plan review Hi, I want to get advice/suggestion on my study plan for FAANG Data Science interviews. Please go through my study plan comment if you feel I'm missing something important or doing something irrelevant ? I have few specific questions listed at the bottom. I'm also looking for study buddies, so DM
- 10 Interviews over 1.5 Months I saw a post that was extremely helpful of someone's interview experience and I thought I'd share my thoughts on mine. Thanks Blind for all the help! This was my first time interviewing for a software engineering position. I didn't need to do it out of undergrad and was already happy where I was at
- link Failed google phone screen w/ 220LC. How to improve? There wasn't any feedback other than that I can apply again in 12 months and that 70% of google engineers have been through the process multiple times (this is what he said which is a bit shocking) Was asked this easy question verbatim https://leetcode.com/problems/backspace-string-compare/solution
- Interview Experience with Amazon - Applied Scientist interview (seeking advise) To start with, I have a PhD in math, bachelors and masters in stats. I was also a post-doc researcher for about 4 years. Though my plublication record is very good, my PhD and Post-doc work doesn't have anything to do with ML. My exposure to coding is minimal, though I can code in Python, usually th
- Accelerating Career Growth during COVID Quite frankly tired of the loser talk that's all over the internet. Here's my game plan on how to accelerate career growth during COVID. What? Are you serious? Shldnt you be lucky to have a job during a time like this? If you really feel this ways kindly GTFO, as I want winner or winners to be. Jo
- link The road to my new role @ Meta The interview road to my new role @Meta TC: 220 YOE: 10+ TLDR: I interviewed 5 times and got rejected, until I focused on my soft skills improved and got an offer. Salesforce has excellent WLB, great culture, and I was doing meaningful work, TC was meh, but I though it was very good until I learn
- 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
- Urgent career advice needed. Long post warning I will try to provide as much as info possible for correct diagnosis. I'm an indian male with 1+ years of experience with a degree in Information technology. I'm working in an IT company and my client is Johnson and Johnson. I work as a data engineer. my salary is 762000 per annum in indian rupees.
- link My 6 month journey to an offer Finally got an offer and will be joining Google next month as an L3. During my interview journey I was checking Blind excessively and learned a lot, so I decided to give back a little. Hopefully this post will help some fellow Blinders. The rest of the post will be sorta chronological. Interview Pr
- Success after 8 interviews Hello, I’m not here to boast, but just want to share my experience, frustration and finally the success. I applied for Sr Full Stack Engineer roles. Starting in Aug 2018, I decided that I needed to make a switch. At the point of time, I was not confident enough to even solve basic Two Sum problem
- Anyone hiring for a new grad SDE? Referral would be greatly appreciated Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering
- Are proper coding skills being tested in interviews ? I started working on the LFU Cache question mentioned in this thread(https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/450361/Amazon-or-SDE2-or-US-or-Dec-2019-Reject). I consider myself a decent coder and struggled to even think of an optimized solution, given I have solved LRU cache before. Then I
- Facebook E4 Interview Experience => Rotational SWE Offer This is a long read - TLDR: I have no college degree. I attended a coding bootcamp, worked at a unicorn for 2-3 years. A FB recruiter reached out. I grinded LC for a few months and studied my ass off. I did well enough to land a Rotational Software Engineer offer. I do not have a comp sci degree.
- 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
- link Thank you blind. My incredible success story. Warning. This is going to be a very long post. Feel free to ignore most of it and just scroll down for offers if that's all you care to see. I've fudged the numbers slightly for the sake of anonymity but they are more or less accurate. A few months ago I made this post and promised to follow up if