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- Barefoot networks vs Big Switch networks Hi Guys, I got offers from Barefoot which is p4 chip maker with programmable pipeline and Big switch which SDN based sw solution. I would like to know which one would be better place to work by considering next 3 years of networking industry development. Which one would you recommend? Please advis
- QA interview at Big Switch Networks How are the interviews at Big Switch Networks QA team? Any preparation suggestions?
- How is Big Switch Networks doing? In terms of future outlook etc..
- Bigswitch Networks acquired by Arista Do you know any details about the acquisition of Bigswitch by Arista? https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/arista-networks-buys-big-switch/2020/01/
- How hard is the switch from working on distributed systems to networking? I’ve got offers from other teams/company but the role seems to be more on the networking side. I’ve had experience with big data/distributed systems. Wondering how that switch would be to move into more of the networking side? Like working on HTTP, transport and security protocols, Nginx etc.. I’ve
- PM to VC path I have 2 years experience at a big 4 consulting, an engineering degree & mba, and 2 years experience as a PM (post-mba). I eventually want to switch to VC. Probably in 5 years or so. Any advice? Is it the network? Specific achievements? Luck? #pm #product #productmanager #vc #venturecapital
- Negotiation I got a verbal offer from Big Switch Networks with a split:- Background- Masters degree Position- Software Engineer Base-105k , 5k relocation and 8k stock options Location- santa clara, CA Work ex- 1 year as an intern and part time at Nokia 2 years in India How should I negotiate?
- vote Best path to FAANG PM - TPM or startup? Wondering what’s the better path to faang+big n Product Manager? - Go for a Tech Pgm role at faang+, slowly take more product responsibilities, network, then try to internally switch to PM Or - Work at a legacy tech company, startup, or non-tech company as Product Manager (to get the title) then
- What would you call this position? (Infra) Current title is network engineer. Half of work is managing app level firewall policies and site to site connections. Occasional config of switches, classic neteng stuff. We are branching out into having hybrid networks so doing work on cloud network routing and troubleshooting cloud resources is b
- What is required apart from Data structures and System design Hi , I am 2 years experienced in python networking automation. Whenever I see any job description , I see there is only requirement for full stack developers. Everybody is doing web development only in this field from small company to big companies. I don't know in which domain I should move for a
- Switching to SDE Location: Seattle TC: 210k at 4 years (willl drop next year) Title: L5 SysDE I have moved to a SysDE role from an NDE role but now tierd of doing infra work. Want to do something more product related specially customer facing products. Given my background I dont have solid experience in software de
- Why include sign-on bonus/stock in TC calculation? It seems most people add signing bonus and RSUs (divided by vest period) to their new TC when switching jobs so they can claim huge % increase but this can be very misleading. Those TC numbers vanish after year 1-2 (bonus) and the typical 4 year cliff (stock) so unless you switch jobs every few yea
- Top grad school Assuming I can get into a top 10 school for a masters in CS, would it be worth it to leave my current job as a SWE to go to grad school? Reasons for grad school: - top school for better chance at quant roles (2S, JS, etc) - more networking - an extra life experience - also interested in analyst rol
- FANG Program Manager. PT Chicago or Haas? Hi all, I am currently a prodcut manager at FANG with 4 years of work experience. I applied for pt MBA program to open doors, expand my career possibilities and network, boost confidence and potentially switch to management consulting. I won't be able to change location this year so location is not
- link Product Management Certification?? Hello everyone, I’m currently working as a data analyst and been really wanting to go into product management for a long time. I’ve tried applying and networking for associate positions with no luck and even tried moving internally but my company only hires senior positions. At this point I’m will
- FB Network Engineering Corp - Coding Round Interview Experience A friend of mine has been asked a question in his coding round call: Given a file containing switch names, ports, Incoming BPS, Outgoing BPS. He had to find out the top talking switches using automation/scripting. He had done it in python. The role he interviewed for is Network Engineer, Corp. He Pa
- Switching industry Hi, Looking for advice trying to switch into a tech industry. My experience: 7+ years in the automotive industry in sales&marketing roles (customer experience, program/product management) in Germany. My background is in business, so I joined a graduate STEM degree in Switzerland, where I live and s
- vote Switching from distributed systems to generalist work I've been working on an infra team that builds distributed systems for about 2 years, but I haven't really been enjoying this type of work. I don't enjoy systems work, networking, and all the other low-level concepts heavily used in distributed systems, and especially debugging the systems. Maybe I'
- Startup vs Amzon Hello Blind. I have two offers both in EU. Context: I have a bachelor in business and master in ds. I just graduated and I am trying to figure out what to do with my life. In the future I would like to try to switch to ds / swe and give it a try but I am not 100% certain about this choice yet. I p
- DevOps .. does it have a boundary? This is the problem for every DevOps engineer. I am a so called "DevOps" engineer myself.. sometimes I even doubted am I doing DevOps or Infra or SRE. Ultimately there are many tools/tech and associated concepts, which is more than enough to break my confidence. I always wanted to get some special
- Career guidance please (Network engineer background) Hello everyone! I currently work as a Sr. Network Design Engineer for a regional telecom provider based out of Kansas City, MO. It's a small company of around 500 employees and I'm the only guy in the company who's on a visa, they had no clue what OPT, H1B was until I joined and they helped me out w
- vote Does it make sense to move from Bay Area to Phoenix, AZ? to buy a house and live in it... Staying at VMware will result with getting 18-28% pay cut. I’m renting a room in bay area to save as much money as I can until I get older and can’t take this kind of living style with roommates anymore. Investing and having a big cushion to fall on helps me to hav
- Help Breaking into big tech Hey guys, wall of text incoming. A bit about myself, I am 24, have a bachelors and masters from two great universities (1 Ivy and 1 Top 15) in electrical engineering. I had my undergrad paid for by the military in exchange for working for them for a few years post graduation. I did some cool work i
- Product Strategy role in MSFT that bad an option? Current PM lead, YoE 2.5 at a smaller agency, and 2 years strategy at big tech/MBB. I polled Blind previously comparing a L63 Microsoft Cloud & AI strategy offer (with a plan to transfer internally to PM) vs a Walmart L4 Senior PM offer. I since rejected the Walmart offer, because I talked to the gu
- 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
- Coming from nonprofit world, how do I break into product tech roles? I've spent the past 4 years since graduating college working exclusively in jobs for various left-leaning political orgs - including the one I am at right now. I got introduced to coding around 2018 and decided I loved working in data/tech and very quickly rose through the ranks to a fairly senior p
- 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
- validate me or tell me i'm trash or give me some dose of reality I'm writing this post after a few drinks. I lurked for so long on blind and i can only get the courage to seek validation thru inebriation. I graduated in Dec 2017 from a large state school with no connections. I switched from a math/ece background (double major) and self-studied computer science
- No longer in Focus at Amazon, want to make a change. Update 1: First off thank you to everyone who has commented so far. There is a ton of information shared and I'd encourage anyone who is going through a similar experience to read through every note below - whether you like what you read or not. There are several comments making some assumptions abo
- Interview Cycle: Facebook M1, Google L7, Microsoft L68, and Local Public Company Hello all. I recently interviewed for positions at a local public company, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and promised in another thread to recount the experiences, since there’s not a lot of Blind info for the experienced/higher level folks. So I don’t have to GTFO, TC is currently $396k (was $5
