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- vote Remote Designer 2.5YOE ($75k) feeling stagnant. Time to move on? I’m the only designer at a small dev agency. I love my team and they’re very supportive of my growth but I have no design mentors here to learn from and it seems like this company doesn’t really value or prioritize good user experience. (I’ve been there about 2yrs) I barely put in a fraction of ful
- Strong feedback after Google onsite, one additonal before HC i am interviewing for a TSE (technical solutions engineer) role at Google. i did a hangouts hour long interview mainly on linux and general IT and networking a few months ago. After that I went onsite and did 3 interviews - one non technical, one coding, and one troubleshooting/technical. its been
- FANG IC vs Small co EM for growth My endgame is Head of Engineering at a startup/small company. Doesn’t even have to be tech. At present I manage people indirectly, but a formal engineering manager promotion is not in the cards. Our culture promotes managers (including product managers) much faster than ICs. Other than growth, ever
- Series B Startup - Offer Eval I have an offer for Solutions Architect role from a series B machine learning startup. Kindly please give your thoughts on it. Base - 189K Variable - 21K (based on hitting some goals) Equity - 10000 stock options Current TC - 178K YOE - 4 I feel I got a good boost on base pay. Although I have bee
- Amazon/AWS SDE 2 preparation tips ? Ready to VWMF and looking to interview at Amazon as SDE-2. Only interested in Google and Amazon as a next company. Here is my background. Started as a new grad at MS. Working in an internal tools team. I can say that I have a true Fullstack experience. I have built APIs, created data models, imple
- Want to leave to travel the world? Do it. I quit my senior dev job 14 months ago, travelled around the world, and just started work today. When I left I was really worried about finding something when I got back... but that's been a non-issue. And I suck at interviewing. Zero companies rejected me because of the time off, it was easy to
- Feeling insecure - talk senses into me Got a BS in CS and currently doing an MS in CS but I enjoy Front-End development compared to other areas and that’s my strength (I’m creative). I feel insecure about doing it because most people with degrees do backend stuff with Java or ML/Distributed system with Python. I don’t find backend or th
- link India OKs $170-mln plan to promote Indian RuPay debit cards, rivaling Visa, Mastercard Great move by India. Monopoly of Mastercard and Visa has to be broken. NEW DELHI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - India on Wednesday approved a 13-billion-rupee ($170 million) plan to promote domestic RuPay debit cards and low-value digital transactions to boost their use in marginalised populations, in a mo
- Deciding between keeping my current job vs joining a startup Currently staff at LinkedIn with TC ~500K. Might get that reduced after I hit cliff but I am hoping to be in the similar range since I recently declined an offer from FAANG at 450K. I consider myself an average engineer. I am good at my current level but not on track to get any promotion anytime so
- Dont lose hope is the moral of the story Hi All, This post is to boost the morale of those who are preparing for a new job. Here is my story: Last year I tried to make a switch, I tried at few places and was rejected everywhere. I used to think I am a loser. My inbox was flooding with rejection emails. I stopped applying to jobs, focused
- Yoga is a great WFH workout Pros: - Poses ranging from beginner to expert, very easy to increase the difficulty without additional equipment - Focus on breathe and movement has cmindfullnes effects similiar to meditation. Good for anxiety and depression - Streches help keep you feeling loose and relaxed while cooped up all
- Mommy Makeover / Breast Implants I used to be a size 2 but after 2 kids went to size 12 and now back to size 6. My breasts are not the same size which causes issues with bra (D and DD). Also have loose skin at the tummy area which means I have to really find outfits that cover/hide that area and unable to wear bikinis. Also, we are
- Bombed all FANG interviews. Confidence at all time low! I am a star performer at my company with things going great for me. However, due to personal reasons, I made a desperate attempt to switch to a bigger company and put open to work on LinkedIn and started applying as well. All this with no real preparation beforehand! Within no time, I was reached o
- vote Amazon vs Atlassian vs Nextdoor New grad offers w/ first year TCs. If you vote, please let me know your reasoning!! Amazon - $179k + Highest 1st+2nd year TC <----------- I think some of you guys are missing this + Potential for the most interesting work considering the variety of different teams. I'm especially interested in s
- vote My life is perfect! Well after so long from past couple of months my life has been perfect! ( not really it’s mostly average but nothing seems to bother me much) I come from a very humble background and being the ambitious person that I am , I would say am very content with my decisions and the turn of the events. I ha
- Mentor for Algorithms and problem solving. Hi all, Got hired at Amazon last year and rejected at FB onsite at the same time. The experience was completely different and the recruiter told me that my programming ability is not par which was a bit shocking for me. Given the Amazon tag I feel that I have another chance of applyig to FB as we
- Coinbase GPM Role - Interview, Comp, Team Size and Teams to join (bonus question Meta/FB PMs) /// Multiple questions - hope it helps more people /// Hello - Been flying under the Great Resignation radar, but Coinbase recruiter pinged for GPM (Group Product Manager) role, so why not?! CB has been on my list :) Blind Tax: YOE 12; TC ~$320K > Onsite Experience??? I looked at a few thread
- How can I salvage my SWE career after being depressed and unmotivated at work for the past two years? I've been dealing with depression since 2019, but it didn't start to impact my performance at work until the pandemic hit. I didn't know about FMLA, so I just tried my best to get by since I needed health insurance for therapy and medication. I started to feel better after getting vaccinated last sp
- What's really the point of everything? Been in the industry for 2 decades now as backend SWE. I've simply lost interest. Trying to find the deeper reason. I don't seem to have anything to look forward to (other than kids and family). Reached cliff. Then heard that a friend left for a much higher TC. I got pushed a little and started LCin
- On-site at Meta - PM I’ve the loop coming up for Meta in a couple of weeks. Coming from a humble background I never had opportunities to work for big tech. I always thought FAANG was near impossible for me given my background. I’m confident in my skills but could never compare myself with people who are at FAANG. But s
- Contracting role in tech My contractor job at a top tech sucks. Why should I constantly boot lick and boost ego of full time employees? In spite of showing good work ethics for the last 2 years, increasingly facing arrogant attitude, unnecessary escalations for seemingly minor issues and micro management from both FTE and v
- Meta/Facebook completely fucked Instagram Your fucking PIP machine is hurting your end users drastically you complete morons The IG business tools UI is glitchy and consistently errors out with “unknown errors” after tremendous lag times when attempting to boost posts. Every time it happens I have to uninstall and reinstall the IG app on m
- summer internship hello Blind community, I was hoping for some advice from the professionals on this thread. I’m a senior graduating in December with a degree in math & minor in CS. I have no relevant internships and only a couple of projects. The only thing I really have going for me is a 3.9 gpa and most tech co
- vote Renewal Sales at Oracle Anyone from Oracle sales that can provide insight is greatly appreciated. A recruiter (Talent Sourcer) from Oracle reached out on LinkedIn about a Sales Renewal role. No real info or insight, aligned with my interest so I said sure. She introduced me to the Principal Talent Advisor with whom I spok
- Any info on Google Fiber? Have a phone screen tomorrow for a business analyst position at Google Fiber. From what I've gathered on Blind, Google Fiber isn't doing particularly great. However, I would still be interested in the position based on the following reasons: - significant boost in brand name/resume, opens many ca
- Does industrial espionage exist between Fangs? Say FB wants to collect intelligence on Googles internal infrastructure down to the code level, or to know what Googles new products are in then works. Is it feasible for fb to send one of their employees to interview at Google, say a E6 to an equivalent position at Google. So to boost his chance
- Likes of thorn I recently heard about Aston Kutcher company Thorn and just loved the idea. I’ve been considering for a while now on how I can find more meaningful work than trying to optimize and keep boosting revenue for big tech and causes like that just fill this big gaping hole I’ve been looking to fill satisf
- link Inside Apple’s Eroding Partnership With Foxconn Does anyone have the full article? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-eroding-partnership-with-foxconn "When Apple’s 2018 iPad Pro was undergoing production trials at the company’s largest outside manufacturer, Foxconn Technology, the Taiwanese firm gave Apple a list of how many
- Your money as a mover I’m curious about how all this money we make in tech (or elsewhere) is being used to move the needle anywhere. Who out there thinks about how they can better the lives of a demographic, level the playing field across the masses, shift a societal perspective, bring awareness to a major issue thats be
- Career trajectory for Google vs. a prop shop? So I've got an offer letter from a prop shop in Chicago and am finishing up team matching with Google (but don't have an offer letter yet; recruiter says it should be in next week pending SVP approval). All in all the compensation will probably be pretty similar but the Google position is in Seattle