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- link The Scotsman, his paper money, and his stories brought France much prosperity, for a time People in Paris were getting rich — and they were getting rich fast. In fact, it was so hard to describe how rich everyone was becoming that a new word was needed and the term “millionaire” was coined in 1719. The people of France could thank a Scotsman with a penchant for gambling, the printing of
- vote Recruiter contact after onsite. Had a virtual onsite with a tech company that I thought went well. Recruiter called 3 days after and asked if I liked the team and was still interested. I said I did and I was. He went on to talk about how positive the feedback was from the team and how my name keeps bubbling up in meetings. He ask
- Recently joined a bay area startup called Verkada, having mixed feelings I joined Verkada after a brief stint at another bay area company. The interviews went smooth, the recruiters pitched hard, the execs wooed me with fancy food and a generous offer I couldn't refuse. Some N months later my bubble is burst and I regret coming here. It all started when I discovered tha
- How to speak up during meetings? I struggle to speak up. I like to listen, absorb and analyze the information before presenting something of value. Meetings are not a really good avenue for this. As such, I remain quiet making other participants assume that I am disengaged and lack the skills. I also struggle to find the right time
- Stop "encouraging" positive Glassdoor reviews Lately, I've been pondering my experience within organizations over the years, and finally have an opinion that's bubbled to the top and I feel it's high-time to express. Hey leaders, managers and others, stop encouraging positive Glassdoor reviews, it's disingenuous and creates a false, "honest" e
- link Buying a house? Read this! I’ve been looking for a house for 3 months now in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’d like to share my learnings. If you been there, done that, you can skip this, otherwise, feel free to continue reading. 1. Your agent is not your best friend. They want to establish trust so they can sell you a hous
- Facebook Front-End Interview Questions I am interviewing with Facebook for a full-stack position, and I have a front-end round coming up. Can anyone (from Facebook) tell me what kind of questions I can expect? The recruiter said the round will focus on UI elements & JavaScript. Can someone guide me on the complexity of questions that ar
- 800k 1200sqft townhomes are built cheap af Is it just my observation? They don’t build it like they used to. The walls aren’t even solid wood, punch through and you can create a wormhole that leads you straight to your neighbor. The kitchen and bathroom cabinets made up of compressed paper (think IKEA). You won’t even have to punch these.
- PSA for all those who don't know what to make of the growth stock crash of 2022 The last decade, but mostly the last 2 years, has been full of retail investors who don't know valuations and Wallstreet promoters pushing lower and lower quality companies into IPOs and SPACs. If you bought at peak mania and now are down by half or more on your investments, and your stocks are sti
- VT vs QQQ I’ve been lazy and put most of my 401K on VTSAX. Now that 2020 is close to its end, I’m rethinking my strategy — apparently SPY had better return YTD, QQQ did even better as it heavily tilts toward giant tech. But even looking at last 5-10 years the most broad index still had worst performance. I’ve
- Is it really hard to get a swe job nowadays? I keep hearing that it's gotten extremely hard even in comparison to a year ago. People say because of COVID the openings are much less and the bar (mostly LC) has gone very up. It's hard especially for people who have full time jobs to switch as they won't have time to prepare and beat the ones wi
- Burnt out and I want to work at a farm for a while I wanna leave immediately if I can. I hate the project and the tasks assigned to me. I feel sick under my stomach to the point I can’t stop the racing thoughts of hating my job on a thanksgiving break. I want to quit if I don’t have visa constraint and that I don’t need to continue to work to repay
- vote Is investment = gambling in 2021 ? #personalfinance #investments Everything feels unpredictable in US currently . 1 . Sudden fall and rise of crypto. Elon becomes a hero, then villain and hero again. Jack Dorsey becomes hero in coordinated attempt. Amazon says yes and then No next day. 2. Stocks are falling due to rising covid, th
- Pandemic Positive: Less pressure to be social For me, one thing emerging from the pandemic that’s kind of nice is that there’s less pressure to be social. I’m an introvert. But of course, I enjoy interacting with people (in moderation) and I can’t wait until we return to a world where we can all do that again, physically. But pre-pandemic, it
- Anyone left high TC for a year of travel? I'm 29 and have never had the chance to travel for any extended period of time (over a month). Recently, my fiance and I have been thinking about leaving our jobs to travel for a year across the world. It seems like my last chance to do so before settling down with kids and growing too old for trave
- vote How long will AI stay this Hot？ How long do you think ML will stay this hot? Recent real and promising ML application : 1. computer-vision (facial recognition etc) 2. NLP (machine translation etc) 3. Recommender system (ads etc) The application of ML in applications such as Alpha Go or even autonomous driving seems to be unreal
- Racism in hiring in United States I came to United States 15 years ago, I was really glad to leave behind all the crap and was highly optimistic about the future here; I did extremely well and felt appreciated, merit was spot on! Now in last few years the picture has changed dramatically, there are many companies where hiring is ba
- PM Projects Hi all, I’ve gotten lots of advice that the best way to pivot into PM is through building products. Is this more to demonstrate technical ability or more to show business skills associated with being an PM? I don’t have a technical background and am primarily looking for non-technical roles, and tr
- Is this market sustainable? For those who went through dot com bubble, I just want to ask you questions if what you experienced is similar to what is going on now. 1. What used to whoa people was 400k-550k TC a few years back. But now that range seems to be 800k+ 2. People say market is hot these days. Even Startups pay lik
- Shitting on others' companies There's a lot of poking fun at others' companies. I get it: it makes us feel better when others are doing worse. We want to feel that we made the right choice joining our companies. But there's a clear trend of the media taking a shot at all tech, and it affects all of us for the worse. While it us
- New grad considering buying house in Bay Area New grad, 1 year in the area so far, TC 230k. Currently renting for 1700/mo, living with two roommates in a nice apartment complex. Been toying with the idea of taking out a mortgage, putting 10-20% down and buying a two or three bedroom place and renting out the bedrooms. Rent should hopefully be
- What will cause the current market rally to end? Since November the SPY and QQQ have made substantial gains. Now the markets seem to be digesting those gains but things still appear optimistic. At some point there is going to be a pullback or correction, and we'd all like to spot it as early as possible. What are some potential upcoming events tha
- Amazon online assessment nonsense Applied for an SDE III role, but the recruiter gave me the online assessment for an SDE II. The online assessment (coding challenge) was provided by a third party system that only allowed 10 seconds for the unit tests to run. For the first challenge, many of the unit tests timed out. I believe I
- Biased Survey/Blog Post by Blind Rick Chen wrote a public blog post for Blind about how survey results show Half of US Workers would report their employer did not checking jab status. While I do agree that some workers would, it seems the results are heavily biased. The survey used a sample size of 5k disgruntled tech workers. Hard
- Miami real estate is bananas rn Thinking about moving back home to Miami after 15 years. But the real estate situation is insane! Houses are top dollar and all my friends in real estate tell me when a house is listed, they get 30-40 offers on it within the first week and always get above asking price. Do you think this will be a
- Coinbase Recuriting Sucks! Stay Away! Submitted an application for one position at Coinbase yesteray. Today got an email from their auto-reply system saying that they are moving forward with other more experienced candidates. My application seems to be filtered out by a robot not by a real human. I have 5 YOE and have a few yrs of wor
- Career advice, blown by Everyones TC in here Hi, I just joined the blind community and I m quite surprised with all the TC conversation i have seen through. I m a data engineer with 3 YOE and honestly considered quite bright in my job. I calculated my TC very closely just after i saw all the talks about TC here at blind. I have 120k base sal
- link Platforms or publishers? Behemoths like YouTube and Twitter started censoring or outright deleting channels/users. I don't want to comment on the quality of those users and if they are good or evil. Policing content more and more might open Pandora's Box. Trump is already triggered by Twitter and is looking for opportuniti
- vote Thoughts on Mini-project during onsite I have been preparing for Sr. SDE equivalent interviews. As I get closer to onsite rounds, I'm seeing handful of companies are asking for mini-project exercise as part of onsite interviews. Their rationale is that this would be more relevant to on the day job. While I would indeed learn something fr
- Is Amazon LGBT friendly? Background: I am currently in San Francisco and will be joining Amazon in Seattle soon. I never tried to pretend to be straight in workplace in San Francisco, and no one has given me a hard time at work even thought I was working along side with many more senior and older people. I haven't much expe