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- vote Where to live as 24 year old? Hi everyone, having a hard time where to move. Currently lives in Seattle for 2.5 years (started at Amazon straight out of college). Have offers from Google and Facebook among others, but I need to pick an office (NYC and SF are my main considerations). Never lived in either place. Currently 24 ye
- Team change at Amazon India Cleared L6 non tech Sr Program Manager, in team match at since 4 months, spoke to 4 HMs on various roles, did not get the go ahead due to lack of Ops/business background. Recruiters are tired of setting up calls now. Last bet is my connect with HM for Sr Risk Manager Quality role. I hv no experien
- Thoughts on a product idea? #tech Hey folks!! I work in a Cloud team for one of the major cloud players(not MS/Azure) I was thinking about viability of a product, would really appreciate people's thoughts on this: Typically an AWS ec2 compute instance with config (16core, 64gig) costs around ~200 usd pm. What if I build
- Help w/offer to counter Was working at a “start-up” for 16 years (grew from 4 > 200+ people; was acquired by investment fund in 2018 and merged into another portfolio company.) Did a lot of things as company grew and PMed for the past 7 years (SrPM for the past 2). Concentrated on technical, growth, and for the past 3+
- vote Grad school decision: MSIM@UW-seattle, Analytics@Gatech, MSIM@UIUC I come from a business background and want to transfer into tech, still exploring between SDE, DS, MLE, PM possibilities. Please leave a comment, or a simple vote to help me decide between these 1 year grad programs: UW Master of Science for Information Management - Data Science Track: 30% admit ra
- Embedded software or Cloud ? I understand it's a classic debate on which one to choose (embedded or application dev), yes I agree it's up to the person and his interests, passion and what one enjoys learning. However I would like to hear some comments or feedback in response to my situation and offers in hand. Thanks for your t
- [India] Is this SDE Payroll Team ? Amazon I recently got an offer for L4 I have accepted the offer I am currently in process of a background check and haven't received the offer letter yet I still don't know which team I would be shifted in but the jobs portal is showing status under consideration The description of that job is something
- Open source project: Open Algorithmic trading I post in this section as well so it gets it's attention. I have started this project with a few other people from Blind. And we gradually make progress. Read more, join, contribute or enjoy using (when we are ready :D) the platform on GitHub at https://github.com/open-algorithmic-trading/docs. E
- Rant: If your company uses goodtime.io please reconsider I've literally never had an opinion on scheduling software, it's not something I'd ever spare a thought for. But holy crap is this thing awful. Somehow presenting your candidates a simple calendar ends up taking their site ages. I just spent 10 minutes refreshing and waiting for spinners selecting
- Career Advice Need an advice from fellow blinder. Been in Amazon for 1year and 7 months and with total 4 yoe. Current TC: 23L Was hoping promo in this quarter but manager is targeting next one due to some gap(feedback from one of the sde3) . Promo could happen in next quarter or the one after that. Manager is a
- Created app startup business plan but don’t know where to go next I’m non-technical, but I came up with a great app/business idea, and I have spent a few months putting together a detailed business plan with mock-ups. I have gained a lot feedback and validated the product with dozens of friends, family members, and colleagues. I’m struggling on what I should do
- Career change into engineering I work in consulting (mostly functional consulting) and in my mid forties. Life is going well and one possibility is that I keep going for rest of my 20 years or so work life! But as I get older, it will be harder to keep this consulting job. This keeps bothering me. I want to get ready for my se
- In the DS race! Seeking referrals! TL;DR: Seeking: Data Science referrals within Experimentation/statistics domain. Location: SF/Bay Area Give back: Mock interview sessions, Consolidated doc with links to all my study material that has helped me with the process:) Essay: I am more of a Quantitative Analyst (arguably a DS with stron
- Data Science Pathway On CodeCademy? Thinking about a career switch and Data scientist/ML learning has caught my eye. I have a masters in electronic materials engineering from top ranked program. I’ve been told that a data scientist needs to understand the following core concepts: Basic Statistics (equivalent to AP stat or STAT100) P
- PhD in chemistry - considering switching to SWE role Posting on behalf of my wife. She has a PhD in computational chemistry from a US school and has a decent publication record including contributions to a popular open source computational software. She has had experience with fair bit of python programming during her PhD. She is currently working as
- link Interested in working on an open source project in your free time: Algorithmic Trading in Stocks? Edit: Here is the slack. Join me. Dm me if the link doesn't work. Try the link on external browser because it doesn't work with blind. https://github.com/open-algorithmic-trading/docs https://github.com/open-algorithmic-trading/docs/wiki https://join.slack.com/t/open-trading/shared_invite/zt-h486t
- How to be a great leader [India] Background: I was not hardworking and ambitious enough, had couple of reportees in the past. Did assigned them work, tracked progress etc. but didnt try to be a good leader, sucked in career so far. Present: Have turned a little ambitious after 13 yrs of career now. Want to work smartly and grow qu
- vote Importance of the name in the beginning of career? Hello, I have been working at a lesser known mid sized company (<1000 engineers) for 2 years now after I graduated. I have had so much opportunities to learn and grow in many aspects. These aspects include: front end (react, redux), back end (node js, dotnet core), infrastructure (CI/CD, tooling
- link Interview Prep: Google, LinkedIn, Lyft, Apple, Amazon Luckily aced 5 out of 5 onsites, with a perfect success rate. Here are my prep strategies: [Coding] - 350+ LC (90 hard, 250 medium). Had solved ~150 last time; those were easy and medium mostly. This time only worked on medium and hard. - EPI (I find CTCI not as elegant) - Not very strong in DP,
- vote Do you agree with Social Security? Social Security cannot currently be privatized without decades of slow phasing out. For the sake of keeping with the core of the question, let us assume that Social Security doesn't exist, and there's a vote for it in the country, and you have to vote yes or no. The upsides of Social Security: Soci
- Open Source project: Open Algorithmic trading I have started this project with a few other people from Blind. And we gradually make progress. Read more, join, contribute or enjoy using (when we are ready :D) the platform on GitHub at https://github.com/open-algorithmic-trading/docs. Edit: I totally understand your points about language select
- vote Help me evaluate my job offers (not FAMG) I have two offers to move out of my current position. Can you please help me evaluate my offers better? My current role is swe in the data team. 1. Offer 1 - 12 LPA INR fixed Consultancy company developing solutions on cloud and backend. Role is not thoroughly defined, but the gist is I get to work
- Obsessed with FB data scientist role! I really want to hear from FB data scientists! For some reason, I think working at FB as a data scientist would be really great for me. I’m not happy with my current TC and don’t see a bright future for the disk drive industry. Also, there is literally no room to grow in my current organization. Cu
- Improving culture in org Hey everyone, So I recently became the manager of an org and I have been thinking of introducing a number of new practises/cultural changes - I am looking for suggestions on what would make a great org - by a great org I mean low attrition rate, happy and motivated people, steep learning curve and
- vote Do you genuinely like the company's games you work for? Almost every person I know that works at Blizzard hates their games. Like, can't stand them. They ALL think OWL is borderline absurd. One of my best friends operates in a "core" role currently at high level and for as long as I can remember he has had a massive hate boner for Blizzard. He just joine
- I love Google Just an appreciation post for Google. I joined Google from a smaller company last year and I couldn’t really understand why people loved working at Google so much. After being here for a year and few months, I can see why. You really get to work with super smart people. You really feel like the com
- Linkedin Data Infra to Apple Siri Platform I am currently a Senior SWE at LinkedIn (Part of Data Infrastructure). I work on very interesting core distributed systems problems and I am very happy here. I have a PhD in CS from a top school. TC: 400K (due to stock appreciation) YOE 9 I got an offer from Apple: Siri Platform Software Engineer
- link L66 Career move options - Need advice After 15+ years at Microsoft in Redmond, currently in my mid-40s, in a leadership role and global team of 100+ I am looking at opportunities outside. Two motivating reasons: 1) I feel I can significantly increase my earning potential. Started L59 and grew up the ranks but compensation has not kept u
- Anyone here in Commerical Real Estate? (Development/Asset Mgmt, NOT brokerage) If so, how are you doing? *emphasis on the NOT brokerage because it's an important distinction, not to disparage* I've been snooping for a bit and don't see much here which is understandable. Looking to get a feel for how people here in the field are also doing, TC wise, hours wise, edu. wise, WLB wise etc. etc. Lucked out
- Being good at Leetcode, Chess and Software engineering requires the same skills. There I said it. I don't care how many people disagree with me. All three of them, if you do them for several years you would realize that they require the same core set of mental skills. You try to enumerate mentally all of the possible combinations and try to account for all of them. Make certain