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- Advice on switching tech companies for non CS major Hi! I could really use some advice in terms of a career move I want to make in the next year or two. I currently work as a level 1 software engineer/Dev at a company that does image processing/exploitation. I like my job but I'm from the west coast and want to go home and I am really interested in
- 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
- I need advise and a new job I work for a non-profit and on an average, I commit 9-12 hours per day. I seek for a more challenging and enabling environment that can afford me the automony to think outside the box and own the process. In my current position/org, although I have grown tremendously both personally and professiona
- How can one work in the same company for years, and climbing the ladder? Rant: I have over 10 years of working experience, but can't seem to be so fortunate like the others who could stay in the same organization for 8-10 years. These people tend to climb the ladder, played well with politics, done good job, appreciated. To be honest, I am envious, and wish them well. I
- vote Amazon - 8 YOE + MS - SDE 1 - Need Advice (Sorry for long post) This post might also be useful for people who are evaluating whether they should move to usa or not. As grass is not always greener on the other side. (But in longer run I know I will make grass greaner) --------------------------------------------------------------------- - I had 6 years of exper
- Would do anything for referrals Happy Friday everyone, After completing my Masters from CS I got a job in D.C. Unfortunately, despite having some of the best colleagues to work with the upper management at my company sucks to the core. For my first H1B attempt after getting all the documents from me the HR lady calls me in to of
- Need advice on career change I need help regarding my career. I'm currently holding a job position as a software developer. But I'm not happy being just the software developer. I want something which has both mathematical and computer science elements to it. I want to work where I could be more useful. I remember once a compan
- Whats the goal of behavioral interviews in engineering ? Do people actually give "bad" answers in behavioral interviews ? I can't imagine someone saying : "Yeah, if the project is late then it's late, what about it ?" "If I have to work on something I disagree with then I'm going to constantly bitch & moan about it or just not do anything at all, it's my
- Amazon Principal TPM Interview Had an "onsite" earlier and here are my interview/questions (5): 1) Senior SDM manager - questions around ambiguity, situational, "how do you deal with..." 2) Senior SDM manager - Complexity questions, example system design walkthroughs (white boarding) 3) PTPM - This was hard - Asked a lot of summa
- IBM to Startup... Do it with paycut? Hi everyone, I've been at IBM for a bit now s my only first/big job and I got a compelling offer from a startup (100 mil funded, started 5 years ago, Series B) in an industry that I always wanted to get into with a title bump (Principal level... aka I'll be the first of my role in that company). Th
- vote Google Interview Performance Analysis Completed onsite at google for L4 role and waiting for interviewer feedback to come in so obviously I’m finding plenty of time to be anxious and consider what I did wrong. My evaluation is that I got: 2 strong hire, 1 no hire, 2 hire. What’s the thought on this being enough to make it to HC? 1. Be
- How to become SWE at FAANG as first Programming job? (Have previous systems experience) I am on the Operations side of the tech industry — have experience as a systems admin and currently am working in the Cloud Engineering space — specialized in AWS but have some GCP experience (purposefully avoid Azure). I have all 5 core AWS certifications and am adept at using Linux. (Purposefully
- Thoughts after Amazon vs Google new hire orientation Hi, I just moved from Amazon to Google and completed my new hire orientation, and was trying see how I felt after orientation of both the companies. 1/ Both the companies do their best in inculcating in new hires that customers/users comes first. And agility is the next most important thing. 2/ A
- Listening effectively with ADHD I'm not looking for a medical diagnosis. Just thought of reaching out to folks on blind who have ADHD or know someone who has. I read about it and I've also watched a lot of videos and I feel like I'm definitely not neurotypical. If I have to describe my brain in terms of a CPU - I'd say I have a s
- 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
- link Experience transitioning from DS to SWE? I’m looking to transition from Data Scientist to SWE(ML) and was looking to the blind community for your take on some of the aspects. Perhaps it might be useful for other aspirants too. TC: 250K, YOE 2, PhD in Engineering (non CS) 1. What are some of the things you wish you had known before you s
- FB bootcamp seattle I got hired at the peak of the market just before covid blew up. I am switching from aws to fb at e5 with 6 yoe. At my level of experience I hadn't expected much support ramping up in a new team. I expected the ramp up to be 90%+ self driven with a team lead pointing me towards important resources a
- $100k vs $1M comp The way people sometimes discuss this topic annoys me on both sides and I felt like sharing some thoughts.. No, people that make $1M are not necessarily overpaid, the result of a bubble, favouritism, politics or whatever else No, an engineer (or whatever other role) doesn't need to be 10 times more
- India: Marriage pressure from parents Update: I see so many people in the same boat. TBH, it feels nice to know that I am not alone, for once. I think I have my answers to deal with tomorrow. I'll take one day at a time. Thank you for typing all that in replies everyone, I hope you might've felt relieved as much as I did. :) The ti
- Thinking of EB1C by trasferring to London I am seriously considering taking the EB1C route by transferring to London office for a year and coming back on H1B(or L1A if lawyers are confident) and port from Eb2 to Eb1c. Though i dont have direct reports but manage the core functionality of my IT infrastructure and a bridge between multiple de
- Facts about H1B Looks like many Americans don't have a clear picture on H1-B. There's two sides of things --- 1. Many of us are from top universities in India, came for graduate studies to US (or even directly got hired from India by companies like Google/FB) etc... and do some great engineering/research work at a
- Google PM prep guidance Someone please share prep guidance for a google pm interview success. I have been watching the questions/responses, but don't feel there is comprehensive info like what has been shared for engineers. I have had 2 rounds of phone interviews years back, and just one round more than a year ago. I wa
- Cruise Interview Experience start to finish : ~2 months offer: no recuriter back n forth for a month, identifying right group for me and so on Hiring Mgr screens me for EM role. Gives a go for onsites. Onsites set up, but two days prior they change their mind and want me to interview for IC tech screen over phone: No LeetCo
- Dell EMC- Unprofessional at its best Just came here to take out some of my frustration and aware people that they don’t fall prey to what I went through at Dell interviewing for last three months. March - Got a call through a recruiter reaching out to me for a Senior Systems Engineer role serving the central midwest areas. Talked rega
- vote FB (M1) vs Google EM (6) : Which one to choose ? I have offers from both FB and Google for Eng manager position. I went through team matching in Google cloud and chose a team (can't reveal the details without giving myself away...but it's an established product. The team I'll be leading will be small). At FB, I chose to just go through boot camp
- Boston Startup Offer Evaluation I got an offer to join a Boston based startup building ML models for decoding human nerve signals on proprietary hardware and wanted Blind's opinion on the offer. Job details: Base: 120-130k Options: 10-20k (1 year cliff 4 year vest) Job: Mostly C++ hardware level ML model implementations My detai
- [INDIA] Is this expected in fresher hiring now? Hey Blinders, Sorry for the rant, but yesterday I had an interview with VMWare for a fresher hiring drive for the Member of Technical Staff role. A fellow blinder helped me with a referral and soon got the OA link in a couple of weeks. It was a cakewalk for me, and I did all three questions with 30
- Hiring for Head of DS We at a biotech startup are hiring for an amazing data science leader. You must have 10+ years leadership experience with a PhD in Computer Science/Statistics. If this is you, I can make a referral. Compensation and benefits are really awesome. Edit : I am posting the full JD ROLE DESCRIPTION
- vote Facebook - Research Data Scientist IC6 - On-site interview completed - Hire/Reject??? TC??? Hi All, Sharing my experience after going through the entire FB interview process for Research Data Scientist, which I completed this week. About me: 6 years of experience in non-tech industry. Position: Research Data Scientist, IC6. > Step 1: A recruiter reach out to me. I didn't apply. Stand
- I am about to quit cold turkey my job Update: thank you all for kind words! I haven't expected that! Got severely burnt out. In addition to mental problems, I have ongoing physiological symptoms directly related to prolonged stress (eczema, hypertension, worsened asthma, hormonal issues, etc). I am under medical treatment with intermit