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- London - Java Microservices Development Strategist Java Microservices Development Strategist – Investment Management, City of London Up to £100k base +50% bonus (so potential TC up to £150k) Are you a delivery-focused tech fanatic with excellent Core Java development skills? Would you like to step into a Senior Thought Leadership role and help set
- Seeking transition from aerospace to tech industry Hi all, I am new to this platform and looking forward to gaining information on how to transition from aerospace into tech. Briefly put, I have about 7 years working in the aerospace industry. My background is in aerospace engineering where I have held positions in design and manufacturing enginee
- 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
- Software Engineers are driving themselves and the industry to misery. As the title says, SWEs as a culture overwork and and then later cry about WLB, have a bizarre concept of very hard and long interviews for no good reason apart from mental gymnastics, work way too hard compared to other roles in the same company and are treated inferior to managers who put in less
- link [unpopular opinion] Layoffs will make Better.com stronger This is going to be a controversial post. First I want to say, my heart goes out to the people that have been let go by better recently. 1) Corporations can evolve into structures in which people are not doing anything important. It’s not that those people aren’t working hard, it’s that, for whatev
- vote Facebook London Phone Interview I had a phone interview very recently and it went like this - The interviewer introduced himself for 3 mins and went straight to the problem. It was kind of a combination of two LC-easy (but very edge-case prone). Spent around 8 mins clarifying the requirement, worked up some cases to discuss my ap
- Amazon Dev Plan -> PIP [Serious] History - I was promoted last year in Q2 , post which i switched teams to escape the toxic environment and abusive manager. I had heard its usually safe to switch teams within first 6 months after promotion. My new manager made me work my ass off in Q1 and after getting the deliverable,
- 1+ year at OCI. Feedback TLDR; I joined as an IC4 early last year. Wanted to create a post with unbiased feedback as OCI is trying to hire too many engineers since last two months. Hoping this may help a few who are interested to learn about the OCI. I joined OCI with these expectations: 1. Majority of the azure fundamen
- my current pc build is not perfroming well in ML Hi, my current build is top 5% in 2017 tr-1950x, 2 * 1080 ti, 128 gb ram but it got trashed by my friend's i6850k + single 1080 + 64GB ram in Tensorflow RNN training if i only use 1 gpu i am consistently 1 or 2 second behind every epoch. when i turn on multi-gpu the speed up is not significant 11s p
- Amazon Web Services Hiring? Guys, I am development manager at Oracle and I am planning to move out of here, coz, you know, there are so many reasons which I don't want to get into but primarily I get the feeling of being left out after working for a while now on age old technologies. I hear amazing things about AWS and I want
- Career Advice I am currently working as a java developer and been doing this from about 8 years. Never had any problem in finding new job when needed. And I enjoy Java but always little disappointed due to no growth. I happened to get a new job as a principle reliability engineer where they mentioned like I will
- link I am a software engineer looking for collaboration in building an algorithmic trading system Edit: Here is the slack. Join me. Dm me if the link doesn't work. https://join.slack.com/t/open-machine-trading/shared_invite/zt-h486t1ue-1Pt9Ais587FLdvcWkZZUAg I'm a software engineer. I mostly work on Java and have a bit of an experience with C++ Python and Jenkins then aws kubernetes and terraf
- Multiple Opportunities in a Blockchain Fintech startup that just raised $6.2M seed round! Hey everyone, Wanted to share some details and job openings at Pontoro, a seed stage start up building a platform to revolutionize the Infrastructure Fintech space! $94 trillion of infrastructure financing is needed by 2040; however, financing capacity continues to diminish due to the declining ba
- vote ML PM at hyper-growth company VS FAANG PM I was lucky to get an offer (waiting for reference checks to get offer numbers) for ML PM for a 1K-people company in hyper growth phase. The core differentiator of the company's product is a bunch of ML models, so as a PM I would be in the epicenter of the action. Also, I am in first rounds of int
- Need Advice- Career Progression (Strategy BizOps Roles) Hi Blind Community, Just wanted to get your thoughts on how good is Strategy and Biz Ops role at a tech company (FB, Google, LinkedIn, Others).What is a typical career progression with that role? And how one can land into those roles? I am currently working as PM (Outbound), you may assume it to b
- Manager trying to pull me down! Pls advice!! My manager is of my age (2yr senior) and has ego issues and have already screwed my last year connect giving ZR. Reasons given for ZR are not data driven but merely like I feel that impact bar could have been higher etc etc. He has no muscle on tech and architecture, and have less involvement in al
- Career Advice: PM vs Software Architect 9 years in IT industry: Initial 5 as a software engineer and rest 4 as a business analyst. Obviously i am simplifying my role here for core skills clarity(no fancy terms). Now every other day i feel stuck as i don’t know what Should I do next. When i was a software engineer, I always wondered that
- vote Lost on trying to figure out CS masters specialization, need help I've been thinking about what to specialize in within my CS masters and I've narrowed it down to three options but now I'm stuck and lost on which to pick. I'm hoping to get some help trying to decide on which path to take based on future growth and TC because I feel stuck in loop. The options are
- Downgrading to switch to a better career path I have been working on SQL Server(as a DBA and Developer) and BI tools for the last 5 years. Have done some ETL,OLAP,OLTP data analysis and reporting etc. as a developer. The core work was mostly on SQL BI tool and reporting. I have been trying to move out of the BI career and move into Data Enginee
- Amazon is really customer obsessed, at the cost of employees Amazon is really customer obsessed, it's just that, that customer obsession comes at the cost of overworked and burnt out employees. Recently, we had a severe break in our core system, which caused direct customer impact and even more uglier thing is, we detected this post facto. I saw so many peo
- Hiring for AWS greenfield project! Hi, everyone! We're developing an exciting new AWS core service at Amazon that will disrupt the software infrastructure market and change the world! I can't tell you much without you signing an NDA, but it's a high-priority confidential project in a quintillion-dollar market that we are building f
- vote Startup offer evaluation vs Google Hi Blind community, Need some help with opinion on staying at G till December or which startup (A or B) to join. Profile : - 3ish years at Google. - Total YEO : 4.5 in ML and 4 in Software (Per Masters in embedded domain so really doesn't count) - ML/AI domain a
- Stripe on site experience Had my virtual onsite this week for Stripe. It was actually a lot of fun and felt like I was completing tasks at work rather then leetcode nonsense. The rounds were all done with Java and Eclipse IDE 1) Programming excerise Was able to solve the question including test cases. Interviewer asked wh
- career advise Hi Friends, I am looking out your advice for my spouse carrier opportunity. She is having 14+ years of IT experience including 9+ years (.Net Developer (ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server)) 4.5+ years (Project Lead/Program Manager (Managed cross-functional team, client management, Projects and program plan
- 50 Reasons Kubernetes Sucks TC: fo-fitty To those that actually believe, really and truly believe this hype driven PoS with so many issues they had to distribute the parts because the sum of which would = failure. There is no honest person that can say k8s is a great platform. Here are 50 reasons why it sucks, and will cont
- Facebook DS product analytics. What am I getting myself into? I’m preparing for the technical interview for a Data scientist role at FB (Product analytics). Dont know what team yet, but the recruiter says this will be determined at “Bootcamp.” I went throught a lot of posts on Blind and online, and I have a general sense of the role, but would like clarifica
- I hate working at Amazon I hate working at Amazon/AWS to my core. Been here for two years as L4 dev with absolutely no sign of moving to L5. Moved teams after my first year since previous manager was the worst possible human you can imagine. He was a nano-manager, insulted me in every one on one meeting and called my past p
- Which path should I take? Hi Team Blind — need some advice! BACKGROUND: I’ve been a Product Manager for most of my career (YoE= 9) — not deeply technical but not shy about getting into engineering nitty-gritties at all. I’ve been wanting to get into security roles (like Security Product Manager) or cloud products (like say
- Looking for Referrals in Vancouver (Or Canada) As the title suggests I'm looking for Referrals for jobs in Canada. I'm an SDE2 working at one of the Amazon Vancouver offices. Fell in dev plan currently. The deadline was in late March. Last week I heard from my manager that the deadline was extended to early May since I was meeting the bar and m
- What should I do next? Hello Blind I’m 32yo, 9yoe and I’m reflecting on what I should do next in my career. All my work experience has been in startups of different stages, always in technical roles. Currently I’m what one could call “cloud architect”, if that makes any sense. I don’t completely suck at programming (I w