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- The Cost of Turnover Before I start, understand that I am somewhat approaching this topic through rose tinted glasses. I'm well compensated (Sr Engineer @ Amazon), have all of my needs met, and live a pretty cheap/simple life. I write this on the basis of curiosity to hear other's thoughts on rapid turnover and how that
- Very unpopular opinion: I'm actually enjoying my WLB at Amazon I know this post would be a shock to a lot of people. It has been 1 year since I joined my team as SDE-1. Until I joined Blind 6 months back, I didn't even know about the reputation of Amazon here. I've realized everything here depends on your team and manager. I feel very lucky to join this team be
- vote Career Choice: Hardcore Applied ML vs SDE vs Data Analytics Genuine Question: Which field has the best future for someone early in one's career? Clarifications: Best -- good promotion opportunities, good wlb (e.g. game industry is cool but also seems to have worse wlb in general) I guess probably boils down to high demand and not too high supply Hardcore Ap
- Uncertainties in ML - can’t take it any more! I work as a data/applied scientist at level 63 in Microsoft. My entire team is scientists, so everyone’s work is a mix of ML and engineering, but in the genre of improving quality. Lately, all the projects that I have picked up (basically given by manager) have been a failure. Manager says that’s e
- Seeking help for a friend on his carrer choice Hi All, Seeking suggestion on behalf of my friend. He is just graduated from college (<1yr) and seeking job opportunities. One startup approached him did with the interviews and they are happy to offer him. Now when he asked about the projects he would be working on it's something like they need
- Got new job..not exactly what I was hoping! Hey guys! I’ll give you a backstory before I get into the meat of this post. My first new grad role was an entry level software engineering position at Lockheed Martin space. For a lot of reasons, I wanted out..location, not wanting to stay in defense, etc. After about 1 yr 1 month of experience I w
- Hesitant about Indeed TBA offer (now Research Engineer) I got an offer from Indeed for what was formerly known as the Technical Business Analyst role, now Research Engineer (guess they realized how awful that title was). I really like Indeed as a company, but I'm concerned about this offer being a good move for my career. I'm hoping some folks from Indee
- Leaving my First FT Dev Job after 1 year Its almost year since Ive started my first full time job as a Software Developer for my company and I think its time to jump ship yet I dont know whether I should/ how. The reasons why I should move on: awful commute 1 hr 47 avg 1 way 2 times a week in office sometimes 3, TC is ok about 67k (was 65k
- Race issue or Ecnomic inequality issue? I am a POC and an immigrant. I feel extremely sad and angry about Floyd's tragedy, police's brutality and black people's suffering over the generations. I also agree that US needs a change on this badly. Given all that, I would still say that the race issue is a card that the government(both Rep
- I got dev plan'd at Amazon (L6 SDE) As discussed in our 1on1 today, in the past, your behavior/attitude is not meeting the L6 SDE 3 bar on “earns trust” and “hire and develop the best” as part of the ****** team. You often express a negative attitude towards decisions that are made, bring issues forward without any input to a resolut
- vote VMWare or Microsoft I work for Kernel team at Intel. I am a low level system software engineer (not a CS grad but a EE grad i.e. both Masters and Bachelors). I recently started interviewing and got offers from VMware and Microsoft. I am unable to choose one from the both, so any help is highly appreciated. VMWare deta
- How to deal with negative biased managers? Manager is a good person. They are friendly and skilled technically. I appreciate their efforts, work and general all round presence. But they consistently focus on places to improve or things that may not be up to the mark. No talk of things that are going well. They routinely point out flaws in s
- What should I do next? How to leave enterprise hosting? I'm currently a technical account manager, but a more accurate description would be systems engineer or something along those lines. I support large install base accounts from setting up a backup schedule, tuning their storage, recommending and implementing complete architecture changes, etc. Basica
- Weird Apple Interview Experience A couple of months ago, an Apple recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn for an opening in their team. At this point of time I was already in team matching phase with Google post HC and offer negotiation phase with Salesforce. I told the recruiter that I was on a tight timeline and they set me up to
- vote Offer Evaluation (India) between two start ups Company A ($300M funding): TC: 41L (Base: 30L, Bonus: 3L(Perf based EOY), Stocks: Series G 500 (~8L)) Position: Senior Engineer Location: 30 Minutes from Home (Noida) Stack: NodeJS, GO, Scala, ReactJS(FE) Future Prospects: They say they want to 3X the team size in next 3-4 years and are building ne
- link Goldman Sachs Compensation Bands Seeing many posts asking about TC at GS, hoping to clarify here (TC <100k not accounted for in polls) August 2019 TeamBlind Poll: Analyst (0 - 3 yoe): 100-150k: 44 votes (88%) 150-200k: 6 votes (12%) 200k+: 0 votes (0%) Associate (2 - 6 yoe): 100-150k: 12 votes (52%) 150-200k: 5 votes (22%) 200
- vote Chances of clearing Google L5 ? (Edit: L5 approved) Hi, I recently completed my L5 SWE loop with Google India. Following are few details of each round: - Round 1 (Coding): Was asked a medium/hard problem. Not a direct LC question. Was able to provide solution and implement the same. Solution was both time and space optimized. Follow-up was w.r.t. m
- Negotiating FAANG offers; some things I’ve learned I’m currently negotiating 2 FAANG offers (won’t say which ones to protect identity). I’ve been reading up on ways to respond when a recruiter asks you to show written proof of your competing offer. A lot of people are wondering “why not just share it? it’s so simple!” If you’re perfectly happy with
- Switching from consulting/agency to big tech/product? If anyone here has done this and has advice, I’d love to hear. I hear a lot about how it’s more difficult to do so, but I really think that I want out of consulting/agency design work. I’m a product designer at a consultancy right now. What kinds of things should I focus on for portfolio presentati
- link Impostor-syndromed dev negotiating salary with a startup. Help! Question: * I am starting getting job offers from startups which I've interviewed successfully via Hired.com. Some of them are asking me about the compensation that will make me immediately accept their offer. How do I approach that? What complicates the situation is that while I am experienced, I d
- Huge difference between FB etc & Google - I Recently I interviewed at some of the top paying companies and I got rejected by almost all, here is my experience. I am not sad because I faced interview on my own terms and was willing to wait for another year/ goto tier-2 or so instead of compromising. I am 15 years exp, domain expert in my doma
- Leave somewhat promising YC startup that i really like for a better comp? TL;DR: One of the first employees at a YC startup. Really love company and enjoy working there. Having tons of responsibilities and making huge impact. Have been there for 2+ years and vested 50% of equity. Compensation / career growth is limited because of the company size. Should i start looking
- vote Should I resign or not? About Me: 28M, currently WFH for a leading Indian unicorn in logistics sector. Note than I am non-tech. I want to resign from my current job. I have been contemplating it for a year now. **Why resign?** 1) Prior to my current role, I was at a renowned startup where I got stuck with a narcissist ma
- Data scientist at Microsoft.. what role comes next? Am a current data/applied scientist at Microsoft, 2 yoe. Did my BS and MS in Computer Science (AI focus) at a brand name school (MIT/Stanford) but now I realize nobody in industry really cares. Now I'm working mostly on statistics and machine learning problems at Microsoft, somewhat similar to what
- How to switch job as a newbie software engineer when you feel stuck ? I am a 2020 CS grad. When I passed out I had two offers (TCS doesn't count). A 10-year-old SaaS service company offered me 800k INR (~10k USD) and another one was my current company that paid me 700k INR (~9.2k USD). I had already started an internship at the product-based company and thus decided t
- My Amazon Experience I wanted to share my experience, it has ben some time I left Amazon but never shared this on public Blind channel. Many of the things I will say may identify me, but I give a damn. I joined Amazon as L5 Research Scientist, Bay Area in the Alexa team working on screen devices. I wanted to work on c
- Feeling Lost Apologies.. This is gonna be a lengthy post. I completed my undergrad in electronics and switched to CS for my Masters. Without any prior work experience and with a limited background in coding, struggled my way throught masters and finally got a bit comfortable with the software world. Majority of
- Need Guidance/Mentoring - Transition from Finance (Tech) to FAANG/similar firm Working in Tech Architecture & Strategy at a global financial services company. Graduated with Distinction from Cornell, Masters in Comp Sci. I have been working with Credit Suisse NY for 9 years now, and did not consider moving as I liked my team, manager, WLB and my role. Currently working as an i
- Systems Engineer in Playa Vista, Ca Looking for a strong engineer with mix of system admin and engineer experience in linux or windows background. tech stack ( linux, windows, AD, SSO, esxi, ) this is a well established entertainment group in a small shop with start up culture and mind set. we definitely are looking for someone able t
- How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs There is a very valuable post on blind about an interview process for engineering leaders from last year: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Interview-Cycle-Facebook-M1-Google-L7-Microsoft-L68-and-Local-Public-Company-dRQmWtbh This