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Surviving these tough times

The only way for humanity to progress collectively is to have enough empathy for each other and come to consensus on things that are critical. For the greater good as they say. We all are privileged enough as it is and relatively safe. But still how can we in tech help? 1. Hiring is limited, please

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Jul 21, 2022

Does focussing on money as the primary factor work?

The general consensus here on Blind is maximize TC, no matter what it leads to. For example, Amazon and Meta pay top TC but there have been hundreds of posts about toxic work culture at these companies and people ending with a mental wreck after working there for few years. Same goes for even big c

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Jan 6

Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies

I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once

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Jun 25, 2020

Systemic Racism Part 5 - The Final Poll and Take Aways

So I had done 4 polls in the past week surrounding the social issue of Systemic Racism in the US. Updated poll statistics are on the bottom if you are interested. Here is the final poll on the issue. But before we leave it to rest with a final poll, here are some take aways IMHO. 1. At least 4 out

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Jun 16, 2020

Sr IC/EMs - how do you tackle open-source crisis?

Well, off late, there is a business need to bring some critical features into an open-source project that we are heavily invested in. And we have willing and talented ICs to take up that job, not many though. But it's very challenging not just at engineering level, but also because there are other c

Jan 8, 2022

Tips for improving at corporate life

I’ve worked all my life as a contractor and in small startups (5 people teams at the most) and I’m having a hard time adjusting to life at Amazon, though it may have been the same at another big corporation. 1. I spend a lot of my time piecing together information from multiple conversations trying

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Mar 15, 2021

TPM Amazon - rejected but no feedback nor comments for corporate policy

I applied for TPM role at Amazon. The process took 4 months. I passed first screening interview, undertook 5 interviews in the second phase. I know at least 1 interview went very well, as per verbal comment of the interviewer who expressed wishing to work together in the future. I sensed the bar-r

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Jun 16, 2020

The only winner to come out of this war will be US and it’s all abt $$$

Chris Hedges writes on the Russia-Ukrain crisis : Chronicle of a War Foretold I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet

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Mar 19, 2022