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- Facebook onboarding - Data Engineering Hey! I am starting at Facebook soon as a data engineer. However, due to slight H1b transfer delay I asked my recruiter to push my onboarding date. The recruiter got back saying the next 2 onboarding dates (each 15days apart) are full therefore i may have to wait until the third session which is lead
- Fellow Indians never take me seriously? I'm not saying they should respect me. I'm a fucking nobody. I understand that. But just some basic decency? I had dinner with my colleagues last week. My manager's manager sat next to me. This guy, manages about 7 managers, has 35 years of experience. But, we had a great conversation about work, m
- I am more happy if I don't treat work as work I tried two approaches to working - 1) treating work as work i.e working 9-5 - just doing what's asked of you 2) working more hours if necessary, being proactive, working hard for the project/promotion. In both the approaches, you get the same amount of money - even though you might get promoted sl
- Feeling bad about my salary This is contrary to other blind posts, I am not complaining about not earning enough, but rather the opposite. I know that I earn shit by blind standards (TC 220), but I live in Europe and this is quite a lot here. My friends and family earn like 1/10th of that in my home country (Eastern Europe) a
- Unpopular opinion: Prefer down level based upon experience. Contrary to the opinion of people here at Blind, I am thinking to settle for a level below that is provided for my experience (like settling for Google L4 and equivalent). The reason for this thought process is that I am recently married and want to spend a year or two without the extra hustle of of
- Buying a house in Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland Hi, I am looking to buy a house in the Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond area. Prices are sky high (even in October-December period) and don’t see any cooling happening (particularly for homes with high school ratings). On the contrary, the summer madness is continuing with bidding wars of 300-500K+ on top
- STAR for Behavioral (read Amazon) doesn’t apply to every situation but! Just what’s the deal and STAR obsession of Amazon with its behavioral rounds? My thought process just doesn’t conform to this. Just how many stories can one pre empt and prepare for in this format? There’s always a behavioral question that one hasn’t prepared for. At that moment the focus is on ans
- vote Mandibular Prognathism. Did you have the guts to do the surgery? I have kind of severe form of mandibular Prognathism. The doctor said that if I do not do the surgery till 30 I will loose most of my teeth. I am 25 and lost like 6 teeth. The surgery consists of cutting the upper maxilary and advancing it, then cutting the lower maxilar and fixing it in titanium pl
- Google Appreciation Post Joined Google about 3 years ago. Have noticed a lot of negative posts about the company, so just wanted to share a counter-perspective. Google is amazing. Great office perks and they always reach out to make sure you are ok (and to offer help) during natural disasters. Stock has gone nuts. Colleagu
- Getting out of UI development I believe that UI engineering is commoditized and arguments to the contrary are mostly cope. I know many people who study a few months and become UI devs, I’ve never heard of this happening for fields like OS development. UI engineering has a lower salary cap because deep expertise is 1. impossible
- link Growing Cases in India/US and even in summers, where are we heading? Well US has so far been able to flatten the curve but cases seem to be constant they are not decreasing. On the contrary almost 22 states have increasing trend, 18 have decreasing trend and remainder are constant daily new cases. With all these states opening up and protests going on has the Corona
- favoritism is ruining my career Hi All, I worked hard on a complex project and missed deadlines and faced a lot of critics from managers and peers. Finally, I ended up with a patent for the algo I developed. When it was time for the appraisal, forget about promotion, I didn't even get the hike. When I questioned it they told me w
- In what order are Roth IRA EARNINGs taxed? Consider the following scenario regarding a Roth IRA account: Direct Contributions and Conversions: ---------------------------------------------------- - 10 years ago, I opened and made a direct contribution of $firstDirect = $10,000 - 2 years ago, I used mega backdoor to immediately convert gain-
- Microsoft vs Nutanix Hi blind community. I have received an offer from Microsoft (not the actual numbers but just the confirmation that I have been selected). I also have an ongoing location transfer(to the U.S.) process going on at Nutanix. My end goal is to finally transfer to the US but not sure if taking a transfer
- Leetcode style coding tests for all engineering levels. Is it a just way to evaluate candidates? What about culture fit? Let me start by saying "grapes are sour". The leetcode style coding tests hate me. I did prep 15-20 days and failed couple of phone interviews. Then stopped interviewing although recruiters keep contacting me. I'm just so afraid now of failing yet again. On the contrary, I hate the fact that they
- Feeling miserable and most after Job Switch. I switched companies a month ago and I have been feeling all miserable and lost ever since. The team I work with does not seem to have any time to help me ramp up and has been working together for a while now and does not really seem to be bothered to engage with new joiners. It's becoming a struggl
- What's better? MBA -> PM role or MS -> Senior SDE? I'm 100% sure I want to stay in or around the tech industry. I enjoy coding and solving issues, adding features, running tests and so on. However I feel that I don't have much of a decision making/impactful role and feel that my individual contribution barely affects anything. I didn't work on resea
- Comprehensive Review of a TikTok SWE in Singapore Recently wrote a Glassdoor #review for #TikTok and thought I'd share it with you guys here too. Feel free to share your own thoughts and add to the discussion! :) ------------------------------------ Pros ------------------------------------ - Above average compensation, - Smart colleagues! It fee
- Unpopular opinions about competitive programming Sounds like most people argue skills for competitive programming are useless, and also dislike them. I'd argue the opposite. Competitive programming taught me: * Work under time-pressure -> Think of creative ways -> Get things done quickly * Convert ideas quickly into workable code, related
- Can you take a paid medical LOA for more than 12w (FMLA) for mental health adjustment disorder w/ anxiety/depression? As Amazonians, we're actually eligible for up to 26w of paid medical leave since after the first day of employment. Contrary to popular belief, one year of tenure is not actually required. Federal law provides 12w of unpaid protected leave under FMLA after 1 year of tenure, but Amazon's company pol
- mobile engineer career The ceiling for mobile engineers seems a bit low. Backend engineers, on the contrary, can work on their scalability skills and deployment skills, which are also often asked during the interviews. This also makes me wonder what the design questions are like for senior mobile engineers. As far as I k
- vote Leaving amazon 10 months microsoft? Hi i joined as a new grad at amazon 10 months ago. Tc 140k I have an oppurtunity to interview with microsoft next week. My team at amazon is actually pretty good contrary to what blind made it out to be. The wlb is pretty good and my manager is great, the only problem is that the work ive been doi
- With all these folks with high TCs, what’s the most frivolous spending you’ve ever seen? Gonna try and be vague to not dox this guy but… I have a friend who is close friends with a guy at FAANG, SWE2 with 4yoe ish, guess is he makes 300k-ish. I’ve met him a few times and he’s always dressed like he’s going clubbing (Rolex and designer clothes to go to Korean barbecue) He’s single, no
- Does anyone have anything positive to say about their company? Seems like most of the posts here are negative, which makes sense for an anonymous platform. But does anyone have something nice to say about their company? Kinda interested knowing the flip side of the coin from what I usually see on here. (And tagging Amazon, FB, and Uber, since I feel people com
- Received 2 Microsoft Offers, which one do I pick? Hi everyone, I've received two verbal offers from two seperate teams in Microsoft. They're waiting until I make a selection to discuss numbers, I guess Microsoft doesn't compete internally anymore. Offer #1: Azure Software Engineer II Location: Redmond, WA Level: 61-62 (I get a clearance bonus in
- Suggestions for career growth Hi, I am currently working in an mnc have only 1.5 yrs exp and have recently got an offer from a startup(sharechat) and they are providing me a good hike. In my current company, I have worked as an analyst as well as a data engineer to some extent (Created the ETL graphs in abinitio and transformed
- link The virus changed, now get to zero or face catastrophe With the new variants immunity doesn't last as long as it takes to vaccinate the population, we will be in an endless cycle of half measures until we take it seriously and drive it to zero cases. Canadian analysis but it's on point' https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/01/28/Virus-Changed-Get-To-Zero-
- Mobile engineer career growth The ceiling for mobile engineers seems a bit low. Backend engineers, on the contrary, can work on their scalability skills and deployment skills, which are also often asked during the interviews. This also makes me wonder what the design questions are like for senior mobile engineers. As far as I k
- Dark mode or not With the current situation, when the screen time has been extended for the entire family, the regular browsing in general started putting much stress. Moreover, have started using more laptop at night and white screen on some webpages just lights the room. So I thought to try out dark mode esp dark
- Should I move into SRE/DevOps or stick to SWE? I’ve been getting a lot of unsolicited interview requests from top companies for SRE roles and it’s tempting. The job description honestly sounds interesting, and I enjoy infrastructure and automation problems. On the contrary, I also want to work on an actual product and enjoy shipping features. I’