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- Cloud Engineer vs SW Eng Salary I may get a chance to have some certifications and professional opportunities in cloud computing soon, and I was talking it and through on a developer slack I’m on. Contrary to the salaries I’ve heard, the feedback I got was that it might downgrade my salary to go that direction, as my TC in a low
- How do startup options work ? I am a bit confused by how startup options work. When you join a startup that issues options, then they count the option grant as part of your tc, but then when you leave, you also have to exercise them (generally within 3 months) by paying the strike price. So, it feels like one has to double pay.
- vote Amazon L7 vs. Airbnb L6 (Manager) Just wanted to get the Blind community's take on this decision. When I was hired at Airbnb (2019) the company was growing super fast, I had open headcount and an opportunity to build a team from scratch for what seemed like an important company prioirity. With COVID19 impacting the revenue, we're o
- How to handle big bump in TC Yet another question about mental health - kinda, yea I know very original, but sometimes you just gotta ask. New grad here, finishing up my masters in AI this month (done CS in undegrad) and starting working in September. Been in school all my life without any year of break and having a NW of 0 (a
- vote Transition to SDE in amazon or by joining another company I’m a sysdev 1(devops) engineer and amazon is giving me a good chance at finally switching to SDE (my manager is on board but no clear timeline). But our team has high operational workload, and even if my title switches to SDE in the coming months, I might not have dev work in a year. If I stay fo
- Unwritten rules about coding interviews I haven’t been interviewing for a while. Last time I interviewed was before pandemic where people still invited to onsite and write code on whiteboard. We used to pseudo run few test cases over whiteboard and that was all about in terms of debugging. If you don’t remember a function or a collection
- vote Stay at boring Amazon job vs Join startup and increase TC Got about 5 years of experience. Currently at amazon for 1.5 years as an L5. Contrary to the general trend, the wlb is insanely good , I have days when I only work about 4 hours. But… the work is boring af. Doing 80% operational stuff, barely done any coding so far, let alone complex, creative work
- vote 90 day "Introductory Period" in a job offer... Red flag? Have a job offer with the following clause... Why would a company need to say this? Location: California, in case that matters. Employment Relationship. The first 90 days of continuous employment with the Company is considered an introductory period. During this time, you will learn your responsibi
- Doordash: Tale of David to Goliath Doordash went public at $50 billion+ valuation last week. The craziest part? It is it is likely a bargain. Time for a post. 1) Some history: Doordash was founded in 2013 by Tony Xu, Evan Moore, Andy Fang and Stanley Tang. At that time it was known as Palo Alto Delivery service. 2) From the begin
- Great Spotify Data Engineer Interview Experience I just went through 2 rounds of the data engineering position and want to share some tips for those who are planning to go through it. PS: I wasn't selected unfortunately but it was still a good learning experience. Shoutout to the Recruiters, it was actually very good contrary to what I've been see
- Additional Facebook interview after on-site Hi all, I recently interviewed at Facebook, London. In the phone screen, I got the optimal solutions for two coding problems and implemented them. I was invited to onsite. I thought that I got the optimal solution for 3 coding problems, and a sub-optimal non-brute force solution to the fourth prob
- PR comments I have a feature lead who has a lot of connections in the org and unfortunately I have to work with him. He made lots of baseless and useless comments on my PR just to show his leadership skills. The comments usually go like, move this bunch of code here and there. Not only that his comments aren’t
- Walmart Bangalore (Sam Club) Vs Adobe India Have an offer from Walmart for their Sam Club Buisness. Here are the details : Current TC : 24L (Base) + 10% (AIP) + Stocks ( Around 15L in 2021, Later Years would be based on Appraisal in 2021 Feb) + ESPP Benefits ===> 40-45L YOE - 7 Walmart Details: TC -- 40L (Base) + 25 % Bonus (=10L) +
- Will remote work be the norm in high-growth companies? I want to be able to afford a dream home for my family, but it seems just impossible in the Bay area without taking an enormous mortgage. Such a home goes for ~3.5M+ in the Bay, and even with a million down by liquidating almost all of our investments, we’ll still be left with a huge monthly payment
- WLB not as important as Flexibility? I'm getting close to FAANG offer or two at the tech lead/principal level (think E6 at FB, L6 at G). Currently a director level at finance company. What I really enjoy about where I am, even though finance may not be known for it, is the flexibility. By that I mean I work (and am happy to work) 45-
- Help needed in handling in-laws (Indian) that seek financial support My husband and I came to the US for masters. I have been here for 5 years & he has been here for about 7 years now. He had the habit of sending his savings home ever since he started earning. Overall, he has spent ~60K USD so far (40K USD cash sent, ~15K+ USD spent for their 1 month holiday in Calif
- Business Analyst to Product Management Hi all, I’m a Business Analyst at a gaming company and have 1.5 years of experience. Graduated last may from my Master’s program. I’ve always been interested in Product Management, but got ZERO call backs while I was applying during my masters, so I kind of settled for my current role. I feel like
- Diversity Why can China being a largely singular society create so many great companies like Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD, 163.com that have overall no racial and ethnically diversity in its workforce but yet achieved tremendous success in technology and business? On the contrary, I can hardly name any
- Anyone else with privacy concerns about providing proof of vaccination? Let me get a few things out of the way: - I believe in the medicine (good grief that sounds like a religious confession). - I was and continue to be eager to get whatever protection is available as soon as possible. - I'm perfectly fine with masks, and prefer them anyway. But I'm very concerned a
- [Question] offer decision between DevRel and PM Hi all, I am looking for some advice of offer decision from experienced PMs. Background: developer(7y; embedded systems and backend)/data scientist (2y)/technical PM(1y) Option 1: developer relationship manager / Nvidia TC: X Pros: focus on AI/ML, customer-facing role with Top leading customer,
- Following Elon Musk's advice 'Work every waking hour' for past 1 year. For past 1 year have been following his 'work every waking hour' advice. Anyone else out there? Aim: Wanna get kickass experience in products based on ML/AI and then start my own shit. Wanna solve a legit problem or something. Let's see. I have 1000% conviction I will definitely make a dent, now I
- Moving to EU without a BS degree and 7yoe - ex SWE intern @ Google & MS I’ve have a weird background. I decided not to join college immediately after high school and to start my SWE career at the age of 17. At 21 I entered college (CS BS degree in Mexico) with around 4yoe. At 22yo I joined Google as a Software Engineer Intern in Canada and at 24yo at Microsoft also as S
- Investment Banking to Sales Hi all, This is my first ever post on Blind, so bear with me. Has anyone in the community transitioned from investment banking to a sales role? To provide some background, I graduated from a non-target school as a Finance and Accounting double major and landed a job as an Investment Banking Analyst
- 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
- Life is totally optional (and this is good) I recently thought I was in a very long, numbing and irrecoverable rut and thought screw it, this is it. Surprisingly it took me just a couple of hours to set everything up. I wrote a reasonably expressive email to my parents, shared a doc with all my passwords etc and scheduled the Gmail delivery
- Conundrum, need some advice First off, I'll admit that this is a good conundrum to be in. I'm fortunate to have some solid options to choose between. I'm currently in a FAANG in an M1 equivalent role. I'm on my 3rd year, so the initial RSU grants have not fully vested. WLB is not great, and I don't honestly see a path to M2 w
- Adobe DX - What Happened To You? Should We Leave ? Hello Adobe or Ex-Adobe Folks, I feel adobe is not what it was one year before. At least It is true for DX Org where lot of Re-Org has happened , Managements are busy in showing their loyalty to US Folks by working day and night and are expecting every one of us to do so. The Work Life Balance has b
- Aftermath of Abusive Supervision Hello Blind family I am writing this post because I am frankly exhausted and feel like I am about to lose it. I was managed out of walmart at the home office (in a manner contrary to HR policy; this was according to HR, and i have emails i exchanged w/ HR referencing those conversations). I was ma
- Questions about Amazon Onsite I had my interview a few days back, the standard 4 rounds + lunch with a person on the team. Hoping to get some thoughts about what the result might be, as its making me pretty nervous. All interviews had about 30-35 mins for LPs(Way too many followups on each scenario I spoke about) and the rest f
- [India] Rant on manager + advice on notice service. So I work for a company named Publicis Serpent , yes serpent and not Sapient. Joined them in last year March and serving notice now. I requested them to slash my notice by 15 from 60 days so that I can join before Sept 30 and can become eligible for appraisal cycle at my next organization next year