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- Undergrad getting into data science. Please judge me, criticize me, give me advice! In May I graduate with a Bachlors of Business in Business Analytics from a mediocre University. I feel very scared. Its taken me a while to figure things out and now I feel like I’ve set myself on the wrong trajectory and I need to correct my path. I really liked stats, linear algebra, data mining
- Career Advice I have been working as an RF engineer with Verizon in the Bay Area for almost 10 years now . I am at a point where I am disappointed with how low I am getting paid in a competitive market such as the Bay Area . Sometimes I think its the whole Telecom industry which typically doesn't pay that well as
- Engineer thinking to switch career to Data Analyst Hi guys I’m a Project Engineer L1 designing HMI for process control system in Houston, TX. My background is mechanical engineering so what i do now is not related to my major and I’ve never worked as a mechanical engineer before. I graduated on May 2020. I’ve been wanting to switch job really becau
- Best path for Actuary to SWE? Hello Blind, I have finally decided to start making a transition into tech as a swe, came up with a few options, would like to hear what the best option is in your opinion. Feel free to suggest other options too. Option 1: Join a part time bootcamp like HR, CodeSmith etc (This will take ~36 weeks)
- How to study for applied probability questions I have PhD in Social Sciences, 5 YOE. For interviews at tier 1/2 companies (FAANG, twitter, gig economy tech) I always got tripped up with applied stats and probability questions. I know basic bayesian and combinatorics. I know distributions. But I'm always dreading questions involving: 1. Countin
- Transitioning from Analytics PM to DS/ML Currently a PM in the analytics space for last 3 years and I have had enough of it. Tired of politics and sitting in useless meeting all day without any meaningful work ( there are few meetings which I enjoy though where the discussions are technical). I was SDE before and have CS degree. Looks like
- Looking for advice on role conversion to SDE from QAE Recently moved to Vancouver through internal transfer in Amazon.. good team and avg wlb.. Some wrong decisions along the way.. Worked at Amazon for the last 5+ years in qae job family but I always wanted to move to sde job family. Even as I wanted to move to sdet role internally, due to project req
- Urgent career advice needed. Long post warning I will try to provide as much as info possible for correct diagnosis. I'm an indian male with 1+ years of experience with a degree in Information technology. I'm working in an IT company and my client is Johnson and Johnson. I work as a data engineer. my salary is 762000 per annum in indian rupees.
- Are there relevant, useful, free, online programs or courses that one could pursue to add value to his/her resume? Yes there are a ton of online programs you can pursue. Check out alisson.com, edx ,MIT online platform, Coursera, Lynda; the list is endless. However I want to talk about how you can effectively pull off adding online courses taken to your resume to show the quality you will be to them. Adding rel
- Need Advice - Applying for Data Scientist Position Hi, I am starting to apply for the position of a data scientist in Europe (Germany, The Netherlands, etc.) and I need some advice. Recently, I finished my PhD in experimental condensed matter physics. On searching for possible opportunities outside academia, out of several options I found, data sci
- Google Certification Program vs. UPENN MCIT Program Hello all. I'm new here so haze away. I've (27M) been looking to get into CS for the past few years now. I've two degrees in Sociology and Economics. Will complete my Master's in Econ this fall. I know for certain that my next challenge will be in the CS field but I'm not certain which program is
- Move from System Side to Cloud (or SaaS) company Hi Guys, Hope all you guys are keeping safe. I'm around 10 years experienced in a bunch of system-side companies. Over time I have got this feeling that these companies have pretty much plateaued in growth and they are NOT fast when it comes to embracing new tools and ways of developing software, b
- Help a Recent Graduate Hello People of Blind, I am working on securing my first real job and could use help breaking into an Associate Product Management role A bit about me: I have a lot of entrepreneurial experience 6-8 years (I have been starting new businesses since I was 14). My last business had been profitable fo
- How do you get over being laid off? tl;dr: title Little context: As a new grad from an EE degree, joined a startup (8 people, 3 were devs) as wfh ML engineer which I did know learn from coursera/sentdex. They changed my job to full stack and asked me to learn angular, js, flask etc which I struggled for a month but got better after
- What to do with my work experience? (career change help) I resigned from my job as a high school art&design teacher and I’m trying to pivot into something that I can grow with in the tech industry, but feeling overwhelmed with what even exists anymore. Doing career quizzes are not helping. Things I like and am good at, in no particular order: + Mentoring
- Lost with No passion or Motivation So I don't know what I expect to get from this but here it go but thought I'd vent since this "blind". I knew before graduating from Uni I had no passion for computer engineering but I pursued it strictly based on my desire for high compensation without years of schooling (i.e. Doctors and Lawyers)
- link Facebook E6 - I made it!!!!! I've studied so hard over the last months. Spent Christmas vacation leetcoding and doing mocks with other blinders[1] and today finally the result came! I passed E6 with flying colors!!! 😂🎊🤣🎉In the upcoming weeks I'll have the numbers. Maybe next week. Not sure if I'll join (already made anot
- Stuck in a rut Hey I’ve been in the industry for 17 years and worked mainly in networking field of computer software development. I worked on he first proxy server for windows back in 2000 after graduating. At that company I wrote a recursive descent parse to merge foreign language .rc files with the master Engli
- PM/ APM / TPM Internship Search Guidance + Referrals Hello blind! I'm an undergrad at UW-Madison graduating in December 2022. I really want to get into product management straight out of college, and have been trying my best to make it happen. I almost made into the Google APM internship program for this summer (the EMEA one in London, England though
- Interview Experience| FB E5 | G L5 | MS AS2 (62) | Seattle | May 2020 [Offers] ## Interview Experience (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) #### Profile: *YOE:* 4+, all at Amazon (Applied Scientist) *Education:* PhD in Machine Learning (ML) from a Top 20 CS school *Location:* Seattle *Current TC:* $270K *Interview dates:* Last two weeks of April *Facebook offer (MLE):* 205K/700K/100
- Infosys==Hell==Depression This is gonna be a long but completely veracious(truthful on the account of everything I've experienced) post, so kindly bear with me. I'm currently located at Infosys Pune(one of the better offices of Infy), India. This will be an account of WLB at Infy. This is my first company and I had some exp