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- Interview Question, can someone realistically solve this in 43 mins /** * A company registers an IPO on a website sellshares.com. * All the shares on this website are available for bidding for a particular time frame called the bidding window. * At the end of the bidding window an auction logic is used to decide how many of the available shares go to which bidde
- details on total comp so i interviewed at comany in bay area. in initial HR call, hr confirmed my comp range,my start date etc. went through phone interviews and onsite interview. After onsite interview, i got follow up call from HR the very next day asking me on my experinece with team and interview, and also told me t
- Pivot shenanigans I was served a pivot form a while back. I'd say it's 50% me dealing with some things in my life and 50% the role and team going a bit off the rails. At the time the goals seemed pretty impossible to reach in the two month time frame I was given, so I opted to take some leave to handle life stuff and
- Design after an MBA? A little background on me: I was a software engineer for 6 years and felt completely burned out. I had considered moving to the product side of things for years, at one point having drafted my resignation letter do the design immersive at General Assembly. Last year, I decided to go back and get my
- vote Started my current job in May after pivoting careers into Design, is it too early for me to find new opportunities? **Just want to preface, I know I’m super privileged to be even asking this question because there are so many people who’d wish to be in my position.** Hi everyone, I’m currently a experience designer at KPMG and it’s been a tough couple months here because I haven’t been designing anything other t
- BIE L5 to L6 promotion Hello, I joined Amazon as an L5 BIE 15 months back. My manager (L7) has said to me he is looking to promote me to L6 in Q2 of next year. However he hasn’t talked anything about the promo doc/accomplishments wiki I need to put together. I just got to know about this after talking to another BI manag
- Oracle OCI - IC3 Senior Software Engineer Compensation Just finished interviewing at OCI Seattle and they want me for a Senior Software Engineer (IC3) role. They would first like to hear my base salary and RSU expectations. My current employment leaves me with no good frame of reference. Any input on where I should start? Base salary needs to be minim
- Employment Contract when I've been here a year? TLDR: HR fucked up when I was hired and now want me to sign an employment contract 1.5 years later. So I've been with my company a bit over 18 months. My hiring agreement was a pay bump at 90 days and at 18 months (half way through my term). At the 90 day mark my boss had to call HR and request the
- vote Renting & Mortgage Refinance One of my goals is to build cash flow with a rental property. I am slowly outgrowing my first home (1br condo). I am at the point where I need to decide to rent my place out in the future or plan to sell it for a better down-payment on my next house. I could also sell it when I buy my next home to b
- Body transformations - share your biggest tip/secret I used to run marathons... and then had two back to back high risk pregnancies (first one ended in a loss at 42 weeks), and the second one gave us our rainbow. I was put on strict bed rest and was hungry all the time - A combination of suddenly stopping the extreme workout and eating a lot made me
- Startup may miss payroll / funding goal Hey everyone - In a position most seed stage employees never want to experience: Took on a Senior PM role at a healthcare startup in NYC (6 mil raised) 6 months ago. The CEO (who is actively fundraising in SF) let the team know yesterday that they may miss payroll next week unless they get term s
- As a senior engineer, how much time do you spend advising others? I'm a new senior engineer, so I might be asking a dumb question. There are 3-4 projects happening on my team with non-senior ICs. I'm constantly either being pulled into meetings with them for advice (like architecture, best practices, etc), jumping in when I believe the IC needs help to figure out
- PIP. How to improve work and focus better? Started 7 months ago as a mid-level SWE. I thought I was doing ok but recently got a new manager and got feedback that: - I need to be more active with PR reviews. - I need to take more leadership in the project. - I need to make more commits. Cited a gap in commits during which I had an intense on-
- How to evaluate stock options offer? I'm negotiating an offer from an early-stage startup company (2 years old, series C) While I understand how to compare RSU based comp with another comp of a similar structure, I am less clear on how to compare with a stock options offer. For example: Current comp = $100K USD base + $100K USD RSU w
- Switching into Development from DevOps/ Consulting Although I have a bachelor in cs, I was always curious about the functional side of the business so got into tech consulting after grad for a happy medium Fast forward a year later, I’m realizing that experience in software development serves as a crucial foundation and frankly, I miss coding. How
- Worst interview process with SALESFORCE. I have been actively interviewing from june this year. I received rejections from 8 companies. All the interviews I attended, I received rejection within the time frame of 2-3 weeks, Salesforce was the first company I started interviewing in June 1st week. Initial manager screening was in june 1st w
- Are Excel tests proctored or timed? Anxiety is a b*tch to put it lightly. Am I getting medical treatment for it? Of course. Does it affect me finding a new job? A 100%. Long story short - through a series of very unfortunate traumatic events in my life I’ve developed crippling anxiety. Panic attacks for a long whilst have become regu
- Need help with Data Science career Hi Blind, I want to make a career in Data Science at FAANG (or a similar firm/startup with good compensation). I currently work as a Data Analyst at an Indian Bank. Lately, I've taken up some projects here that were more oriented towards Data Science so have some hands on experience. I have appli
- Playing real estate We were looking at buying this house in Seattle area that was in market for $590K. To our horror someone decided to outbid everyone and pay $675K. Very next month house was put out for rent for $2700. Obviously investors are playing real estate big time and willing to go all in bidding wars. But whe
- Aggressive manager at Microsoft My wife works at Microsoft and for the 1st time in her career experienced over the top aggressive behavior from her manager He was blaming her for potential risks on a project he already sold to SLT. While explaining to him she always flagged in her communication engineering commitment was not 100%
- Financing Time Off I’m planning to quit my SDE job after my next stock payout in ~6 months. I don’t plan on going right into the next gig. Instead I’ll invest the time in life, side gig, and prep for next role. The time frame I’m looking at is 2-6 months. I’m married with a new mortgage (no kids) so I’m making sure I
- link How I 4x’ed my TC in 1.5 years 🥳🤑 Hi, Click bait! Just kidding… but ya it’s long post. TLDR; If I can go from $44k in TC to $163k in a span of 1.5 years. You can too! I wanted to share my career history in an attempt to show others who didn’t start out in FAANG to not be discouraged. Our career is a marathon not a race. Just bec
- link Google "Level targeting Interview" experience Previous post : https://www.teamblind.com/post/Google-Level-targeting-Interview-how-to-prepare-LAmtuoJZ In short, I failed to target the L5 bar, and I'm going to taking "one more level target interview for L4". The coding interview went like this: The interviewer gave me a question. (it's difficul
- Bad Experience at FAANG Onsite Interview? Just had my onsite. But I bombed the coding one after I got a really good feedback from first coding round days earlier. The issue is that on the onsite the interviewer started cool when introducing himself but as soon as we started with the problem he gave me a very ambiguous spoken problem descri
- Series A/C startup vs large tech company. Help ! It looks like I will have an offer from the following..please help me decide among: (1) series A (25M+ raised), 50 employees, AI based company around computer vision, says they already have paying 50+ customers and no need to raise. Already generatung revenue..But series B is on its way soon. Salar
- Please advise regarding GC filing Hi All I received an offer from company A back in June 2019 and on having a conversation with HR they stated that the company policy is to file GC , 6 months after joining.I accepted the offer Since my first extension was due with my current company later this year , we had to wait for that to go
- Is this upward feedback too honest? This isn't really an "HR issue" but I wasn't sure where else to post this. There's room on our quarterly review for upward feedback and I've just had a blast of inspiration around what to share. The problem is, I'm never sure whether honest feedback is truly welcomed in work environments—particular
- Job switch guidance Hi, Current TC: 20L base + 2L variable + ~1L stocks/year. I have prepared from LC for last 6 months because I have no scope of growth (learning wise) in my current team/company. Current situation. 1. Current company preponed appraisal cycle (covid reasons) and offering 35% Cash increment and alm
- link Uber layoffs confirmed for tomorrow, thousands to lose jobs, including ATG eng. group https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-layoffs-another-round-of-thousands-cut-on-monday-source-2020-5 Uber is expected to begin another round of layoffs on Monday, a source with knowledge of the situation tells Business Insider. Business Insider could not confirm the number of people that will be l
- Referrals and tips for clueless PhD astronomy student Hey everyone! As the title says, I'm a soon-to-be PhD in astronomy (graduate in May), and have taught myself ML over the last 5 years to the extent that I now have 4 first-authored, peer-reviewed papers in ML/DL+Astronomy, and a couple of papers in NeurIPS workshops. I am eager to transition out of