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- 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
- Asking for Advice Asking for honest advice here from the Blind community. I got hired at MSFT about 11 months ago (L64 PM). However, I felt that I was downleveled (especially according to levels.FYI). I love my team and tech (albeit there are some politics) and I’m doing very well according to connects. I’ve have bee
- Beware of Wonsulting So - I've been trolling LinkedIn and Reddit and giving myself a reputation by harassing LinkedIn influencers who post garbage hiring advice that's designed to be emotionally manipulative while they shamelessly exploit the "job-search 2020" hashtags to try and increase their own audience. As someone
- 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
- My boss was investigated for retaliation. I ended up being written up instead. I doubt anyone who knows me would see this, and at this point, I genuinely don't care. I'm so livid about this entire situation that I'm at my wit's end. Over the last several months, my new store manager (took over about six months ago after our last store manager left to open a new location) has
- 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
- Borrowing money - is 401k an option? For personal reasons, I need about 50k liquid in the next few months. I will be able to return the amount within 3 months from the time I borrow. Considering some options here, please help me decide and let me know if there's other better alternatives. 1. Liquidate all my stocks. This will mean sel
- 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
- Google interview experience and advice I recently had a google interview. Fortunately I moved to next round, but I have a question to veteran googlers on time management and best practices during the interview. During phone interview, the interviewer asked me a question similar to LC Hard but framed as a very practical problem one would
- 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
- What Makes a Good Leetcoder? If you’ve failed a coding round recently, or maybe several recently, or don’t place in contests. Well I’m here to tell you, it’s not because of your poor problem solving skills, it’s not because you’re stupid, and it may not even be because you’re bad at algorithms. It’s because you did not see a si
- Senior PM in need of referrals Hi, I’m a product manager with over 12 years experience as a PM — spent a few years doing data analysis in a lab setting prior to that. I’m coming up on two months of being unemployed due to covid and I’m beginning to feel like it’s not just unemployment that I’m facing, but unemployability. I’ve
- How to ask for a raise I have 4 years of working experience (3 in sales and 1 as an associate product manager), all at the same company. I took a big pay cut to move to Product because it was an entry level Product role, which I was ok with at the time because I wanted to work in Product and saw it as my opportunity to br
- Until when will hiring continue for new grad SWE 2020 role? How much TC to expect for such roles? Hi, I'm graduating in May of 2020, and wanted to know until when will hiring continue for new grad SWE 2020 roles? I saw a lot of job postings with this title in August and September, but not really seeing more jobs being posted with this role anymore? Also, just wondering when should I start apply
- Adobe Engineering Manager Job + Interview Questions Hello, 10 yoe, TC ~95k (Eastern Europe :) ) Saw a few interesting roles at Adobe and I'd like to learn more. The roles are Engineering Manager. Concrete questions: #Interview 1) Best way to get an interview? I applied on the website/Linkedin, but saw a bunch of posts on blind with recruiters not
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Renting out Bay Area property - property management agency? Hi all, I am considering moving to New Jersey. But I also own a house in the Bay Area which I want to rent out. This will be my first time renting out our home and had a few questions if any folks here have experience with renting out their homes and managing the rental properties. 1) How do you
- New Home - Dilemma We're deciding on a new construction home in Dublin by Brookfield in last phases on release. With crazy demand +bidding everywhere, there seem to be no list price discounts / incentives, and very marked up list prices. Pros: - convenient location close to public transport and shops - amenities in
- FB ghosted me after killing two tech screens Currently I'm an EM with ~12 direct reports and still heavily involved in coding/architecture. I got a referral for FB with LA listed as my preferred location. I was kind of disappointed that the recruiter was reaching out for a solutions engineer role since I think my technical and leadership skil
- [Rant] Amazon interviewer ruined my interview Tl; dr All rounds went well except this one due to constant lack of information and stupidity and lack of preparedness of interviewer. Should I complain to get another interview? Here’s how the interview went: First question: 3 sum I knew this question before and I knew the pit falls, duplicates,
- Advice for changing careers to SDE? I could use any advice on how to successfully pivot to a software development role... Situation: I have 9 YOE in ops, and moved towards increasingly technical roles. Currently I'm in a "support engineer" role where I do about 20% coding projects (which I enjoy), but the other 80% is more QA / ops
- Would like to hear opinions from HR folks… Everyone complains about HR/recruiters being bad at their jobs…I get that not every recruiter sucks and it varies greatly depending on the company/person, but I am genuinely curious about the below. We’ve all had frustrations with the recruiting process and I would love to hear the other side of thi
- vote Experienced Engineers: Did I make a bad call? I'm still a student graduating this semester and can't stop thinking about the full-time job decision I made last semester. After receiving a few offers, I filtered them down to 2 I was really interested in: Facebook, NYC: $110k base/ 10%+ bonus/ $160k/4 years stock/ $85k sign on/ ~$160k TC Two Sig
- E6 System Design interview - level of detail/depth compared to Grokking? I’m struggling with time management. I’ve been struggling to find good study material for the sys design interview at Facebook. I have the DDIA book, which is pretty good, but it’s not too focused on individual architecture reviews like Grokking is. I think I prefer Grokking’s style, but it does seem slightly basic. Nevertheless, it ha
- How to explain to other companies why I'm leaving if I'm about to be fired I'm an E3 at Facebook about to end up on a PIP in a few weeks if I can't quickly show some more progress towards getting promoted. I'm still trying to avoid that, but my sense is that I probably won't be able to, since I've been struggling with this transition for quite a while now on two different
- Interviewed with Google (EU) -- crossing my fingers, while having a few doubts I recently went through four interviews + recruiter call with Google. Lovely people, lots of fun. And, if anything, I think no interview will scare me anymore -- yay! :) Now, I had a first onsite of three rounds. The onsite was described by my recruiter a few days after as being met with "positive
- vote Help me choose - Canadian Edition Hello Everyone, I've been very fortunate to receive few offers from companies. All are in Canada. All in CAD. (Ranges are estimates). Thanks to Blind for all the interviewing tips. Current TC: 105k CAD YOE: 2 ********** Startup (Toronto): Level: idk Estimated TC: 160k-175k CAD (Base + Bonus) Sto