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- Cousin with neurosis because every loser engineer is making millions (rupees) My cousin finished here graduation in 2008 with below average score. She had anxiety issues and because of which she missed some examination and completed the btech in 6 years. There were not so good opportunities back then and she chose to stay in the hometown (tier 2) city and got into teaching tu
- Apple ECDP Tech Recruitment Experience Hi, I just wanted to share a recruitment experience that left me with a sour taste for Apple. At around start of Sept 2021, I applied for their new ECDP Technology program that I saw on their Apple site. Got a call from a recruiter telling me about the interview process afterwards. Recruiter told m
- Amazon Pivot during COVID and options? Just discovered this site recently and have been doing a lot of reading on similar situations. Apologies in advance for poor writing since I was just trying to get a lot of things out at once. Happy to clarify any questions. Some context and background: Joined Amazon almost a year ago (in seattle,
- Intern becoming QA Engineer who feels cheated on new contract Hi everyone, This is my first post and it's an import one to me. I was originally hired as an intern for a tech company to walk around my office space w/ a mobile device collecting data packets every meter. I did this repeatedly several times a day for several weeks. I was getting paid $15 / hr. At
- Im hitting a wall Hey everyone. Im a software developer, self taught. I tried the university route but the format just wasnt for me. I decided to work on personal projects/freelance and got a lot of experience, due to some of personal projects becoming big(nothing huge, but enough to gain experience with building an
- 330% TC bump in 3 years - grateful to this community TL;DR - My TC went from 160K to 688K in 3 years and this is my journey. I am grateful of this community to provide me motivation and help me prepare for my interviews to find the right roles & compensation related to my experience/skills. I want to share my journey to help motivate someone else who
- vote Pre-Covid Job Return vs. Contract-to-Hire vs. Dream Job I started at a new company in December of last year. I agonized over accepting because the company I left had just promoted me and the new job wasn’t much (5%) of a pay raise. However, the new job was exciting/interesting and it had the potential to grow into the role I aspire to. Then, I was furlou
- Using Accenture offer to negotiate team/position at current Big 4 employer Hi Blind community! I’m in an interesting situation and would love to get advice. I work at one of the Big 4 in their MC team. For a little bit of context, I am currently in Team A (home team), but since they’ve opened up rotations, I’ve had the chance to be part of Team B (team I’ve rotated in).
- IDK why but I think I have stopped obsessing over money. YOE: 2.5 TC: 62K EUR I know I think I am lowballed as well, but I honestly don't care anymore tbh. IDK why am I writing this, but I just wanted to share and see what others think, I am not looking for any kind of validation but would like to know IF someone else thinks like me. My main motive to f
- Ultimate Guide to Buying House I have bought multiple homes. I always bought in a seller’s market (not by choice) and this is what I learned. 1. How to decide the offer amount: don’t use the listing price, comps, Redfin/Zillow estimates to decide your offer price. In a hot market, none of these are accurate and people who compla
- Really confused on how to handle my current situation I work at MSFT as a PM. Recently a family member was hospitalized, and I had to take a month off from work to be with them. Before leaving, I spoke with my manager and my engineering partner. I wrote out detailed instructions on active tasks and the next steps. I was assured not to worry that th
- link Google onsite - Interview elsewhere too? Hi all, I have a Google onsite coming up in 3 weeks (general SWE), and I’m not interviewing anywhere else yet. I wasn't really actively looking yet but got a message from the recruiter and decided to give it a shot. Already did a phone round and a call with the recruiter to go over the onsite, che
- Just explained an AWS s3 recruiter why I will not return to AMZN. Please read if you consider accpeting an offer Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou
- LivePerson: A Company Not Worth Your Time I recently interviewed with LivePerson for a senior leadership position in one of their fast growing organizations. We were off a good start. The communication with the recruiter was flowing, they were flexible with my schedule. I've had 1 informal chat with the hiring manager, after which I have s
- link Facebook E6 Interview: Part 2. The Phone Interview PART 2. THE PHONE INTERVIEW In the previous post, I talked about how I got into the “race”, which led to the phone screen. [PART 1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Facebook-E6-Interview-Part-1-How-I-Started-The-Process-6qP0UajY I pushed for my phone screen immediately when I realized that there won
- How to step up and regain control of my work? Hello Blind Fam, Apologies in advance for a long winded post. TLDR; I’m a meek and under confident woman, colleague is much more senior and has been overstepping and has completely overtaken the work I was assigned. Tough love is appreciated, I’m not playing the victim card here. Of course it’s a
- Most disrespectful and unprofessional interview process with Microsoft I am a software engineer who was looking for a new opportunity to start after the year end. There were multiple companies that I interviewed with, and #microsoft was one of them. I had a technical screening interview on 11/22/2021 and had final interviews on 12/10/2021. Everything was great until th
- Making money is bad? I have a pretty large family with 8 uncles and 5 aunties. We live in the midwest. Our parents were all were immigrants and so they came to the US when they were little kids. They pretty much grew up with nothing but the shirts on their backs. My cousins and I all grew up together. We were all near
- How do I finally break out of Sales? *Warning, It's a long one* This may spawn a dumpster fire of a thread, but I figured I would give this a shot. I have worked in the banking and finance industry for the past 7 years. I started as a Bank Teller at 19 years old without a college degree and worked my way up to a Senior RM position at a Regional Bank for Private
- Underpaid? Can some semiconductor industry veterans please advise me? Background: B.E. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Experience: 5.2 years (Firmware development, platform development and RF system design over 2 jobs before & after Masters) 7 months internship (full time internship developing the validati
- Passed the Google phone screen having coded one problem. Did a CS degree online in 6 months, very little experience beyond some coding for my own business, with no team. Going for a SWE II, which I guess is an L3. I am a total noob, and I am hoping this report of my experience can help someone else prepare, as many posts before this helped me. Scheduled
- vote Live by the promo, Die by the promo. There once was a Noogler who was happy to have gotten hired and felt grateful. They rejoiced after receiving an offer and simply rode the wave until their start date. It was no surprise that this Noogler was accepted — they were a hard worker. They studied long hours and not only that, they took ca
- A bunch of career tips that only comes from asking questions After I missed getting a post-internship offer, my goal of graduating with a job offer was in danger. I buckled down to apply to a bunch of jobs, Googled tips copiously and visited my college's career office nearly every week throughout my job applications to refine my resume. Since I started apply
- Why I Wear A Suit When I was a kid I dreamed of wearing a suit - like the men I saw on television. At the time I had no idea what these guys did for a living, but I wanted it all. You can't blame a guy for dreaming big, right? This was the 60's - before #Fortnight #DowntonAbbey and #StormyDaniels I took an accountin
- Sharing experience Hello Blinders! I have used blind to prepare for interviews, offer negotiations, h1b related questions and many more things. It's time for me to give back. It might not be much different from other post but will share it anyways. I was laid off from Uber in May and as I was on H1B, I had only 3 mo
- link Thank you Blind! Increased TC by 2.5x Huge thank you to the Blind community. There's so much useful information here that I'm not sure I could've done it on my own. Hope you find this helpful! Background TC (before) 200k TC (after) 525k 11 YOE (4 years IC, 7 years manager) - mostly in consulting and large financial services companies
- I’m a DS on an O1 with an agent (don’t need sponsor) and Google said they can’t sponsor (even tho I don’t need 1)🤷🏻♀ In November 2016, Google recruiter reaches out to me for a ML Soft Eng position in London. I politely explain I want to move to the US and I think I qualify for an #o1 visa. She tells me that Google does not do O1s except if I’m some important researcher. I explain I am a PhD student but I have done
- want to help my team we have built a new team last year and we started out strong. we inherited 4 legacy systems, 2 of which i know very well cause i wrote major parts of the system and I know them well and they don’t operationally bother us much. The other two are absolute disaster - pipeline is in an extremely bad sh
- Advice: Apply to Internal job in three months of hiring Any advice? I don’t like my manager but wants to stay with company. The manager is workholic and my wlb is suffering. His disc personality is D. Read more about it below. He is exactly the same as described below and I am polar opposite. I like to take things slow and he wants to do it superfast mak
- Amazon says secret perf management is fake news 🤣🤣🤣 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-grocery-vp-calls-reports-about-performance-reviews-fake-news-2021-9 (paywall) In a leaked recording, Amazon's grocery VP tells employees that recent media coverage of the company's performance-review system is 'fake news' Eugene Kim Amazon's grocery empl