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- vote Buy puts on company before starting Employees cannot buy derivatives on the company they work for. However, what if someone buys the puts before the start date, and set the expiration date after the first vest?
- System design interview preparation ideas Going to start prepping for system design interview. Here's my general plan 1. First get a basic understanding on how to start answering the interview question 2. Try to answer Grokking the System Design interview samples based on the formula I derive from #1. 3. Look at Grokking answer to see impr
- Rippling Offer Questions Recently got an offer from Rippling. The equity part is based on 9b valuation derived from secondary market trasction price. For context, the company just raised a round last Oct at 6.5b. First time seeing the valuation is calculated in that way. Also In the current market, the suggested valuation
- Interviewing for Google early career IT support engineer role My nephew is appearing for his first round of technical interviews this week, the role is - early career IT support engineer which I believe derived from the Corporate Operations Engineering role and part of Corp Eng. There are almost no resources or interview prep questions for this specific role a
- Time Complexity strategy For simple problems, time complexity can be usually intuitively derived. However for certain complicated cases (such as backtracking problems etc) it's not easy to get the time complexity intuitively. What's your approach in such cases ? Do you tryout with a small sample first ? Method of induction
- Requirements first or usecase first? We have a culture here that we do the use cases first and then work on implementation and then derive the requirements from the use cases when all is done. But I learnt that the requirements always have to come first, so that we are always reminded of what we are trying to solve while doing use cas
- LC hard with progression There are some LC hards that have a naive implementation that’s easy to whiteboard and tedious to implement, and a really clever implementation that presupposes that you have seen that kind of problem before. Do you just do the clever one to leave time for discussing complexity, or derive it by sho
- Lab or company for cancer drug development I am a research bioinformatcian having 30-year experience in computer programming. I got PhD in bioinformatics in Germany. However, I have only worked in research environments so have no industry knowledge. Since my life goal is to develop a perfect solution for cancers so that it could reduce the
- [Amazon Onsite Interview] Failed to understand the problem for one coding Interview Hi People, I finished onsite interview with Amazon. Wonder anyone got similar experience ? What are the chances to get an offer? The coding problems i got were leetcode medium level questions. First coding interview, did poorly. didn't figure out what the interviewer wanted after 20mins. 2nd codi
- link What house can I afford? Completely new to this, deriving some numbers below based off my first google search on this topic. TC: $350,000 NW: $950k 25, single According to this - https://www.financialsamurai.com/three-home-buying-rules-for-all-to-follow/, TLDR Below - $1.5m house, $8750 mortgage 1) According to mortgage
- vote Google onsite: let's bet on the result! Update 2: Got and accepted an offer! First year TC 265k - thanks Blind! Update 1: I PASSED HR L4😭 Journey not over yet, but Im so happy 😭 Interviewed onsite at Google for lv5 PM. Under NDA so will not disclose the questions asked. The interviewers were really nice. Got positive comments throu
- Mad respect for the interviewer Had a telephonic interview for L5A position at Uber. I took 3 weeks to prepare to revisit and grind my leetcode lists. Did tons of problems since I heard they ask hard questions. But to my surprise, he didn’t ask a single coding question, I didn’t even open codesignal! He started off the discussion
- vote Product Owner or Data Analyst? (Have 2 offers) I have 2 offers I'm deciding between right now. One is a Series A Fintech startup where I would be a Data Analyst. The other is a publicly traded biotech company of about 400 people where I would be a Product Owner. What role is going to help me further my career most? Some more info: Fintech Start
- ML engineer job hunt takeaways I interviewed at Bloomberg, FB, Stripe, TikTok for MLE positions. Went to onsite for three of them, failed one after the first round. It was a demoralizing and at times random process. There seems to be no standardized interview process since every company has their own product focusing on different
- vote Google L4 SWE ML Interview experience Round 1: Two standard LC Medium tree questions. Solved first one in 20 minutes. Second was little harder. I solved it and almost finished coding. Round 2: Strange coding round. Only 1 medium tree question. Finished coding in 20 minutes or so. Then interviewer told me he has no more questions. He a
- Crowdsourcing a Job Title So, I'm in the verge of accepting an offer to become the first EE hire at a startup. The position is currently Senior EE - Embedded Systems with the role being to design and produce products based on the founder's invention. I'll be responsible for ground up design (high level system design, compone
- Ethical contradiction quiting toxic job Hello fellows. I have a moral/ethical issue quitting my current job. As my first job I wanted to give everything from me to do a great work, to become a "real" software developer, to be recognized by my colleagues, manager and friends. I was so naive. Never though about abusive and toxic people are
- AWS S3 Engineer Promotion Opportunity I have a great feature idea for a small S3 feature on the AWS Console Management that would probably score someone a promotion if They work on that team. If you do work on that team, feel free to take the idea without giving credit. First, let me explain how you can measure this when using it for
- Advice on starting my tech journey. I’ve been working in finance the past 9 years but I’m looking to make the switch to tech. The money, challenge, lifestyle, and career prospects seem great and finance is going through structural changes that limit any growth. My questions are: 1) should I go bootcamp it self taught? I’ve been atte
- Learn crypto the right way I totally understand that currently people are drawn into crypto for hopes of achieving crazy financial gains. But purely tackling this from speculation point of view, it’ll be super hard to avoid getting burnt like those that got burnt in 2017-18 bull run + the ico craze. I was browsing through th
- Recapping my video onsite interview at Facebook #tech #facebook #fb #meta #interview TC: $77,250 and Wish stock 3 interviewers on the panel. Went for 2 hours and 25 minutes. I had a good 6 pages of scripted interview notes/example stories. Hours of prep with a friend in project management. Job is: Project Manager, Commerce Operations (Pro
- Explanation of what happened: RobinHood, WeBull etc. and trading restrictions I saw this on social media and sharing it here. There's a lot of crazy conspiracies out there (and some batshit crazy ones here) so its worth to at least explain what happened today with the stock restrictions for the few sane ones on Blind. #robinhood #gme #bb #stock First, we need to define two
- Update from Senator Dick Durbin on S386 *got the following email response from senator:* Thank you for contacting me regarding the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (S. 386). I appreciate hearing from you. The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, introduced by Senator Mike Lee of Utah, would amend the Immigration and
- Investing in Digital Assets One Of The Most Successful Bitcoin Hedge Funds In The World Is Fully Transparent And Open To All The hitherto world of opaque hedge fund trading has been brought into the light with the advent of the Regal Assets, one of the world’s most successful Bitcoin hedge funds, trading perpetual Bitcoin fut
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- Implications of Citadel, & Point 72 Bailout of Melvin Capital Not my work. Saw this on r/options and thought it merited a larger audience. https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/l51vnz/implications_of_citadel_point_72_bailout_of/ First, all you diamond hands are hereby promoted to Lt. Colonel after today. All you paper hands should be ashamed with yoursel
- Public companies involved in blockchain Then there's the option to purchase shares of companies developing or making use of blockchain technology, such as Walmart or Starbucks. Incorporating a digital ledger system can make a company leaner and more profitable, and higher profits equal higher share prices over the long term. But there ar
- 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
- Suggestion needed!! Hey Blind community, so I joined Oracle this January as an IC2 after giving Zoom interviews - there were 4 rounds in total. A couple of those interviews were taken by a senior from the same team that I ended up joining. So, in my first week when I was chatting with some of my team members, out of th
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 1 Long term prep strategy Part 1 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/YA2RKEqY Coding Part 1 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/ikvVrRXa Part 3 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 Part 2 is out : https://www.teamblind.com/post/rBrt5bV8 Edit 6: I will be posting the rest/comment
- link How to solve Product Design / Product Sense questions Product design (a.k.a. Product sense) is the most common problem asked during PM interviews. It should not be confused with the UI-UX or system design challenges. Here, product design is a journey where you explore diverse questions and challenges pertaining to product discovery & development. The j