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- Hit 5M NW My wife and I hit 5M NW today. In our early 40s. Never worked at FAANG. Always invested in diversified funds. Completely self made. Why am I posting this? I will be honest- I’m shallow- bragging rights (even on an anonymous forum) is a bit of an ego boost. Also want to make a point that there is m
- Co-Founder Needed hi guys..looking for a technical co-founder to help me build a startup. the ideal person is: 1) excited about building full functional products independently rather than working for large organization. desire to quit corporate job one day and become independent. 2) Solid technical skills, ability t
- vote Do you think PIP’d people are actually bad? It’s easy to get hired simply by studying the interview process and grinding LC but have no real world experience or knowledge about building scalable or performant apps. You may be completely unaware of the tools out there. You may suck at creating original code or system design. Time to be honest.
- Career in Business Analyst Hello Blinders, I need your honest opinion and suggestions. Can a person build his/her career in Business Analyst while majoring in sociology and psychology? If yes, how?
- Switched to PM now regret AMA Last April I made a post asking why PM? It received a lot of of responses. I made the shift into PM it’s been 2 months and I HATE it. I thought I was going to be making impact building new products but no I’m just going to meeting from 9-5 daily I do not see any tangible results. I MISS being a dev
- One more generalization… On average, I feel engineers are more collaborative, transparent, honest and share more freely than product managers. Here is the reasoning - Engineers on average are confident coz they can build shit, and therefore the world is not a zero sum game for them. They know they can contribute positively
- vote Facebook E5 onsite - chance of offer? Downlevel? Hey all, Did an on-site for E5 loop. I feel like I cleared every interview. I was able to give code completeness and hit all edge cases for both coding rounds. 4x LC mediums. Saw 2 of the problems which made it easier for me. Behavioral I answered every question showing technical leadership at a
- vote Should I be petty? So I’m looking to move within NYC, and I went to see one of those luxury apartments. When I entered the building, I approached the service desk, and the guy asked me if I’m there for delivery. Lmaoo I say with a low voice, “no, here for a tour.” After that, it was super awkward because the tour l
- what does diversity bring in? i am looking for a honest and real world example how diversity helped the team build and ship products effectively. i have worked with three teams, one team full of Indians in MSFT, another team full of Americans in Startup and now a pretty diverse team. i literally do not see any difference in how
- Can anyone help me with Building a Resume? Hi all, I've been trying to build a good resume around analog and embedded hW design but no luck so far. I just want your honest feedback and things that I should help me with jobs. Also are there any career fairs in Bay Area that I should attend?
- Question towards Senior Software Engineers I have recently accepted an offer at Amazon in the SDE 1 level. Previously, I was working in a non FAANG company (TC 75K). If I am being honest, all I had to do to get into amazon is few months of leetcode grinding. This makes me wonder, passing few leetcode round interviews doesn't necessarily make
- Google team match I recently passed #google SWE interview. Didn’t get L5 but L4 is a go from HC. Currently doing team match with multiple teams and i’m a bit stressed out for the following reason: i wanted to work on backend infra so i got couple of meetings scheduled with GCP. The problem is, i have been working o
- EM interviewer in a PM loop Posting for a friend - A friend is attending a Senior PM interview with Microsoft. One of their onsite loop rounds is with an EM. Any idea what to expect? Casual convo to gauge culture fit/how they interact with engineers? Or system design to measure their understanding of building systems at scal
- Jump ship to PE or Stay in consulting Hey everyone, Looking for some brutally honest feedback on this. Current TC is at 70k in South Florida at the Big 4 (have my cpa and have been promoted to senior). I have a boutique real estate PE firm with salary before bonus being 150k. I love being in South Florida, and am unsure how I would li
- vote What technology do you code with at work? Reason why I’m making this is because I see a lot of people go to this boot camps and they come out with just ReactJs and think I’m ready to get paid XYZ but in my experience so far I have not used any technology this boot camps teach. I spent college learning all this JavaScript frameworks to only
- OCI IC3+ offer review - are they low balling me ? Hi, I interviewed for IC 4 for a position at OCI Bangalore. I am being conveyed that the evaluation has put me at IC3+ with coaching for IC4 over time. YOE: 13 Current TC: 49LPA Base: 41L Variable: 5.5L Bonus: 2.5L Offer at OCI: Base: 45L Stocks: 68L (Equally among 4 years) Joining : 8L (4+4) I
- Scared to leave Amazon I write this at 1:35 AM as I can't sleep. After 7 years at Amazon, moving to dropbox. Doing it for better wlb, growth and TC. Being at Amazon has been a mixed bag for me. Have become the engineer I am thanks to it. Scared AF to leave cocoon of Amazon, which guaranteed stock appreciation and job secu
- Going from PM to Software Eng Hi, I'm considering switching from Sr. PM to Software Eng. I actually like the job, being in the middle of customers, design, data, and engineering, but I feel like I'm not building any rare or useful skills. Almost any engineer with some social skills could do my job to be honest. Was wondering i
- Burnout -- start my own thing? I've been at Amazon over 2 years. Recently decided to transfer teams. But I've realized I'm burnt out -- almost no desire to do any work. I start my new team soon, where I will be the only frontend focused engineer. I'm going to try and give it a trial run of a month -- if only to see if it helps a
- Anyone interested in a hardware/software collaboration Hi, Anyone interested in dabbling with building cool robotics/hardware gear running some DL algorithms. Motivation: I think there are a lot of ML companies in software space because the cost to build something up is relatively low.. like look at all these “smart” analytics companies who are do
- Screw the 14 Day Notice!!! Why is it okay for companies to fire people literally overnight but employees are expected to give at least a 14 day notice? In my work place they let go of 2 people without even a days notice for "bad performance" but I'm sure that was not the actual reason. A week later another co-worker of mine
- Amazon internal transfer Canada -> US without sponsorship Hi, I'm L4 in Amazon, and I kind of have an EAD in US (new I-94 with L2S), so I don't really need Amazon's help with visas or whatnot. The question I have is how to start a conversation with my manager about moving to US? I don't want to change teams, to be honest, but if it's the only way, then I'm
- Uber Office Location It looks like I have the option to work at either the PA office or the 555 office. During my interviews, I only saw the 555 office but if I had to be honest the building felt a bit old/dingy, and really lacked any sort of “Uber” or hip-tech feel. It pretty much felt like a temporary office. From w
- Learning to code Freecodecamp vs Codecademy I know there is a lot of stuff out there for free, even some torrents, but I’m getting so distracted and losing motivation, I even started to get help with a psychiatrist because I think I have ADHD… and to be honest I’m not exactly sure what should I study, I like games but I heard is a horrible in
- Humble ask 🙃 (Repher me 🙏🏾) I already shared this in a different post earlier but for Visibility, I am sharing again. As a student in Rwanda, it is painfully hard to get access to FAANG engineers to build relationships and get referrals. This is why I have joined the platform to get this access as it's the closest I have cone
- How to reach top of the ladder? Blinds- seeking genuine suggestions (anyone who wishes to troll, please excuse) Just venting out the frustration below :) I dont wish to stay in developer role for long. You need to go through multiple phases like developer, senior developer, lead, principal. You work your ass out for building som
- Would like to get into swe but I’m lost So I’m coming up on two years as a front end developer. I have been interviewing for a few companies but none that are high TC. I’ve gotten into a few final rounds no offers and I’ve definitely pooped myself in a few technicals. What should I be focusing on? Projects to build my skills/portfolio. L
- link Indie software exit? Hi community I created https://reffo.us back in February of this year spending a couple hours a day for a month as I was bored after leaving my previous company. I didn't really spend the time to really push it more and build more features as I accepted an offer at Instacart shortly after. So as y
- Leaving Amazon 3 months in? I know everyone on Blind constantly craps on Amazon, and here we are. To be honest, my experience hasn’t been horrible at all. It’s been relatively easy in terms of workload and expectations. I just don’t like the Team Culture of my org. There’s constant turnover (have had 2 new managers in 2 months
- vote Below 7 YOE people should not be allowed to take interviews What do you think? Please don’t take 7 yoe, as some kind of boundary or fixed number, it might vary. It might be 4-5-6 also. What I would like to point here is “youngsters.” To all youngsters out there, please don’t take it offensively. You will understand what I am trying to say once you cross 3
