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- Lyft/Twitch/Other referrals or Advice Hello all, I have close to 5 years of experience in corporate FP&A and am currently a Senior Financial Analyst. I’ve been applying to a variety of tech companies, but despite being seemingly qualified (Running end to end forecast process and presenting to C level executives, modeling experience, bu
- DS/DA referral? Hi I am currently working as a data scientist at JPMC. I am actively looking for data analyst, product analyst, or entry level data scientist opportunities at tech companies, preferably in San Francisco or Bay Area. Ultimately looking to break into tech. Would anyone be willing to refer me? I wou
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker Monday, 8am Drive to work, cross the bridge. $7 toll. Up a dollar since last year. Monday, 8:35am Made it across the bridge. Traffic sucks, pay another $9.35 toll to use the Carpool—err, Express—lanes so you’re not late for your 10am meeting. Monday, 10:03am Parking spots are all gone at work, so
- Preparing for interviews, need suggestions. I am starting to prepare for interviews and could use some help in setting the direction. I am mostly looking to target Senior SWE positions at Uber, Lyft, Fb, ServiceNow, Qualtrics etc. Any guidance on the following will help... 1. What level of leetcode questions should I practice more? 2. Does a
- 7 months laid-off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- link Interview Prep: Google, LinkedIn, Lyft, Apple, Amazon Luckily aced 5 out of 5 onsites, with a perfect success rate. Here are my prep strategies: [Coding] - 350+ LC (90 hard, 250 medium). Had solved ~150 last time; those were easy and medium mostly. This time only worked on medium and hard. - EPI (I find CTCI not as elegant) - Not very strong in DP,
- Offers from Facebook, Google, Uber and 6 others | AMA I learnt a lot about interviews from blind community. This is my effort to give back to the community. This thread is not about TC, but for the curious ones, I have multiple offers around 550k and I still negotiating, I will start another thread with comp details. Offers I got - Facebook (E6), Uber
- Interview Struggles Hey Guys - So, I have been giving interviews for the last 4-5 months (17 in total at various levels) and I have been unable to crack a single one. Some of the companies I have interviewed for: Google (L5)- Lost out in Round 1 Facebook (E6) - Lost out in final round Uber (Sr PM) - Lost out in Roun
- Are we in a tech bubble? What is happening to Silicon Valley with the stock markets being all time high and super high valuations for pre ipo companies. 1. Snowflake touching 12B which is 3X of the previous valuation. 2. Uber which had so many issues with respect to profitabilty getting close to its IPO price. 3. 1 Trill
- Stock Options: How much time a company takes to go public? im emphasizing on some bitter news that people ignore just by taking few lucky companies as a reference. my point is: more than 95% starup companies cant make it to IPO stage. The remaining 5% companies are disruptive technology companies which receives a great applaud from the tech communities. Ven
- 7 months laid-off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- SWE TC across companies, how much NW and growth to beat the TC? TC Display: Top Tier: Pinterest: 450k~600k Stripe: 450k~600k LinkedIn: 450k~600k Facebook: 400k~600k Airbnb: 400k~580k Snapchat: 400k~550k Netflix: 450k+ 1st tier: Uber: 380k~600k Lyft: 380k~480k Slack: 370k~500k Dropbox: 350k~600k Twitter: 350k~550k Google: 350k~500k Apple: 350k~450k Splunk: 350k
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- vote Unicorns vs FAANG Hi all, I had a couple questions of unicorns or late stage startups compared to FAANG. To be honest I've only ever considered working at big companies first FB, now Apple. I've definitely enjoyed my time and think the comp is pretty good, tech, coworkers etc. nothing but positive things to say! Bu
- 7 months laid off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- Skills for an entry level data analyst in bay area? Disclaimer: This is a long post and I'm genuinely seeking career advice. Quick Intro - I'm originally a mechanical engineer who switched fields to venture into data analytics as opportunities became hard to come by in Mech. Lately, I have been working for a consulting firm in India as a data analy
- link What exactly do you expect on System Design Interviews? (FB) I have a FB interview coming up, and I would like to hear ideas and thoughts on what exactly do you expect on System Design interviews? A little bit of background about me, I have more than 6 years of experience working on an Infra team (we handle queries in the magnitude of a few thousand QPS, def
- link Another data point on industry hire in the bay ..great read :) Found this post on Reddit and seems really helpful . Just posting it here . ————///——————///——————///——/ Hi everyone, I just went through a round of interviews and wanted to share a data point. I wanted to share some interview tips that you may not have seen before. I'll also answer questions in A
- ML/Applied Scientist Role will get commoditized out of existence! Do you agree? Seeking out fellow ML scientist bro/sis here on Blind. Having a mid-cliff crisis now. Punch line is that I think this role will be commoditized out of existence in at most 10 years. First, we need to get our definitions straight, because terminology varies. 1) Research Scientist (50% basic researc
- link I did it! Final Interview Results/Advice If you’re thinking about interviewing but are overwhelmed and feeling down from all the people on Blind who work at top tier companies boasting sky-high TCs, tons of offers, and don’t feel like you have what it takes to end up at your dream company, this one’s for you. I've learned a lot on Blind t
- My Technical Interview Prep Guide TC: 100K I’ve been preparing for interviews over the last couple months. I’ve done a good amount of research. This is what I think is the most effective and efficient way to prepare. Summary: Use Element of Programming Interviews(EPI) to study, and Leetcode and Pramp to practice Study Strategy E
- link where to learn marketing/growth for entry-mid level ppl out here thought i would make a seperate post. this is taken from another discussion. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions. ----- First of all, you have to decide what you wanna do: Growth Marketing - acquisition Growth Marketing - user journey (activation, engagement, retention) Brand marketing Pro
- Career advise for developer reaching 45 ( Sr folks please reply) Note: Younger SW guys please GTFOH. For your pleasure My CTC is 470K per annum(15 + years, 7th year in US). Also no trolling please, this can happen to you guys too. Need some real good advise. I hope this post can be used by many more in similar situation Background: I will be 45 in couple of yea
- link SDE guide to getting the best offer - part1 This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ___________ I left Microsoft some time ago. I switched job several
- How to know when to give up on your company TLDR: detailed product org pain points for a friend. Are these common signs among start ups? What are the necessary ingredients for mid-senior ICs to invest time/effort to attempt a change vs cut the loss and leave? Asking the community based on recent conversations with a friend. Perhaps what My f
- Planning to ask for a raise tomorrow. Never done it before. Advice? I have worked for this company for going on three years now and have never asked for a raise before. I have a 1:1 scheduled with my manager tomorrow and plan on asking for one for the first time. I work for a defense contractor so my job security is reasonably strong. We have won some pretty seriou
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie