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AR/VR Unity, Prototyping, 3D Engineer Interview Questions at Top XR Companies

I am looking for interview questions from these places: Apple Meta Unity Nvidia Google Amazon I have interview questions for these places: Microsoft Snap Magic Leap Qualcomm Niantic For each one you share, I will share one back. Feel free to DM if you want to trade directly. TC: 250

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Sep 15, 2022

Google AR/MR consumer glasses projects

Any scoops on whether Google is still actually serious in this space? Glass 2 was certainly an upgrade in their Enterprise space, but still not really offering mixed-reality like what Hololens offers. Any HW projects running full steam to compete with Magic Leap, Oculus AR or Hololens (future consum

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Jun 11, 2019

Trending discussions on your lounges/channels

Let’s share what are the top 5 topics being discussed these weeks on your company lounge/channel. I will start with #Microsoft 1. Recent global reorg 2. EVP leaving to Magic Leap 3. Performance review 4. Annual awards 5. Rumors of layoffs What about your company? #Facebook #Google Apple #Amazon etc

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Jul 8, 2020

Lets list all companies or orgs in companies offering remote jobs

I never want to commute again, also I want to buy a house for a reasonable price. I know I am not alone. Post your sweet knowledge below! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #remotework #wfh EDIT: I will compile a list from the comments daily, feel free to contest the list or add details. Adobe Affirm Amazon - selec

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Dec 16, 2020

What's your company actual vacation/PTO policy?

I'm particularly interested in Big Tech or any place where they pay the big bucks. Magic Leap: Unlimited PTO in paper. In practice it means you can easily go to 1 month of PTO every year, not counting in federal holidays. So I feel it is quite nice on that end. Not sure how common this is in Tech.

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Jun 30, 2021

Advice for a young engineer just starting

Hi Blind! I have been working at Magic Leap(FL)for about a year now. As this is my first job, I wanted to know if you had any advice for someone just starting their career in the tech industry. What would you tell a 20 something version of yourself if you met them now? What mistakes did you make an

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May 19, 2019

Jump From LC Mediume to Hard

Is the process for getting good at leetcode hards just doing them over and over till you start getting them? On some level thats what it was like with mediums, but with those i felt like i was getting a better grasp of an algorithm or strategy. For Hards a lot of the time it feels like I know that

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Oct 21, 2023

Megathread: current state of wfh policies for Tech companies

* Share company, location, type of role, current policy and future modifications to it if already announced. Magic Leap Bay Area Senior Software Eng. Policy is in practice remote. On paper should be able to go to the office, but it never happens. I think they want to keep this ace under the sleev

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Nov 25, 2021

Roblox Interview - Karat

Recently gave my karat interview - I was asked 3 LC medium questions - multiple versions of the island problem. I solved 2 completely and 3rd one i wrote most of the logic, just didn't get time to test it. The recruiter next day let me know that - "We just had a minor reorg lately so it may take s

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Mar 1, 2021

If anyone struggling, I can refer full remote

I have received tons of help from Blind in the past, so time to give back in moments of hardship. Our software organization is in a hiring spree, and the multiple openings are full remote. Magic Leap pays quite well (180-280k is the most likely, if you bring enough maybe better) and I'm leaving out

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Jun 13, 2022

Venture Capitalists are so overrated

They think so highly of themselves. And always eager to spread their expert knowledge on Twitter in politics, medicine, sports, entertainment, you name it. They are just so full of shit. If you look at the tech industry now, 95% of market cap, revenue, earnings are dominated by 5 companies that took

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Feb 7, 2022

Help me choose

Canadian, all numbers are CAD. I am in my late 40s with 18 YOE. Offer 1: Machine learning startup (50 ppl, well funded). Base 150K, bonus 10%, sign-on 15k, 35K stock options. PROS: great potential, a lot of freedom, interesting work. CONS: minimal benefit, machine learning is becoming a too popula

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May 7, 2022

[2023] WFH Policies for Tech Companies

Tailored to SWE new hires at the 200 most discussed companies. No HFTs/prop shops. Last update: 8/19/2023 **Full RTO**: -Anduril -Blue Origin -Broadcom -C3 AI -Lucid Motors -Twitter -Verkada **Hybrid**: -Adobe: 10 days per month -American Express: 2 days -Asana: 3 days -Amazon: 3 days -Apple: 3 d

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Aug 6, 2023

Former employer withdrew from my 401k

Dear Blind, I received a retention bonus from a former employer (I work at Magic Leap currently) Upon executing the offer, I received half of the amount. I contributed let's say 2k of that bonus to my 401k which was matched $ for $, 100% vested. In my retention bonus agreement it detailed that if I

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May 1, 2019

What does it take these days to introduce a revolutionary new product/platform?

With the intro of the Apple Vision Pro this week, it makes me wonder what does it take these days for a company to introduce a mind blowing, wildly successful new product or platform in tech? It seems everyone’s expectations are already set so high - super advanced, compact, fast, energy efficient

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Jun 10, 2023

Need a referral in CG/CV/ML/DL/XR domain

My virtual onsite interview for an E5 CV/XR/MLE position at Meta Zurich was canceled 3 weeks before. Lots of preparation, totally frustrating. Now I'm looking for an alternative. I have an offer for a Senior MLE/team lead/MLOps position. Target TC from recruiter was 130K€ originally, but company is

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May 11, 2022

Everything seems under control, when the clock strikes midnight

During the day its exact opposite, sad, regretful, feeling like an under achiever in both personal and professional life, no social life, no new friends, old friends faded, introverted repulsive force for all people, professionally so many better people with my experience, travel limitations, feelin

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Jul 3, 2021

Job search retrospective (Accepted AWS)

Finished up almost 3 whole months of interview prep and interviewing. Got a few offers and plenty of failures. Current TC: 135k 🥜 New TC: 400k 🥩 YOE: 9 Amazon AWS SDE2/L5 - Accepted an offer after phone screen and virtual onsite TC: Y1/Y2 ~400k, Y3/Y4 ~350k (210k base, ~300k / 2yrs sign on, 3300

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Jun 20, 2022

Sudar = Google's Steve Ballmer

The rising chorus on the call for his replacement. https://bgr.com/business/thanks-to-openai-its-never-been-clearer-that-sundar-pichai-is-googles-steve-ballmer/ Article Text : If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A poll earl

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Feb 20

Post-Freeze Interview Outcome

Started looking around back in early Feb (right before the worst of the META stock drop) after feeling stalled career-wise on my team. Wanted to share the outcome of talking to 10+ companies, spanning from before the market drop (everyone's hiring!) to the recent hiring freezes and reductions. TC 1

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Jun 16, 2022

Blind Company Data

Blind wont let me post a google sheets link so here it is in raw format. It contains 95% of companies with more than 10 reviews. company ratings career growth wlb compensation culture management overall Formidable 12 4.7 5 4.3 4.9 4.6 4.7 Boston Scientific 38 3.6 4.9 3.5 4.2 3.8 4 Hudl 14 4.4 4.9

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Sep 1, 2023

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