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- vote ML PhD vs SWE job Tl;dr: I tried giving all the useful info about my situation so that advices can be meaningful. Comments are preferred to sheer votes! B.Eng. + 1yoe as SWE + MS in CS. About to start a SWE internship at FAANG. I'm evaluating if I want to start a PhD in theoretical ML (~4years) after the internshi
- Blind is same as other Social Networks Blind created a community such that it appears to be democratic in its general functioning, but is actually very specifically curated toward a preferred set of economic, political, and social ends. It fosters a feeling of being an outsider in anyone who dares to disagree with what “everyone” purport
- What should I do next? How to leave enterprise hosting? I'm currently a technical account manager, but a more accurate description would be systems engineer or something along those lines. I support large install base accounts from setting up a backup schedule, tuning their storage, recommending and implementing complete architecture changes, etc. Basica
- vote Stock Market Vs Economy - Poll There are a few reasons that might explain the phenomenon, according to Gunjan Banerji in The Wall Street Journal. When the coronavirus plunged the economy into free fall back in March, the Federal Reserve declared it would do whatever it took to stabilize financial markets. With the help of the gi
- Struggling to find motivation First off, happy new year to everyone here. Despite 2020 being crazy as it was, I'm glad we were all able to make it through together. This post is mostly going to be about myself because I'm really unsure how I should be moving forward from here. I thought a bit about seeking therapy, but I've als
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl
- Sabbatical then moving to London - too risky or lets go already? I‘m planning to take a year sabbatic, just going to travel and focus on the family. Then we will ending the trip in UK where I will try to find a role in Tech. Is this too risky or let’s go already? (Real questions at below 👇) Quick background: 20+ yoe in sales, strategy, analytics, and consulting
- Amazon Hiring Ad! Take Risk, Growth or PIP Saw this Amazon Ad today looking for risk takers! The risk they don’t mention is either you become TT (top talent) or you get the boot via PIP. As a software engineer in AWS for 1 year+ (and previously in Retail), I would strongly advise you to stay away from this company. - If you have job offers
- Thank you Blind I had been suffered with a bad manager for 3 years and he even backstabbed me when I did an internal transfer. Even if I joined the blind 5 years ago, I did not use it much. I started to use it a lot since last summer and I was surprised that there are so many people who are grinding on leetcodes, a
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Interview Vehicle Quality Engineering Analyst Interview Applied on their website in the middle of august. 2 Days later recruitment hr emailed me to confirm my eligibility for a P.Eng license. I already had some idea of the toxic environment in Toyota Canada plants where they keep hiring people and burning t
- 10 Interviews over 1.5 Months I saw a post that was extremely helpful of someone's interview experience and I thought I'd share my thoughts on mine. Thanks Blind for all the help! This was my first time interviewing for a software engineering position. I didn't need to do it out of undergrad and was already happy where I was at
- How does Design work at your company? Obviously, there is variance across different sectors of different companies but what is your experience? Is your work design lead? Is design an equal partner? Is design respected and understood? Are designers treated like gods, slaves or somewhere in between? At MS there is a very wide spectrum.
- Open Sr Project Manager Opportunity A recruiter approach me to fill a sr project manager role at intuitive surgical (heard it’s a unicorn). It’s a contract role for 12 months if I’m not wrong with pay rate ~$90/hr with W-2 (DOE). Anyone looking to a new opportunity? Note: I’m not in the market right now so asking here in case anyone
- Is this a good plan for a manager? Managing Down: 1. Be human not a recorded tape by upper management. 2. Be transparent almost every time (You cannot be transparent every time. You will know what I am saying) 3. Give space to your IC to experiment and fail and encourage them in failures. 4. Provide all kind of supports (personal/p
- PM/ APM / TPM Internship Search Guidance + Referrals Hello blind! I'm an undergrad at UW-Madison graduating in December 2022. I really want to get into product management straight out of college, and have been trying my best to make it happen. I almost made into the Google APM internship program for this summer (the EMEA one in London, England though
- Blind, help me get a job... okay this might be a little long winded but here we go... i’ve been on Blind for about a year now. i’ve had my fair share of fun/trolling people, as well as networking and asking questions to learn more and even interviews based off referals (thank god for the DM feature on here) i have 3 YoE + an
- link Facebook E6 Interview: Part 1: How I Started The Process First, I would like to state that I am writing this series in hopes of someone finding them useful. I was, like many, filled with anxiety leading up to the interview. I benefited from information that was volunteered by others here and it calmed my nerves, gave me confidence, and set me in a good pa
- Just me or everyone desperately find ways to make themselves miserable Life's great, and I'm living the dream life that I had 5-6 years back! I work barely a couple hours a day and my pay is also higher than what I expected as a new grad, but I am not satisfied with myself. It's not about the pay or the work or the company. I keeping finding ways to make my life miser
- How to ask for change of title/Promotion? Hi guys, Any help to get through this phase of my career works need really helpful. *This is a long post and I’m sorry about it 🙏 My situation- Profile - MS-CS/ TC-115k/ ~3yoe/ Bay Area I work at a small-mid size startup which has about 100 employees. I work on data analytics (not data science)
- Anyone hiring for a new grad SDE? Referral would be greatly appreciated Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering
- Complained about my bad manager to HR , got placed on a PIP I told HR my manager has been assigning work to me that should be done by other employees. My manager has explicitly told me that the additional work should be easy for me to do. I told HR my manager marks all my projects as top priority. I am being ask to summarize and make things less technical f
- Witcher - un review | Just for fun Three disclaimers : 1. I am a fan of Witcher 2. My English is pathetic 3. Please go through the pain of reading this long post, which is intended just for pure sarcastic purposes if you don't have anything else to do with your time. Thoughts I had during the journey of watching Witcher. NETFLIX (
- No longer in Focus at Amazon, want to make a change. Update 1: First off thank you to everyone who has commented so far. There is a ton of information shared and I'd encourage anyone who is going through a similar experience to read through every note below - whether you like what you read or not. There are several comments making some assumptions abo
- Portugal - Junior SWE - a recruiter told me I was not committed enough for not accepting a pay cut Why_post: I wanted to talk about this here, because I've never seen a post from Portugal, and I want everyone to know how much we make, to hopefully help any Portuguese people here from getting lowballed (difficult, because just being Portuguese is lowballing). Intro: I am trying to change to anoth
- Google Team (Borg) That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20/inside-google-s-brewing-mental-health-crisis-claims-of-toxic-work-environment When Chewy Shaw left Google’s site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal. “I n
- 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
