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Indeed Hiring Freeze Updates? (+F1 woes)

New here! Could anyone keep this post updated with any news regarding the Indeed freeze? Or, does anyone know of specific companies in the Austin area that seriously consider international students? Full story: Bf got a verbal offer from Indeed in Feb (written offer was minted and ready to go), but

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Jun 26, 2019

Huge difference between FB etc & Google - I

Recently I interviewed at some of the top paying companies and I got rejected by almost all, here is my experience. I am not sad because I faced interview on my own terms and was willing to wait for another year/ goto tier-2 or so instead of compromising. I am 15 years exp, domain expert in my doma

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Jun 24, 2018

Financial Guidance for New Grad with Student Loan

Hello all, I've recently landed my first full-time job here in Dallas, TX. I'm excited but also somewhat overwhelmed, particularly when it comes to managing my finances. I have a $50,000 student loan that I'm very keen on clearing as soon as possible and I'd also like to start saving/investing for

Jul 13, 2023

Can someone at RobinHood help?

Hey all, I realize that this is kind of coming from left field, but I opened a RobinHood cash management account last month and moved all of my savings from my checking account to this new account. The issue is, when I was linking my account to external budgeting apps like Mint, RobinHood thought it

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Jul 22, 2021

Privacy is non existent and this is depressing

Really convinced my peer group and my family to leave Android phones behind for iPhones. Stopped using most privacy invasive apps like Facebook and Twitter. Really so scared to post anything on Twitter because it can be tracked back to me. Can’t create an anonymous Twitter account because phone num

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Aug 11, 2021

Join a digital centric regional bank?

I am in the offer stage from a lead design role at a regional bank similar to something like Huntington Bank if you're familiar with it. They're investing heavily into digital and growing out the UX team and related roles. I like the hiring manager and what everyone tells me around culture. Right no

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May 31, 2023

Unpopular opinion: why crypto?

There is no underlying asset or business. A joke coin ends up making news and everyone wants to run behind it. How is this different from buying a digital make-believe sword in a video game? Bitcoin is fascinating. Sure. Game theory and cryptography brought together to make something self sustainin

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Apr 27, 2021

Engineering Manager Best Practices

Any advice for a newly minted SDM? I'll give it a start.. Problem-Solving There’s more than one way to approach every challenge, but having the skills to tackle them from different angles and with smarter solutions is vital. Leaders need to be able to challenge themselves and their team to adapt a

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Aug 19, 2022

How to take a step back

I don’t know what made me think this all the sudden. Everyday it seems like I wake up check the stock market and crypto market. Watch numbers and charts go up and down. Refreshing mint to view my net worth. Grinding through Jira issues. Rinse and repeat every day. It feels like I’m in a time loop a

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May 23, 2021

Recruiter is trying to lowball me

I interviewed for a one-year contract position with FAANGMULA. During the phone call before interviewing the recruiter (from an agency) kept asking me what my minimum salary requirements were. I kept deflecting saying "I'd need to know the roles and responsibilities first blah blah blah" but after

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Aug 15, 2022

Advise on SWE career and life

I would love to hear some advise for my career and situation based on my background. context: - graduated bsc cs from no name college - gpa 2.6 - yoe 19 months - full stack dev - mainly api backend, some devops, aws, etc. - tc 55k - net worth 38k (mint) - debt medical 10k, I was broke and no insura

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Jun 30, 2020

How Many Millionaires Are There In America?

As of 2023, the United States has the highest number of millionaires in the world, with an estimated 25.58 million individuals with a net worth exceeding one million U.S. dollars. This represents approximately 9.7% of the adult population in the United States. The term "millionaire" typically refer

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Dec 12, 2023

Extreme Money Saving in Tech - living in a tent.

Last year I made a switch from Google to ByteDance. Got a nice pay check bounce. I have no girlfriend, parents and siblings live out of state and I could well afford living in Bay Area. But at the end of last year I found out that I have spent a lot of money. I was eating at expensive restaurants, I

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May 28, 2023

You Want To Talk Privilege? Ok, Let's Talk Privilege...

The most divisive privilege going is Dollar Privilege. Dollar privilege is what enables nearly every single person in America to access a standard of living that for the majority is vastly beyond the means of their own productive or economic capability, and light years beyond what nearly half the w

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Jun 26, 2020

How to Win Likes and Influence People - A Guide to Becoming a Blind Top Contributor

You may be thinking posting quality content is the way to achieve Top Contributor. You would be wrong. In fact, the most effective way to become minted with the Top Contributor badge is to—for lack of a better word—shitpost. Here are my findings after achieving Top 1%. Always be the first to comme

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Jan 1, 2022

PIP and malicious/false case by some senior leaders of Adobe India

This post was created a few weeks ago but was removed from TeamBlind due to the inclusion of personally identifiable information. Consequently, I am reposting it without including such details. Everyone needs to know the truth. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Dec 16, 2023

Zeta(Directi) | SDE2 | Bangalore, India | DEC 2021 [Offer]

Reached out by recruiter on LinkedIn. Round 1 - DSA(1 hr) 2 medium questions were asked, one was from DP and second one was from Graph which required BFS traversal. Focus was to understand the thought process(for this be loud, whatever comes in your mind) and accuracy. Interviewer was also helpful

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Dec 1, 2021

The future of web scraping

In 2019, LinkedIn filed suit against HiQ for scraping LinkedIn data to build their sales navigator tool in the Ninth Circuit. This suit ultimately yielded the decision that scraping publicly available information is legal, which withstood several appeals until late 2022, where LinkedIn was able to s

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Jul 9, 2023

#30DaysWithoutPhone

Starting a new resolution that for next 30 days, I'll not use my phone. Anyone want to join me and share experiences? Day 1 - Had more time for everything - family, friends. Happier, focused and feel more energetic. I did need the phone for a few calls with friends and family, video, photo, for 2FA

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Jul 11, 2021

Snooty Bessemer Ventures?

Just saw this article on Fortune's Term Sheet, but tl;dr their partner is basically/explicitly saying, go to Stanford/HBS or u got no shot at Bessemer. https://www.linkedin.com/company/bessemer-venture-partners/people/ "When you hear the word “apprentice,” what do you imagine? I imagine a medie

Feb 9

The Curve Wars are in full tilt.

Thanks to Jack Niewold The early skirmishes are being fought. Here's everything you need to know about $CRV and $CVX (Convex), the war between protocols to accumulate them, and how you can make money on the trade. PART 1: THE LIQUIDITY PROBLEM DEXes rely on Automated Market Makers (AMMs) to func

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Dec 30, 2021

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

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Mar 27, 2022

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