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- Advice for a UX/UI Transition I have tried to find some good advice but some post either are designed-focused, or coding-focused. I have neither a background in tech nor arts. I recently separated from the military after just under 9 years with some operator and project manager roles. The main reason for leaving was how much bet
- Stressful product launch.. should I move to another team? I used to be besties with my #2 business partner (L7) and had very good relationship with #1 (L8), but stuff are going downhill. Help me out figure out if this is a time for me to move to another team or try to fix things. background: I am in a role where relationship with internal customer (inter
- link Hiring Front End Engineers I am EM for Ad formats team at Yieldmo and we are looking to hire couple of FE engineers for our team. What we do: Yieldmo is essentially a rising exchange that has been around for a while but is now moving toward the next phase. We're a 'work from anywhere' company of less than 100 employees based
- Leaving Amazon or other FAANG companies? I have been with Amazon for under 2 years. I am one of the many unknown L6 SDMs serving our corporate masters (and of course customers!). I don't hold any significant value for Amazon. I do my job, I do it well, and I go home. I was recently head hunted by a fairly large publicly listed organisatio
- I have been crying two days in a row at work I used to work at the big companies in the states for 2.5years as an operational data analyst and joined this startup company as PM in Asia a month ago so 0 PM experience. I started working at this company literally 5 days after I landed in this country. I am still settling in and struggling with a
- link Rant: How Apple iOS broke Notes How to leave feedback for iOS Notes: https://www.apple.com/feedback/notes/ Apple keeps ‘Fixing’ things that don’t need to be fixed in Notes. Seems like everything operated smoothly in iOS 9 through iOS 12, and everything since has just been worse. Some examples of ‘fixes’ in Notes that slow down
- Rude manager the likes of which I havent see before Weird thing happened. Blind purged my post about rude manager yesterday. Could it be that my employer reported the post to blind? So I am reposting. I am not a Nordstrom employee. Recently joined a new company in a sector that I am very passionate about. The hiring manager (in discussion) reached
- E6 System Design interview - level of detail/depth compared to Grokking? I’m struggling with time management. I’ve been struggling to find good study material for the sys design interview at Facebook. I have the DDIA book, which is pretty good, but it’s not too focused on individual architecture reviews like Grokking is. I think I prefer Grokking’s style, but it does seem slightly basic. Nevertheless, it ha
- OCI vs AWS vs Carta age:28 no debt and not married, but was thinking buying a house current: SDE II @ AWS yoe: 2 yrs 3 months in the us (<1 yr before coming to the state) TC: base ~140k with ~30 shares/incoming years Just got promoted in Q2. Team has pretty heavy operational and work load. Great revenue product wit
- The data brokerage industry is completely broken👎 This post has nothing to do with Snapchat. Let's say I write a utility and scrape dozens of TB of dating profiles. Or I have a popular app that tracks users locations. Or I have a dating app that people give data to and legally agree for me to sell the data. It turns out, you can't actually sell
- Unhappy at HFT, how soon should I go back to tech? TL:DR; liked interning at Facebook, got good rating but no offer, joined an HFT full-time, Meta recruiter reached out right before joining HFT, considering trying to rejoin Meta. Basically OP is a whiner who's not happy while making 400k out of school, and wants advice. This past summer I interned
- Transitioning from startup in Mid market city Looking for career growth opportunities in larger companies or startups in larger markets. I’ve worked for 2 startups but feel like my career trajectory has plateaued both from a salary and opportunity stand-point. Currently I’m the VP, Biz Dev/Partnerships/Marketing (we’re a 10 person company). I
- link Magento vs Shopify: Which Ecommerce Platform to Choose for your Business? In this newfound era, the Zen Z entrepreneurs yearn to settle only for eCommerce businesses, and it’s no wonder why. While this is an incredible idea, the process often turns out to be in a daze when it comes to choosing the best eCommerce platform. After all, technology has bestowed us with several
- what if you feel like your new company you just join doesn’t fit..? what would you do? i recently joined Cisco lv9 RnD position. (Please understand my vague description. my role is not that common in the company) I feel like my team and corp culture doesn’t fit me that well. My team is making a product facing a lot of users, but isn’t interested in making a world
- vote McKinsey BA vs Microsoft PM (New-Grad) I'm a UG senior from a T-10 school majoring in CS and got these 2 new-grad offers. Both are in a MCOL Southern City and the difference in pay is negligible. Ultimately, I most likely want to go to big-tech Product Management long-term, but also keep the door open for operator roles at high-growth st
- Doordash culture and Values This has popped up on a few threads so x-posting here Doordash values are on this page but organized poorly - https://careers.doordash.com. It’s a big banner which has the 12 values organized into 4 themes (see below) Theme: We are one team 1. Make room at the table. We’re committed to growing a
- link WSJ Uber Layoffs https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-cuts-3-000-more-jobs-shuts-45-offices-in-coronavirus-crunch-11589814608?mod=hp_lead_pos3 Text: Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 9.25% is cutting several thousand additional jobs, closing more than three dozen offices and re-evaluating big bets in areas ranging from fre
- Hiring L5/L6 at AWS EC2 I'm trying to hire several Software Engineer L5s and L6s within AWS EC2. For L5, please have a minimum of 2 YoE and think LC easy/mediums are a breeze. For L6, minimum of 5 YoE and likewise can crush leetcode and system design at scale. I don't think L6 needs to worry about LC hard questions. Please
- GoLang Developer, Fully remote, 10 Months Contract Job Our client is a world’s leading live streaming platform for gamers, and they bring the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming to world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. They are currently looking for a Golang Developer for a 10 months contract position and it is a rem
- How Facebook is Enabling Set Up For Voter Intimidation A political campaign is asking supporters with no training in what is and isn’t legal to loiter around polling places, maybe looking over the shoulder of county election workers or who knows what. (Looking for suspicious people in line?) where is listening people to do this through a Facebook video
- link AWS domestic surveillance Pasted from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6phcxi/i_will_remain_quiet_no_longer_and_americans_need/?st=J5K4QEUA&sh=a3d6934e In 2011-2012 I worked for AWS on the PDX OPS team. We were responsible for the installation and upkeep of a newly created data cluster in Boardman, OR and
- Placed on PIP, need referrals! Hello everyone, hope all of you're doing well. I'm currently in a seed-stage startup and today, I got placed in PIP by my manager in the presence of the HR. The past couple of months, I've not been able to do much of dev work, all the operational work used to get dumped onto me and that was sort o
- The Cost of Turnover Before I start, understand that I am somewhat approaching this topic through rose tinted glasses. I'm well compensated (Sr Engineer @ Amazon), have all of my needs met, and live a pretty cheap/simple life. I write this on the basis of curiosity to hear other's thoughts on rapid turnover and how that
- Existential crisis: how to grow your career while avoiding the rat race and keeping balance? For context, I was making pretty good money at Capital One when bad depression and harassment from my manager led to absenteeism that got me canned. I didn't pursue claims; I just took the severance and left. The culture was sycophantic, and I was glad to be rid of all the politics and "radical cand
- Pinterest future I want to have conversation about the state of some of the private companies in the valley, but I can't really do it under my real name as I have friends at those companies and they wouldn't be happy with me. Curious if it possible to have a decent level conversation on Blind. First off - I like Be
- Square team match experience YOE: 5.5 TC: 220k So I just completed my onsites with Square and met with two hiring managers and wanted to share my experience for anyone having trouble finding a team match and not understanding why since the recruiter was super kind enough to actually give me feedback. My result from the initial
- interviews are indeed broken? rather, the same format does not apply everywhere. or does it? obligatory tc - $90 per hour. yoe - 16 years in Java, includes 9 years android, and 12 years in the US as a work-visa immigrant. lemme explain. i have mostly worked in large organizations, IT teams greater than 10,000 employees and cou
- What are my chances of getting an H1B1 in the US for PM? Hey everyone, I'll try to keep this as short as possible. Context, cliffs, and tldr below. Since starting university, I've dreamt of graduating and going into product management at FAANG or consulting in MBB. Over the years, I've come to realize that PM is the role for me. I'm currently completing
- link Please suggest resume improvements. Hi. I'm in the software development / support industry in the telecom sector right now. I'm trying to get a new job since November 2019, but not getting anywhere. Whenever I'm sending my resume to any prospective employer, most of the time I'm getting rejected within a day, without even an interview
- Failed out of college: How do I proceed? Hi people, I am a college dropout that failed out my Junior year(CS), although I already have my Associates Degree(CS). I never really found any real purpose taking classes to learn, and it eventually led me to fail most of them. But on the other hand, I found real purpose in teaching myself through