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- GNU STL source code I am a Java dev, and I decided to explore C++ just for fun. I just wanna discuss my impressions so far about GNU STL implementations, and hear what other devs have to say about it. I beleive that this is a good exemple about Cxx dev style and best practices: 1) Lack of interfaces in Cxx/ template
- Job dissatisfaction affecting my personal life. I'm a married 28yo male engineer. I am always in a state of setting new goals for my job (higher tc, higher brand value, higher level) I desperately want to join FAANGMULA, but I am somehow not able to. If I look back at the last 6 years of my work ex, I can't remember a time I was not looking to sw
- link Help career path and offer comparison Quick facts: - 39 years old - 12 years web dev experience smaller and mid size nontech companies. - 4 years management my own start up that I was managing 10 people. - current TC 150 + lots of phantom shares. - Too much .Net experience. - Targeting bigger company to max out the TC. - Currently i
- Why I won't work for corporate IT ever again I joined a large bank where I was made the lead on a "mission impossible" project that had been attempted at the place twice before and ending in abject failure. We were tasked with scrapping the 300+ Excel spreadsheets they were using to manage risk and core banking operations and replacing it with
- Evaluating stock options for VC funded startup - Exercise or not?? Posting this for a friend. The person is leaving the company and primarily needs to understand how to evaluate exercizing his vested stock options. In terms of total options dollar value he has stocks with total worth in range of 15-20K$. Company is in B2B space and not a unicorn. Company is second
- any good source for strong PM answers? hi guys, I'm looking for good answers to Google product management interview questions is there any website with quality answers? i found this good set of questions: Design an app for a community of Celiac's disease patients. Let's say we wanted to implement an Amazon Mayday like feature in Gmai
- Should I follow or stay? I’ll try to keep this as concise as possible. Currently a contractor making ~84k a year no benefits/ no paid holidays. At the moment I do not need their healthcare as I have my own private insurance. I’m trying to stay remote because I’m a single/sole parent for 2 kids. The firm is going hybrid and
- Should I / how to list self-started side business/sites/"micro-startups" on resume for engineer? Over the years, I've tried a number of side ventures that had some mild degree of success. It seems valuable to include on my resume as it could demonstrate ambition/vision/project management/ability to self-start, etc -- but I'm not fully sure how this would be received or how I'd list this sort o
- New Grad 2022 looking for Data Scientist referrals I graduate from a T10 school in May of 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a specialization in Applied Math. I am currently searching for Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer roles. I hav
- Team with too many experienced engineers Hi everyone, I could really use some suggestion here. I just graduated and joined Amazon for about 6 months. My team is actually very good and has bright future. But the problem is, perhaps because of its importance, it has logs of experienced engineer. we have 4 Sr sde's, over 10 SDE II's, and onl
- Middlemen like airbnb,Yelp,doordash , Uber , Eventbrite etc are unsustainable in the current shape Edit: this analysis is more for the years to come after this pandemic. But pandemic might have just hastened failing of some companies and I think this will also significantly change how some of these companies operate. We a switch companies, when you switch companies think of the next 2-5-10 yea
- Peer taking out anger on my perf review background: I am an asian woman with 5 years experience while this peer has 0 years experience white male and got the job because of a personal contact. I started less than 6 months at the company and one of my projects reqd me to work with him. However, working with him was difficult because he wou
- link COVID at SJC11 There was a confirmed case in Sunnyvale recently. Employees are asking why they have to come in when Santa Clara County issued stay at home order. Testing earbuds, Echos and firetv are not essential. Some of the engineers at Amazon's Lab126 hardware devices unit in California's Bay Area are questio
- vote Amazon Alexa Smart Home vs VMware-Propel offer Hi! I am currently doing my Masters in the US, graduating in Dec-2020. I got an offer (SDE-1) from Alexa Smart Home team and another one from VMware-Propel program for MTS-2 (Propel program is one where you work in two different BUs in the first year and then finally decide on which team you want t
- Need advice for helping family of 3 disabled kids Hey Guys, I need your advice. I just don't know how to write it though, one of my Grad school friend (In India) is in touch with family of 3 disabled kids (2 elder brothers and youngest one is a girl). upper parts of their body are totally moving but below waist is totally paralyzed (I am so sad m
- There is a reason Microsoft is not FAANG ! Microsoft has the worst post interview process for the candidates who clear the bar. Ive been a user of their products (office, windows, etc) and had always valued the company very high. This was my first time going through their process and I’m utterly disappointed. I applied for principal role an
- [INDIA] Is this expected in fresher hiring now? Hey Blinders, Sorry for the rant, but yesterday I had an interview with VMWare for a fresher hiring drive for the Member of Technical Staff role. A fellow blinder helped me with a referral and soon got the OA link in a couple of weeks. It was a cakewalk for me, and I did all three questions with 30
- How do you keep up as a senior SWE? I’m not new to this as I have 5yoe, but am feeling really stressed out lately. I’ve joined a new project as basically the only senior SWE on the team and the amount of things to learn is simply staggering. Just to name a few things that came my way very recently: - Java - Groovy (for tests!) - Many
- Weighing TC and Ethical Divergence Getting data points out of the way: YOE: 4 TC: 200K (L5 DE) Great org; great skip; great manager; great team; average WLB -------------------- Recently I've been thinking about my career and future now that my TC is above a "living well" wage (COL agnostic). One area of concern for me is that I feel
- How would you handle this situation? (Old employer/New Employer) In my day to day job, I work with a number of vendors. Some large ones you may have heard of, others really small like 2-3 person operations. I've seen some smaller vendors fly by the seat of their pants and really fail on integrations. This can make or break an organization My professional backgro
- PM -> VC I like my current role and am not trying to make a change soon, but have been eyeing a potential move into VC for a while now. I have background as an entrepreneur, a good eye for startups, a solid understanding of & ability to spot the problems companies encounter at various stages, and a decent un
- entering tech /career shift hi blind community , would love to get thoughts/ ideas for my wife on how enter and what role to target in tech ? she is not an engineer but a masters in communication and has a few accounting cerifications. she has 10+ years exp, managing , operating a small business with 6 employees reportin
- Indian Parents doing this!! Please help. Hello my parents are Indian. My mother is from a good family but got married early to my father as her family didn't want to delay after her father passed away. My father is a middle class person and his thoughts are too manly. He has been born and brought where men don't do house chores. Life was g
- vote Google Tracks all these information and makes money out of it Here is a complete checklist of everything Google knows about you—thereby all the ways you’re tracked—as of December 2018 : · Your age · Your income · Your gender · Your parental status · Your relationship status · Your browsing history (long-term and short-
- 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
- Learn blockchain the right way I work for a #crypto company, and this is my take(in a way non-crypto techies can understand) Smart Contract is just a decentralized way to host cloud functions. Wallets is the user Authenticator (think OAuth). However, instead of have user token throughout a session, you need to authenticate eve
- vote Amazon Offer — Talking to Confluent... ——> UPDATE: Tl;dr: I took the Amazon offer. See the update section below. ——> OP I have an Amazon offer, so I’m on the 7 day clock. I’m talking to Confluent today. IF Confluent beats the Amazon offer, what the hell should I do? Also, to all the Conlfuent folks—how does equity work at Co
- Should I change my Team at Amazon -SDE1 Hi all, I am SDE1 at Amazon Hyd, Prior to Amazon I used to work at mid size company for 1.5 year(had lot more fun there) Its been almost a year for me in a team which works on legacy system. Recently team launched a platform to replaces some part of legacy system but only few engineers worked on it,
- Netflix is a truly great company Netflix really has the best culture for at least senior engineers (I know only about engineer roles). If you are contemplating switching companies, you should seriously consider Netflix. Netflix tries very hard to set up coherent policies to properly incentivize its engineers, and it executes them c
- Should I get a masters or continue working with a lower pay? A few details about me, I am currently a software developer at a place with amazing work life balance. Things are often a bit slow, and I’m not working on a valuable tech stack. Promotions rarely happen. They also require relocation to a LCOL area. When covid happened, I realized I did not want to r