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- link COV-19 Dear Colleagues! Cov-19 is spreading in our community exponentially! If you don't have a first case, school districts will continue operating and telling bullshit about CDC recommandations. We don't have test kits, we cannot perform tests, on a day-to-day basis we are risking our kids by sending t
- Shitty Recruiting experience at Rivian So I have been interviewing for a role at Rivian since August. Recruiter has been giving me a run around, changing his own statements about things and dragging the process despite the fact that the I had already interviewed with the hiring manager back in early September and she highly recommended p
- vote Leaving investing for tech product/strategy Tried this post on the finance topics last week, but might be more fitting here under tech. I work a pretty rough job as a mid-level (VP/principal) in private capital investing for an institutional fund. Money is solid, but I’m at the point where I’m starting to value work life balance a lot more.
- Advice on transitioning from DoD red team to private sector, what to expect? [Update for clarification: I’m a civilian security practitioner working in an engineering organization, not a veteran or active duty. MS in Computer Science, OSCP, multiple technical training courses. My experience is in penetration testing and adversarial assessment as opposed to compliance.] Rece
- Asking to be considered for a down leveled role. How would this look? I'm a recent grad (EE + business minor, 3.5 GPA) with 16 months of tech work experience as a co-op student. (8 in software project management between 2 companies, 4 in business analysis for a tech startup, and 4 managing the implementation of a manufacturing hardware/software system for a F50). Also
- Bitcoin / Crypto-currency is a massive bubble - Discuss Let me explain. Short and sweet, I’m a financial advisor (< 1 year). Since last fall I’ve had to basically study finance from the ground up and learn about the history of the stock market. It’s been difficult, but it led me to having this theory about crypto (it’s a giant bubble). So why do I thi
- be grateful! If you have a job & your company is still operating, be very grateful WHY? 1. Victoria's Secret declared bankruptcy. 2. Zara closed 1,200 stores. 3. La Chapelle withdrew 4391 stores. 4. Chanel is discontinued. 5. Hermes is discontinued. 6. Patek Philippe discontinued production. 7. Rolex discontin
- Need help leveling up in PM (old guy) I’ve been in product management since around 2008 (13 years), and am in early 40s Due to working at companies I haven’t had interest in and a combination of horrible depression, I’ve ended up stagnating my career quite a bit and sort or plateauing at the principal pm type level. I do believe I’m f
- Hate creating decks but silver tongued and insightful: what roles for me? I'm in a non-tech IC role in tech and something's gone wrong for oh say 4 years which makes me not just hate but actually get paralysed when tasked with producing reports and decks. I can talk great in meetings, very insightful, a good sage/advisor type with a confident and authoritative manner. I s
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- SDE Charged with COVID Relied Fraud WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?! A Software Engineer in Seattle Fraudulently Sought More than $1.5 Million in CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Loans Defendant allegedly sought over a million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the SBA from multiple banks by claiming fictitious payroll expenses asso
- Not happy with my current work. Need advice 🥺 !!! Let me add few details. I am based in India. I am having 9+ yoe. 5+ firmware, 2+ Linux driver, 2+ application. During college, I had a strong Desire to work in Linux driver/ Kernel space. I got placed and I worked in applications level software, then I got a chance to work in firmware for couples
- Losing morale for Hard LC questions. Whats going on with interviews? Getting seriously frustrated as top tagged #apple #google #uber questions are mostly hard like Text justifiation, max points on line, Word Ladder, Employee free time, Optimal account balancing etc At this point my mind is so saturated that it's hard for me to absorb more questions. Also crashed 2 Ap
- promotion x family health issues I'm up for promotion this quarter, after battling being new to the company, dev list, PIP ... you name it. I've had a clear record for about 1.5 years now and apparently it's doing better than I expected - so I'm up for promotion this time. It serves as a confidence reassurance, because at some poin
- Your comp adjustment to market rate. Why should they? There's a lot of talk now on Blind about new hires with fewer YOE or lower level getting higher TC than people staying put. People say things like "when new grad gets X, that really tells you how much your company values you", implying that you deserve your comp adjusted to market rate. I think thi
- How to get promoted at FireEye? I’m an associate test engineer at FireEye and am completely oblivious to the promotion practices here, or at any tech company. I am interested in learning about how to get promoted, how much to ask for in salary/ stock / bonus, etc. Before you bash on me for wanting to stay at FEYE, you should know
- PM to VC - detour or smart? I'm being recruited for a VC firm that's founded by one of the former FAANG CEO's. Looks legit, but not brand name like Sequioa, a16z etc. Is VC as a non-partner without any desire to do an MBA at HBS/GSB a waste of time? I like my PM gig and never considered VC, but VC networking and industry brea
- Am I going down the right path? Hey everyone, I’m a 24 year old mechanical engineer. I’m currently enrolled in a year long company-sponsored program (details listed at the end) and at the end of it, the company will try to transition me into a firmware engineering role. My eventual goal is to work at a Big N/unicorn/quant financ
- My journey to FB/G/Snap I think the way i prepare myself for those interviews might interest you. I decided to create this topic to both gather last seconds advice and also share my experience. I'm a father, husband and a senior sde at amazon SF (which mean i have not a lot of free time), and I'm an imposter. I'm happy a
- Tech Interviews are a modern day corporate HOT OR NOT <Rant> 1) Given proper guidance and mentorship any BS in CS or Coding Bootcamp new grad can perform a job as an entry level SWE in any industry. 2) Anyone with 5+ years of industry experience as a frontend, backend, data or devOps engineer can translate business requirements to production read
- List of companies hiring now . Not only Tech Companies from industries spanning from technology to retail are hiring to meet increased demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a regularly updated list of companies hiring right now. Instacart says it’s looking to hire 300,000 contract workers over the next three months. Amazon says
- Have you seen bad UX being made? Share your story. I am interested in learning more about how bad UX happens. Sometimes it’s as simple as an incompetent designer or a meddling manager, but I also want to know about the systemic causes of bad user experience. Have you seen the sausage being made? What happened? Is it an ongoing thing? Give as much
- Recently joined a bay area startup called Verkada, having mixed feelings I joined Verkada after a brief stint at another bay area company. The interviews went smooth, the recruiters pitched hard, the execs wooed me with fancy food and a generous offer I couldn't refuse. Some N months later my bubble is burst and I regret coming here. It all started when I discovered tha
- The real Amazon leadership principles Customer Apathy Leaders start with the customers and sell them cheap chinese products. Thats how you get good margins. Clear division of responsibilities There are more than a million employees at Amazon. Leaders accept that some things aren't their job. A software engineer doesn't deliver packages
- Referrals for Growth Marketing and/or Product roles at Slack, Airbnb, Amazon Anyone know of opportunities in either Product or Growth Marketing/Brand Management at the big shiny startups most known for their Marketing teams...? Heard positive consensus about Amazon, Slack and Airbnb but would love to know if I've got it all wrong. 12 years experience in startup early stage
- Looking for Work for my Friend I am seeking guidance. I am a second year Canadian university student studying computer science at the University of Waterloo. I have a very intelligent and talented friend who is also in second year (2B) CS at Waterloo, but he's an international student and not in the co-op program. He has a ver
- Switch from serviced based company to product based companies for 9 YOE I have been working in serviced based companies for the last 9 years. In these, I woked on non coding projects for the first 6 years. It is after that I upskilled into Java, Spring boot and Microservises, and also learnt AWS cloud. over these three years, I developed an interest and it become a dre
- Suggestions on how to get hired as a L6 PM-T. Morning all, I have been offered two L5 positions at Amazon. One L5 TPM and another L5 PM-T. I am coming in externally having never been an Amazon employee before. My background is that I have am curently working as a PM-T for 3.5 years at a small startup. Previous to this, I have over 12 YOE as
- How do I make the most of my experience? New grad been at my job for 5 months Long story short I joined a small team who's go no formal education and very poor fundamentals of software engineering. My code base is older than me in a language that's almost on the top of stack overflows most hated list (don't wanna give too many specifics)
- link "To safely reopen, make the workweek shorter. Then keep it shorter." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/safely-reopen-make-workweek-shorter/610906/ > Shortening work hours might seem counterintuitive for companies that value nimbleness and productivity, and that need to clear their balance sheets, but a large body of evidence suggests that this appr