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- Working on setting up a Leetcode workshop - Any Interest? As a part of my l33tc0de adventures, I spend quite a bit of time exploring leetcode. What I felt was that in addition to "solving" it there is a method to the madness of internalizing the approach. Solving 5/10/50 or 100 questions is irrelevant, what seems to matter is how you are internalizing the
- As if able to understand somebody deeply in 1 hour (behavioral interview question) Once in a while I'd run into such a coworker: you email him or Slack him, and he'd reply two words, and then you give him further info, and two hours later, he has no reply. 5 hours later, no reply. You ping him, and 12 hours later no reply, 1 day later, no reply, and he simply never reply. I'd n
- vote Am I an asshole? My wife and I live in Canada and it's been pretty awesome raising a baby in the pandemic since we are always home and get to spend a lot of time with the baby. The baby is a 8 month old and my wife and I work from home a 100%. My kid loves the nanny and is generally happy as a baby should be. The
- Amazon interview - Bad bad experience I was contacted by a Amazon recruiter. He set me up for an interview for QAE III, and gave a phone interview, coding round on Collabedit. Went really well and the hiring manager got a feedback stating may be you should try this guy for a SDET II. The hiring manager told me you are guaranteed for nex
- What are LinkedIn's interval levels in Bangalore, interview process duration and salary? I have 6+ years of experience and I applied for Senior Software Engineer position at LinkedIn. I had contacted many recruiters on LinkedIn but they don't reply. Finally I asked someone to ping the recruiter internally to process my profile. I got the test invite and I completed the test with 100% ac
- Amazon recuiter ghosted after asking availability for virtual onsite Amazon managed reached to me on LN. And later a recruiter has reached out to me on behalf of manager. No issues until first round of interview. Later recruiter sent me an email saying hiring manager was impressed by my performance. And she has asked my availability for virtual onsite interviews. R
- passed the onsite and now stuck in team match with Google I am stuck in the team matching phase for a L5 TPM role and not feeling super positive. I had one team reach out and had a call but they decided on another candidate. Nothing in the pipeline now and recruiter says if nothing moves in the next month he will close my application. He made it sound lik
- System Design - chat application Working on a system design problem to build a chat application for 1B users. What is the best way to store the 'lastseen' information for each user? There are 10M concurrent online clients and they send a heartbeat every 15 sec i.e., 600K pings per second. So the datastore needs to be super fast to
- Do I have to time to prepare for external interviews or shall I switch internally in my current situation? Background - I am an SDE1. Will be SDE2 from April. My manager left recently. A new manager was hired and I am reporting to him but I don't work with him. Many people in my team are moved to sister team as they have more projects. I am starting to prepare for interviews now. Red flags - 1. The ma
- FB full remote - career mobility and progression What is your perspective, ideally from inside FB today, on team mobility and career growth for a full remote employee (E5, E6 and beyond)? How much mobility to other teams if I care to switch, or if I'm re-orged? Will the average team hire a remote? Will I be able to get E6+ work? Will virtual onsi
- Alrighty! Let’s talk about new year resolutions. What’s on your mind? Let me make my confessions to start with. - Lesser distractions at work. Finish up work during work hours (max by 7 pm) and maintain WLB. I always ended up working late nights and sometimes in the weekend. Goal is to optimize meetings, get less distracted by pings and unnecessary conversations. And
- Got pip-ed in a subsidiary of Amazon , doubting myself I'm a New Grad( dev list), but she gave me an unclear answer and told me she just wanted me to improve, to become better. After that, I pinged my other colleagues, all of them told me the same as I have mentioned above in paragraph one. I should not be alarmed!!! Stupid me!!! So I worked even harde
- How do deal with jealous/ mean friends? I have a friend we have been really close from 8+ years, have similar age kids. Recently she wanted to switch jobs and got an interview from Facebook. Initially after round 1 she felt she won’t get the job and kept bad mouthing Facebook and I was going along. She actually got through the round and
- Rant Indian companies WLB This is just a rant. One thing I learnt before joining company ask ex employee about the culture and the team. I have been working in the same startup from start of my career. This year has been worst. I have been called to work when I was having fever l. When I told that I am having medical condit
- vote Roku vs AWS Currently in a HCOL city on the east coast. TC: ~175k as Senior SDE ~7 YOE After a few offers the best one I had was with Roku so I signed and I'm set to start day after, this Monday. While the immigration stuff was being taken care of at Roku, an AWS HM pinged me. I interviewed and unexpectedly h
- Mistakes not to make as a new grad SWE? I’ve been having some issues at work. I’m 4-5 months into my first job. Graduated in June ‘21. My manager has pointed out several issues that I need to work on like being responsive on Slack and being online and available, not pinging senior developers constantly asa I get stuck, and instead trying
- Dm me for Salesforce and slack referral Title says it all. Ping me the resume and job ids. #payscale #hr #negotiation #engineering #software #swe #ARM #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDynamics #AppliedIntuition #Arcesium #ArgoAI #ArthurAI #Auth0 #Aviso #Bain #Bigbasket #Blackbuck #Bloomreach #Booz #Box #Box8 #Brex #Bro
- job search help Hello all im graduating with a master's degree in business analytics with data science focus. I interned at 3 different companies in analytics space unfortunately I did not get any full time opportunities due to their budget or visa constraints. I have 2 yrs exp + 3 internship + few certifications
- AMA: Moved from Amazon to Google 3 years ago I have 8 yoe, moved from Amazon L5 to Google L4. Spend 5 years in amazon. I am creating this post to share some thoughts about amazon. During my time in Amazon, I never realized then that: - I was overworked, I would spend 12h on weekdays, but no work on weekends except during oncall rotations. Pe
- My confidence and sense of self-worth are in the gutters An all-time low level for me … I’m now at a point in time where I KNOW I am an imposter. Manager pings me on slack wants to have a quick call with me? I freak out as I somehow KNOW he’s going to fire me. I went from testimonies from my manager / colleagues about my work making me feel slightly be
- How do I get a newbie to back off? I joined a team a month ago as a data scientist and a newer guy joined a week ago. I'm supposed to own the data science work, and while the newer guy has a DS background, he's supposed to own the cloud architecture work. He has been pinging me ideas about doing machine learning work and I've set up
- ArchiveSocial Hiring Now! My company, ArchiveSocial, is growing fast and hiring - apply now! If you apply...send your resume to loveyourwork@archivesocial.com and say Em Seyb referred you! We are currently looking for... - Sales Development Reps - Account Executives -Product Engineers https://app.americanunderground.com/
- Burner interviews for networking? I’m not planning on switching jobs for at least a couple years. But I’m thinking of doing burner interviews with high paying companies like twitter, Dropbox, fb, G, etc, for networking purposes. I could connect with engineers who interview me at those companies, and then I could reach out to those
- How to leave meeting on time? As the only junior person on a team, I'm exhausted from 4+ hours of meeting every day. My boss is in fewer meetings than I am! I'm in many meetings to take and send minutes, which I don't mind doing. What's frustrating is that I also have two 1-1 meetings every day where the senior people won't st
- Bored and unmotivated to work. Need advice I work in an Amazon subsidiary. Reasons I am bored and unmotivated: 1. Mostly average engineers in the company. Some are plain dumb and yet being promoted, which says a lot about the management. 2. New SDE-2's being brought from outside while neglecting promotion of SDE-1's inside of the company
- Referral Request for FAANG!! Hi Everyone! For the last couple of months I've been grinding leetcode questions and preparing so hard for coding interviews. Now I feel pretty confident about my coding skills and also I'm a one of the consistent highly paid Chegg expert ranging [70k-1lakh](This just to tell you about my coding sk
- Need Advice: Coworker lied on resume, can’t do the job but, manager wants to keep them? Need some advice. We have a recent hire who came in and originally I was happy to have someone new joining my team to help out. It seemed like a good idea because my Head Sr wanted to partner with a local community college and just bring in more diversity. As the weeks have gone on, me and my other
- How do you find a (female) mentor? I thought of pinging someone on LinkedIn but I'm not sure if that is out of the blue or intrusive. How much of an existing relationship do you need with someone before you can ask for them to be your mentor? How do you gauge and test if someone might be interested? I would prefer a female mentor be
- Do not work for Visa, Inc I started at Visa just under a year ago. This place sucks. No one respects my input because I'm younger. I'm basically just an overpaid intern running errands for my team all day. The offices are fake-hip (e.g ping pong table, open layout). Some smell like sweat, which is fitting given all of the o
- vote Have you been assigned a task at end of day? 1.Have you been assigned a task at end of day like 6.30 pm and been asked to finish it ASAP? 2.Have you been called or pinged at MS Teams or Slack at 12 am to finish an issue by early morning of next day? 3.Have you been asked status updates at regular times? 1 status per 2 hours 4.Have you been giv