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- Lack of emotions I suffer from a lack of emotions, especially when it involves other people. If it involves me directly, I do feel it. A lot of times, when normal people feel emotions like sadness, sympathy for other people, I don't have the same emotions. Is it some extreme version of selfishness? Today, my best f
- Transitioning as a PM from a digital agency to tech/SaaS company Hi all, I'm currently in a Product Manager at a digital/creative agency helping Fortune 100 companies design, build and launch web products. I work really closely with design and engineering folks but don't own products and product decisions end-to-end (just how things are at an agency). Despite th
- Question about Google hiring process I applied for a Designer role at Google last April 2018. I passed the phone interview and Design Exercise. After the on-site, it took the recruiter over two weeks to get back to me. She told me that they wouldn’t move forward for that position since they were searching for someone more senior but th
- Amazon: Manager talked about performance issues, what do I do? I have been working in a team for 3 years. I am the second most senior guy in this team, and was regarded as a high performer by my previous manager, who was considering me for a promotion to L6. Then a new manager joined in. He talks in Hindi meetings and I am not comfortable with that, he yells at
- Working from home- anyone else agree? So, I think that it decreases my job satisfaction overall, but increases my life satisfaction and general well being. Here are things I can do now that I couldn’t before: - nap during lunch - workout during lunch - workout before work - fold laundry while on calls - have dr appts and other kinds of
- link Amazon Qualified ( New Grad SDE ) looking for SDE1 referrals Hey People, I have considerable coding skills and I have consistently been a hard worker throughout my life. I have 1+ yrs of professional work exposure to the following skills: - Java - Javascript , Bootstrap, Spring - Python - SQL ( Oracle, MSSQL) & NoSQL ( Cassandra, Mongo ) - Jenkins Academ
- PSA: GCP = AWS. Here's my story of first 2 months. I was unsuccessful with team matching for months. I decided to expand my area of interest to GCP. I read horror stories of it on Blind but I thought "they prob exaggerating" Nahhh. GCP felt like AWS since week 1. Day 1: I get pulled into 1 on 1 with manager by 9AM. Thought cool, he wants to welcom
- To Microsofties A similar post changed my life so I am returning it back to the community. As a blind rule, YOE 5, TC 750k. 5 years ago I joined Microsoft right after college. The honeymoon phase passed soon after I received my first year stock refresher: $2700 prorated. My classmates who joined GF all got 10 tim
- link Can you be my mentor? To all Techies out there, i need a mentor please. I have been alwas struggling to change the job, everything is of high priority for me then studies. I bought Udemy course most of them, enrolled recently in full stack development course (10 months plan). I also have Leetcode (tried 100 easy proble
- No acknowledgement from fresher for my efforts in her ramp-up There is a college fresher joined last year in our team whom I helped in her ramp-up, in true words I spoonfeeded her in initial days as she was not able to understand lot of things. I put lot of efforts in training her, making her comfortable to work in the team, lot of informal and formal sessions
- Had a fight with vendor Has a fight with a vendor who has been working here for years. It was an urgent request and he has been pulling everyone on my team when he cannot find me in 30 mins, during which he hasn't ping me or what! After I made the change they need and waiting for some more info, he just disappeared. So I w
- Why Did I Fail Google Initial Coding Screen? I got pinged by a Google recruiter for a Junior Engineer role a little while back, applied and got scheduled for an initial phone coding screen. The problem I got seemed pretty easy and straightforward: Implement a basic Excel-like program that supports assigning/retrieving cell values, basic arith
- How do you respond to business solicitation emails I get solicitation emails occasionally like “does your team face xxx issue if so contact us” usually ignore them since they’re just like ads to me and I’m not in the position to answer them (totally an IC) either. Recently I got someone keep pinging me >5 times asking what’s wrong and why I haven’
- Team is bad fit - worth making a lateral move and stay < 1 year? Joined this year and the team has been a s***show to say the least. Constant attrition, changing of managers, and the actual team members I have seem to be a bad fit. After a month or two, the job didnt seem great and after many more months, things don't seem that they will change. Have tried to giv
- Wouldn't IOT, Wireless Tech & Robotics bring more Testing jobs? Lot of my QA friends are genuinely worried about the future of their profile. A particular incident happened when a colleague pinged me at 2 am in the night describing how worried she was about the future opportunities! Even though she was getting enough offers and a really good job in hand. As of
- ADD Accommodations I am trying to decide if whether or not I should ask for ADD inattentive ADHD accommodations. I recently started a new job with one of the contracting companies at Facebook and they are not giving me enough time to adjust to the demands. I work as a Content Review Analyst and the QA grading my jobs
- Rationale for MSFT -> AMZN move I have a few questions for AMZN folks and specially folks who've gone there form MSFT. I'm a L65 Dev Lead total comp ~245k. 3 years at level with above average scores last three years (120/120/140). Got told no promo to L66 this year as all promos in and into principal are frozen pending coming RIFs
- Amazon Downlevel and team matching Interviewed for SDE II role in a central European country, got down leveled to SDE I after the all the interviews, which I am completely fine with since I have ~1.5 YoE. The recruiter called me 2 weeks ago and mentioned that she had to create a new requisition and perhaps, would have to do a team m
- vote Did I mess up? Things were pretty light on my team last Monday, so I pinged each of my managers and asked them if they could use my help with anything or if there was anything I could take off their plate. One of my managers asked me to host a big meeting they were running on Zoom from my Zoom account, and I was
- Comprehensive list of Twitter benefits -Free gourmet breakfast and lunch prepared in-house. I've eaten at almost all the tech companies in the Bay Area and Twitter's food is definitely one of the best. Only Dropbox and Linkedin are on the same level. But I think LinkedIn uses the same company so that's why. This is why I come into the of
- Google EMEA Research Intern Host Match Hi! I've been stuck in host matching for Google Research EMEA for the last few months. Recruiter told me that I should have been fine since I entered the pool really early in November, but didn't get any bites due to conference deadlines / holidays. Its now February and despite pinging recruiter reg
- Is it even legal? I have seen a company keeping tab on their employees to check if they are working or not, how they are utilizing their 9 hour time and what they are doing, they even have a monitoring software installed in work laptop so employee have to be active every time and have to explain if they go inactive,
- How easy it is to not feel anything, feeling stuck #mentalhealth #relationships Hello friends, It's been almost 2 years she left me, and I still miss her. Like every single day like more than 30 percent of the thoughts are related to her. I feel like I m stuck, but sometimes I feel like no, I moved on. But I don't know, why I still have a soft corne
- Recruiters Apple general recruiter contacted me, we had an email exchange, we had a phone call too. She likes it so she hands me over to the internal recruiter. We exchange a few emails, she connects me to a team that is interested, and asks me to suggest a few dates for a possible phone interview. I responde
- How should I start the interview process with Google? (L3/L4 SWE) Here is my goal: I want to interview for L3/L4 SWE position at Google (I have 2 YOE), but it would be ideal if I can skip the phone screen because I have other onsite interviews scheduled. I think I have two possible ways to try. I have a sourcing recruiter (third-party recruiter) who is working w
- Meta DS - Product Analytics interview: timeline of operations I had a virtual onsite interview (four rounds) with Meta on Wednesday 1/12/22. This is my first "big tech" interview. I'm trying to put together what happens next and as I understand it, the first step is that the interviewers all input their feedback into some internal tool and subsequently determi
- 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
- Stuck on “waiting for 1 interviewer feedback” for a month (Google) Hello! Any recruiters at Google here have experience with this scenario? I had a full TPM virtual on-site for TPM in SWE last month and my recruiter was pretty prompt in reaching out right after but it has been a month since the on-site and there is still 1 interviewer recommendation missing. Here
- Waiting for RFE notice for over 2 weeks Recently accepted a FAANG TPM offer and the H1B transfer was initiated last week Of April. On 5/6 came to know that it has been RFE’d. It’s been 2 weeks since and the legal office is still waiting for the RFE notice from the USCIS to reach them. I have been pinging the legal team like crazy but the
- Pre onboarding meeting with founders I am joining a small startup(bootstrapped, 50 employees, I am first product hire) as a Sr PM in 2 weeks time. I just pinged the HR for staying connected and generally asked about the onboarding plan, they have setup a meeting tomorrow with the CEO(interviewed and hired me) and the CTO. 1. What shal