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- OCI Oracle crazyyy ToRB.... please do not join. Since I joined only thing I did so far is region build and recently ToRB. program managers dont understand what is going on and getting pages specially during weekend. this is becoming a trend, every friday around 5pm ToRB PM will ping you and ask you build your region right now, even though you are
- Interview coaching/Mock interviews Hi everybody I am in the process of preparing for a Amazon TPM interview, senior/principal/staff , whichever is most senior, and as part of this process, I have been reading on the LP principals, preparing stories in the STAR format. As part of this search/investigation, I came across multiple y
- Going to use Blind for strictly helping others I went through a gruelling interview process and got really good pointers from a lot of people at Blind. There's a lot of toxicity in this community, but you can also run into some really amazing people. I just cracked a dream TC (at least for me) and I'm now not going to TC chase for a bit and try
- Airtable Onsite Interview PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST. I HAVE ADDED MY INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE AT THE END. ————— I have an onsite interview at Airtable and I’m wondering how should I prepare. I was told by the recruiter that there will be 3 rounds as follows: 1. DS and Algo where I’ll need to implement Airtable feature from
- Leave a good job for more $$ or continue to milk it? I have a really really chill job at Amazon, I work in a non tech job in a non tech org, I have no deliverables that cause stress, I work maybe 20 hrs a week, most of that is just emails and meetings. I generally try to bunch all my meetings up so that I can start at 9am and be done by 1pm, some d
- Tips for improving at corporate life I’ve worked all my life as a contractor and in small startups (5 people teams at the most) and I’m having a hard time adjusting to life at Amazon, though it may have been the same at another big corporation. 1. I spend a lot of my time piecing together information from multiple conversations trying
- Google recruiting - Please fix your process. One of the most unprofessional I have ever seen Hi, I generally do not want to categorize a group of people based on a a couple of instances nor do i like writing long posts, but this experience warrants it. I am a software engineer with a decade of experience with a strong computer science background and with good accomplishments. I tried to
- I have a different story about Amazon There's a lot of negativity about Amazon as a company. They have - toxic culture, inconsiderate managers, poor WLB, don't care about employees, no free food etc. Well after reading all this on Blind. I was full of negative thoughts starting my first days at Amazon. I thought bad things would start
- State of tech Interviews Interviewing rant: I have been interviewing for the last month onsite at all type of places. (3 a week for the last 3 weeks) This is the first time I really interview in the last 5 years. And over the last month my skills as a real day to day coder went down but my skills at interviewing went up.
- FB PM interview - terrible interviewer. Can I do anything about it? Got pinged by a recruiter for a PM role. Took the opportunity, prepped and started the rounds. Finished 2 rounds and was in product execution. I had practiced like 100s of product scenarios and was pretty confident about it. Interviewer gives me prompt. It was a decent question and I started listin
- Hard time given by my SME/Peer I have been asked to train with a peer who is an SME in our tools and database. Since day 1 this person is professionally bullying me. When I ask him a doubt he will either tell me to refer to Google and look find myself or look at confluence. Later he would say please reach out to me whenever I hav
- link warning: Stay away from Pinterest TLDR - Pinterest does not treat employees well and you will have a chance to work with real stupid people in your day-to-day life. More likely your manager stabs you in the back and none of their promises will be true. People who actually do things are burning out and not rewarded. If you consider y
- vote Should I leave my job over denied PTO (and other issues)? Hi everyone! Writing this since I’m really disappointed with my new job. I started back in January in a fully remote role. A lot of the people I was supposed to work with quit around the time I joined. My manager (she’s a new one) didn’t really onboard me properly in the first few weeks and month. I
- How to escape analysis paralysis, stop running from problems, & move forward? See title. I came up from nothing - poor family, 1st gen college student, have overcome a horrible childhood to turn myself into something: a whole, happy person, with a great career. Somewhere along the line, however - I lost my way. I have detailed suicidal thoughts daily, the startup I’m at has
- Amazon isn't as bad as it's painted to be: Canada I'm relatively new to Blind - only got on here for the job search. I've seen a lot of stuff on here about Amazon and I figured it's probably worth it to set the record straight. Disclaimer: I'm a Sr SDE based out of Canada. I don't think I've ever been in the bottom 50%, so my experience is based o
- vote Microsoft L61 vs Amazon SDE1 Edit: Just signed with Microsoft! Recruiter came back with 30K additional stock. Final offer: 132K base, 110K stock, 20K sign on. Not the best offer out there but good enough for me. At the end, it wasn't really about the TC anymore, I just wanted to come out on top. I couldn't join a company feelin
- What does a SWE1 get PIP’d for? I joined my company about 6mo ago, and we started wfh about 3 months ago. Working from home has been really rough for me, and the last few weeks Ive been slipping kind of hard. Its not like I havent done anything, but Ive been finishing about 60% of my sprints while my TM’s typically finish about 90
- vote #30DaysWithoutPhone Starting a new resolution that for next 30 days, I'll not use my phone. Anyone want to join me and share experiences? Day 1 - Had more time for everything - family, friends. Happier, focused and feel more energetic. I did need the phone for a few calls with friends and family, video, photo, for 2FA
- Do not let anyone tell you, you are not worth anything - My Journey. I want to share my journey from absolutely nothing to something. Little background: Male 31 yrs old from India. 10th : 66%, 12th : 56%, UG(electronics): 67%, Grad(MS CS): 3.5. Folks from India would understand what 56% (~D grade) in 12th would mean. After my results, I wanted to hide from the world
- Team Seems Off? Or are my expectations high? This is not a rant, just want to see if there are red flags I should be aware of and plan a move internally at G. Manager: > When I take additional / side work (all relevant to the business) outside of my sprint tasks, during stand up, my manager will not add it to the sprint notes (he document
- Quant at BB Bank/JMPC/Wells Fargo, or Amazon SWE? I'm a new grad finishing up school and am fortunate to have to decide between the two following opportunities. I'd be grateful if people could drop their own two cents. 1. Entry Quantitative Analyst/Data Science at Wells Fargo/JPMC ~$130-140k + yearly bonus. 2. Amazon SDE-1 ~$160-170k total com
- Stripe recruiter ghosted me after interview TLDR: Interviewed for L4 SWE role. Recruiter strung me along, then ghosted me after final round. Sharing my interview experience as enough time has passed that I'm convinced the company has moved on. Applied for an L4 SWE role on a product team. Initial round consisted of 2 interviews - a design r
- Internal Transfer Guide - Career Cheat Codes Here is a quick guide for your career. This is for doing an internal transfer. It is like applying cheat codes when you’re newer in your career (years 1-5). For older folks they generally have more leeway and options for which team they join, but when you start out it can feel like rolling the dice.
- Facebook newgrad disaster story I joined FB as a newgrad E3 in mid-2019. I had previously interned there and absolutely kicked ass, finishing my project in half the time. My intern manager even told me to stop working so many hours and didn't believe me when I told him I was working <40 hrs a week. I had ~5 years of experience
- WFH I have found many people commenting or writing about WFH on Blind, LinkedIn, other sites, like it is some kind of mystery. It takes time to adjust and the keys are to: 1. Plan, 2. Communicate, 3. Focus on one thing at a time, 4. Take intermittent breaks to recharge 5. Exercise 6. Self Reflect on
- Suggestion needed!! Hey Blind community, so I joined Oracle this January as an IC2 after giving Zoom interviews - there were 4 rounds in total. A couple of those interviews were taken by a senior from the same team that I ended up joining. So, in my first week when I was chatting with some of my team members, out of th
- Sharing experience Hello Blinders! I have used blind to prepare for interviews, offer negotiations, h1b related questions and many more things. It's time for me to give back. It might not be much different from other post but will share it anyways. I was laid off from Uber in May and as I was on H1B, I had only 3 mo
- link Facebook PM offer negotiation (L6/L7) & team matching Hey team blind Some info before my actual question: My Current TC: $230K at a Series C stage startup My profile: total exp 15 years pm exp: 10 years ex-founder M.S in computer engineer -> then MBA from top US B school Currently, I Work in Developer Ecosystem: CI/CD, and Data obseravbility. Workin
- Options moving forward Currently talking to 4 places: TuneIn, Sr/Staff SWE. Applied for Staff but I think they probably expect considerably more YoE based on first phone call (non-technical). Tech call scheduled soon. Numbers quoted put TC at ~180-190 (with potential to go higher if I blow them out of the water and
- Vancouver - SAP - Senior Developer Please ping me if interested I can refer you :) Job Title: Senior Developer, Data Management and Platform Infrastructure Team COMPANY DESCRIPTION SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how busin