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- How to improve technical interviews People who 1) are rude 2) have poor social skills 3) have poor communication skills 4) are incompetent 5) are arrogant 6) ask irrelevant questions (like brain teasers) 7) ask difficult questions during phone screening should not be allowed to interview candidates. Usually, candidates work very
- got hit by major illness Hi everyone, I got my degree in CS, got a decent job in the Bay area. Worked here 7 years and got pretty good feedback from my employer. And in 2016 got hit by a major illness. I kept trying to manage my job and my health problem but it was becoming increasingly difficult. I would sleep in my car b
- Important terms every Indian techie should be aware of Important terms every Indian citizen should be aware of, especially in FAANG where we pay lakhs per month in taxes: *Black money*: Any money on which tax is not paid is labelled as black money by the government of India. India has an average effective tax rate of 30%-60% considering 50+ kinds of ta
- Share details about your company's interview process! I'll go first. For Amazon (sde): Phone screen stage: Generally one or two ~45 min phone interviews. Usually includes some coding (on collabedit), some basic design, and some basic behavioral questions. I consider this to be more "weeding" than "really aggressively filtering", though most people do
- Have you ever felt like this? ...like you want to goto your parents/lovers but you cannot without losing your job, because what will you do after few months once the money will stop coming from your job and you won't be able to pay for your and their food, bills, etc? ...like you want to really help someone but you cannot, becau
- vote Switch Industries? Hello everyone, I’m new to blind and waned to ask for some advice. I work as an engineer with data science responsibilities at a larger energy company. Lots of my friends are leaving the industry to go work at other tech companies. My understanding is they are even taking a bit of a pay cut to do so
- Data scientist at Microsoft.. what role comes next? Am a current data/applied scientist at Microsoft, 2 yoe. Did my BS and MS in Computer Science (AI focus) at a brand name school (MIT/Stanford) but now I realize nobody in industry really cares. Now I'm working mostly on statistics and machine learning problems at Microsoft, somewhat similar to what
- Just a Book List A list of books of memorable books that have helped me manage the complexities of my life. I have these books and would recommend them to anyone interested, so I thought I would share on blind since I'm not famous. They are in no particular order, but I advise everyone to at least read if they hav
- I Suspect many Task Deadlines are Designed to Force Engineers to Work for Free http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/engineering-deadlines.html Engineering is a frustrating career. Perhaps, that is because engineers have no power and everyone expects them to solve all their problems. And, they expect them to be solved by yesterday. Much of the time, a task comes down from
- What every Indian immigrant should know before coming to the US I’m posting this in work visa because it’s the most relevant but it’s not about that. I was thinking about the differences in living in the US vs India. We know the common differences - there’s the work visa uncertainty/slavery, there is the huge increase in compensation and general “quality of lif
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 2 Part 3 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 This is part 2 of a series. Here is part 1 which has a long intro: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-System-Design---Part-1-4yufM3RY 0. Preface Let me touch on some points from Part 1 flood of comments: Is Nathan
- Happiness is not that hard! The happy posts I see here are usually about: 1. Well negotiated offers in a company they like and a tc they aimed for 2. What’s 2, I guess that’s it? The unhappy posts are about: 1. Plenty of amazon pip experiences ( which is pretty sad) 2. Unhappy marriages 3. Health issues 4. Finance issues 5. B
- Executive assistant For all Administrators in the Seattle area. How much do you make? Total comp. and how healthy are your administrator team's as far as morale and building each other up? My total comp is $60k no bonus, no stock and no career growth. 98% of the entire Microsoft mostly female administrator population
- “Earn Trust” Tenet is Toxic The earn trust tenet, a pillar at Amazon, and an implied or otherwise important idea at most other large companies, fuels toxicity and group delusion. Allow me to explain. Western culture became a dominant force in the world due largely to their effective societal organization. I’m focusing here on
- The game of RSUs Guys, Request you all to think of the big picture here and keep aside your caps of bias/affiliation for once. I genuinely think that this game about RSUs given out as a part of compensation is about to end. Think of it-it is not even real money-just stocks diluted of the actual shareholders who pu
- How do you deal with a directive collegue? This happens to a PM friend of mine in a different company. Now sure how to help her out: "A dev colleague of mine keeps directing me to do tasks. Starts of with an undermining task (open a ticket) and then reflects on the font color of my email. Maybe, I am overreacting , but being a PM, it's slig
- You still want to join at JPmorganchase? https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-employees-vent-about-the-bank-return-office-tracking-effort-2022-5 Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, swaths of the white-collar workforce have experienced a transformation in when, where, and how they work. Powered by technology and the realizati
- Amazon Applicants: What to do if you didn't get an offer but passed an on-site! Hello everyone, I am writing this post just to update you on my experience interviewing with Amazon & the scenario I ran into. This is helpful for you if you were told you passed an interview but the team has rejected you. At Amazon, two main people have the power to hire you, the bar raiser & the
- Work in the twilight zone Okay last vent before I delete this app since my company doesn’t have enough people to have a group and trolls are stupid. My boss has touched me by rubbing my back and accidentally “brushing” against me frequently in the hallway. I work from home as often as I can. HR says it’s on me to tell him t
- Ultimate Guide to Buying House I have bought multiple homes. I always bought in a seller’s market (not by choice) and this is what I learned. 1. How to decide the offer amount: don’t use the listing price, comps, Redfin/Zillow estimates to decide your offer price. In a hot market, none of these are accurate and people who compla
- Amazon's hiring philosophy is wrong Amazon's hiring philosophy is to always hire "up," meaning the interviewers are expected to hire someone who can raise the overall quality of the average developer at Amazon. I think this philosophy has a big hole in it, and it's leading to this this toxic PIP culture. Let's say there's an athletic
- dysfunctional management - data group i worked here for more than few years and was surprised at how this company is portrayed outside and how it actually function inside. i am writing my experience based on my experience with data group 0. military style management - you have to follow orders, otherwise you will be called a traitor an
- Word-salad proclamation from Splunk Former Splunker here. Got curious about a “Notice to Disregard” posted in financial news wire, which retracted this May 3 press release. Is the new head of engineering of sound mind? Still a fan of the company, but…? Splunk Inc. Continues to Reach New Milestones The Software Company, Splunk Inc.
- With high TC comes high depression Wife and I both work at FAANG in the Bay Area. Ages 30/29, combined TC 850K+, net worth 1.5M. No debts (renting, student loans paid off), no kids, perfect health. Aware of how lucky we are to have this life. Just had another of those stressful days at work, where both end up fully exhausted. Then w
- sick to death of 'progressive' fraud and aggression (women in tech) love women. love women in tech. hired and promoted many women at google in technical roles ... years before it became topic of discussion or fashionable groupthink obsession ... before training, c level diversity staff, or self loathing reports about how googlers are not right colors and genders etc
- How does Design work at your company? Obviously, there is variance across different sectors of different companies but what is your experience? Is your work design lead? Is design an equal partner? Is design respected and understood? Are designers treated like gods, slaves or somewhere in between? At MS there is a very wide spectrum.
- vote Can we create a libertarian paradise with Blockchain? Imagine a society built entirely on a Blockchain system such as Ethereum and DAOs (distributed autonomous organisations), and prediction markets (such as Augur) Through the power of the Blockchain, we don’t need the government to regulate money, and that I hope I don’t have to mansplain. Likewise,
- Poor candidate experiences Not a rant but generally sharing (imho) really terrible interview/candidate experiences over the past 6 months and was wondering if others have felt this too and maybe it’s a function of over supply of talent or a by product of under investment and lack of power within HR to advocate for the candida
- WTF is an Enterprise Engineer? It seems like there have been quite a few posts asking about the Enterprise Engineer Role at Facebook, so I decided to write a post to help those who are currently looking or have been contacted by FB enterprise engineering recruiters. When I first received an email from an Fb recruiter, they never
- Should I switch jobs now? Hi! Im a UX designer with 4+ years exp. Im being head hunted by a company that im really interested in working with, theyre a biotech company/startup. It seems like an awesome environment with hopefull better pay, but I've only been at my current company for 6 mos. and dont want to always be a job