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- New grad applied ML roles, where to apply? Apologize if this is cliché since it seems like every new grad wants to work on a "ML" related team. ----- I'm currently wrapping my internship as an applied scientist on an ML team at Microsoft. I'm happy with my role/team and like the work, but since fall recruiting season is coming up, I thoug
- Tesla’s hiring process is so broken, reflects so poorly on the culture Position: TPM It took 6 months to go from interview to yes but need final approvals to a rejection. Month 1: Interviewed with recruiter 1:1 Interviewed with HM 1:1 Month 2: Interviewed with another team member 1:1 Interviewed with panel, presentation and ten 1:1s Recruiter says the interviews wen
- vote Planning to build a service to help Amazon managers meet PIP/URA target Hear me out, this is inspired by another poster on blind from a few weeks/months ago, by someone who was volunteering to join a hire-to-fire Amazon position WITHOUT QUITTING CURRENT ROLE, in order to get free severance money. There are several people who wouldn't mind being put on Amazon's no hire
- With great TC comes great responsibility People who say they increased their TC multiple times in last 1-2 years, sometimes stop at that and don’t mention what changed in terms of work, in terms of WLB, what changed in their personal life with that TC. An engineer on BLIND looks at the TC and starts running behind it. But behind that TC i
- *Cruise / Skydio / T-mobile referral needed* I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing department. I have been interviewing for Procurement positions at Facebook, Microsoft, Lyft, Palantir, DocuSign
- vote Need advice on Okta + current Apple TC Hello Blind , I am current working with Apple as a SWE . I got transitioned into this role from a QA Automation role about 2 years back due to a reorg. Although I love my current job as I get to learn a lot and I feel this is one of the best work I have done ever , the compensation is not good enoug
- (Seattle) Public vs Private Christian Schools quality Private School vs Public School Yet another private school vs public school concerns but I would like to get some viewpoints. I am keeping my profile info private considering the sensitive nature of my query. 1. Our daughter goes to a private Christian school for Kindergarten, our public school wo
- 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
- Anyone a Business Intelligence Analyst @ Google? essentially the title. long post alert I wanted to see if i could ask a few questions and also ask how the interview was like. Thats if you can say anything. I really think I would do well in this position and I’m just trying not to screw anything up for my HR phone interview and then on site inter
- What I learned from the last recession Disclosure: I founded Jobscan. This is an unprecedented time. I won’t go into details about the virus, social distancing, or toilet paper madness, but about how this economic impact could affect our employment and income. Some economists are noting we’re heading into a deep recession, if we aren’t
- Thank you Blind - meta offer I have joined Blind since 2019 and following since then. A bit of my journey. I have more than decade experience on financial domain, I have been financial software engineer doing backend stuff. I was a part of the investment banking bandwagon victim, however I enjoyed all time in this domain. It wa
- vote Should I go for Masters or look for a job switch? Hey everyone, I am a 23y old living in India and working for a small startup as a Web Dev. Graduated in 2020 with a very shitty GPA(2.8gpa) from a Tier 3 university in CS. I just wasn't serious enough in life during college days and didn't think coding was for me. I regret it. Now I'm planning to
- link Aren't we becoming too sensitive? Read it recently, that we should begin to use word denial-list for blacklist and accept-list for whitelist. Like why? Why do we have to relate black/white with race there? They are just colors. We aren't saying blackpeoplelist or blackracelist. That reminds me of an old joke: A guy asks another guy
- 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
- IBM India Functional Verification Role Hi fellow users! I need help getting advice regarding an offer in functional verification at IBM India (ISDL) Base - 15L Joining Bonus - 3L + 3L Location - Bangalore I have another offer from Mentor graphics(Noida) for emulation based verification. Base at Mentor is 16.5 L, but joining bonus is 4L
- vote Rate my manager ? Hi folks, My Manager shows below positive & negative traits. Can you please help me make a decision to work with him furthur or not ? Positive traits - Team delivers good amount of deliverables. - He is having good growth in corporate ladder. Negative traits - Pushes each & every sub-ordinate to
- Move an interview bc the reruiter asked? In the middle of an interview process and made it to the “onsite” stage. I purposefully scheduled a month out bc I currently have a job and actually in the middle of a high-profile deliverable and support. So I have no time to properly prepare until starting 2 weeks from now...efffectively 2 weeks
- Why the f*** do companies ghost? Dealing with self doubt since then! So, during mid of January, I got a message on Linkedin from a company and she asked me if I am interested in a profile of Senior Analytics Engineer at Gurgaon. After discussions with her over a call, I accepted and went through the interview process. Here are the details: [INTERVIEW DETAILS] 1) Onl
- Visa / HashiCorp / Zoom / Stripe / T-mobile / Verkada / GoPro / Skydio / Confluent referral needed I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing department. I gave interviews for Procurement positions at Facebook, Palantir, DocuSign, Twilio & Splunk and di
- My experience getting a Meta PM E6/L6 offer with only 6 YOE Can't believe this is happening! No official offer yet, but heard from the recruiter things are looking good 😊 My profile: Joined Google with 4 YOE as L4 Got to L5 in a year or so and this is my current level at G Got an offer for L6 about a year later Current TC: 450k at Google New TC: TBD Total
- Microsoft India Interview Experience (New-grad SDE)(2022) I applied in Microsoft Engage program and they replied me that my profile got shortlisted for the role and they would like to proceed further. Step 1 - OA, there were 2 ques in OA, and was supposed to be finished in ~60-70 min, easily available on one google search lol. Then they mailed me that I p
- Evaluate offer - Senior Engineer at Nordstrom Not LE. On H1B. STEM Masters from a reputed US school, Non CS background. Currently pursuing an MS CS part time which will complete sometime next year. About 5 years dev/data science experience prior to Amazon in a little known company. Currently SDE1 at Amazon/AWS for about 2 years now, 117 Base 8
- Am I Qualified + Referrals? Hi all, I’m thinking of focusing my career on PM and would greatly appreciate the communities feedback. I’m a Chief Digital Officer with 15 years experience in Digital Marketing & eCommerce (DtC and B2B) driving digital transformation, startups etc. The secret to my success has been an obsessive f
- 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
- 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
- Okta referral needed A little bit about me. Currently working for a large insurance company in their Procurement / Sourcing department managing hardware, telecom, software & professional services categories. I was part of the Strategic Supplier Management Office (SSMO) at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) managing Tie
- Which teams at Microsoft are on the lookout for freshers for mobile application developer roles (0-1 YOE)? I have a year of work ex as a software developer at Oracle, and am looking for a job switch currently. Microsoft seems to be a good place for growth and learning. Currently, I am just focussed on going to a company where I could get to learn a lot of stuff while on the job. After talking to a few f
- Mid career crisis First of all, thanks for reading this. I want to get help from other blinders and get their perspective about my career progression. I have about 21 years of software industry experience and spent 20 years working in a company (X) which catered to clients in a niche area. I started as C/C++ develope
- How do I become a truly great engineer? Background : A couples of month out of grad school. started my first job and have a very supportive boss and chill team over all. I look at profiles of engineers and researchers and the very best of them come from top notch schools, few of them are prodigies, have excellent projects and research pa
- Career advice - Have to change jobs ASAP - without proper time for LC - Engineering Manager path? Hi all, I worked at Cisco for 5 years (Closer to a SRE than SWE - was in Internal Tooling), then went to IBM (and another company we were divested to) for 7 years (2 years SWE, 3 years Services SWE). Most recently, I've created a product from scratch using Spring/React. I've sold it to customers, de