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- New grad seeking SWE referral NYC/NJ Hi all, I am seeking referrals for SWE. I am currently working as a data analyst/engineer for a weeks at my current company hate it and want to transition to SWE. For some background, I graduated from T10 CS school and though I have a B.A Data Science degree most of my coursework was typical CS cur
- advice needed * i have been given an open ended project with no acceptance criteria * i am getting projects to prod but i don’t see it’s impact i.e no one seems to be using it * we are going through a bunch of reorgs and my manager changed thrice so there no accountability. * the pm’s don’t share requirements, th
- LinkedIn Senior Software Engineer offer comp Long-time lurker here, greetings! Recently got an offer with LinkedIn but it hasn't yet made it to the compensation committee (team matching is done though). HR asked if I had any expectations but I responded with a plain "I expect you to make me the strongest offer you can ;)" to which they cutely
- vote Salesforce turning out to be sh*thole for me I am not liking salesforce at all. It's been few months now and at the start it's all flashy with the iphone, MacBook and wfh reimbursement but Salesforce culture is shit. It is the most hypocrite culture I have ever seen. I am working in one of the bangalore team and they are running a circus. Wo
- MSFT to FB, WLB vs money I went from Microsoft to FB, have been here for a couple of years, it seems to me that I have been working more than twice as much here, i.e. what I deliver in a half would be enough for a year in MSFT. Plus here I have to do extra crap like people axis, direction, posts, quips and lines of codes an
- vote A holiday song for my fellow Amazonians It's beginning to look at lot like Devplan Every 1-on-1 "Take a look at the job ladder, you failed to raise the bar with Diving Deep and Ownership and more..." It's beginnning to look at lot like Devlist LPs in every Chime But the ugliest sight to see, is the ops meeting that will be Pain in your P
- link DoorDash is the next Amazon This is a very interesting article and opened my eyes a little on what DoorDash is trying to achieve. I think DoorDash nailed down food delivery and now using it's logistics to be the last mile delivery system for anything and everything. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2021/01/15/doo
- What are the characteristics of good managers? Hi Blind Curious to know what are the traits that make for a good manager. It seems all my manager does is create quip docs and ask people for status updates. There is usually little guidance on prioritization or optimization, and comments on docs are also very superficial. In his mind, anything th
- Looking for Tech Internships I am looking for a summer 2021 internship in product management, iOS development, backend, or ML. About Me: I am a US Citizen. I am currently a college student in California with an expected graduation date of 2023 (Masters). I can push up my grad date to 2022, if I only do bachelors degree. I am i
- Will it get better from here on? I have been in Amazon for around bit less than 2 years now. I joined during implementation of a large project, and slowly whole team left over the span of 6 months. I performed the necessary onboarding for all the new team members, and then I was provided to lead next large scale project. For las
- Referrals! Hi Blind community, I'm a rising junior, majoring in CS, Applied Math, and Cognitive Science at a T10 school. I have a couple of internships under my belt, and have completed 200+ LC problems and two decent personal technical projects (https://adonde.netlify.app/go if you'd like to check it out!).
- Deteriorating mental health at Amazon It's been 9 months as SDE 2 at Amazon and I've already swithched teams. Now I'm unable to cope up with working here because of the following reasons :- 1. Struggling with Internal tools and legacy Coral Services. People in my org don't care about NAWS. I'm sick of Apollo, MAWS, Coral, LPT and inte
- AWS SDM from the heart I'm a little drunk, forgive me. I joined AWS last year and was very excited despite all of the stories on Blind. Many of them revolved around how having a bad manager put the nail into the coffin, so I figured I'll be a good manager and things will be fine. This was naive. All of you post PIP PIP
- From laid off to 6 offers and 2x TC Sorry this post is late, I know some people were waiting for me to write this TL;DR: Got laid off, was sad, studied hard, did a bunch of interviews, did a bunch of back-to-back onsites, got 6 offers, doubled my previous TC This is my story on how I went from someone that never leetcoded or done a
- On why you should not join or stay in Amazon Hi everyone, I wanted to write this as I have a lot of free time now...my vacay was cut short due to coronavirus and I essentially have like 3 weeks of free time before my next gig. I enjoyed working at Amazon's subsidiary from 2017 to 2018. I delivered very well for my manager here and our team w
- So much for humble brag Blind, my TC is not much to talk about but here’s a “humble brag”; compassion for manager who fired me and ability to move on without letting his decision impact my self esteem. (Pic at end of post, Blind not allowing me to insert pic middle of post) ———— My only regret, if I may call it that, i
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