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- Facebook US quorum feedback Hi, I had my onsite with fb London last week and when I asked for the feedback today, the recruiter told me that my interview feedback was positive and they have got approval from London quorum and they will be seeking approval from the US quorum shortly. what are the chances of getting an offer fro
- Facebook recruitment: What exactly is the quorum? A FB recruiter told me that interview results go through a quorum. Is that something like Google hiring committee?
- What happen to AP system during network partition? Got ask this in interview, and didn't know the answer Like Cassandra without quorum or strong consistency And dynamo db without strong consistency Do data just diverge when network is back? TC 250
- facebook post virtual interview feedback Hi, I had virtual interviews with facebook 3days back and today i mailed HR asking about status, she said, she got feedback and now she will take it to quorum and let me know of details for further steps. Please help in understanding what this means?? Should i be positive or negative? facebook gu
- Post fb on-site I got an email update after on-site that fb need to wait for quorum to decide. It’s been 5 days since on-site. What does it mean? Anyone with insight can help on this? TC: 275k (include stock appreciation)
- Must know terms for systems design interviews So far I have compiled: Stateless session Sticky sessions Cache: LRU, LFU CDNs Data Replication Fault tolerance Versioning Read write quorum Data consistency Data backup Eventual data consistency Consistent hashing/sharding Fixed/moving window interval Block storage NoSql vs sql GeoDNS Load Bala
- FB post onsite Hi, I had interview with Facebook 1week back and on last friday i mailed HR for feedback. She said feedback came in and taking to quorum for discussion. How long do you think this will take and also since i read couple of posts on blind that recruiter said feedback is positive negative etc. Shou
- How do perf reviews work at FAANG? At Lyft: everyone submits a self-evaluation + nominates a few people for peer reviews. Managers in each org get together in "calibration", they review each individual, that person's manager proposes a level and (I believe) some quorum of managers on the calibration panel need to agree for the level
- Distributed Systems Work in Seattle I worked at a larger company before building real distributed services. I left due to toxic culture but miss the technically challenging projects. Most of the companies I know use Google/Aws for infrastructure. Any small/mid sized companies in Seattle doing real distributed systems work? Edit Distr
- Why does Amazon's rating in Blind have one point differential than glassdoor I just have a curious question on why there is one point rating gap between glass door and blind. I found the ratings of other big companies like Google and Facebook are pretty close between glass door and blind. Is this because the quorums are different? But it doesn't make sense Google is consiste
- What should I respond to the facebook recruiter? I had an interview with Facebook and now the recruiter comes back to me and asked me whether I want to work remotely or want a relocation to the bay area. He didn't tell me why but he asked me to choose one of them before sending my case to the quorum. do you know choosing either can impact my chanc
- How in-depth do system design rounds go in terms of consistency models? For example, to achieve strong consistency, I can say that just make sure w+r>=n, where w is number of nodes to get successful write response with, and r is the number of nodes to successfully read from. And I can explain why that gives strong consistency. But I found that even with the above str
- Question on system design interview for Google L6 and Amazon L7 Got interviews scheduled. What level of details are we expected to go in Sys Design for G L6 level/ Amzn L7? Do we need to talk at the implementation level of DBs, ES, msg broker e.g. SSTables, LSM Trees, leader-follower vs leaderless, quorums etc, details of consensus algos (paxos), OR just t
- Does Cisco follow the same approach as Amazon in hiring (PMs) A friend is interviewing with Cisco. Does Cisco follow the same approach in the hiring decision-making after interviews as Amazon - when all interviewers share the notes and discuss their points regarding the candidate or Cisco's is more of a quorum type process when everyone votes "Yes" or "No"? Th
- Matterport Hiring Timeline? Passed HR interview mid November, asked to interview with HM a week later. Interviewed with HM this week. Any idea how long till I should expect to hear back about next steps? I have Amazon on hold because their HR was unwilling to guarantee remote and I find Matterport more interesting, but comp w
- Thank you blind Due (in part) to all the great discussions and PMs on blind, I have received great offers from Amazon, Apple and Google recently. Blind consistently encouraged me to "leetcode", "TC or GTFO" and "vote with your feet". Thanks for that! TC and Yoe ---------------------------------- Current Microsoft
- Facebook SWE Product Design Interview I've recently finished my fb onsite and had a product design (/product architecture) round. I couldn't find lot of information online when I was preparing for this interview and how it is different from System design, hence I decided to share my experience over here. Disclaimer: The experience dep
- [India] Thank you Blind! Google L5 PM Offer YoE - 5 (3 Dev + 2 Product) Current TC - 40 LPA I recently had a call and signed my offer with Google Hyderabad. Blind went a long way in helping me in my course of action at the later stages. To give back to the community, sharing my experience below : Timeline - 1. Application and Rejection : I
- link Facebook - MLE onsite Interview feedback/recommendation/rant I currently have 13 yoe in software and I am at a very senior role at my current company. (senior TL / ML / Architect). I lead a team of 10 people (Engineers, Data Scientists, and etc...). I was promoted recently to an Architect to lead multiple ML teams of the same size with more scope, responsibil
