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- Will AR be this decades mobile boom? I was a little late coming to tech and missed the mobile app gold rush. Didn’t anticipate crypto boom. Been sharpening my dev skills and just trying to think through what to focus on. I assume some of you are in a similar place. Its hard for me to take the Metaverse Zuck pitch seriously. I might be
- Prep time for FAANG interview? I just started my career in SWE, currently enjoying my first full-time position with 7 mo of experience at a small company. I am self-taught, know I have a very high capacity for this kind of stuff, and have been improving very quickly. I would like to start preparing for technical interviews at th
- Advice for small-time CTO who lost faith, finding new job I have worked at the same startup for 12 years, originally as employee #1 and promoted to (non-founding) CTO 5 years ago. This is the only employer I’ve known, successful indie developer prior to this. We raised an 8 figure amount at $300M valuation this year, and we could raise again soon. But I’v
- vote Riding waves in tech: ML vs Blockchain There always seems to be something new and exciting going on in tech with people rushing towards it. Two of these waves I’m interested in are ML and Blockchain. In addition to my general SWE skills, I want to add something “buzzy” to my skill set. I have learned the basics of both areas and still no
- Help with options exercising - Equitybee Looking for advice on Options exercising using services like EquityBee, SecFi, ESOFund, etc. Current FMV is $15 I need $100k to exercise + AMT I have quotes where I receive “this” 100k in return for 25% of upside at liquidity event. This is a non-recourse deal. Lets assume I am okay with this deal.
- Time to receive feedback after second Google onsite interview! I went to the second onsite interview (the first one was back in late June with 5 interviews back to back plus a presentation for 30 minutes + QA ). In the first interview results was good but the position was given to an internal employee, the recruiter told me that he will continue looking for a
- Hopefulness Worked at a tech startup for 2 years before getting laid off from covid. Really loved being at work, felt energized working in the tech scene. Ever since late 2020 I have struggled to find a job that gets me the same energized feeling. Luckily I have savings, but obviously I want to be making money
- Waiting to hear back after Snap on-site I had my virtual on-site interview at Snap for an L7 non tech role 2.5 weeks back. Recruiter was warm throughout prior to the meetings which were staggered over a few days due to COVID. The last meeting was 2 weeks back. Snap seemed to be in a hurry to close as they wanted to schedule meetings real
- link My 6 month journey to an offer Finally got an offer and will be joining Google next month as an L3. During my interview journey I was checking Blind excessively and learned a lot, so I decided to give back a little. Hopefully this post will help some fellow Blinders. The rest of the post will be sorta chronological. Interview Pr
- Had the weirdest recruiter call today I recently went through a full interview round with a company and the hiring manager verbally told me they were going to extend an offer. The head recruiter then asked to speak to me to answer any questions and at that point, I had the weirdest convo I’ve ever had with a recruiter. I’d never spoken
- FMLA to bond with my child My wife and I had a baby roughly 6 months ago. My company offers 4 weeks paid paternity leave, which I have taken. We just learned about FMLA, which will allow me to take 12 weeks unpaid. The problem is, I have to use this within 1 year of the birth, and I have to use my 4 weeks of PTO before goi
- rate my facebook on-site pls Round 1: Behavioral I think it was very strong. The interview ended with more than 5 minutes left, which made me think I addressed at least all of the interviewers data points Round 2: System Design I feel iffy about this one. Interviewer seemed impatient with my responses and was rushing me throug
- link Is this a good deal for a 1BR apartment in Mountain View? Hey folks, I am relocating to the Bay in September so I was in a bit of a rush to lock in a lease. I signed a lease for this 1BR apartment about 20 mins west of Castro (https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/mountain-view/448-mariposa-ave-5-mountain-view-ca-94041--2345179065). Rent is $2.1k/mo with 2k security
- Private Shares - Should I sell in Secondary Market? I worked for a unicorn in Bay Area and quit after 3 years. Exercised all my vested stock options. It has only been 3 months but I am now getting a secondary market offer to sell it at an attractive price that would get me ($550k minus taxes). However, I will be hit with short-term gain. While I be
- vote My life is perfect! Well after so long from past couple of months my life has been perfect! ( not really it’s mostly average but nothing seems to bother me much) I come from a very humble background and being the ambitious person that I am , I would say am very content with my decisions and the turn of the events. I ha
- Interview feedback for Mid Size Tech Start Up Hey guys I recently had a interview at a pretty well to do tech start up. I hit it off with the recruiter and then blew the take home coding challenges out of the water. I had my in person technical interview today. They reviewed my initial coding challenge and I was able to elaborate on all the cod
- SWE Interview Prep Plan Going to start the interview process again and want to make sure I got a good plan in place so I can hopefully get multiple offers. I am in no rush to accept a role, so it's more of creating a solid plan I can implement over the next 3-6 months. Let me know your feedback/ideas: 1) Review Data Struc
- Applied, accepted, but offer has not arrived yet. Hi there, I applied on April 2019 to a major MSP for a technical position. Interview process went well with the exception of long time gaps between one interview and the next. My last interview was on late July. After that I have been contacted by company recruiter and she states that the company is
- Looked incompetent in front of team; how easily are juniors PIP'd from Amazon? I'm a junior with almost a years experience in a startup. First month was onboarding, then I got my first ticket. I ended up taking 3 WHOLE WEEKS to do a ticket which honestly should have taken like 1.5 - 2 weeks max. I f'd up. The ticket required the use of a very complicated e2e test suite. The
- Does the brand of current employer for FB PM interviews Recently got turned down from a FB PM onsite. My concern was the leadership interview going in, but based on interview feedback that was the one that went well. Was told it was due to product sense interview. Was surprised with the feedback as I thought I did well compared to my first round PS inter
- UX designer to front-end developer? I've been a UX designer my entire career (early 30s now). I have no passion for it, and never have. That means that I never get better at it. I'm mediocre, and that's not going to change. I need to do something different, so I'm trying to decide what. I've done a little front-end dev before, and I'
- Amazon bar raiser vs hiring manager - how are mixed signals resolved? I'm interviewing for an L7 role at AWS and splitting interviews over two days. I just completed four on-site virtual interviews and have one more tomorrow. Three of them included video and one interviewer was on his mobile (no video). That was the most difficult interview to read since I couldn't se
- STUDY GUIDE FOR GOOGLE NO BS I have read many of you mention that you use Leetcode or EPI (elements of programing interviews) to prepare for FAANG interviews but i hardly see any posts of a real study plan. I see way too many outrageous posts like oh i finished EPI in a month. You gotta be a genius to finish that in a month bec
- vote N = N + 1 Syndrome - Are you able to beat it ? I’m surprised that this topic is not disscussed on blind where it belongs the most. In our lives, we tend to have targets and when we hit them, we move the target. Coz humans always are looking for the next best thing to give them rush of happiness (adrenaline ?) when they achieve something. That fe
- Should I buy a small 1b apt in San Jose area next year? I have enough money for down payment for an 800K apartment. Reason why I want to buy is that I’ll have to pay a landlord $2.5K a month anyway, why don’t I pay a bank and get to keep the apt in a couple of years.... My wife thinks that we should just rent for the first 2 years to save a bit more mon
- Seen questions In one of the coding rounds in an on-site interview, got asked a LC hard question which I had seen before. I gave the expected approach right away as I knew I’d need time writing out the solution (didn’t try to pretend like I was struggling but explained the approach in detail). The interviewer aske
- vote No offer, but recruiter asking to wait I was reached out to by a FAANG recruiter for a non-tech role, agreed to interview but by the recruiter screen call I had a verbal offer from another company. FAANG Recruiter didn’t mind since it was only verbal but rushed me to the on-site in less than 2 weeks. (This seemed like a good sign) By th
- Series B startup - career advice needed In final stages of interviewing. Really excited about the work they are doing. What comp should I expect? Founder caliber is 10/10. Lots of googlers plus management team is ex-google. I feel I have 1m saved up. And can take the financial hit. I want to go there for the experience and connections. H
- What's up with the random astroturfing and ads on Blind? For those who don't speak English as first language: "Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants." I'll se
- I lost my 2 year old daughter and my wife is critically ill in hospital I don’t know where to go from here. Just burnt the dead body of my 2 year old daughter. And might have to burn another dead body soon. I don’t have mother or father or any siblings. I lost everything. Have nothing to look forward to. I don’t have anyone waiting for me when I get home. Have no purpos