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- I'm tired of WFH but fully support those who want it to continue After over a year of WFH, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing coworkers and being able to have basic human contact with them in person. That said, I fully support all efforts by workers against going back into the office, like the recent Apple petition. Why? 1. Tech workers should collectively
- vote Graduate early and start fulltime vs another internship and graduate on time? Hey, so I currently have an internship offer from Amazon for fall 2020 and am in the process of interviewing with other companies. I am waiting to hear back from a few applications I sent out to companies like Apple, Facebook and several other companies. However, I've already signed a full-time re
- Quitting - without job lined up? Been here for 3.5, almost 4 years. Top performer year over year and its been a great experience, personally and career wise....but I’ve reached the ceiling for growth and the cons have been greater than the pros for a while now. It’s affecting my mental health as I’m overloaded with work due to turn
- Rant: why do companies send interviewers who are not at all interested in interviewing? I recently had a “Technical Architecture Phone Screen” with a company. First off, it took 4 reschedules to get it done because, every time, the interviewer would have a meeting conflict and I’d get reassigned to a different person. Then when we finally got to it, the interviewer was clearly not int
- My Facebook System Design interview experience Folks - Current TC: ~450k L66 Manager. Will drop to 400k next year due to the cliff. I want to post my Facebook system design interview experience. I appeared for an interview for an M1/M2 role recently and got the rejection email on Friday. IMO, all my interviews went really well except one syste
- Healthcare Data Analyst -> Data Scientist Hi Blind, Been working as a data analyst for about 2 years now in healthcare. I've slowly accumulated knowledge in SAS and R, but I know that is nothing impressive. I've come here to ask for your advice on learning SAS as my first proficient data science language/platform. At the clinic, unless you
- Google L3 match starting January I believe I’ve passed HC, (recruiter let me know that the only step left is team/product matching before drafting an offer). They also told me that I have a month to match before my application is closed and I have to go through the entire process. My main worries are threefold: 1. I think I am ap
- Best thing happened during WFH My Friends :-), What were the best things that happened to you in the last two years, now that we are going back to the office? I will start with mine: 1) Got introduced to a nice guy (muscular dystrophy patient), went over web development with him and he landed a job last week, one year of inten
- Good companies for remote SWE roles in 2022 For starters, I've been at MSFT for about 9 months and have been pretty happy so far. I am content with the TC, the WLB, and the overall company culture. I get plenty of interesting work to do, and I can work remotely part of the time, which is nice. So I'm not really in a rush to leave just yet. H
- 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
- vote Oracle (OCI industry cloud-GBU) vs Startup vs Keep Interviewing Hi All, These are my current choices: Oracle M3, not under OCI, team is under the GBU but builds OCI SaaS services to support GBU platforms. 200k Salary / 150k RSU/4 / no signing bonus, team really seems like a great fit Startup recently acquired by FB - risky as once FB acquisition closes there c
- link How I 4x’ed my TC in 1.5 years 🥳🤑 Hi, Click bait! Just kidding… but ya it’s long post. TLDR; If I can go from $44k in TC to $163k in a span of 1.5 years. You can too! I wanted to share my career history in an attempt to show others who didn’t start out in FAANG to not be discouraged. Our career is a marathon not a race. Just bec
- Bad PM interview experience with Uber Just want to share my recent PM interview experience with UberEats, in case this helps people decide. 1) They gave me a prompt for a 'Jam session' and a few days later changed the prompt randomly after I started prepping for it 2) My hiring manager screen went well, so they decided to club my jam
- Life lessons Always balance between work and personal life. Don't stay at a company for more than 4 years. Move ASAP if can't learn anything new at your workplace. Be positive all the time. Positive self talk is very important. Marriage is very sacred. Marry a good person, don't rush just for the sake of soci
- First day in my dream job after switching careers in my 30s Have nowhere else to post this because I’m not one to draw attention to myself on social media, but I’m just really happy and wanted to share. I spent the first 8 years out of college doing something I didn’t enjoy to pay off my student loans and support myself. 3 years ago I fell in love with AR/V
- 3-4 YOE applicant for Google APMM program possible? Interested in applying, but looks like most post-grads who join have about 2 YOE. I have 3 YOE in Digital Marketing (all in Paid Social) on the agency side, plenty of project management experience as well as some freelance social/brand consulting experience from my side hustle b/c I find it interes
- SE, turning 40. Need to pivot? I’m a software engineer with 17 yoe. Have Fang and startup experience. Moved to Seattle last year from SF due to needing space for family. Right around what would’ve been a promotion got laid off. So I’ve been practicing LeetCode etc. Feedback from Principal interviews tends to be amazing on behavi
- link Evolution of a Coronavirus Excellent long read in the New Yorker on the history of this strain of the coronavirus and what the future might hold. https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/from-bats-to-human-lungs-the-evolution-of-a-coronavirus "When forty-one severe cases of pneumonia were first announced in Wuhan, in Dece
- How do you split tasks with someone more senior? I'm on a project that is my main task for 3 months and side task for 2 principals and 3 more people at my level (SR PM). I'm the project lead, and these two principals are more senior than me. The main goal is to write up a 4-page doc of a new feature. The 5 people assigned to help me in this have
- Google L4 Onsite - Reject Just sharing my experience for posterity. Day One: Round 1 (Students passing notes + follow up) * This question was very convoluted and wasn't explained very well. Some details were missed that came up while I was coding. I should have spent more time analyzing the problem. I was able to come u
- Uber pool ride experience I took an Uber Pool for the first time to go to SFO airport from Cupertino around 5pm. Due to the evening rush hour the surcharge was making it too expensive to take a solo ride. So I margined for an extra hour for my shared ride. The driver kept picking up passengers on the way and used up more tha
- vote Stripe on-site hire v no hire Did my on-site a couple days ago. Wondering how close I am to passing the bar. This is my assessment. TLDR: one of my better interviews. Definitely missed one of them so giving myself at best 4/5 pass. Personal review: Coding assessment (no-hire): hung up on optimized solution early. Ended up near
- How do I delay exploding offer I want to keep this as anonymous as possible. Last week on Tuesday, a recruiter came with an offer and asked me how it is; I asked him to get me more signing bonus and gave out the number. He said this "if I meet with your expectations would you be okay with the offer" I said yes. Wednesday he rings
- Going back in the office with unhygienic coworkers So I'm in an unique situation here. I work at FAANGMULASS on a team of unhygienic and obese (half of the team >260lb on the way to My 600lb Life) team. Back in the office days we used to sit very close to each other and I can smell them from miles away. The stench and BO is comparable to MTG and
- Report civil surgeon of malpractice We recently had to go through an ordeal with a Dr. in the Bay Area. Here is the summary - Both my partner and I had to take an immigration medical exam. Due to a rush for immigration medical exams we couldn’t go to our usual places - Stanford / Sutter. We went through the list provided by USCIS, an
- Australians on E-3 visas: permanent residence? Amazon is willing to sponsor me for permanent residence here in the US. It's something I'd like to do to give me confidence to do things like buy a house, add more to my 401(k) knowing I'll be able to take advantage of the tax treatment later on, move in with my girlfriend etc. Having to leave the c
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker, Part 3 (End) Part 1: https://us.teamblind.com/s/WdsT8m8q Sunday, 11:30pm You had a pretty chill weekend. Hung out with a couple friends at a rock climbing gym. Cleaned your apartment for the first time this month. You head to bed to face the week ahead. Monday, 7:15am Your company has been growing fast recentl
- Shopify Offer - Low Base?? Update: I walked away after 5 days of making zero progress during negotiation. —— I’m currently a team lead (managing 3 people) and technical lead role in my current company. 9 YoE My CTC: • 140k base • ~40k in unvested shares (preferred, 11 months left) from the acquisition of my previous start
- Messed up AMZN, Now sad and confused about alot of things ! Hello nice members of blind I had my Amazon OA few days back. And got instant rejection. I did 1 question complete and 13/15 tc for second. 1) First of all i don't understand the cause of instant rejection ! 2) And do I have to wait for 6 months again ? Ofc i want to shift companies to someone who
- Stripe Onsite Postmortem Interviewed with Stripe last month over two days for L3 with 8 yoe. Packet got sent to Candidate Review 2-3 business days later. Rejected a day later. Systems Design. Was mostly high-level and rushed as the entire session was only 45 minutes. Some scale in mind, but simplicity was emphasized. A lot