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- Aftermath of Abusive Supervision Hello Blind family I am writing this post because I am frankly exhausted and feel like I am about to lose it. I was managed out of walmart at the home office (in a manner contrary to HR policy; this was according to HR, and i have emails i exchanged w/ HR referencing those conversations). I was ma
- How could I have handled this situation better at Amazon? I was working as a SDE1 at a team in #Amazon. Companies outside amazon were approaching me constantly offering me higher salaries, but since I was learning a lot in my current role, I was choosing to stay in my role only. But, soon, one company made an offer, which was too good to refuse. Before fin
- E6 System Design interview - level of detail/depth compared to Grokking? I’m struggling with time management. I’ve been struggling to find good study material for the sys design interview at Facebook. I have the DDIA book, which is pretty good, but it’s not too focused on individual architecture reviews like Grokking is. I think I prefer Grokking’s style, but it does seem slightly basic. Nevertheless, it ha
- AMA - Recently got FB PM offer and cleared other PM interviews with the pure intention to help others during these tough time i can snswer any questions you might have about the prep, interview process and negotions for PM job at FB, LinkedIn and Amazon where i recently clear interviews and accepted FB offer. thanks to fellow blinders for the help, motivation
- vote Does doing well on leetcode mean they'll be a good engineer? (Or should we also ask engineering questions?) L6 TLM, 18 YoE, $630TC, 6 years at Google Posted this similar in Google lounge, want to get thoughts here too. Warning wall of text. There is so much focus on leetcode-style data structures & algorithms interview questions these days. Maybe they're a weak indication of how "smart" the candidate an
- Applied ML role vs product/feature-building software engineer? I was a software engineer on a product team in a Bay Area tech company (not a top company, more like Intuit, Cisco, etc) before my masters. Got my masters and now I'm working on applied ML. Feeling lost because I have no passion for applied ML and would rather be building features on products. I do
- vote [Seeking Advice] SWE @VC, take it or not? Hey guys! I am a recent-promoted E4 at Meta. Recently, I got a "non-traditional" offer from a tech-focus venture capital firm (5B+ asset under management). They are hiring the 1st engineer to join and automate the deal sourcing & diligence pipelines. They also expect this role to have 30% of time i
- Should I apply to PjM or PgM position at Meta? I'm a project manager in a non-tech industry. I want to get into a large tech company mainly because there's not much long term career growth in my current industry/company. I have experience in handling a bunch of projects and working with leadership in a way that's similar to a program manager. I
- Amazon Hiring a Program Manager just to fire people? Never seen anything like this? https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=28a4d6ec57b456ab&tk=1e4rm6lj1f90r801&from=serp&vjs=3 Bachelor’s in business, HR or related field 5+ years of HR, project or program management related experience Advanced knowledge of HR/Payroll processes and systems that help admini
- link AWS L5 SysDE recent promo to $175k TC - thoughts? I think the title pretty much says it all for hot takes and TL;DRs. Recent promo from L4 SysDE (155k TC) to L5 SysDE (175k). Uber mega late promotion. 5 YOE as a software developer, 3 in company. Is my TC offer low? Kind of feels like it. Basically got a 20k salary bump with no stocks this cycle, o
- Doordash culture and Values This has popped up on a few threads so x-posting here Doordash values are on this page but organized poorly - https://careers.doordash.com. It’s a big banner which has the 12 values organized into 4 themes (see below) Theme: We are one team 1. Make room at the table. We’re committed to growing a
- Demoralising work culture at Microsoft Bangalore Microsoft has become a sad place for me. I have no motivation for work. And the reason is promotion and rewards. Microsoft really wants a developer to limit innovations into the scope of fhl and hackathons. Any innovation done for product eventually means equal to any other task, there is no appreci
- Extremely frustrated at AWS. Not sure how to progress. I am a unique engineering discipline and the first of my type here and am a L5 IC. AWS is an absolute bundle of disorganized chaos and of operations that are so wildly inefficient it makes you scratch your head. I received absolutely no onboarding in relation to my role. It was as if I was hired an
- vote Underworked and stagnant, should I enjoy it or leave? This is my first job after graduating and after a few months I already want to leave. My onboarding was awful -- I went several weeks without being assigned to a team and when I finally was, the team was not expecting a new grad. They did not have the capacity to train me or do any kind of onboardin
- vote Google low level infra vs startup distributed backend I am an L4 engineer currently working on CRUD applications, ETL pipelines, integrations, and devops, which I do not find very interesting. Recently I got offers from two very different roles. One is from an internal Google team working on low level infra that has some aspects of distributed systems
- Need help deciding to stay or start looking This is a semi rant... So my background is in finance. I made a hop to PM at a tech company half a year ago. Finally being a PM is great. My products are fun. My manager is amazing. And that's about it... Two dev teams are insanely hard to work with. And I mean they tear down PMs and even each oth
- vote HFT vs. Series A Startup Offer I currently work as a SWE at a high-frequency trading firm, and I'm considering an offer from a Series A fintech startup in NYC. Most people at my current place stick around for 3+ years, workplace is very chill, foosball table, arcade room, (i.e., not finance-y) and the pay is pretty good, althoug
- Help Decide Offers - Salary Negotiation First of all, I am grateful to receive these offers; huge thanks to this community at large. Now, I am reaching out for advice on negotiating these offers to make a good decision. My first question is: Do we negotiate only AFTER receiving a *written* offer -- OR -- during discussing verbal offer nu
- Amazon killed my soul, is there any hope? Small pre-history. Was working for Amazon over 6 years, SDE2. It was hard for me to get started, too many new unknown tools and technologies, complicated architecture of systems, need for a lot of tribal knowledge to be successful. But eventually I got up to speed, and figured out how/what to do, b
- Amazon to FB (Meta) transition experience I transitioned from AWS (5 years) to FB (Infra) more than a year back. We recently had a discussion of ex-Amazonians to share experience with FB transition. Summarizing my personal experience and others experience so that you know what you are signing up for. This is mostly applicable for E5+. TLDR
- [Resign] Rant before Last day Hi guys, please bear with me this is slightly long post Since i have now got offers from few good companies and planning to put papers soon. Just before leaving i am planning to write a mail to my manager and current team people to let them know and show them real mirror how much ruined the cultur
- vote Stay at Amazon or go for Wayfair or Brick and mortar? The context: I've being with Amazon EU for 4.5 years as an L6 (non-tech), joined after MBA. Have always been ranked top tier. Have a great relationship with my manager and EU's 3P M-team just approved my "scoping doc" for L7 promo (a new pre-requisite for L7 promo, at least in EU). Promo doc will be
- vote Stay for promo & salary bump vs. leave for a new job I work at Company A where I have a solid reputation at. I am managing a team and driving multiple initiatives but I wasn't happy with my comp ($135k base as a Tech Lead) so I went ahead and got an offer ($190k base as a Manager with a direct path to Director position) at Company B. I accepted the of
- help - stressed entry level accountant being used for accounting manager functions This is my first job out of college.... I'm stuck :( I'm having issues with my new boss (have not expressed them yet, and probably never will). I am being paid at the rate of an admin assistant, but being used as an accounting manager. Furthermore, I wasn't trained to do tasks beyond the original s
- Wayfair - Engineering Culture 2022 Here are some of the things in my opinion creating bad engineering culture or at least contributing to it. 1. everything regards to development moves slow, like really slow...this can actually be a good thing for employees looking for wlb, definitely not good for company and product though. It gets
- Conundrum, need some advice First off, I'll admit that this is a good conundrum to be in. I'm fortunate to have some solid options to choose between. I'm currently in a FAANG in an M1 equivalent role. I'm on my 3rd year, so the initial RSU grants have not fully vested. WLB is not great, and I don't honestly see a path to M2 w
- vote Cornell Tech M.Eng CS vs on-campus Georgia Tech MS CS Cornell Tech in NYC: rank 6 in CS. Duration: 9 months. No scope for research and limited course selection, but better for resume branding and entrepreneurship. The existing course selection is almost exactly what I want and the courses are likely better and more current than those at GATech. Would b
- From Director at a Small Business, to Tech. Doable? Eight years in to a job at a small-medium non-tech business, and at age 32 I've maxed out this growth path; I report to the CEO, and he likely won't retire soon. So what do you think: can I look at tech jobs? I've done a lot, my title now is "Director of Revenue" which is vague. I now lead of team
- vote is Google worth 40K more annual aftertax income compared to Meta? got L4 for Google and E4 from Meta. Today got impressed and overwhelmed by Meta HR, a really gentle and warm recruiter. He's the only HR that didn't hesitate and directly skipped those garbage back and forth steps. He's also never badmouthed at any rival company, never tried to gaslight me and judg
- Be careful what you wish for I work on a critical UI frontend for my company, with a small team of 5, including a manager. 2 of us are top performers, designing and implementing all of the foundational and feature work, while the other 2 are pretty much bug fix monkeys. It’s not really their fault though, they’re not as experie