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- quarter life crisis compounded with H1B I know this topic has been discussed a bit here. But as a H1 holder experiencing a quarer life crisis, the tragedy is just on a different level. I am the regular guy spending most of my 20s life fulfilling the college->master->FANG (OK I do not even end up in those top companies). I feel like my
- vote Sr SDE vs SDM - Need help to decide which is the right long term career choice L6 SDE trying out an L6 SDM role but not really enjoying the work. Don't like: 1. Much more responsibility and stress for not much more pay 2. Performance management / career growth for directs / team scope is a political minefield 3. Not learning any new tech (although that is true in SDE role too
- Has anyone ever nailed Facebook code screening for Frontend at Staff level without reference? Appeared for FB coding round (telephonic, Bluejeans, whatever you call it) screen twice and solved the problems both time. Unlike other companies, theirs is strictly focused on Algorithms even if you use JavaScript - no HTML, CSS and accessible-tags stuffz (or things you can learn overnight). I had
- What do data engineering positions at other companies look like? Context: Currently, an L5 DE at Amazon (non-AWS) primarily working on non-DE tasks since I'm the only one with SWE skillsets. My manager is great and doesn't provide much, if any, direction for my work so I do have the ability to create architecture / processes, implement them, and socialize them. T
- A positive amazon experience I keep hearing such negativity about Amazon so I want to share my experience with others. The negativity on blind does not fully represent the company and certainly does not represent my personal experience. No I'm not a recruiter or manager. This is not a fake advertisement. I've been in amazon fo
- Weird GCP TPM interview I recently interviewed at Google cloud for L5 tpm and had the weirdest interview experience. Wanted to share my experience and gather feedback, if this style is an industry norm. Location:Seattle. My background: I have over 8 years of TPM experience (4 years at Amazon) and 16 years of industry ex
- link [AMA] Interview tips after a recent round of offers (380~500k) TLDR: Offers ranging 380k~500k from Facebook, Uber, and 2 other companies. Non-exceptional IC with 5 years of experience. Interview tips are nuanced and its your loss if you don’t read. ### About me ### Software engineer with 5 yoe in the bay. B.Eng (not comp sci) in a well-known school. Mostly se
- Software engineer keen on switching to UI/UX. Looking for strategy and advice. Hey there Blind fam! I am an application developer at oracle india, with approx 2 years work ex since completing my B.Tech. I now wish to switch to UI/UX, but don't know where to start, what to do. I guess I have a keen aesthetic sense and user-centric approach when it comes to developing applica
- Sign-on / Relo Bonus Team Blind! Need some advice. I recently received an offer including an 11k sign-on bonus, which is paid after first 30 days of employment. The recruiter told me that they do not offer relo, so the sign-on bonus is meant to cover cost of relocation. I need to move over 1,000 miles / 4 states for th
- Am I being setup to fail? Last week I got promoted to an Engineering Team Lead. I initially was excited for until I heard the offer: the company has a large cross cutting initiative. It's very, very important to the entire C-Suite that this thing gets done, so much so they're treating it accounting-wise a separate internal c
- Concerned about team dynamics Hi, I just moved to a new team at Amazon and am seeing a number of issues which make me think this team isn't right for me. 1. I've learned from several people in the team that relationships go farther than data here. People appear to be unfairly prejudiced towards those that have been on the team
- Pivot shenanigans I was served a pivot form a while back. I'd say it's 50% me dealing with some things in my life and 50% the role and team going a bit off the rails. At the time the goals seemed pretty impossible to reach in the two month time frame I was given, so I opted to take some leave to handle life stuff and
- vote Amazon Loop: Rate my chances? TL;DR: Rounds 1, 2, 3, and 5 went well. Round 4 with the BR was meh. I’m wondering if it’s killed me. I interviewed remotely last Tuesday for a Sr. PM role in NYC. No response yet. Most rounds went well. Thanks to some detailed notes I had good stories ready for every LP and in total used 15 of th
- vote India- Manager scared me that leaving cognizant is a bad idea.dea. Hi, Currently I'm working in Cognizant as Test analyst and I'm serving notice period. I wanted to work in development but Cognizant put me in testing citing business reason. I have a job offer from a Product Based Company(The company is average) I'm joining there mainly to learn as I have lied in m
- Returning back to India directly after Masters ? P.S. Please read out the entire thing before commenting. So I have Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical from the Top 5 IITs (Not in CS). I had applied and gotten admit from a good enough and cheap public university in the US for Computer Science ( Top 20 US News, Tuition comes around ~35-40k, and a high
- How does talent rating/calibration work at your company? Interested in learning how your company rates people and decides on raises. It's hard to find this info online. Here's how it happens at Capital One afaik (it's not very transparent, unfortunately, so this is just what I pieced together so far): - Managers and senior leaders set criteria for each
- Co-founder/ CTO for EdTech Startup I am looking for a technical co-founder with a burning desire to make the education system more equitable and the willingness to think long term. If you are looking to make a quick buck and exit, this is not the right idea for you. Additional relevant info * I am an engineer but I also have strong
- [Wanted] Virtual currency engineers or engineering team I am posting on behalf of my friend. Please contact me if you are interested or refer any good candidate who might interested in this great opportunity. Please PM me. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are looking to find engineers or engineering team
- Has anyone reneged and stayed for promo & counter? How did that turn out? What was the situation? Full context: My manager was already planning to promote me but I didn’t know, so I went outside to get an offer. I felt underpaid for quite some time so money was the initiator. But I’m realizing more over time that I just don’t want to work with a lo
- vote Is this frustration normal/is my job normal? So I find myself in sort of an interesting situation. I was hired as sort of a Applied Scientist/ML Research Engineer about 1.25 years ago. Because of my ML specialty and Masters, I was hired at the senior level and then was rapidly promoted to Lead/Principal in less than a year. I originally report
- Advice on dealing with third party colab lead Hi Blind fam, I joined this project 2 weeks ago as product lead. It is a collaboration between my team and a third party, who also has their own product lead. The colab had started a month before I joined, so I was not there at the scoping phase. Anyhow, what happens is that the third party lead s
- link Weird behavior from interviewers I encountered with a weird behavior of interview ers. Following is the observation: Interviewer will ask question like design twitter. I started to design by format specified in educative.io. Interviewer told me requirement of the system. We discuss scope of problem. Then interviewer just liste
- Startup vs. Non-FAANG Senior PM Offer Comparison Currently at FB, IC4, TC $210k. 4 YOE. Don't like FB (size, WLB, stress, small scope as a PM, commute) and looking forward to leaving. Have offers from a few spots, but deciding b/w a startup and a mid-sized non-FAANG public company. Both have equal signing bonuses so not mentioning that below. Sta
- As a senior engineer, how much time do you spend advising others? I'm a new senior engineer, so I might be asking a dumb question. There are 3-4 projects happening on my team with non-senior ICs. I'm constantly either being pulled into meetings with them for advice (like architecture, best practices, etc), jumping in when I believe the IC needs help to figure out
- $100k vs $1M comp The way people sometimes discuss this topic annoys me on both sides and I felt like sharing some thoughts.. No, people that make $1M are not necessarily overpaid, the result of a bubble, favouritism, politics or whatever else No, an engineer (or whatever other role) doesn't need to be 10 times more
- Looking for new Project Manager/Engagement Manager Role Hey Everyone, Love reading all the posts but wish there was a specific area for project managers so I am posting here. Currently employed with same company for 3+ years as a senior engagement manager but overall my experience level is 10-15 years with all different types of industries - Gov, Financ
- BizOps (at larger unicorn) vs. PM (at smaller company) Currently a technology consultant with less than 2 YOE. Deciding between two offers in different directions: - PM at public company (market cap of $5bn): $110 base + 10 signon + 5/year RSU - Senior Strategy Analyst at major unicorn (recent valuation of $30bn): $105 base + $24/year RSU Have a CS aca
- Indeed India Datawarehouse engineer offer evaluation - help needed Hi Community, Need some help in evaluating offers. Finally I got offer from Indeed for L3 level and want to know how this offer looks. Indeed offer: Base: 45L perf bonus: 4.5L (10% usually people get as per recruiter) RSUs: 28L/4years refresher: will be there but cant reveal how much each person ca
- Manager Blocked Internal Transfer So I just completed my second undergrad Program Manager internship. The one thing that makes this second one much different is that I got placed into a different team due to new business needs. My manager this summer never seemed to like me but couldn't deny the sheer impact my internship project wa
- Best Buy Sr. Data Scientist offer I am offer Sr. data scientist role at best buy but the compensation is very low and the target bonus is very big component. The job is in the data science team- newly created R&D team that helps in modeling/ML solutions for other teams (with pricing, supply chain, product etc.) The pay is too low.