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- vote Google in 2021 is meh at best boring work, lower standards, takes forever to ship anything, only people who want to work there are smooth brains that work at shit tier companies and dream about FAANG, all the smart people are at smaller startups — might as well work at a pre ipo company and make bank, im so glad I left
- There are two types of people: Those who think Google has the best engineers and tech, and those who have actually worked at Google. Seriously though where are the good teams? My team has no leadership, all the TLs are coasting, and it takes us half a year to ship simple features that I could write in weeks. Where do all these s
- What's the best way to sell tech things? I have junk I've been too lazy to sell... Smart watches, old CPU, etc. I've been procrastinating on selling them on eBay. Is there an easier way? Can I just ship them somewhere and have someone else handle it while still getting a reasonable price?
- Fb teams with good culture? Looking to jump ships. I've been on teams with crazy work expectations, or with weak leadership(i.e. coasting), or with bad culture (with PMs governing all eng decisions). Looking back, the most I value is good culture with smart engineers. What are some teams at Facebook? Or suggest any other co
- vote Do you understand what WW3 could mean for YOU? I laugh when I hear my caramel frappe-drinking colleagues that even if WW3 breaks out, it won’t affect them because “wars are now fought from a distance with drones and new tech instead of gunfights”. MAKE NO MISTAKE, if a full fledged war happens, they WILL bring back mandatory military service, th
- Intel Future with Bean counter CEO?? Is Intel done for? I have no hope with this bean counter CEO. Made $20k on AMD stock alone. While Intel is struggling with 10 nm yields. TSMC is already at 5nm. What is Intel plan to catch with AMD and Nvidia? Now that Apple and Microsoft is aiming to develop their own arm based products. Jim kil
- People who got Uber offer please decline it if possible Uber is a shity company, but that is not the reason I ask you to decline their offer. The front loaded vesting schedule is the reason! Google' stupid recruiting team trialed this in Google cloud for more than a year and showed to leadership that acceptance didn't decline and at the same time saved
- Leave company after RSU vested? Isn’t it probably smart to jump ship after your RSUs have vested? For a instance my TC for next 3 yrs (assuming no promotion) would be 286k/261k/261k but after that drops to 211k. I’m not in the ya area so I don’t have a bunch of big players to deal with but I think it makes the most financial sen
- Hey Zuck ! I trust you have a good head on your shoulder and I consider you my brain child. Here’s what I think you should do to get your shit together. Focus on your core business which is making the content more addictive for younger generations not just millennials and oldies and for Godsake stop wonderin
- SMART goals for a developer Have you used SMART goals? how can they be defined in a way that makes sense? As I see them now, I'd need to do things like "ship 50% of my projects" or "complete 20 tasks per week", which mean absolutely nothing. I'm tempted to put "write 100 lines of code every day", but I'd really like to defin
- Amazon is Best Employer again - Not 💀 I want to know how much these effers are paying Forbe to get the best employer tag. Why do we despise Amazon so much? - 10% PIP quota isn’t a myth. I’ve seen several managers admit to me that it’s a thing and they’re forced to rank and yank every year. - Piss-poor culture. I’ve seen a blind post
- Feeling the Impostor Syndrome too much lately I work in a project for one of the big video games companies. The project is a complete mess. Many coworkers are abandoning what it looks like is going to be a sinking ship soon (right after the game launches). I feel like I should be smart and follow suit but I've been feeling like I don't have wha
- Referral for Facebook in Europe Hi Everyone, I am currently an MTS Software Engineer on the Frontend side at Salesforce, India. Working at Facebook in Europe is a dream of mine. I really want to work in Europe, enjoy the work-culture, beauty, meet smart people. I have ~3.5 YOE. My current TC is 40 lakh at Salesforce. I specialize
- vote Google vs Airtable (New Grad) I was fortunate to receive new grad offers from these two companies. The TC breakdown is as follows: Google: - 142k base - 15k signing - 100k/4 years Airtable: - 155k base - 30k signing - 280k/4 years Clearly, Airtable comes out to a lot more on paper. The problem is the RSUs are useless until an
- L5 at Google or IC6 at FB Last year I got offers from both FB(IC6) and G(L5). Ended up choosing FB due to higher level, and crucially being remote. Now G has remote positions, so I am told I can go to team fit at L5. If I wanted to hold out for L6, I would need to basically do a full loop. I started studying but it’s a gri
- Seeking advice on what to do I joined oracle around 2 years ago, worked on 3 projects and none of them ship in the end due to the product decision. I started to work on this new high priority project hoping I can finally get something shipped. I worked really hard on it for 6 months and delivered to the dev already. But the pr
- vote Got a hot tech business idea/proposal Bootcamp but for only Leetcode. Since the interview process is becoming ridiculous and this is the LC era, where being a good developer doesn’t matter and the only thing that matters is how much LC you can regurgitate. Instead of churning out bootcamp front end baristas, you churn out Leetcode mon
- Which company is better for product: Facebook or Google? 🤔 Assuming all else is equal, i.e. good manager, like your team, interesting product etc. Facebook positive differentiators: -astronomical DAU/MAU, so much reach -move quickly and launch fast, lots of opportunities to ship product -fun hacker culture, strong experimentation frameworks -strong vision
- vote Trump is President! Uber pops? As Trump presidency is getting real, I am feeling very pessimistic tonight, for Uber and all unicorns in general. Trump will put big pressure on financial markets, may even trigger a recession. Uber's valuation may be at risk, hard to justify, expected IPO in 2019 could not happen at all. What do
- Feeling like a burnout I used to be a standout among my friends in high school / early college - super ahead in quantitative subjects. Went to an Ivy, but didn’t have much of a social life for various personal reasons. Landed a job at Google senior year because LC fits my skill set. Now I see everyone who I was “better”
- Big Tech PM to Startup (1.5 YOE) Hi folks, I have an offer from a Series B for an PM role. The startup is very highly rated, and I'm sure they'll be raising a C soon. Importantly, I'm ~1.5 YOE, 23 y/o MS Pros: -growing org with strong leadership -higher comp: ~$170k -great WLB, less risk/more job security MS Cons: -not doing real
- Things/Actions that accelerated your career ? At one of my previous companies I worked damn hard. So much so that pretty much everyone knew me in a short span of time and I became a go to person for a lot of things. My fellow devs, managers and senior leadership praised me several time. Felt really good. One day my manager gave me a $15 Dunkin
- How to positively influence product development process? I work with a group of smart, hardworking PMs that never shipped a product before (think of a pm group consisted of marketing or policy or health & safety, etc. Good at their domain subject, but never built anything). I try to be helpful as much as I can as a non-PM IC with significant product shipp
- What does it really take to crack Google interview ? Do you have it in you ? I dont want to believe its a luck. There is something missing from common knowledge. I believe in this quote by Rumi "Universe in general gives what you deserve but you might not like it." because there is usually big disparity in what we think we are and what we really are. Coming back to the poin
- I’m a Cruise Engineer, and I Need Your Help Housekeeping items: 1. TC 275k (including krooze coin) 2. 3yoe 3. Cruise trolls, shoo, shoo### Okay. Let me start with what my life is like right now. My Team: Not your shiny Will Larson ideal, but functional. My Manager: This is the fourth manager in my career. He has his quirks and is by no mea
- link I've started my FIRE journey in India! (Part 3: Miscellaneous Odds and Ends Before Leaving US) Here are links to my other writings around our FIRE journey and returning back to India: Part 1 (Intro and Net Worth): https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Part 2 (Financials Before Leaving US): https://www.teamblind.com/post/ShzXbLBN Below is an account of all the miscellaneous stuff I had to a
- vote Help me choose. Wait our 6 months, or Leave? I’m using gf’s account to maintain anonymity— will be slower to respond for that reason. 1. Current job (TC $200k base + $30k/year value in options, Pre-IPO) Pros: - Going IPO soon (management is filing the S-1 next week-ish. I know because I worked with the LT) - Company is positioned well in the
- vote Keep WLB or chase TC Unity TC is pretty unspectacular compared to the rest of the field. Based on what I read on blind, it's fairly low. I did make 500k on the IPO, all options vested and exercised. I have been fighting for a IC7 position (staff engineer) for 2 years but due to constantly shifting goal posts on require
- Can you get into a FAANG in your 40s? I spend my 20s partying, playing music and traveling the world and didn't really try to enter the workforce until 2008 (great year to try to get a job :-D ). I managed to get work as an analytics/DB consultant for a retailer in the midst of the 2008/09 recession, and spent most of my career jumpin
- link Lost three offers in one week. 3 BREAK UP LETTERS Some Background: -------------------------- I have been preparing for a job change for 9 months. First 3 months total leetcode preparations ( 3 friends preparing ). I also read about all remote work jobs available with all new startups and ipos. So from my current desk job (with less salary, legacy
