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- vote Amazon newgrad recounts his (long) backstory. Is this the typical Amazon experience? Taken from Reddit: " I graduated from my state university and got a job at a local insurance company as a developer. Then, within 3 or 4 months of joining.. I got a linkedin message from an Amazon recruiter. I actually asked him if he meant to message me. I simply couldn't believe it. We chatted a
- Career advise for developer reaching 45 ( Sr folks please reply) Note: Younger SW guys please GTFOH. For your pleasure My CTC is 470K per annum(15 + years, 7th year in US). Also no trolling please, this can happen to you guys too. Need some real good advise. I hope this post can be used by many more in similar situation Background: I will be 45 in couple of yea
- link Advice for What Area to Pursue in Masters Hey TeamBlind, was wondering if I could have some advice. I graduated from Berkeley this spring, 2019, and interned at Amazon and am currently re-interning at Amazon (yeah I know, but I really liked it, was on AFT and it seemed chill other than the Prime Day Fiasco and on-call). I was going to gradu
- Psychological Misconceptions that Suppress The Capabilities Of A Web Designer Every one of us has experienced stress or psychological breakdowns when it comes to giving our best in daily routine activities or at work. Some of us handle our jobs and rest well, while others fail to maintain a healthy balance between the two. We'll talk about certain psychological myths that mig
- Onsite experience with Roblox I recently went through interviews for a Principal Software Engineer (IC5) at Roblox and wanted to share my experience with the community. TL;DR; Interview process 3/5 (very very long) Interviewers 5/5 (very friendly and seemed like they enjoy what they were working on) Technical/Behavioral Questio
- A bunch of career tips that only comes from asking questions After I missed getting a post-internship offer, my goal of graduating with a job offer was in danger. I buckled down to apply to a bunch of jobs, Googled tips copiously and visited my college's career office nearly every week throughout my job applications to refine my resume. Since I started apply
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 coding - Part 2 - Google This is Part 2 of a series. Here is Part 1: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-coding---Part-1---Google-ikvVrRXa So how do you handle the actual interview? How do you set yourself up for top performance? How do you divide the time during the actual 45 minutes? How do you
- seeking help, personality and attitude, interviews are irritating obligatory yoe - 16+ in java, includes 9+ in android, 13+ years in dual-intent work-visa. obligatory tc - $90 per hour contractor. TLDR :- interviews are fueling my irritability, and i need help staying cool and composed. how do you do it ? currently applying for senior / staff level roles, anywhe
- vote Principal/Staff Offers Evaluation.. + Prep Strategy [AMA] Interviewed with lot of companies in last 2 months and narrowed it down to below 6 companies based on team, level & TC. Priority: Long term career growth, Scope of work, company culture. Company: Level TC: Base + Bonus + Equity (per yr) + Sign-On Team (if known) Meta: E6
- Covid-19 Update Edit: Stocks were recovering overnight when I posted this originally. I spoke too soon, it appears we are still in the middle of it. Cases are leveling off in China (but I don’t trust their data), but growing exponentially everywhere else. Most places aren’t taking this seriously and will be overwh
- Senior or Staff Software Development Engineer 100% Remote As a Senior or Staff Software Development Engineer, you will be building business-critical platforms and services that allow this company to run applications reliably at scale, providing the organization’s Engineering team with forward-looking tech stack components that take advantage of the cloud (
- Is Google trying to get creative in their interview process? Just had an interview with them...long story short...No typical Leetcode or System Design questions. Just weird overall. Maybe my expectations are messed up. I'm going to mask the questions a bit and be vague and/or provide misdirection because I signed an NDA and it wouldn't be hard for Google t
- Google, Meta, DoorDash, Microsoft Offers I recently went through an extensive interview cycle with many big tech companies. My goal was to land an exciting senior SWE job with top tier pay. In the end I signed with Meta due to best TC, exciting teams, collocation of office, and desire for a faster work environment. ————————- Final Offers
- 🌹 *Vanilla Ice Cream That Puzzled General Motors !!* 🌹 🌹 *Vanilla Ice Cream That Puzzled General Motors !!* 🌹 *_Never underestimate your Customers' Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem!_* This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. A complaint was received by the Pontiac Divisio
- Software Developer's needed! These positions are 100% remote but must be based in North America. As a Software Development Engineer, you will be building business-critical platforms and services that allow this company to run applications reliably at scale, providing the organization’s Engineering team with forward-looking tec
- I want to vent about working as an Indian software engineer. When I was a kid I really liked engineering a lot. My father was a chemical engineer and I thought building things was very cool. I thought I would be building rockets, robots, and all of that stuff when I grew up. But having worked in the industry for about 3.5 to 4 years, I can say that the bigge
- link Giving back - How to succeed in FAANG coding interviews? (for non-CS holders) Hi, I am giving back to TB community on how I prepared for SWE-L4 at Google. This is mostly targeted to non-CS degree holders. There are already a lot of good stories for folks with CS background. There is, though, a good overlap on how to prepare. But probably my way is not as efficient for folks w
- link Thought I was ready for interviews and failed repeatedly. Learn from my hubris! Below are my interview experiences from the past few months. It's rather long so TL;DR: if you're not ready, postpone your important interviews. Not by a week or two: by months, even 4 if needed. Do it. Okay, now, is it just me or has there been serious inflation in interview performance in the pa
- vote Technical incompetence at Wayfair -- is there anything worse?? Is there anything worse than Wayfair at this scale in terms of sheer technical incompetence and poor engineering practices? Wayfair's codebase and infrastructure are stuck in a pathetic, sorry state. The PHP repo, the databases (which are all mirrors in some way), the vertical scaling -- it needs t
- Anyone hiring for a new grad SDE? Referral would be greatly appreciated Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering
- 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
- link Facebook - MLE onsite Interview feedback/recommendation/rant I currently have 13 yoe in software and I am at a very senior role at my current company. (senior TL / ML / Architect). I lead a team of 10 people (Engineers, Data Scientists, and etc...). I was promoted recently to an Architect to lead multiple ML teams of the same size with more scope, responsibil
- Agile ( read: Scrum ) is a bad default methodology for a lot of projects Scrum seems to be the go-to Agile methodology. It sometimes is quite effective, depending on the project; However, it is not obvious to me that it is worth being the de facto standard for software engineering. I'm curious on everyone's thoughts and experiences with Scrum at your workplace. Here ar
- Mobile App Ideas with Potential to Grow Big The revenue coming from mobile apps has surpassed the GDP of some well-established countries a few years back. This evidence alone can signify the potential for growth and success in mobile apps. Several mobile apps that came up with an original idea or a solution to the existing problems have grown
- COVID is not the flu - do what you can to protect yourself and others TL;DR – COVID is not the flu. It can have persisting and debilitating effects on your mental abilities and completely derail your life, even for the young, healthy, and vaccinated. Do everything you can to avoid it, and do not assume “mild symptoms” means a mild effect on your health, well-being, an
- Young Executives - hire veterans to ignore? So, I'll keep it simple. After a decade in strategy, rapid scaling, problem solving, compliance (campaigns), and then after Crypto and a small trading desk (was pretty well known). I took some time for myself. I came back to two kids who begged my fiance(at the time) for months sit down with them.
- link Custom cabinets or standard? What is the difference between custom cabinets and standard-sized cabinets? In the kitchen, custom cabinets are a must. They save space because they are custom-made, and they save time because you can put your own special touch on them. The standard-size cabinets cannot compete with custom-designed
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- Thanks to Route 2 FI A thread about 9 stablecoin platforms that could give you some extra passive income: 1) Anchor Protocol 2) Abracadabra Degenbox 3) Yearn Finance 4) Hundred Finance 5) Platypus 6) Revenant/Creditum 7) Synapse Protocol 8) Orion Money 9) Spectrum bPSI 1) Anchor Protocol: Pros: -Very easy to use (fo
- Managing Remote Employees — A Guide. There’s an inexpressible comfort in showing up for work every day, settling down in your cubicle, getting ready to release the rush of adrenaline that fills you up as you embark on a new project. You say hi to your colleague in the next cubicle, boot your system, and do what you do best — launch i
- link UPDATED (08/10): Amazon Behavioural Interview Top Tips from an experienced interviewer I’ve been at Amazon for over 3 years and have interviewed extensively. Over time, when interviewing for partner teams (that is when your colleagues ask you to be part of assessing candidates for them) I took a greater interest in Phone Screens where I got to speak to candidates at initial stages. Wh