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- 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
- vote Amazon hasn’t sucked for me yet I hear a lot of negative reviews about Amazon on blind so wanted to write a post about my experience. I’m just completing 1.5 years here and was hired as new grad after masters. I have been in two teams. Things I learned- Politics is real. Your position in the team can be made or broken by your col
- Read this before joining AWS I want to share my experience working in AWS Aurora for less than a year and hopefully save someone from joining it. 1. INTRO I'm an SDE from Europe, had 5 yoe when entered AWS. 2. BECOMING AN AMAZONIAN Passed my first FAANG interview at AWS and was assigned SDE1 role. Recruiter said that the leve
- Net worth making me lazy? I'm nowhere near many people on this board, but I find myself getting lazy as my net worth grows. I don't want to buy a house on the verge of recession, but I considered putting money into that, just to make me feel poor again, and light a 🔥 under my 🍑. I know this is a severe first world problem
- Any Managers who just have Bachelors degree? Hey, I am only a bachelors degree holder, and I wanted to know if I could have a realistic shot at management roles or not, with just my bachelors degree, soft skills and technical skills. Currently I’m an IC over 7 yoe. 200kTC. However I am truly looking to become a people manager. My reasoning
- Facts about H1B Looks like many Americans don't have a clear picture on H1-B. There's two sides of things --- 1. Many of us are from top universities in India, came for graduate studies to US (or even directly got hired from India by companies like Google/FB) etc... and do some great engineering/research work at a
- vote What the code review tools you are using? Our team is using SmartBear Code Collaborator for code review. And our repository are in Github Enterprise I was curious that why the team not just use Github Pull Request directly? Which is more simple and intuitional. The Collaborator need to do lots of manual pieces, like you need to squash int
- Suitable jobs for people with ADHD(At least for me) Well I can not generalize all the people with ADHD as similar, some people can thrive inspite of ADHD or because of ADHD. I have been struggling in life, I work as a software engineer, I have ADHD of attention deficient type, any tasks which require a sustained focus of few days to weeks continuous
- Square Onsite Postmortem Interviewed with square last week and got rejected. I'm a little pissed about this one as I believe I performed well and wasn't evaluated fairly and was super qualified. Posting this not because of that, but for future interviewees. 3 coding sessions. All had at least 3 parts, although some parts a
- Companies With Leading Edge and Diverse Data Engineering? A problem with Amazon’s general data platforming is that most teams use the large, centralized internal systems to attempt to solve every data problem. While generally convenient, they are poor in performance and when true “big data” engineering problems arise, you can only have substandard solution
- Just another Interview rant I had an phone screen today with a mid size tech company. The question was a LC medium type question I had done in past, but I generally start simple an try to explain the path to final solution. In the middle he stopped and asked me THE question: "what is the complexity of this algorithm" I said th
- Coronavirus misinformation Let’s make this very simple. Note, I’m not a medical expert, but I can read and digest reputable facts: 1) Coronavirus is (early studies on small sample sizes) 3x more contagious. Meaning if you had a regular flu and sneeze near 100 people, 1 would get sick. Coronavirus will get 3 people sick. It a
- link RSU sale strategy after IPO lockup period expiration Hey guys, My ex-company (Pinterest) IPO'ed this year and all my RSUs vested on the IPO date (mid-April-2019). This is the first time I'll be receiving a decent amount of money in bulk so I'm trying to read up on how to approach liquidating my vested RSUs. I'm hoping this thread can yield a good disc
- Facebook Rejection Now I've cooled down of call from the recruiter and able to create a post about my experience with FB. To be open I don't expect I would fail the on-site, but looks like I did something not extremely perfect. On-Site. Every session about 45 minutes with 15min break. 1. HR. Greeting with HR. Nothi
- 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
- vote Facebook offer chances I had my virtual onsite early June for an Enterprise Engineer role with FB. Shortly after, I was asked for a followup coding round which took place 3 days ago (Monday 6/15). Here's how that went: Interviewer was a little over 5 min late, so I was ready to go as fast as possible. Interviewer joined,
- Rant: phone screens I had 5 phone screens over the last two weeks. I passed 4 but failed the one I really wanted (google). It was my own fault, I froze and took to long to think of the correct solution (I had a nlogn solution, not n) regardless, I knew it was bad interview. It’s ok, I own it. Oddly, last year I passed
- Independant study as a hobby. Do you fancy yourself an amateur scientist in a field other than your profession or formal educational concentration? I took some psych courses and sometimes wish I went all the way and became a human behavior or developmental behavior researcher. I am interested in performing experiments and stud
- Start over from scratch? Suppose I'm a senior engineer who has been doing relatively simple app development for many years but now I want to work on highly scalable web services which I know very little about. In addition, my skillset is stale. I don't want to spend most of my free time studying for free and am willing to
- ML Design Roadmap - add your comments Just a simple template to navigate ML design interviews which seems to have very scarce resources compared to other interviews Add notes/ corrections as comments and I will update regularly Questions 1/ Scale of the problem: How many users? How many items? How many requests per second? 2/ How dy
- Stop saying “I’m a UI engineer” I see this excuse a lot on blind when interviews, DS and Algos come up and I hate it. We all know that the SWE interview process has issues and relies a lot on ridiculous (or not ridiculous, depending on your perspective) leetcode patterns but saying things like “as a UI engineer it’s hard for me” o
- Need Mental Help for Toxicity at Amazon I just completed 5 years at Amazon, tech but not SDE, L7. Got promoted to L7 in less than 3 years have got great ratings all through but realized I was always consumed by work (not working like 14 hour days but always thinking about it). But with life changes with a baby, seeing COVID impact back h
- Advice for interviewers for expected folks I had an interview with google year ago, i have few levels more than for job tittle, I told HR clearly.. no worries about that we will take care TC and job etc., I am working on same filed lot of years. Felt happy to join google and do my talent etc., it is basic questions responded well and hiccups
- How to negotiate Google L5 offer? I'm currently E5 at FB. 2.5 years ago, I got competing offers from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft so I got a good offer when joining FB ($185K + $600K/4 + %15) which was valued around $360K then. Due to refreshers and stock appreciation, my current comp is even better. I'm very unhappy here. I'll be
- vote How to be a good mentor and colleague There is a fresher in my team who had joined a few months back and I joined 3 weeks back and I was told to delegate a simple change in our ui to him. It required cosmetic as well as functional changes. He was not able to do this and called me up saying I'm stuck because I'm not getting how to re-use
- "Old", self-taught web dev interview prep advice I need to make the next step and get a good job at a good, non-startup company. I'm tired of working for shitty startups. Here's what you need to know about me. * 46.5 years old * Bachelor's in Mech Eng * Self-taught Perl -> Php -> Ruby on Rails -> Javascript -> Ember -> React * Wo
- Kaggle frustration This is just me here venting the frustration of participating in Kaggle competitions. First of all, Kaggle is an online data science competition platform where you are free to join any competition of your preference - tabular, imaging, NLP, time-series, reinforcement learning, etc. I have been par
- My fantasy interview scenario As I am 100 or so problems into prepping but FB interview tomorrow, I feel I won’t have enough time to practice all the FB problems listed and kinda giving up and hoping of running into something I can work out during it. I wish there are other ways to interview besides leetcode to highlight candid
- Hiring Decisions - Beware of (cloud) Solution Architects for SWE roles Disclaimer - Not trying to demean the people in this role. Intent here is to establish the distinction between two roles and how to be watchful about it, and don't get fooled by the term - architect. Recently, I happened to take a good number of interviews for senior engineer roles (L6+). There wer
- My experience with Interview Kickstart Hi Blind community, have been wanting to put my thoughts on Interview kickstart for a while now. Got busy with life :slightly_smiling_face: . But I do see a few posts asking whether it's worth taking the program or not so I felt to talk about my experience. TC before Doordash - Base 220K Pre IPO O