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- Apple Watch Feature: Please Critique I love critical feedback, as it helps me see other perspectives I might not be considering when conceptualizing a product. I’m going to make a habit of posting some ideas here to collaborate with domain experts for the end goal of self improvement... and maybe even an interview ;) Idea: Apple Watc
- I need YOUR help finding a completely new career; my blind brothers and sisters... HELP ME FIND A NEW CAREER! I’m going crazy trying to figure out which career I’d enjoy and be good at. I can list some qualities of mine and I hope the fine people on Blind can help me figure it out. ===Career choices I’ve considered=== Possible roles I’ve been considering and why. High TC and fa
- Amazon L6 Emailed after interview Edit: got the rejection email stating I can apply to other positions but won't be considered for the role I interviewed for. They won't share feedback so I am not disheartened to apply for future roles. How would I improve myself if I don't know why I lacked in the first place :( Pardon my ignoran
- vote Simply don't understand all the hate with Robinhood "Complexity is not the measure of excellence. That's how promotion works sadly but it should not be how things are rewarded." * Summary of responses: 60% of poll participants use Robinhood. There is a reason why everyone else is copying RH. If usecase is sufficient, RH is best. Below is the summary
- Interviewer asking question they don't understand/know I had the most frustrating on-site ever so far. In one round, a pretty senior person was interviewing me and asked me a coding question. Basically you have to find something in graph/tree according to a definition. He gave a decent example for it. I have sort of seen this question before, there is
- Do many big corp teams have problems with documentation? I've had a conversation with friends and acquaintances of mine about such cultural things like "Yeah, we have our team/company specific knowledge base scattered among internal web/notes/confluence/etc and that's hard to understand, but just ask your colleagues and they will help". Well, ofc i can a
- The religion of Covid credit to John Hayward (@Doc_0): Every crisis becomes a religion if it lasts long enough. One factor in that transformation is the Beautiful Theory phenomenon: the power elite insists its remedies are logical and politically correct so they must work, even if the actual evidence shows they obvious
- The Cost of Turnover Before I start, understand that I am somewhat approaching this topic through rose tinted glasses. I'm well compensated (Sr Engineer @ Amazon), have all of my needs met, and live a pretty cheap/simple life. I write this on the basis of curiosity to hear other's thoughts on rapid turnover and how that
- Say NO to online screwing (screening) tests for interviews! Folks in engineering, As you might be aware, some companies have started dishing out hackerrank-style coding websites as the first round of screening, even for experienced candidates. There are 2 reasons they do this: 1. This lets recruiters/companies be lazy and not read/verify candidate resume
- Confessions of a FAANG hiring manager I’ve read a lot of posts recently about confounding or failed interviews at top tech firms. As someone who regularly serves as an HM (direct and indirect) at one of the most selective, I’ve also been bogged down by a flood of them in the past 2 Qs. I want to shed some light from the other side. Fir
- Career advice to young Engineers These are my experiences, in no way they are generic but might be applicable largely. 1. If you want to move to FANG, move early. The more experienced you become the more harder it is going to get. It's simple logic. Everyone becomes old/experienced, but in a hierarchical orgs, there are only so ma
- I just had a really good FB Interview experience I honestly hear everywhere that FB interviews suck but it wasn't my experience. I've had 4 rounds of interview today. Systems design went well that we were discussing details of the designing product (for some reason it felt more like data structures design rather than back end) but Interviewer said
- Google onsite tomorrow (I wanted to vent a bit, I don't expect any solid answers) I am a bit nervous for my onsite with Google tomorrow probably for different reasons than most are. I am in my late 20s and spent a large chunk of my early 20s in prison. I spent a lot of time developing myself since then. I hit the ground
- Startup hiring process is the worst It is so common to rag on big players but in this job search round alone I have had: - interviewer go off the script and ask a question predicated on sequential reads from ssd taking the same time as memory (they do not in fact and when I tried to reason with him he became a no-hire). He was suppos
- Looking for a Swift tutor #tech #swift #investment Hi everyone, new to Blind. What I'm looking for: A Swift tutor. Ideally you program Swift on a daily basis. My questions will probably be dumb from your PoV, but that is essential. Tried lone-wolf learning but didn't end up well. I'm one of those "false beginners". Goal
- PM Interview Experience 2021 Hey Blind Community! Thanks to all the posts here I was able to prep better for my pm interviews and negotiate my TC higher. Here's paying forward and documenting my experiencing to help folks who're prepping for PM interviews. I started looking for jobs towards the second half of the year. 1. S
- Sumo Logic vs Amazon SWE intern I have an internship offer from Sumo Logic and Amazon, both for SWE roles. The compensation are: Sumo Logic: Pay: $50/hour Relocation: $5000 one time Location: Redwood City, California Duration: 14.5 weeks Amazon: Pay: $7933/mo Housing: $1925/mo post-tax Additional: Flight tickets to and fr
- link WFH living in Spain? Spaniard in Spain (26M). Completely unable to relocate to US for personal reasons, but I mean it when I say that I would love to. YOE: 5 years. Half of them freelancing. Current TC: 38K. Taxes in Spain may end up being around 10K, still unknown for sure. Target TC: Just reaching up to 80K would b
- US Home-buying Guide: 2021 Edition 🏡🔥 Hello, 🙇♀️🙇🏻♂️🙏🏼 We just bought on our first home in the Bay Area in this crazy real-estate market (June 2021), and this is a post to possibly equip you with your purchase in this crazy market, and potentially not make the same mistakes that we made. What you will get from this post: * Tip
- Can I request the recruiter for a second chance at phone screen for Google L4 ? I had Google phone screen today for L4. The question was easy but misunderstood slightly not considering an edge case. I never felt that edge case was even a requirement. I explained the simple solution and asked the interviewer if it's fine and if there is anything else to consider / optimise, to
- How to improve technical interviews People who 1) are rude 2) have poor social skills 3) have poor communication skills 4) are incompetent 5) are arrogant 6) ask irrelevant questions (like brain teasers) 7) ask difficult questions during phone screening should not be allowed to interview candidates. Usually, candidates work very
- Linkedin front end interview general tips Not leaking specific interview materials, but personally have seen many people with many yoe failing the interviews because it exposed their severe lack of fundamentals, so want to share how you can better prep. I personally think frontend interviews are actually harder than your general SWE interv
- vote Facebook E5 Chances This is my chance to increase anxiety and to give back to the community. PS: Had two coding, solved both optimally but for the first question I used “too many if and else branches”. Probably it means my code could be much simpler, but it was optimal in both time and space (after a few days I realiz
- Hard time given by my SME/Peer I have been asked to train with a peer who is an SME in our tools and database. Since day 1 this person is professionally bullying me. When I ask him a doubt he will either tell me to refer to Google and look find myself or look at confluence. Later he would say please reach out to me whenever I hav
- Seattle's Eastside hospital recommendation? (posting here as MS is a bubble and I don't care at this point if I go out of network) Lately I've been very disappointed with the healthcare offerings around here. It's a megacorp type of bullshit the which I refuse to consider the golden standard in a place with a very high cost of living and qua
- Rejected from Disney+ hotstar. Dunno why tl;dr got rejected from hotstar and I still can't understand why I've been scratching my head over this for a while and wanted to know why exactly I could've been rejected from the org. So at my previous org I had been working as a front end dev but since I was always interested in backend I start
- vote Bitcoin is the biggest scam of all times? Adding some links for people who interested: Economist Roubini: https://youtu.be/Fy2oEgWnCck Fundamental value of Crypto and its sustainability https://youtu.be/_4ySp141TpY Let’s talk about security: North Korea 1.3B scam Edit: I guess I have a simple question: How Bitcoin has changed the wo
- Companies "experimenting" with Contingency Plans Basically, "A/B" groups, where group A WFH/B goes to the office for a week, and vice versa the next. You must WFH during your alternating week, to test contingency plans. Managers are responsible for splitting their teams into Group A/B. Has anyone had anything ridiculous like this? I know it's
- 3 months into new team dealing with incompetent senior engineer. What do I do? I’m several months into my new company as a software engineer (not Walmart lol) my teammates are fine except one senior engineer. He is able to do his job but he is a little ‘slow’ at getting things. The ironic thing is, he talks to me as if he is teaching me things but has literally taught me nothi
- Handling a new grad with too many questions I'm a recent grad myself, and I've been an SDE-1 at Amazon for around 8 months now, at my first real job. I've done a fair share of question asking myself, but I always try to do my own research first and try to learn from how my more experienced teammates tackle problems. Another SDE-1 joined my t