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- My Leetcode strategy I wanted to give back to this community after I've been lurking for a while. I want to share some Leetcode tips since I'd say my strategy differs from most that are posted here or elsewhere. My account will probably be deleted soon since I've used a non company email to sign up (I don't have a compa
- WFH Techniques Hey people. I’ve noticed that some of the engineers I mentor are having a really hard time adjusting to worling from home. With a career entirely built starting companies from scratch, I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to WFH productively. With the rumor is that Google is going to take it well
- Negotiating FAANG offers; some things I’ve learned I’m currently negotiating 2 FAANG offers (won’t say which ones to protect identity). I’ve been reading up on ways to respond when a recruiter asks you to show written proof of your competing offer. A lot of people are wondering “why not just share it? it’s so simple!” If you’re perfectly happy with
- I think I’m gonna get fired Working for a fintech company as a product manager. Two months in the job. I was tasked to create a new product, that is in existent for years in other competitions. These competitions all have 100% similar components, 80% user conversion journey, 100% similar conversion form. Since it’s a mature p
- link Leetcode/geeksforgeeks - Let's challenge and stop that mental menace! Let's start within our own company! I did leetcode and I would do it again when I start my job search. Call me crazy or venting or I suck at leetcode. It doesn't matter to me. My intent of this post is to convey you all that leetcode interview process is not just right and I want to challenge it. We all can change it together. Igno
- Heartfelt IBMers on Blind, Just wanted to share this with you. Even though I had a negative experience with IBM, I still look back to all these years I worked there and have a sense of gratitude. First, for the recruiter that reached out to me on LinkedIn, then to my first team and all other teams I worked w
- FAANG Interview Experience - Security Engineering I thought to share my experience interviewing for security roles at FAANG+ for those who wonder how it's like. Offers: FB, MSFT, Apple, AWS Rejects: Google (They didn't have a role in my location, I just interviewed anyway) Microsoft: Interviewed with two teams. Team 1 (MSRC): Phone screening wit
- Bombed AWS phone screen Position: SDE I as an upcoming new grad Had my initial phone screen with AWS recently for a position at a newly formed team. Bombed. Bad experience with the interviewer in comparison to a previous time I interviewed a year ago. Strong accent, had to ask him to repeat in a lot of cases. I also heard
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- vote Google 2-weeks After Onsite Completed full on-site loop for Google EM role 2 weeks ago. Recruiter emailed a couple of times during that time to say he was collecting feedback. 2 days ago (Tue), I sent email asking for update and radio silence until this morning (Thu) when he sent email asking to “connect” over the phone tomorr
- Please critique my system design for 'Top K most searched terms' The problem with system design preparation is there lacks any 'solution' or discussion board unlike LeetCode algorithm questions. So if any experienced interviewers who are familiar with this class of systems design question: 'Return top K most searched term' in real time, 'Top K most listened song
- Interview question: How would you design a front end system? I have had two final interviews at two different companies which were kind of team matching rounds where the group head of the team (yoe 15 and 20) was asking me how would I go about designing a front end system. I was being interviewed for full stack profile and I have 2.5 yoe. Now I know how to de
- Continuous 23 'Unfortunately email' but still struggling. I am Machine Learning Engineer, having 6 year+ of experience in this domain and 10+ patents. Was working with a reputed multinational company in Bangalore(25LPA). My girlfriend was in the Netherlands so was finding for a Europe opportunity, Landed in Austria. but there was no company culture, frank
- How was your interview experience at Microsoft? Hi there, I'm a little curious about other people's experience interviewing at Microsoft. I have interviewed there 3 times and I had issues every single time. I went onsite once, and failed on phone screen twice. During my first phone screen, I was asked to get the 3rd largest element of a non-so
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker, Part 3 (End) Part 1: https://us.teamblind.com/s/WdsT8m8q Sunday, 11:30pm You had a pretty chill weekend. Hung out with a couple friends at a rock climbing gym. Cleaned your apartment for the first time this month. You head to bed to face the week ahead. Monday, 7:15am Your company has been growing fast recentl
- Pandemic triggered my anxiety so not being able to be productive/LC tldr: pandemic has triggered my anxiety A LOT but i desperately want to lc & change my job but lc seems such a big hurdle as i havent done anything productive in the last 8 months, havent gotten up from my bed even and constantly anxious I’m struggling with a lot of anxiety these days, I have const
- A Failure’s Guide to the Facebook DE (Analytics) Interview Hi Blind, I’m fresh off of failing my second attempt at the DE analytics virtual onsite at Facebook and I want to help other people avoid that feeling of emptiness and despair that comes with rejection. I’m well aware this interview isn’t impossible, but I feel it’s hard only for the sake of being h
- Google L4 onsite self-eval Just wanted to give back to the Blind community and share how I felt after Google onsite yesterday (not sure if this helps others at all, but I personally like seeing these posts). Will update with results once I receive. Round 1: behavioral - pretty standard questions - thought I did pretty well
- Video Streaming Product Suggestion As we have a lot of people from Apple, Amazon, Netflix and so on here, let me share a very stupid, consumer focused idea with you. This idea is probably not new and many people wished for it... A service that acts as a flexible payment provider for all participating streaming services. The way it w
- Amazon L6 (Alexa) Interview Experience (Role : SSE, Location : Boston)) OA [DSA coding + System Design MCQ + work style survey]: 2 coding questions were asked - one simple set-based and the second similar to the largest rectangle in histogram type but a little harder. 3 Project simulation where each had multiple questions which required knowledge of system design basics
- Office politics with upper management I’m a senior SWE and I’ve been tasked to take over a project with a lot of visibility from upper management that half failed due to the incompetence of the previous project leader (that’s exactly what I was told). So I joined the existing team of 4 other people (2 swe + 1 em + 1 pm). I spent the pa
- Harassment - what to do if you are a victim. There are many forms of harassment - sexual, age, ethnic/racial, etc. What do you do if you are the victim of harassment, especially from someone more senior than you, and one who has the power to harm your job/career? 1. Document everything before going to HR: If your harasser leaves a paper trail
- link Thanks Blind! GS Engineering Strat —> 3 FAANG offers GS NYC 2021 TC $140k base + $100k bonus GS NYC 2022 TC (old) $180k base + ??? bonus Meta LA permenantly remote 2022 TC (new) $160k base + $350k/4yr RSUs + 15% annual bonus + $75k sign-on bonus 1 YoE at GS + STEM non-CS PhD Coming out of grad school I was more interested in finance than tech. During
- Why Amazon Sucks TL;TR; Just to be clear when I say Amazon it is Amazon Retail (not AWS). I (Indian) have worked with 4 manager in Amazon, I can't give names here so will call him like: 1. Rude (Indian/Team1/worked with him for 2 month) 2. Good (non-Indian/Team1/worked with him for 9 month) 3. Toxic
- Fwd: Career advice One of the coworkers over at our channel asked for career advice. I have written a response and I am reposting it here as I feel like it is something everyone will find relevant at some point in their lives. /** Original post (slightly edited by me) **/ I feel pretty burned out. I have 10+ years o
- Hacks To Host A Successful Webinar Hosting a webinar provides you with an opportunity to directly connect with your audience, making the experience more personal. Except, webinars can go devastatingly wrong or astonishingly well — there’s no in-between. Having personally attended several webinars in the last few months myself, I’ve c
- How to say no and move on Hi Blind Fam reaching out for help again. Sorry for long rant. I recently got a new job and I resigned at my current one with a 2 weeks notice. In my current job I work on our customer projects by billable days, I have 3 projects which I am working on. Of the 3 projects I am able to finish first on
- Re-tired-ment..really could use some input/help here. I am 100% burned-out, might have 2 more months in me, WLB wrecked havoc on my health & mental health. Never been good it reaching out to a "financial advisor", they give me a ton anxiety. (sort of like you walk in the store and somebody asks, can i help you..that freaks me out), never put a ton of
- validate me or tell me i'm trash or give me some dose of reality I'm writing this post after a few drinks. I lurked for so long on blind and i can only get the courage to seek validation thru inebriation. I graduated in Dec 2017 from a large state school with no connections. I switched from a math/ece background (double major) and self-studied computer science
- Helpless situation. Confidence is shattering day by day. Fellow Indians please help!!!!! Hello Experts, I am working as a full-stack engineer for a startup in Bengaluru (India). Here are my details YOE: 3 TC: Cash: 16.5 + Paper stock Designation: Full-Stack Developer College: Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from a tier 3 no name college I am in the middle o