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- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- Career advice/resume review. Referrals appreciated! what it do blind, I’ve stumbled into an IT career by not applying to any internships during school.😔 The green-eyed monster has taken over watching my roommates and colleagues preach about their remote life compared to my 100% onsite. I know my tenure/experience is lacking but I did manage to ac
- vote Toxic Lead - Will Things Get Better? Started new role 5 months ago and dealing with toxic lead. He’s been w/ company for 6+ years and there’s been red flags: (1) By month 2, he started reporting to my manager that I’m incompetent. During our 1:1s, he’d say rude things like “I want to think that we didn’t make the wrong decision hiring
- What do you think about a co-developer/founder backing out? It happened for me today! I found a person in Blind and we discussed a lot about a project. I share a quite of lot ideas and insight into to the project in a pretty structured and organized manner with detailed reasoning in a positive and encouraging way. I felt we kind of clicked and we might make a great team. He was as
- Working two jobs as PM, should I switch one of them for higher salary for potentially more work? 6 months ago I was looking for for a remote PM job and was interviewing with a few of companies I accepted one offer with a Healthcare company and I really liked it there but after a week of joining I got another offer from a small IOT startup that needs a PM, fully remote, async first, basically 3
- Asserting dominance in tech workplace When I got my first post-grad job at large insurance company I was told to shadow some H1B lady on business process. When I met her she literally greeted me with "I know you're new but this tool is so complicated that you would not understand, and just ignored me for 1 hour". When I did my own diggi
- Need help - referral for a PM role Hi everyone My first post - happy new year! A bit info about me - I arrived in Seattle late Dec 2019 and shortly after we were mostly lockdown which I didn't get a chance to socialize within any tech/product community in person. I was lucky that I found a job in Aug 20 with a small startup compan
- Ques for Dir/VP/SVP/CEO I am a SDE, not at Dell but at a product based company. While writing an email/update/answering a ques/seeking feedback from anyone who is very senior (like VP, Director, SVP), I get very very cautious. Like, I keep on re-visiting even the language that I have written to make sure, I don't even hav
- Should I get tested for ADHD/ADD? I have lots of symptoms that disrupt my ability to perform optimally at work. I've had them for quite a while now(YEARSSSSS). For instance- 1. Consistently keep missing meetings while WFH. Keep missing team level updates on slack cos I am distracted in something else and don't care about checking th
- Get your referral bonus! Hello Blind Fam, Hope you all are doing splendidly well! I have always been amazed by how this community has helped people out in the past to land their dream roles and dream companies, especially in these tough times, and I too have been fortunate to contribute in such endeavors as well! Now, I
- AITA? <not-snap work> <rant> One team member X (out of a team of 4) didn't deliver anything workable on time for ~2 months. And my work depended on Xs work. They would skip meeting, make some excuses repeatedly. As there is no 'management' chain to escalate this, I was getting worried that the
- Summer 2022 internship referral Hello Blind Members, I am currently an international master’s student in United States, and I have 5 years of experience in Software Engineering, consulting and product management at Microsoft. I've been applying for both pm internship positions for summer 2022, and was wondering if anyone would be
- Let's build the next level communication app together This post is an open forum to build a great app together. License: MIT - Open Source Area of focus: communication and productivity In the age where businesses are communicating internally via tools like Slack, Wrike, MS Teams, etc We see tremendous improvements in the ways that we all communicate
- Cruising at work I have just passed my 1 year mark as a new grad hire SWE, and recently I’ve found myself adopting a more laidback approach to work and career development. I don’t find myself as motivated to gun for a promotion or go above and beyond. That’s not to say I slack off or push off my responsibilities, bu
- Help with the Pre-IPO riddle? This is a truly hypothetical situation to understand how one should approach some Pre-IPO companies. Let's say I'm joining a Pre-IPO company (let's say Slack for example) before it goes public. Let's say the current stock price in the private market is: $100. Let's say I'm offered 4000 RSUs, vestin
- *Please Help* I started my first full time job recently. I was excited to start this job (small start up, great pay, love the responsibilities) but the CEO is making my life miserable. He started off as being really nice, but now I’ve seen his true colors and I desperately want to leave. I know it’s not a great l
- Share your worst manager encounter story We all have had a manager who takes credit for all work, plays favoritism and sometimes are just a special human with reserved place in hell. Please share your worst experiences with managers. My manager is pretty much Jonah Ryan character from Veep. Dumb, full of themself and have no social skills
- Kinda missing the small company vibe Been working remotely for almost a year now and I'm feeling increasingly deflated like some old birthday balloon. Feels like I'm just here for the money, and I'm checking out. Work is slow, everything takes forever, and there are crickets in the Slack channels in my team. Communicating with my tea
- A positive amazon experience I keep hearing such negativity about Amazon so I want to share my experience with others. The negativity on blind does not fully represent the company and certainly does not represent my personal experience. No I'm not a recruiter or manager. This is not a fake advertisement. I've been in amazon fo
- [India] Product companies in Pune - what are my options? tl;dr - what are the Product companies that are hiring in Pune? I've been working at the same place for last 4.8 years as a developer(promoted once) and mostly doing the same work. I am not satisfied with my TC and am looking for opportunities in Product companies as I no longer want to work in ban
- Early startup employee post-mortem TC: $120k (non-tech) YOE: 8 EDIT: I rose to VP level and large areas of the company's success were on my shoulders, along with 2-3 other people at a similar level. I worked for a startup for the last 8 years and finally decided to quit (company is closer to 15 years old but didn't make any money un
- vote Is Salesforce worth joining as a new grad Hi, I will be having a final interview with Salesforce soon and I have been given a potential salary range. The bottom of the range matches the initial offer I got from GrubHub but the upper bound is much higher than what GrubHub might be able to match. My concern with Salesforce is that I did not
- Nurse Practitioner seeking medical affairs role Hello, This is my first first post on any "public" forum...EVER. I am currently a Nurse Practitioner (NP) working in home care/transition of care for a start-up now being wholly acquired by our primary capital venture (UHG). I am seeking to move into medical affairs with any industry- pharma or med
- What are some untold general truths in Silicon Valley? - If you are gay, you’re probably a designer - If you have a IBM thinkpad, you probably work in finance or accounting (Same If you use the printer) - If you’re a bad engineer, you probably work in QA - If you dress badly, you’re probably a backend engineer - If you dress well, you’re probably an iOS
- PM Community Thanks (Google Prep) I joined Google a few weeks back after a few months of interviewing around and wanted to give some thanks and relevant advice back to the community. I got a lot of value from reading a ton of blind posts about the interview process at Google and many other top tech companies and want to at least pay
- Does it work well to rest at 2 or 3pm and work more 7 to 10pm? TLDR: Does taking some rest 2pm or 3pm and working later work for you? Any method to make it work? Especially during Covid-19, sometimes I sleep early and wake up 5am or 7am, and start working, and by 2 or 3pm, I am really tired already and hope to take some rest. So I may hope to work in the eve
- Need help with Data Science referrals! Hey there! I am a L4 BIE at Amazon, been here almost a year now. I am really tired and exhausted working at Amazon now. Having a lot of Mental Health issues because of poor work life balance and internal politics where my manager plays a lot of favoritism between different team members. I need a ch
- Problem at work Context: I just started my career in E-commerce as a sales and marketing coordinator. It's exactly where I want to be. Problem: I had to run a report but wasn’t unsure how to exactly do it. I had some idea of how to do it. Got nervous because I was unsure and then it snowballed into a bigger pr
- Season of giving back - Resources for product role Happy Holidays everyone: In the spirit of the season of giving back I am creating this quick summary of useful resources that I have come across this year in my effort to get better at product management and find a new job at one of the product companies in Bay Area. While I am yet to get an offer
- Looking to move for a better WLB and culture, considering mid-sized companies that can maybe match what I make currently YOE 7 TC 350k ICT4 About 1/2 of my TC is my base salary. The rest is RSUs/bonuses and perks (Apple perks add up, discounts on apple products, partner discounts with bose, etc). I come from a startup culture, and quite miss the (relatively) politics-free climate, lack of a bureaucratic structure, m