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- vote Amazon AWS Virtual Onsite (USA) Completed the online assessment (OA) in first week of October and had a virtual onsite recently. Following is my experience. 1. Both OA questions were from the leetcode's OA list. First question passed 14/16 test cases, and the second one (looked like the harder one) passed all test cases. Was in
- 40$/hr for a Data Scientist - Agilent in Santa Clara . 40$/hr I received the below email from a recruiter and the rate is 40$ in C2C . Can they find people who can work for 40/hr ? The company is Agilent Position: Data Scientist Duration: 3+ months Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Description: Responsibilities Your focus will be generating customer i
- vote How to know if it's a team problem or mine? I joined a big company after 3 years at a startup. Everything is different from the tech stack to the way they wrote code. Startup was more of write and push immediately. They didn't care much about testing and it was more about immediate results because it was a developing product with not a lot o
- How many YOE do I have? My career so far has been on the ops side of tech - Networking, Linux, Cloud (AWS primarily but with some GCP, Azure, Openstack, VMware + proprietary private cloud exp), Security, “DevOps”/SRE. I’m applying for my first SDE role. I got contacted by an Amazon recruiter. The email asks how many years
- Transition from HW to SW Hi All! I am a 27 year old HW engineer with strong aspirations to transition to a career in SW. I have a BSEE and have some programming experience, but it was mainly just simple procedural programming stuff I did in college to help with computation. I was wondering from any SW hiring managers, wha
- 6 months prep plan for SWE jobs | Joining work after few years from graduation If you are to start learning computer science with the focus on getting a job in 6 months, how would you go about it? My wife never worked after graduation in 2015 because of the family obligations. Now it's a good time for her to join the work force. Ideally we would like to be in a position to g
- link Unchecked Bias at Tech Companies It's obvious to anyone working at the big tech companies or the Bay Area in general, that we have a problem. And that problem is that we are trusted by customers and the world at large to be neutral arbiters of information, respectful of a diverse set of perspectives and values. However in practice
- What matters more to you in your job--solving interesting problems, or doing things with a high impact and visibility? Let's pretend all other things can be kept relatively equal: same company, same compensation, similar team size & structure, similar manager, similar workload/hours. You have a choice between two roles: 1. One with lots of unsolved technical problems where the solutions depend on improved technolog
- vote Meta e4 SWE, ML onsite chances? (My first post on Blind, pls bear with me) Did a virtual site last Thursday for Meta SWE, ML position. Interviews in order Coding 1: Aced both with optimal solution. Pleasant conversations. ML Design: Interviewer was professional and friendly. Guided me through all the points he wished to touch on
- How to become SWE at FAANG as first Programming job? (Have previous systems experience) I am on the Operations side of the tech industry — have experience as a systems admin and currently am working in the Cloud Engineering space — specialized in AWS but have some GCP experience (purposefully avoid Azure). I have all 5 core AWS certifications and am adept at using Linux. (Purposefully
- Please help! DE to SWE Skillset I am a technical data product manager, and my prior skillset and background was in pure data engineering (I left that role 6 months ago). I do not like the TPM stuff and am hoping to make a move back into engineering, but I want to work on software side. The reason I left DE is because I don’t like
- Need help in interviews feeling stuck. I have determined that I should leave. But before you give any suggestions, read this. Everytime I decided to leave when i was in current company (financial firm) since 2018. This happenned. - i couldnt keep up leetcode for more than 1 month - some mental game kicks from my boss at work about promot
- Confused with my career direction, need help Current situation I am currently working as a devops engineer with no day to day coding involved mostly trouble shooting from past 2 years. Not very much interested to code too but can code if the time comes. Trying to get out my current job because of not much learning + such at a very bad payscal
- No code API automation Testing solution - Feedback please I am toying with this idea of an API testing automated solution. The problem I am trying to solve Testing: After a developer has written the APIs and given it to a test engineer, they test it using Insomnia or Postman. If no automation tests have been written, it involves rerunning tests every ti
- How to Move From Start-up to FAANG as a Junior Computer Vision Engineer Dear community, I was been laid off due to an internal re-org in a start-up and had a hectic month of job searching. The problem is that my resume is hardly being picked up at FAANG and other bigger companies (TikTok, Bytedance), after internal referral. Although I am lucky to eventually land a job
- Amazon virtual Onsite - not selected - feeling disappointed:( Round1- started with Fibonacci where I explained normal solution and optimal solution and went with optimal solution Then the interviewer asked how you will identify biggest star from a night sky picture. Initially I had trouble representing this problem in a data structure told about putting data i
- Google onsite interview I recently had a Google on site interview. Recruiter had earlier sent list of people I will interview with and what each one will test. In my case it was 3 coding, 2 system design. Based on this I was prepared on what to expect out of each interview. Interview 1 - Sys design. Had a good discussion
- System Admin at Google Got a ping from Google recruiter for this role. Did a quick search around and I'm skeptical on the TC per se, not much worried on the title per se, as long as the work aligns in my area of interest. A lot of SREs/DevOps folks from India are being hired for System Admin roles at Google. From what i
- vote How to learn on the job as a junior How do you effectively learn on the job as a junior engineer when seniors do not provide ground-up training in a structured way? A lot of the Skype/Webex/MSTeams powerpoint presentations within teams or cross-team contain a lot of terms and concepts which I am not familiar with. These kinds of pres
- Coding interview certification with 5 years of validity as an alternative to coding interviews With all the rants about how broken the coding interview based tech hiring is going on for probably decades now, I wonder why can't there be a coding interview certification program where you earn the certificate by clearing a series of about 3-4 coding interviews conducted by a standard organizatio
- vote Offer analysis - Career change from Project Manager to Sales Currently a senior project manager at a VAR. I’m looking to make a change as I am burnt out with the PM role and received a verbal offer for an services sales position at a Global IT Hardware / Technology Vendor selling product attached, support, training and consultative services. Current TC: 144
- Blinders Advice on Interview prep - System design and DS/ Algorithms My current interview prep strategy: Algorithms: Revise Algo 101 - divide and conquer, backtracking , greedy, dynamic programming, memoization, common recursive Algorithms. Solve as many questions as possible from elements of programming interview topic wise. Current time I spend on a day for prep
- Until when will hiring continue for new grad SWE 2020 role? How much TC to expect for such roles? Hi, I'm graduating in May of 2020, and wanted to know until when will hiring continue for new grad SWE 2020 roles? I saw a lot of job postings with this title in August and September, but not really seeing more jobs being posted with this role anymore? Also, just wondering when should I start apply
- HRT London interview experience Role: Operations Developer Python TC: They just said it is "competetive". Hello community, I have been asked by different people about HRT London interview experience. So, I decided to write this post. TL;DR It was really really good and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Being an interviewer at Google for
- Microsoft onsite tips Hi all. I have a SWE onsite interview with Microsoft very soon (less than a week). I have a hardware (EE) background and did hardware things at IBM for about 2 years, and for the last year and a half or so I’ve been doing Java development for hardware verification (also at IBM), so I guess you could
- ML Applied Scientist vs SDE I am a master's student about to graduate. I interned at Amazon as Applied Scientist intern and got a return offer. I also have a SDE offer from another big tech company. The SDE offer is from a more prestigious company and the TC is also slightly higher. My experience at Amazon was good. The probl
- I Highballed my expected range after being pressed on accepting an offer. Will they call back or have they passed on? A large automotive company's (FL) Recruiter called me about scheduling an interview for an engineering position. He asked me what my total comp. range would be and I gave him a range of 120-140. He said he can make a total comp of 125k work (including their bonus structure, not just straight base).
- What are the ideal ways to answer these typical interview questions for Product Design I've been searching around and I just can't find any good examples online since product design is still a minority workgroup compared to SDE. Hoping to hear from folks here: 1. What are you looking for in your next role? - I am actually at my 4 years cliff and I am bored of the work .. but I can
- Can someone explain to me why this nested loop is constant time ? YOE : 1.5 years TC: 120k Can someone explain to me why this nested loop is constant time? I am taking an algorithms course on educative and I am getting through it pretty well, however, this particular situation is stumping me. All help is appreciated. First example: Time complexity of O( n logn)
- Leaving job and setting up team for success. I am leaving my job of about 18 months as a data analyst. When I came on there was no one managing data. Over time i built out pipelines using Python and MS office (automate, power query for ETL, etc) as well as a bunch of dashboards that are used across multiple brands/departments for BI. This led