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- 10 companies and 7 offers in 1 month Giving back here to the community with the details of the 10 companies that I interviewed with, the outcome, and the offers with the TC and breakdown. I took upon myself a challenge to open my LinkedIn to “open for opportunities” and then interview with any company that reached out. I then did solid
- Looking for Work for my Friend I am seeking guidance. I am a second year Canadian university student studying computer science at the University of Waterloo. I have a very intelligent and talented friend who is also in second year (2B) CS at Waterloo, but he's an international student and not in the co-op program. He has a ver
- Do I want to be a PMM @ FAANG/Big tech? I'm at a career crossroads and considering going down a PMM path. Looking for advice. YOE=12 Pre-Sales Engineer @ B2B fintech startup TC: €240k / 162k base + 45k commission + signing bonus + benefits. No equity The question: Could I be a PMM @ FAANG/big tech without the marketing bit? Or should I
- Adobe Engineering Manager Job + Interview Questions Hello, 10 yoe, TC ~95k (Eastern Europe :) ) Saw a few interesting roles at Adobe and I'd like to learn more. The roles are Engineering Manager. Concrete questions: #Interview 1) Best way to get an interview? I applied on the website/Linkedin, but saw a bunch of posts on blind with recruiters not
- Transitioning from Analytics PM to DS/ML Currently a PM in the analytics space for last 3 years and I have had enough of it. Tired of politics and sitting in useless meeting all day without any meaningful work ( there are few meetings which I enjoy though where the discussions are technical). I was SDE before and have CS degree. Looks like
- Atg to Aurora Saw a post in uber channel that would be interesting read for Aurora folks. There is a lot of discussion about why ATG failed, why it was being sold, etc. From someone who has been here 2.5 years, there are so many things that went wrong but ICs were powerless to stop. Here are the main issues that
- FB Non-Tech to Tech Internal Transfer (SWE/DE) Hi all, been working at FB in a non-tech role for the past few years after graduating undergrad with a business background and looking at jumping over to a SWE/DE role. Through my role, I’ve had a lot of flexibility to work with product eng and data science teams and improve my technical skills and
- vote Help me evaluate tech marketing career prospects Hey Blinders! I’ve been on the job market for quite a long time (pandemic lay off) and finally I have 2 job offers. Please help me evaluate them! I’m in tech marketing and both of job offers are for senior marketing positions. One is with super stable old-school company with bad management Glassdo
- For cracking FAANG PM interviews - Exponent or Product Alliance? I am evaluating Exponent and Product Alliance courses to prepare for the PM interviews at Amazon and Google to be precise. If someone can guide me which one will be better given my profile. Brief about myself: * Total Experience 9 years * Plus MBA from the Ivy League [did after 6 years of work ex]
- How mediocre engineer got Microsoft/Linkedin offers using Blind Tl;dr Thanks Blinders. You basically gave me a job. I’m a mediocre engineer at best. I started coding when I was 22 because I was dumb in high school and then decided to study a rando major in college for 3 years. I transferred to a top 3000 CS school in the US (out of 4000ish universities) because
- link 125 cold applications to 5 offers AMZN disclaimers: Not on PIP. Good team and work. meh comp. Blind Tax: 230K, L5, 7 YOE 125 cold applications across 40 companies 21 phone interviews/online assessments 15 virtual onsite interviews 5 offers Interview Summary: - All interviews were targeted for Senior/Staff Software Engineer roles.
- How to level-up as a self-taught developer? I'm a full stack developer with nearly 2 years of experience with no degree beyond an associates. I currently lead a very small team, and work in a small startup in the midwest. I see Blind TC's and balk at my paltry 50k/yr without benefits. I understand I lack a lot of experience, but even I know h
- Does Amazon send SDE II online assessment to basically anyone? AWS SDM directly contacted me on linkedin and asked if I was interested in new opportunities as a software engineer. I said yes. Then we had a brief phone call asking about my background and after the call, he gave me a link to AWE SDE 2 position and told me to apply and after I apply he said he wou
- vote Tech TC with stock appreciation vs Finance TC Many posts claim that while tech offers may seem lower than top quant firm offers, it would beat the quant firm offers with stock appreciation. As an ex-F/G employee (and aS a MiLlIoNaIrE) with first-hand knowledge of compensation structure in both tech and finance, I decided to do some calculation
- Do I just take the blame? New grad here seeking some guidance. Short version: My lead might messed up his part, but on paper it looks like my fault. Longer version: My task is to tie different parts of a demo up and make sure it runs fine. Basically it's just to reference different parts of the demo in a script. My lead e
- Am I going down the right path? Hey everyone, I’m a 24 year old mechanical engineer. I’m currently enrolled in a year long company-sponsored program (details listed at the end) and at the end of it, the company will try to transition me into a firmware engineering role. My eventual goal is to work at a Big N/unicorn/quant financ
- I got a soft offer at my internship but I want to be remote/part-time I been Interning with a education startup they gave me a soft offer 6 weeks in out of 12 weeks. He also used words like "detrimental" if I left the company, size of 7. I am not a fan of LA but I do like Santa Monicia (their office location). I moved here to do a 3 month and planned on going back to
- Weird situation and hard to decide Before 9 months I joined new organization. It’s good one for me and I was dreaming to work with them, they have good impact, high potential growth and solving real problems. I started as fully motivated, energized and so happy and was performing well. Few months later an org change have happened
- How and when do you update your skills and domain knowledge? I am seeing people who work full day and also have a lot of additional domain knowledge or other technical skills which they don't use on daily basis at work. I am wondering when do they get time for learning or reading additional stuff. How and when do you update your skill set? I am a mobile app
- Misrepresented square footage Wanted to get peoples opinion on this. We are in the process of closing a home which was listed for 1400 sq ft. We were under the impression that the 1400 sq ft shown in the MLS listing did not include an unpermitted garage conversion (240sq ft), since the MLS listing explicitly marked garage as 24
- vote Leetcode You know. It has only been 4 months for me and I just have to know. I... can't be the only one who gets incredibly turned on by leetcode, right? I'm sure everyone here loves an elegant O(N) time O(1) space solution... but an elegant solution straight up turns me on. Doing leetcode problems in genera
- System Design interviewers who ignore System Design and dive deep into their domain... Am I the only one gets these interviewers? If I get a respectable System Design interview, I usually pass with flying colors. But a good chunk of the time I get interviewers who stop the whole design mid-process and deep dive into their realm. For example, today I just had a question about a desi
- Overworked, underpaid SWE in a startup looking for opportunities I am a SWE with 2 yoe. Graduated with a master's in 2019, and have been working for an ecommerce startup in the DFW area since. Given the size of the company, I was given big responsibilities very early on, and quicky rose through the ranks. I proved myself beyond expectations. To the extent that it
- Meta - Help for ML design round feedback I recently had a MLE interview (E4). For ML design round, feedback I got is a borderline (weak, risky to hire) but I have no idea how badly I did I would like to ask blinders where I can improve. Here is very detail how I answered during the interview (My answer contains all detail of below) Quest
- Advice for becoming a PM I'm a business new grad that finished up school about 2 months ago. My full time offer from Microsoft was rescinded because they could not get my visa in time for my start date. This was because I graduated 3 months later than I was supposed to because some of my classes were affected by COVID and t
- UC Berkeley Coding Camp Hi all. I've been accepted into a part time coding bootcamp through UC Berkeley Extension. Their program is very new and I haven't found any reviews or information about it online. The cost was very reasonable and Berkeley has a great rep in general so it seemed well worth a gamble. I love to have
- Google AdSense: worst customer experience ever I created a pure JavaScript Single Page Application site a year ago (in React) and recently decided I'd like to put ads on it. So I signed up for Google AdSense, and submitted my site for approval. It was rejected on the grounds that it "contains no content." This is complete BS. It's 100% origina
- PayPal iOS interview: Offer chances? Hey Guys, Wanted to get a feel for my chances of an offer letter. Just did the onsite at PayPal for a Mobile Software Engineer iOS role (San Jose, CA). Scores are based on my feel for how it went but of course I know that it is only my opinion and that it is not a true reflection of how it actual
- Series C startup offer review Hey all! I have an offer for joining a Series C startup as a Data Scientist, working remotely (which I love!). Their annual revenue currently is $20mn, and the company is valued at ~$300mn. They've offered me $150k base + 20k options vested over 4 years, currently valued at $10. The strike price is
- New Home - Dilemma We're deciding on a new construction home in Dublin by Brookfield in last phases on release. With crazy demand +bidding everywhere, there seem to be no list price discounts / incentives, and very marked up list prices. Pros: - convenient location close to public transport and shops - amenities in