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- vote Help me choose: Palantir versus ActionIQ (Internship) About me: Studying CS. Goals: Maximize learning for summer internship. I want to start my own company down the line so am looking to get the technical and leadership skills, network and business acumen for that. I am also looking to maximize TC in the short and long term moving forward in terms of
- 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
- My wifes shitty employer My wife took a maternity leave for 3 years and started working last year August. She is now a contractor working in Software. The software contracting is structured in this way E(employer on w2) -> V (vendor ) -> C (client). The client C is very nice company, they take care of her very well. S
- How do I make the most of my experience? New grad been at my job for 5 months Long story short I joined a small team who's go no formal education and very poor fundamentals of software engineering. My code base is older than me in a language that's almost on the top of stack overflows most hated list (don't wanna give too many specifics)
- link Stripe on-site Outcome: Rejected on-site after one week, 1-year cooldown. No feedback. Preamble: Having your own GitHub helps you to stand out. They will check that. Resume stage: If there is a new job listing, apply to it ASAP. Tailor your resume to the job listing. It helps to have a list you can pick from for
- vote FAANG jobs vs Industry Specific Jobs (career advice) Background: I currently work in software at a non-tech hardware startup (3d printing). I did my masters in Mechanical engineering but during my thesis I got into writing code. Was basically forced to get good at data structures and algorithms and ended up really liking it. Currently pretty good at l
- 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
- link The job hunt continues... Previous post here: https://www.teamblind.com/article/Need-help-deciding-which-job-to-take-Nqjc3chn Job 1: Went through full interview process with a new product team at a food delivery company... Very disorganized product\support structure. Good people but going to need alot of work. Recruiter was
- CW issues I posted longtime back about favoritism in one of the teams from product side. I am quitting my job now. The manager keeps on disrespecting me consistently by listening to one of the co workers. Now that I got another job, just posting this short story as I am not sure who to reach out.. These are
- dealing with an issue that seems insane Last year I was hired for a longterm freelance gig at a major company where the boss was a friend. i was told i had to be paid through an approved vendor, as the company couldn’t pay freelancers directly, but not to worry, they had a vendor number i could use. fast forward to start day, where i qu
- Advice for a UX/UI Transition I have tried to find some good advice but some post either are designed-focused, or coding-focused. I have neither a background in tech nor arts. I recently separated from the military after just under 9 years with some operator and project manager roles. The main reason for leaving was how much bet
- Amazon backtracked from their initial TC Short Story: Amazon recruiter called and offered a TC of about 170-190 for L6 BI/BA position. Took the call, cleared the interview, lead recruiter calls and offers me TC in 130-140 range which is lower than my current TC Current TC: Base: 125K Bonus: 10% RSU: 10K a year Long Story: Applied to Amaz
- Co-Worker Attitude Issue My co-worker joined 2 months ago and something seems off. 1. In 2 meetings I’ve attended she is quite blunt in not willing to help out the customer, and I need to diffuse the tension during the meeting trying to bridge the gaps (usually the customer has a legit reason for wanting what they want but
- link Google Interview You have a phone interview. Software Engineer. Google. You get an instant hard-on as you look at the compensation on levels.fyi. It's time, the stars have aligned. You have memorized the optimal solutions to all leetcode hard questions. You're going to cheat. Again. After failing over 20 interviews
- vote Dear Blind, help me pick: Master’s Degree vs Current Role? I’m confused between two options I have for the next step in my career and I would love the community’s perspective. Option 1: MS admit from a top UK university in London for 1 year Machine Learning course. (Something I had been and have been wanting to learn till the Option 2 presented itself a fe
- SSD HW or Rivian? Advice for stable career in HW testing? Hi, Anyone able to shine some light into either industry and the stability for a long career? I'm currently in my final rounds of interviews at an HD/SSD/storage company (think Samsung, Micron, Hynix) and Rivian for both for a role in HW (Mech E). If things keep going well, I think I can expect to
- vote L3 Google Onsite Chances Just finished my L3 onsite at Google for a New Grad position. I've heard it could take over a month to hear back so wanted to see what Blind thinks about how I did. Round 1: Behavioral round. I felt it went well! No awkward moments and I had solid examples for all their questions. Probably Hire. Ro
- Taken for a ride by management? I have been at my company for a few years now. I don't officially report to a manager/director, I report directly to the CTO (I was an early startup employee). This is the story of what they make me do inside the company: 1) Somewhere in the company there is a project in my area of expertise that
- SMTS Build and release engineer in VMware or staff SRE Citrix? I have 2 offers, mostly identical in terms of compensation. Senior member of technical staff build & release engineer, vmware Staff site reliability Engineer, Citrix , cloud operations In VMware I will be working on their "tanzu" kubernetes distribution. Apparently I will be working on building t
- link PSA to Interviewees Stop Ignoring Behavioral Prep (With a Tip on How) I see a lot of people on here complain about rejections when they nailed the LC component or really felt good about systems design. Take this from someone who has given a lot of interviews in nearly 20 yoe: you're failing because of behavioral. We as engineers put a lot of value in the intellectua
- vote Amazon vs Bloomberg (new grad) I currently have full-time offers from Amazon (in AWS) and from Bloomberg, both for new-grad Software Engineering positions. Here are all the pros and cons I've gathered so far, both from my perspective and from browsing through here: Amazon: 108k base + 44k signing (over 2 years) + 70k RSUs(5/15/4
- An honest opinion about working at Microsoft. I have read a number of reviews about different companies over here and wanted to share one about Microsoft as well. This will be a long read. Background: Been here for four years. Started in the services org and now am in the development org. Culture: Can't get better. A company where I decide ho
- At what point do we accept value investing is dead Aswath from NYU Stern wrote an excellent piece a month or so ago about why value investing needs to evolve and it’s hard to argue against. I keep hearing “this appears to be the start of a rotation into value” every few months, but it never is, and there is always another explanation. For example,
- Interview Horror story - Meta/Facebook So today I had my on-site. After the recruiter meet and greet The first interviewer didn’t show up. When I emailed the recruiter they reschedule it during my lunch break with the same interviewer. The second interview goes ok. It’s time for that initial rescheduled interview. This guy shows up
- vote Square (L6) vs Google (L5) Help me out blind 🙏 Google has always been my dream company but Square is posing a persuasive offer. Here are my thoughts for each one, lmk if any of it is misguided. Square (L6): Pros - Smaller company yields more opportunities to work on impactful projects - Stock growth - I know it’s all Mono
- vote Internship: Uber v/s Salesforce v/s Uber ATG Hi people! I have internship offers from Uber (SWE), Salesforce and Uber ATG for an internship this Summer. I've listed down some pros/cons for each according to what I feel, but I need your advice! (Some context, I've already done 2 internships in the bay area both backend related and looking for
- Non-SWE invited for Web Solutions Engineer (gTech) interview? Hi all, About me: • Apple (Support Ops Engineering) • IC3 @ $112k (not ICT) Was reached out by a Google recruiter about a Web Solutions Engineer role in San Francisco for gTech. I passed the initial technical phone screening and am in talks for the phone coding interview. I’m really interested,
- Should I take this startup job?? 12 YOE in Product Mgt and Product Development. I've never worked for a startup before. Only large, global corporates. Just received an offer for the only Product Manager role at a post-Series B, energy hardware startup across the country. It's an exciting role. Great opportunity and products I think
- PM Prep Plan I've read through most of the PM prep advice on blind. I have a couple specific questions as I prep. 1. Should I communicate my framework/structure before I dive in? I've been getting mixed answers on this. On one hand, it seems a bit contrived/hammy and less like a conversation. On the other hand,
- vote Yearly RSU versus one time I just recently fully realized that most of the tech companies discussed here do not specify a yearly target RSU grant in the offer and the contract. When in joined Walmart, my offer letter spelled out the yearly RSU grant amount (and the vesting schedule of course). In fact, until 2019 the year