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- Actuary to SWE Hey all, I'm a recent grad working as an actuarial analyst. I originally chose this profession due to decent pay/wlb and automatic salary floor (thanks to the torturous actuarial exams), but I want out. I feel like I'm a glorified data analyst/business analyst; I spend most of the time on excel an
- Are proper coding skills being tested in interviews ? I started working on the LFU Cache question mentioned in this thread(https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/450361/Amazon-or-SDE2-or-US-or-Dec-2019-Reject). I consider myself a decent coder and struggled to even think of an optimized solution, given I have solved LRU cache before. Then I
- When you’re delaying the task and feel like it’s cause you’re not performing well Just graduated from college and hired as a frontend dev at an early stage startup and been on the job for 8 month now. But I feel like I’m such a dumbass, stupid and terribly slow learner. I always feel frustrated every time I’m delaying the project and not getting things done as I said I will. E
- Finally switched careers! ME => SWE Finally switched careers from ME => SWE! (career switcher motivation) I've been a Mechanical Engineer for about 5 years and 2 years ago I decided I wanted to switch into Software Engineering. I can go into a TON of detail about why I left ME but that's another huge post. In the last 2 years, I se
- vote Uber PA vs. Apple DS vs. FB DE Trying to evaluate two offers (FB, Apple) vs. staying at Uber. There's no clear best decision in my mind so curious for the community's thoughts. Caveat: I feel tremendously thankful to have any options at all given the current economy. I find myself in the fortunate position of evaluating multiple
- Conundrum, need some advice First off, I'll admit that this is a good conundrum to be in. I'm fortunate to have some solid options to choose between. I'm currently in a FAANG in an M1 equivalent role. I'm on my 3rd year, so the initial RSU grants have not fully vested. WLB is not great, and I don't honestly see a path to M2 w
- Stuck in a rut Hey I’ve been in the industry for 17 years and worked mainly in networking field of computer software development. I worked on he first proxy server for windows back in 2000 after graduating. At that company I wrote a recursive descent parse to merge foreign language .rc files with the master Engli
- CloudKitchens Interview Experience + Request for Referrals. YOE: 16 years. Result: Rejected. Overall Opinion about the process: Decent. Min. Requirement: Daily Leetcode for a month + one weekend for the take-home. Recently I have attended Cloud Kitchens Onsite (via zoom) want to share my experience. Since I have signed the NDA, I can't share the exact quest
- Pre-IPO vs Finance Company Offer Evaluation Hi Blind Community, I am evaluating two job offers and am really confused. Company 1: Pre-IPO Tech Company Data Engineer III $120k base No bonus structure 5k stock options - 1yr cliff 4yr vesting schedule Strike price: $27 Estimated internal current stock value: $64 IPO in 3-12months Based on est
- link Meta ML engineer interview preparation Lot of people have asked me about my preparation strategy for ML Engineer position at Meta in one of my earlier posts (https://www.teamblind.com/post/zBR3hSWV?cid=19665519). So I decided to write a short post detailing my learnings during the interview process and reference materials that I had used
- Landed an ME job! I've spent the last few months grinding since my last company went under, looking for a place that would be the right fit. I just signed paperwork and couldn't be more excited to start at my...checks resume...5th startup (maybe this time!). I'm an ME (10 YOE) and things were very different since th
- vote Auto Mode Syndrome in Job This is my 3rd firm in my Career and want to know if i'm looking things correctly and im weird. Things work for me in 4 phases in any job. Phase 1 : Month 1 - 12: Learning and Struggle Phase (Hate this Phase) - 1/2 Mistakes Phase 2 : Month 13 - 18: Settle and sink in : Get comfortable in the Job:
- Analyst Career Path Advice Hey everyone! First time post. I'm a data analyst w/ four years experience at a relatively old startup (7+ years). I was our first data hire and since then we've built a modern infrastructure (Stitch/Snowflake/dbt/Looker/some custom Airflow DAGs). I've been lucky enough to work on the engineering si
- Starting Career - What You Wish You Knew Hello all! I am a recent grad (May 2021) with a tech degree from a decent school and have been working with a startup that I am part founder of which has been keeping me busy since the middle of my senior year. TC is 🥜’s bc it’s more a passion thing and I’m ready to move on to entry-level SWE jobs.
- FO Research Jobs are Taxing and my Boss is potentially an a*hole. Comments requested. My boss is a pretty passive aggressive guy, and feels like his respect flows in the waterfall structure from a senior person in the team to the junior person in team. He speaks fast and always is pretty impatient. Although he is to the point, but can become angry very easily. 1st Day of 2nd week -
- Worried about new job/career trajectory I got laid off from a Bet in January. 2 years as a contractor (niche field of aerospace), 3 months as a TPM (so basically no TPM experience). I took a ton of time off and basically nailed down that I want to stay in tech and either work in sales/solutions engineering or as a SWE. Not TPM. I’ve been
- Emotional breakdown - Help me somehow, Guide me please I understand my life isn't unique but I am very much in pain. Things haven't been going as I had planned in my life. The stress is killing me. If I had one win I could survive and I am just looking for a that one win to bring me back from this hell. I have been stuck in my career, unable to provid
- vote Chances of clearing Google L5 ? (Edit: L5 approved) Hi, I recently completed my L5 SWE loop with Google India. Following are few details of each round: - Round 1 (Coding): Was asked a medium/hard problem. Not a direct LC question. Was able to provide solution and implement the same. Solution was both time and space optimized. Follow-up was w.r.t. m
- The Art of Network Engineering - How to Open Shortest Path First from On-Premises to Remote? The Ask: Recommended path to get from point A (on-premises) to Point B (100% remote). Hoping for specific, actionable steps that can be taken. I attempt to provide enough information from my background, but please ask questions if you need more info. Point A (where I am): - On-Site (San Antonio, Te
- 20 years in this crazy business I just realized I’ve been working for twenty years and have unexpectedly been a bystander to some crazy things. Some of the beats: - grew up in the Bay Area in the 90s, my high school had this strange thing called “the internet “ which got me into programming - in college some friends of an older
- Amazon Prime Air Drones Safety Amazon's autonomous delivery drones have crashed at least eight times in the past 13 months, a review of federal crash reports and internal documents shows. At least one of these crashes, when a drone that was being tested dropped from 160 feet, resulted in an acres-wide brush fire last June, Insid
- Hired last year as Sr, new person joins as Sr but not qualified Background is I was hired last year as a senior designer at a startup. This year we hired another designer for a senior role but after a few months of working with him it’s clear he’s an associate level to low mid-level at best. I personally had my doubts when I was part of the panel in the design
- FB Post re: Uber worth reading I saw this on my Facebook feed, written by Diego Berdakin who I don't know at all, but we have mutual connections. Definitely worth a read as he has innumerable valid points. ----- Watching all of Silicon Valley turn its attention to bashing the team at Uber has been quite a sight to behold. At the
- Google L3 from Electrical Engineer (Interview Experience, Accepted) Wanted to share my roller coaster experience with Google interview process. tl;dr: ~$200k + 20k signing; 9 interviews; highs and lows; great experience; great recruiting team Quick background. BS in Electrical Engineering from decent private university. Had only two classes in the CS department
- Bad Interviewers Rant (FAANG) I've noticed many a times when we go for interviews, especially to big companies (e.g. FAANG) we have such high expectations and prep, thinking it to be a good career opportunity. If though, we don't crack it, it feels like the competition would've been stiff. But rarely it comes across as a bad int
- Feature timelines set without any consult of product or engineering. Mad rush to make vaporware real. Need advise Just over a year in a product role for an enterprise app with primarily large pharma clients (launched shortly after joining) A few months into role I began noticing an unfortunate trend. Our CEO will take initial design concepts and essentially demo them to our client. Talking about them as though
- Career Guidance- TC Vs Effort Hi Blind Community! I need some career advice. I'm a little lost on direction. Worried about TC vs Effort. I'm someone with a Masters in Industrial Engineering. With about 2.5 full-time YOE in F&B Manufacturing. Right after my Masters I started off with a no name company. Worked there, impressed fo
- Things you may not know about Google PM interviews I interview a large amount of PM candidates. Let me provide some unsolicited advice. Of course, all of this is my experience. 1. You’ll start out with talking to a recruiter. During your first conversation, the recruiter will discern a level for you. This is based upon your current role, background
- Leave somewhat promising YC startup that i really like for a better comp? TL;DR: One of the first employees at a YC startup. Really love company and enjoy working there. Having tons of responsibilities and making huge impact. Have been there for 2+ years and vested 50% of equity. Compensation / career growth is limited because of the company size. Should i start looking
- 10-12 years of software engineering. Looking for next challenge TLDR: losing excitement for typical swe work. Interested and currently developing skill sets for high level, business work. How to structure the next decade of my career. I’ve summed up my skills and any other roles I could think of. Need suggestions on where to go next, should I study, switch caree