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- Jump ship now or later Dear blind community, I hope to gather some thoughts from this post. Currently I am L64 Data Scientist at MSFT with a team with passive aggressive manager. This manager gets very aggressive at times, get me to work 10-12 hours daily, sometimes 14 hours. Many teammates left this team and joined FANG
- Just explained an AWS s3 recruiter why I will not return to AMZN. Please read if you consider accpeting an offer Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou
- Should I Quit my current marketing job and start prepping for swe? TLDR/Short version: I know basic web dev and algorithms. My current marketing job is very stressful and there is no room for growth. I have 1.5 year worth living cost saved up so, Should I quit and go hard on swe? What’s the chance to get a remote job with more than $40k TC if someone codes 10 hou
- Referrals - 2022 Data Analytics/Data Science Job Hello, Blind Community: I am looking for referrals for Data Analyst or entry level Data Science roles as I look to transition from Insurance into Data: - Data has been a passion of mine since I discovered baseball - Used excel to develop a forecasting tool for a department outside my unit. This be
- vote Amazon Loop: Rate my chances? TL;DR: Rounds 1, 2, 3, and 5 went well. Round 4 with the BR was meh. I’m wondering if it’s killed me. I interviewed remotely last Tuesday for a Sr. PM role in NYC. No response yet. Most rounds went well. Thanks to some detailed notes I had good stories ready for every LP and in total used 15 of th
- Co-founder/ CTO for EdTech Startup I am looking for a technical co-founder with a burning desire to make the education system more equitable and the willingness to think long term. If you are looking to make a quick buck and exit, this is not the right idea for you. Additional relevant info * I am an engineer but I also have strong
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- Want to make the jump to big tech (India) I have 4.5 yoe with my current employer and I’m not happy with my TC progression in relation to my YOE. So I’ve begun interview prep to try my chances with big tech (Preferably Microsoft) in the next 6 months. It’s the first time I’ll be switching jobs so I’ll be grateful if you can answer some qu
- BlackRock interview experience Had an interview at their new Atlanta office (so new it was still under construction btw, literally employees painting the walls and stuff lol) It was a day-long, two-part deal. The first part was three 'rounds' with design, style and just awkward 1-1 leetcoding on paper. Then they had someone read
- vote Help me evaluate my job offers (not FAMG) I have two offers to move out of my current position. Can you please help me evaluate my offers better? My current role is swe in the data team. 1. Offer 1 - 12 LPA INR fixed Consultancy company developing solutions on cloud and backend. Role is not thoroughly defined, but the gist is I get to work
- Appropriate portfolio projects for product design positions After a couple of years working as a front end engineer, I am realizing I would like to tra nsition to product design. Things that I could potentially include in my portfolio are: * A calorie tracking mobile app I recently designed and built as a solo side project. It is very simple but the simplic
- L6 SDM Strategy for Leaving AWS Been wanting to bail out of AWS in search of better work/life balance. Tried looking for new roles, but with sometimes 10+ hours of meetings/day, I can't find the time for the job search. So, going to just quit so I can focus on the job search (financially fine since I have enough money saved up to
- 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
- vote EA vs Qualcomm Background: ~2 years as a software developer, <1 yr as ML Engineer post Masters. I have two offers - Data Scientist at EA Vancouver, and Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Markham. Base pay for both is the same. EA is offering an annual bonus and more in terms of RSUs, so they have a slight edge there
- Founder To PM - Passed Amazon Bar but no offer (Resources Needed) I’m a former founder with 10+ years of startup experience who’s been able to make a steady income and launched two startups, one of which gained a bit of mainstream attention before fizzling out. Went to Oxbridge MBA since I didn’t want to pay 2 years tuition. Was one of three classmates who passed
- Referrals help for SDET/Software QA engineer roles in Bengaluru, India - serving notice period Hi everyone, Looking out for referrals for SDET/Software QA engineer roles in Bengaluru, India for my sibling who is in noticed period. Request this great community to help with referrals. Please reply to the post so I can DM the background and resume. Yoe: ~2.5years Current TC 6.5lpa Open to co
- Non-Trad PhD to MSFT L63 ML Scientist. AMA. It's almost my one year anniversary in MSFT (joined Oct 2018). I'm giving back to Blind, so AMA. First, I have a Non-Trad PhD (aka not CS or maths). I made a mistake of not following TC. Wasted 5 years of my life for a useless PhD, and condemned to endless postdoc in the hope of shitty professor po
- Seeking entry-level referrals at Tech companies (PM/Eng) Hello seasoned Referral-Peoples, I have been lurking for a while, but my time has come. I am on extended internship at Tesla and will be graduating from Cornell next summer. I'm majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering, with activities focused on product management and entrepreneurship. I'm l
- Beware of Wonsulting So - I've been trolling LinkedIn and Reddit and giving myself a reputation by harassing LinkedIn influencers who post garbage hiring advice that's designed to be emotionally manipulative while they shamelessly exploit the "job-search 2020" hashtags to try and increase their own audience. As someone
- Is this a good plan for a manager? Managing Down: 1. Be human not a recorded tape by upper management. 2. Be transparent almost every time (You cannot be transparent every time. You will know what I am saying) 3. Give space to your IC to experiment and fail and encourage them in failures. 4. Provide all kind of supports (personal/p
- [India] Need referral for SDE role Hi All, I need referral for SDE-1 (backend role) Yoe: ~3 Current Role : Data scientist(In banking firm) LC: 430+ Tc: 🥜 #engineering #software #swe #software #SDE #backend #it #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #AppDynamics #AppliedIntuition #Arcesium #ArgoAI #ArthurAI #Atlassia #Aviso #Bain #Bigba
- Amazon comp number by recruiters are inflated by 20% Amazon TC numbers are inflated by 10%. When the recruiter is telling you that he is giving you 500K, Amazon actually gives you around 450K of TC on average for 4 years. Amazon compensation is a complex formula (let's take 500K TC with 160K as base) Stocks (4 year in $$) = 1.89* (TCT - Base) = 642K
- WTF is an Enterprise Engineer? It seems like there have been quite a few posts asking about the Enterprise Engineer Role at Facebook, so I decided to write a post to help those who are currently looking or have been contacted by FB enterprise engineering recruiters. When I first received an email from an Fb recruiter, they never
- Pip at 4+ month pregnancy, 3 months before start of Maternal leave Hi All, I am based out of India. So, others from outside of India, please ignore. My wife who works at a well know firm since last 2 years has been told that she would be under pip for the next 4 weeks and post that her employment will be decided. Pls read the following to understand her scenario
- link What exactly do you expect on System Design Interviews? (FB) I have a FB interview coming up, and I would like to hear ideas and thoughts on what exactly do you expect on System Design interviews? A little bit of background about me, I have more than 6 years of experience working on an Infra team (we handle queries in the magnitude of a few thousand QPS, def
- Seeking FAE / AE / PE positions in a EDA company. Hi all, I am in this predicament where I need advice and also a job opportunity as I am on a time crunch pretty much, given a H-1B visa approved status. First, I am working with sales division for a cutting-edge tool. I am at crossroads right now as I have invested learning the tool from R&D, mar
- vote Help Understanding my First Software Interview Feedback I come from a non tech background and have always wanted to switch careers into software eng, so for the past half year I have been self studying pretty hard to be able to make the move. For the past month I have been studying my data structures and algorithms and have been going through a modified
- Best Field in Electrical Engineering Hi everyone Background about me, Bachelor degree in Electrical engineering, great gpa and good understanding of fundamentals but a no name college Found it difficult to secure an internship or full time job in my major, ended up getting an internship that turned into a full time doing something tha
- Google Prep Hey Blind Fam, I'm a SDE1 at Amazon with 1.7 yrs of experience. Last week I got interviewed at Google for L3, used to do competitive programing during college days, hence was able to grind 500 LC within one month for prep(100 easy , 340 medium ,60hard), was able to solve most of G premiums without h
- Negotiating salary for Senior Internal Auditor I'm about to be 28, leaving the company I started at out of college. 7 years experience total - 5 in various GL accounting roles from Analyst to Staff to Senior. 2 in Internal Audit as a Senior. I'm a hybrid IT/Business specialty where I understand both the technical and business aspects very well.