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- Leetcode getting started - need advice on study plan Hello Blinders, I haven’t given an interview in 2/3 years but with pypl in free fall it’s time to buckle up. What’s the best sequence to solve leetcode questions. Currently focusing on just leetcode medium. I am hoping I can create a study plan based on what has worked for others in the past. Plan
- Modi Owns India’s Unfolding Covid Disaster But, unlike Donald Trump, he may survive his government’s deadly mishandling of the pandemic. India’s healthcare system is buckling under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic: The country registered more than 1,500 deaths and nearly 300,000 infections on Monday alone. Videos of crowded mortuaries an
- Bay Area Financial Planner Help! I really need someone to help me get my financial mess in order. I'm not in bad shape ( as in- not in debt, etc). I just have money sitting in cash and in various accounts and I'm sure it's not working enough for me. I could use help consolidating some old 401K's from old companies. And even
- Are we really replacable ? I have an offer which is 20% more than my current TC, higher title and they are also offering sign on. Here is my question : Can I ask my management to match this offer or they will just let me go. As far as I know, I am supporting 3-4 critical projects which are due Feb-March 2020 timeframe. If I
- Feeling down after back to back rejections Been on the new job hunt journey for the last few weeks and so far haven’t made it past phone technical rounds and take home tests as either buckled down under stress or getting beat out by other candidates. I know it’s going to take practice to do interviews but can’t help but feel a bit discourage
- Stay at Microsoft or focus on interview prep? I worked as a non sde engineer in a completely unrelated industry for 2 years, then embedded swe for 2 years and then as a data engineer for 2 years all outside of the us. And I have been working as l60 sde at Microsoft Redmond for 1 year. And to top it off I got 8% rewards recently (target is 10%
- vote Google vs Microsoft new grad Have the following SWE offers after interning at Google this summer (also interned at Bloomberg before hence my profile): Google (L3, MTV) Base/Equity/Bonus/Sign-On: 129k / 100k / 15% / 20k PA: Search (team match happens later) Microsoft (L60, Bellevue) Base/Equity/Bonus/Sign-On: 119k / 130k / 10%
- I’m a shitty engineer This is a long post so buckle up folks Also my current company is not up to date Just realized I’m a shitty engineer. I pushed myself through school because I thought I would grow to like it. I worked at high profile faang companies, but I sucked there and feel like I underperformed. I hate it, I a
- link Snap leveling for SWE I’ve been interviewing at Snap, Pinterest, Meta, and some others. I was L5 at Google for a while, then ICT4 at Apple where bands are wider. In the industry will L5 at Snap be seen as “staff”? I have asked a similar q before and got pointed to levels.fyi. I’ve seen it. It says Snap 5 overlaps 5/6 at
- Maximise TC at Microsoft. Advice/Tips? Current L63 in IDC TC 60+ I want to buckle down for a while. Changing jobs (and interviewing) every now and then is a pain! Except for leetcoding and joining other company, what else can be done to improve TC while being here? Can it match (or at least come close to) other FAANG TCs? From what I k
- Technical prep before starting at Amazon Obligatory SDE 1, 2 YOE, 180 TC, Greater Los Angeles Area. I'm sure the TC isn't much to most of you, but it feels completely insane to me. I feel like I still don't know anything and my career has been more plumbing than engineering. I'm not sure if it's imposter syndrome or actual. I buckled down
- vote People buying now are buying top of the market This is pretty much 2008 right now. In the best case when interest rates rise, the home prices will really stall and not go down. In the worst case a correction (or maybe a crash) will occur For me personally, I only had an interest in buying a home at a lower interest rate. Now that is no longer
- Facebook SRE - worth it? So hey, I once applied for some job in Facebook and didn't even get a no thank you. But just last week somehow a recruiter emails me out of the blue saying - hey we're hiring for production engineers (essentially DevOps/SRE) in whatever many teams there are there. I talked to recruiter today and the
- Would do anything for referrals Happy Friday everyone, After completing my Masters from CS I got a job in D.C. Unfortunately, despite having some of the best colleagues to work with the upper management at my company sucks to the core. For my first H1B attempt after getting all the documents from me the HR lady calls me in to of
- vote Offer evaluation! Please Help! Got an offer from a small/mid sized company in nyc SWE: 3.5 YOE TC given as base/bonus/signon Offer: 135/80/15 = 230 Current: 120/10/0 = 130 Now I know the obvious answer is it’s pretty much doubling my TC and I should take it, but here is why I am hesitant. 1) starting off during covid I feel
- Switch to SWE - best language(s) to focus on and places/tools for learning Hey team, I won't bore y'all with the details, but after a long 18 months of.. life kicking me.. y'all have inspired me to buckle down and learn how to become a SWE. I've been trying to avoid it for like 5 years now, but I should've just jumped on the bandwagon back in college. I'm currently in the
- I'm unhappy Just looking for advice from people who have been in these circumstances. I'm an SDE. At work, I always feel like I'm the dumbest person in the room. I'm not aggressive, so the things that I believe need to be driven never get driven. I'm really bad at persuading people of my views and debating. I
- I may have made a MISTAKE in my career path First time I post here sorry if this isn't a good format. I'm looking for advice and input from people who better understand the industry than my current peers. My background is hardware/Design Engineering with 4 years of experience under my belt with startups, embedded systems, and composite desig
- Just want to say fuck it and quit sorry for venting. I have gotten decent perf reviews historically but I'm not sure how and at this point I'm not performing to my or anyone's expectations. Part of me wants to buckle down and do better but I have already done that for the past year and I'm just running out of steam. All of the non-
- vote Struggling as EM - Undiagnosed ADHD? Being an EM is the hardest thing I’ve ever attempted. I thought I just needed to push through it and learn new skills, but it’s been a few years, and most days I’m still overwhelmed, completely stressed out, and feel like I’m trying to keep my head above water—despite having learned an awful lot. S
- Recently fired/quit from startup, trying to come up with a plan A year ago i was hired as a data scientist in a very niche field at a pre-revenue start-up. i hated the job i had before, and this field meshed well with my background (i have a BS in biomedical engineering, which was related to this company’s value prop). i lived in Seattle (very expensive), but i
- The Quest for Uber Engineering "What the fuck are you doing? Why the fuck isn't it working" Travis yelled as he loomed over the engineer responsible for dispatch. It was late 2012 and Uber was experiencing one of its normal outages. Buckling from the weight of tremendous growth, Uber's software infrastructure was consistently giv
- vote How do you push back on over-working while maintaining a good performance evaluation? Hey y'all. This is a long post so buckle up, but I've included the tldr if you'd like to get straight to it. A little background on myself: I'm new to the corporate life halfway through an 8-month internship at MSFT. While I've been enjoying my work and thought I was just going through the typical
- A bunch of career tips that only comes from asking questions After I missed getting a post-internship offer, my goal of graduating with a job offer was in danger. I buckled down to apply to a bunch of jobs, Googled tips copiously and visited my college's career office nearly every week throughout my job applications to refine my resume. Since I started apply
- Healthcare provider , office being bought , don't want to do it again . Career change via bootcamp ? What's possible ? Healthcare provider , 35 y/o ... due to some some unforseen circumstances I have to sell my office. Did well enough. I'm in NYC area, it's ultra competirive with PE money flooding the field (more info on this at the end ) A couple years ago before buying my office I had considered a career change
- 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