Want to see the real deal?
More inside scoop? View in App
More inside scoop? View in App
FOLLOWING
Show more
The New York Times Posts
Posts
The New York Times
- link Insights about tinder and online dating (long thread) About a year ago some friends scraped 70k pics on tinder and it was reported a few months later: https://bit.ly/2ZbFVwf They said their goal was to outdo the guy that did 40k and was reported in the news a few years ago. Anyways, not to be outdone, I decided to scrape millions and do 2 TB worth of
- Can’t seem to get an interview(intern) Hi Blind, I’m posting here because I’m feeling desperate. Backstory is the following: As you can see my English sucks, that’s because I moved to United States not so long ago(in 2016) right after graduating High School back in my home country(former Soviet Union), as soon as I moved I started Commu
- Changing jobs Most of you will laugh or flag this... I'm a dentist. I want to change my career. My options at this point are to go back to specialty training - 3 hard years and 200k cost + living ... In tied to NYC due to wife's career. Specialty around here isn't even that great unless you get into one of the
- In 7 years of working in Silicon Valley tech I've never once had a company run a educational background check... I never even had anyone ever even ask me about my degrees before. It's simply never come up. I've only been an actual employee a couple of times, the rest of the time I've been a contractor (misclassified employee) but the job description almost always still require a degree. Makes me think that
- Looking for some advice; Question about types of HW EE opportunities in NYC Hi everyone, first time posting here. Sorry if this is the wrong spot for this or a dumb question. I currently am dying in my role as an EE (can't go into more detail without doxxing myself) after several years and need a change. The work is good but I can't deal with the pressure cooker environm
- Scared of staying in the stock market? Lessons from Wall Street here. Source: Prior to the crisis I was in investment banking in NYC at one of the top 3 largest banks in the world. After that went away I was in asset management through the end of the crisis. Not providing exact dates for anonymity. First: are you scared of staying in the market for what's coming?
- offer evaluation obligatory tc - $90 per hour contractor. obligatory yoe - 17 in java, includes 10 in android, 14 years on dual-intent work-visa. edited - cap-1 final offer. offer-1 clover - fiserv role : staff android location : frisco-warren, tx ( semi-remote, opportunity to wfh few days in a week ) base : $160K
- Finance/Fintech non eng looking for advice and help So I have an unusual background that I believe is hampering me from advancing to where I should be. I have 15 years of experience in various financial firms (big names), but with experience ranging from Strategy to Analytics to Business Development. Since those 3 areas are different, I believe peop
- Morgan Stanley Lateral Transfer Hi all, looking for some advice here. I want to break into product management but have 0 PM XP. I’m currently a portfolio manager in MS’ Wealth Management division with 5yoe. I’m grossly underpaid and am fully aware. TC 115/nyc/🥜. I have an internal offer to become a product manager here in Morg
- vote When should I go back to NYC? I’ve been home with my family for almost a year now because of COVID, and I’m starting to go a little crazy. I lost my best friend and first girlfriend 7 months ago because I didn’t want to return to the city, and now I’m at a crossroads. Should I return to the city now, in April or in May? There a
- vote What would you say? Tl:dr: College student graduating soon and wants to know more about the current tech culture in finance/fintech v.s. pure tech at other companies. I am only focusing on the tech culture at fin/fintech companies, TC and other aspects are a discussion for another time. When I refer to "tech culture,"
- Life path after Green Card? Hi Guys, I’m a SWE originally from China, in my early 30s and have 7+ YOE at FANG and unicorns, about to get my GC next yr sometime. I’m not really into coding day in and day out longterm. I've never spent much time learning new tech in my free time. I don't hate it either, just meh. In my eyes, S
- Quitting - without job lined up? Been here for 3.5, almost 4 years. Top performer year over year and its been a great experience, personally and career wise....but I’ve reached the ceiling for growth and the cons have been greater than the pros for a while now. It’s affecting my mental health as I’m overloaded with work due to turn
- link Google onsite - Interview elsewhere too? Hi all, I have a Google onsite coming up in 3 weeks (general SWE), and I’m not interviewing anywhere else yet. I wasn't really actively looking yet but got a message from the recruiter and decided to give it a shot. Already did a phone round and a call with the recruiter to go over the onsite, che
- 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
- 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
- PM at Startup to SWE at FAANG+ I've been a product manager at a very small startup in NYC for the last two years. This is my first tech job, I come from a non-CS background (undergrad and masters in Mech Eng) and taught myself to code after realizing how much I hated the field that I studied. While my title is PM I do a significa
- Working remotely in a different city every 4 months I’ve been feeling a little burned out, especially being inside for so long. I’ve been working pretty hard for 6 years without a break. My long term girlfriend and I have always wanted to do the digital nomad thing. We want to try out living in a couple different cities and have one last hurrah befo
- Amazon Vs Other offer evaluation Hello, I got an offer from Amazon and an unknown startup. Need help choosing as I have heard nothing but awful things about working at Amazon. Unknown startup: TC 230-250 = 135k base, min 60% bonus Pros: great WLB and energy of company as a whole Cons: unknown company, exit opportunities prob aren
- Transitioning from public sector I have 8 YOE total as a SWE, tech lead, and engineering manager (currently asst director level) at a large state university. I have enjoyed the flexibility, independence, and WLB but have hit the growth ceiling in my current org and am ready for a change of pace. SO has an opportunity in NYC and we
- I’m a DS on an O1 with an agent (don’t need sponsor) and Google said they can’t sponsor (even tho I don’t need 1)🤷🏻♀ In November 2016, Google recruiter reaches out to me for a ML Soft Eng position in London. I politely explain I want to move to the US and I think I qualify for an #o1 visa. She tells me that Google does not do O1s except if I’m some important researcher. I explain I am a PhD student but I have done
- 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
- Recall the time when I used to make $20/day (road to 250 tc) TL;DR VERSION: Respect people, everyone is fighting a different battle, I hope you will come out on top. Here is my whole career progression. I started from the absolute bottom where my parents and I used to get dead threats and robbed and how I pulled my self out of it. Now I’m the bread winner of
- Negotiating Google L4 With No Other Offers I will be hearing back tomorrow on whether or not Google will be extending me an offer for an L4 SWE position. I already went to hiring committee last week and all but 1 committee member wanted to pass me, but that 1 hold out couldn't be convinced otherwise so they scheduled me for a second HC to tr
- career advice! referrals welcome☺️ i have a very technical degree in geophysics, minor in mathematics and currently i work as a data processor and very recently i obtained a post graduate certification from the London School of Economics and Political science in data analytics utilizjng excel and tableau. during the last couple month
- Seeking Mentorship I’ve recently graduated from a masters program in CS in the NYC metro area while I worked full time in Manhattan. My undergrad degree is in biomedical engineering and have been working in that area since late 2017. I’ve been trying to break into a SDE position since the begininng of this year and h
- Career Advice: Feel stuck and want to change companies Hey Everyone, Context: This is my first post… I am feeling a bit stuck and need some advice. I am at Oracle and a Principal Member of the Technical Staff (IC-4). I function a bit as a PM and an SWE. Came from a small engineering school on the east coast. EDIT: I am currently living in NYC area and
- The Truth About Goldman Sachs Some of you are looking for new jobs or thinking of moving to finance. Probably HFT or Quant Finance if you're on here. Thought I'd share some things about GS to know before coming here. - Tech is a second class citizen here, even on front office "strat" teams. In the last 10 years you'd make more
- vote Offer Evaluation request based on GC and TC UPDATE: Offer 2 was rescinded because of non profit to profit conversion. They were not ready to go through lottery and wait till October. I crrently work for a university-related employer on a cap-exempt H1-B (on 1st year H1-B). Have approximately 5 years more for H1-B max out. My current employ
- Should I follow or stay? I’ll try to keep this as concise as possible. Currently a contractor making ~84k a year no benefits/ no paid holidays. At the moment I do not need their healthcare as I have my own private insurance. I’m trying to stay remote because I’m a single/sole parent for 2 kids. The firm is going hybrid and