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- Promo vs go to more exciting area? Hi Guys, Currently a L6 PMT in Amazon and in an area where manager/director like me a lot and I have a shot to be promoted in March ‘21 cycle (15%) or Oct ‘21 cycle (90%). We have already talked about me being a TT for this year and potentially getting a PM under me in next 6-9 months. Only proble
- Referral help -DS /Quant/DA Hi everyone, I am looking for my next role (Data Science /Quant /Analytics). I keep getting close but no offer. Last three on-sites i have had, 2 went to internal junior candidates and for the other role they said they needed to reassess the need for the position at all. One recruiter actually took
- Summer 2022 internship referral Hello Blind Members, I am currently an international master’s student in United States, and I have 5 years of experience in Software Engineering, consulting and product management at Microsoft. I've been applying for both pm internship positions for summer 2022, and was wondering if anyone would be
- Jeff Bezos' Amazon shareholder letters. Here are 9 lessons worth your time Thanks to Twitter account Chris Hladczuk How to Make Decisions Is it a one-way or two-way door? One-way = can't reverse so make them slowly and carefully Two-way = reversible so make them fast Most big companies die by using the slow one-way door process for a two-way decision. Wake Up Terrifi
- Blind is same as other Social Networks Blind created a community such that it appears to be democratic in its general functioning, but is actually very specifically curated toward a preferred set of economic, political, and social ends. It fosters a feeling of being an outsider in anyone who dares to disagree with what “everyone” purport
- Money Making Trends TL;DR: Where do people discuss trending money making strats that are hot off the press? When we start hearing about NFTs, Amazon FBA/Affiliate/KDP, Drop-shipping, new alt-coin ico's, new forms of mining (file/energy/hnt/etc), and all these income generation trends in public forums and in the news,
- Need advice on switching jobs (India) YOE: 1.6 Current: SDE 1 at Amazon India Org: Payments TC: 30 (14 base + stocks + bonus) Note: Majority of the stocks vesting after 2+ years. I have recieved most of the bonus though. Position offered: SDE 1 at Zeta Team: Enterprise Payments TC (open to negotiation, has not agreed upon yet): 22 bas
- Let's list stereotypical reasons for why each big tech company is bad until we find the best one to work for --FAANG tier-- Facebook: Too political, disorganized, elitist Amazon: 'nuff said. Harsh culture of algorithmic stack ranking, long hours, low pay. Apple: Secrecy breeds siloed culture, top-down tyrannical, cheap about pay. Netflix: ? Don't they do stack-ranking but it's not as bad as in Amazon o
- Recent interviewing experience with Google, FB (Meta), etc. Figure I should do some sharing in case it helps others. Everything is in Canada. YOE: 7 Current TC at Amazon (SDE2): 180-190 Got contacted by a couple companies in late August. With quite a few of my current projects wrapping up, I decided to do a round of interviewing. So I also contacted recrui
- vote How many times did you get rejected (from onsite) before landing your first dream job? Hi Blind, This is nothing new. Rejections really hurt. I'm a CS Ph.D. with a focus on ML and DL with a good record of publications (though not in top conferences). I've done two internships, one at Apple. I've solved 250 LC (mostly hard medium) so far. As of today I've had 9 onsite interviews (incl
- In the DS race! Seeking referrals! TL;DR: Seeking: Data Science referrals within Experimentation/statistics domain. Location: SF/Bay Area Give back: Mock interview sessions, Consolidated doc with links to all my study material that has helped me with the process:) Essay: I am more of a Quantitative Analyst (arguably a DS with stron
- How to study for applied probability questions I have PhD in Social Sciences, 5 YOE. For interviews at tier 1/2 companies (FAANG, twitter, gig economy tech) I always got tripped up with applied stats and probability questions. I know basic bayesian and combinatorics. I know distributions. But I'm always dreading questions involving: 1. Countin
- Should I take a low level role (in or out of tech) while looking for high level? Would this hurt me? Hi Blinders. Happy new year! Hoping I can get some of your wisdom & insight. Spent past 7+ years in startups abroad as a passion project founder, a co-founder at another startup & a Director PM role at another. (not in that order) Returning to the US after recently attending a few events and seeing
- Why minorities can't be the only ones to help each other I keep hearing this phrase and I wish I could publicly call bullshit on this. But woke feminists would crucify me. "Women help other women go up the career ladder." Sure, it sounds great in theory! Except for my dear mama, many things in my professional life I owe it to men in my life. I don't mea
- Overcome envy and become happy So I get it blind is all about TC transparency and what not. But I’d like to share my personal puzzle about envy. I’d love to have some suggestions from people who experienced similar situations so I can learn and become a better person. Most importantly, I want to be happy. Here we go: I consid
- Continue working as a SSE after you came to know that you joined at a very low salary? Hello Guys, I am in a really confused state. I recently joined VMware and came to know from blind that I was being paid half of what it’s being paid for that role. I am being paid a TC of 170 CAD whereas I saw a post on blind where the person was offered a TC of 310 CAD. I could already sense that
- Join part-time or full-time - Startup with exponential growth. Hi Everyone, Earlier this year, we started working on a startup with a great ambition to make a one-stop marketplace. Fortunately, after months of hit and trial, we were able to find the perfect product-market fit. We are growing, growing really fast. About me - Indian origin - Moved to the US aro
- Start up with product-market fit - Join part-time/ full-time Hi Everyone, Earlier this year, we started working on a startup with a great ambition to make a one-stop marketplace. Fortunately, after months of hit and trial, we were able to find the perfect product-market fit. We are growing, growing really fast. About me - Indian origin - Moved to the US ar
- Searching for Junior/mid-level Data Analyst/Data Scientist positions I'm looking for either a junior/associate or mid-level Data Analyst or Data Scientist role at a solid company with good WLB and decent TC. TC doesn't have to be astronomical and am trying to be reasonable to counterbalance the fact that I also value WLB. I'm really struggling with how much i am wo
- vote 5 interviews, 5 offers I studied/did phone interviews over a span on 3 months. I took the last two weeks off work to focus on the last bit of prep I wanted to do + the on-sites themselves. My prep over those few months: 1. ~350 LC questions - ~80-90 easy, 200+ mediums, and ~50-60 hards. During the latter part of my prep
- 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
- [Rant & Qn] Can I get a SW-Engg-Mgr role in FB/Google/<Fancy-or-LowName-Tech> without Coding rounds(esp. LC grinds) I have 12 years of experience as engineering manager software development mostly in 'backend' with C/C++/Java and mostly on UNIX (yeah, including linux). Rant-Start> I can talk, reason arch/design/patterns/and all that shit including low-levels (yes, the shit about ns/ms every programmer is suppos
- Depressed by Praise - Looking for Referrals Hello Dear Blinders, I am actively looking for a Data Scientist/ML Engineer role and would appreciate any support. I am willing to relocate anywhere in order for me to work for a new company in the United States. I recently got my H1B visa and it will be active from Oct - 1, hence I need the new em
- link Verizon officially dumps the Oath name for its media group https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/verizon-officially-dumps-oath-name-for-its-media-group?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpGbVpERmhaamszTXpRMSIsInQiOiJWV01nd2pHaW51XC9DdWc1S1FqYWh5WEVWXC96QTNHR0dFUUFicFN1OWhKWHQ5WmFETXl1dzloZXBHVHdJV0tldFBBaDd1R3BYUFBFNWM4TE91XC93NGNwY0xrNFpVYVcyQWpBeldJUFROSDMzTGR1eldNV2xza2pNTHp
- vote #30DaysWithoutPhone Starting a new resolution that for next 30 days, I'll not use my phone. Anyone want to join me and share experiences? Day 1 - Had more time for everything - family, friends. Happier, focused and feel more energetic. I did need the phone for a few calls with friends and family, video, photo, for 2FA
- The PM interview: How I got offers from Paypal, TripAdvisor, Udemy, Microsoft and Google This post is a continuation of - https://www.teamblind.com/post/PM-Interview-Prep-Plan-How-I-got-PM-offers-from-Google-Expedia-Microsoft-and-Facebook-pj56HMHQ This post is not mine but I include it here for reference. The above post breaks the tasks up and gives you a plan of how this big mountain
- Can I create new UAN account while joining new company? [india]] Long story short, I joined company O (old), didn't like the work hence switched to a new company N (new). But I didn't tell company N about O because they would have not considered me. (told them that I was taking a break). My manager at company O is arrogant, forcing me to serve a notice period ti
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- Diversity and inclusion hiring Sorry if this doesn't sound right to lots of you, but I had to say it somewhere. Recently I see lots of posts that black/latinos or female engineers are getting hired easily. I've been to "at least" 200 interviews in different companies so far, mainly for L4, L5 and L6. Honestly I haven't seen any
- link Thought I was ready for interviews and failed repeatedly. Learn from my hubris! Below are my interview experiences from the past few months. It's rather long so TL;DR: if you're not ready, postpone your important interviews. Not by a week or two: by months, even 4 if needed. Do it. Okay, now, is it just me or has there been serious inflation in interview performance in the pa