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- Paypal, Chennai SE 1/2 confusion! Hey folks. I currently have 2 years of experience at a product based company. I recently got an offer for SE 1(T22) at Paypal. I contacted recruiter asking for uplevelling to T23, but I am yet to receive an update from them, though I am sure they are not ready to offer me the same. Any insights on
- Bad System Design Interviewer I was doing a retry of a System Design interview to get upleveled (or keep from getting down leveled) and the interviewer was awful. The question was not even system design rather it was figure out the optimal data structure. All my questions like "how will this be used", "how many concurrent connec
- How do you job search as a manager Having a hard time getting offers. Every company seems to have their own idea of what they are looking for. Some look for very technical, and some for hands off managers. In addition, there seem to be much more competition and fewer manager reqs. I am also trying to uplevel to senior manager or even
- vote Move to Microsoft L64 from Meta E5 on PIP worth it? Keep interviewing? TLDR: title says it all. Scroll down to vote. Looove the TC and perks at Meta. Also the fluid work culture. Hate the Wlb. Heard wlb is better at MS. Interviewed, got the job. However, pay is 150k less than meta TC. Same level at MS. No uplevel. PIP, Makes sense to switch asap. However, looking a
- vote Three more “final” interviews at Instacart after on-site I finished my onsite last week and they want to schedule three more final interviews at Instacart for next week. I am under the impression that this is because I am “borderline” but could there be another reason? This is for a non-tech ops role. I feel I did quite well on the onsite and all of th
- Need referrals for Nvidia New Grad Was misleveled/ upleveled earlier than I should have been. Been trying hard to fight the PIP but the expectation gap is big and causing me to burn out. If I have to burn out, I'd rather burn out at a role that I can be impactful in. Not limiting myself to Nvidia New Grad alone. If you're an SDM who
- vote Doordash vs Meta vs Stripe I have offers from Stripe(L3), Meta(E5) and Doordash(E6) I am looking for higher TC, career growth in the next job. And I would like some help and feedback on which one to pick. TC looks like this Stripe: 228/1M/35 (room available for sign on negotiation) Meta: 220/875/100 (recruiter says this is
- Interview difference between E5 and E6 at facebook for SDE role what are the differences between E5 vs E6 interview loops ? Talked to a facebook recruiter today and was requesting him to put my application for E6. He replied that if your interview goes well, you might get upleveled. When i asked that if my interviwers will all be E6 for that he said it will be m
- Improving communication Hi folks, I’m an IC at FB, and will transition into people management soon. I have received feedback for multiple years that my communication is verbose, overly technical, and hard to understand. This is true both of my oral and written communication. I anticipate that these challenges will hamper p
- Amazon Senior SWE position with 4 YOE? Hello, Recently an external recruiter reached out to me about a senior swe position at Amazon. They claim that this team acts like "a startup within Amazon" and isn't mandating a return to office besides a few times a month, so this sounds interesting. I'm currently mid-level right now with 4 YOE,
- Feeling like Shit I got passed up for promo this quarter due to not being driving work outside my team/sister teams. Joined as an L5 4 years ago, I am Still at damn L5. Just when I joined as SDE-2. I mentored an Intern in my old team. I xfer teams and was main feedback provider for his L4 to L5 promo. Just got to
- Anyone from Cisco Webex? Posting in behalf of a friend who can't post on Blind: "I got a compelling offer from them so I did my research in blind but no one seemed to have good things to say about them aside from WLB. Does anyone have an input on working for them? The responsibilities are right within my area of interest a
- Design strategy in consulting What do you think of design strategist or design researcher roles in places like ZS, Frog (Capgemini), or Fjord for a mid-career person? I worked in an agency for a year, and have been in house for 2 years now in financial services. My TC is good, my wlb fantastic. Is going back to the agency a step
- Product design: Amazon L6 or Facebook IC4? Hey there! I’ve 2 got offers of different levels: L6 (Senior UX Designer) from Amazon, and IC4 from Facebook. I’m currently Senior at Intuit, and on the promotion track to Principal. I’m really excited about Facebook, but are they lowballing? The feedback from recruiter was that I didn’t show enoug
- vote Finally achieved long-term goal. Now what? Some background: Slow start to career, cracked FAANG a few years ago, got disillusioned but was stuck in mid-level for a while due to politics, finally upleveled externally and will be starting a new remote role for a non-FAANG tier 1 company as a Senior 2, in a tier 2 city (so things like housing a
- Recent Interview Results for Senior and Staff Roles In Q1 of this year I interviewed with 6 companies, here are the results and rough offer numbers. I don't want to try and calculate refreshers so I'll just provide 4 year average without refresher, and if it's significant then also the year 1 number. DoorDash - interviewed for Staff, offered a downl
- Do you apply to roles with titles more jr than your current? Looking at new opportunities and seeing a lot of PMM roles at desirable companies, but I’m definitely a Sr PMM or Principal/Lead PMM at this point. Any of you have success getting regular PMM upleveled to Sr in your interviews? I’ve had mixed results in the past where a recruiter will let me know I
- Don't join Instacart if you care about eng. quality. I joined Instacart several months ago from FB and horrified with the quality of engineering, talent bar and process. Its absolute shit. I have been at FB and G before and instacart is basically a Ruby/Python shop. I can't recall the last time I operated like this. Culture: Culture is very top down
- Amazon L6 SDM or VP Engineering pre-IPO Currently L6 SDM at Amazon with good team, project and leadership. Have good scope but L7 is at least a year out, may be more. A 300 people startup very close to IPO is offering similar comp at pre-IPO price. The role is VP of Engineering with broader scope managing multiple levels. The IPO may no
- Hireright trash Old startup that has since shut down contracted me when I was a freelancer to work for their product. He won't verify my employment and my background check is stuck. I called him and he told me to take his company and that experience off my resume which i am fine with because fk him, but it was on
- vote How late is too late to discuss offer numbers I have signed a down-level offer from LinkedIn and in final stage of visa process, I didn’t like Fb culture and signed it back then, now the pay diff is huge considering all things, I was convincing myself by combine joining bonus into my first year pay to make me feel like Iam making more and now t
- vote Going up the ranks in tech 🪜🆙 So I was casually checking [In] profiles for L6 folks in Faang-extended and saw a whole lot of data biased towards folks staying at a single place and making to L6 from L3 in around 10-13 years. Of course there can be frequency bias but I think I checked a sufficiently big enough dataset. Question
- looking to get into video game development in my vision this year i wanted to uplevel and learn game development. the application would be as a hobbiest for now. ambitiously i want to tell geat stories via AR/VR apps questions: 1) any suggestions on groups i can meet up with that are into this kinda stuff like hack-a-thons? 2) i have acce
- vote How many people have joined Microsoft from Meta? Looove the TC and perks at Meta. Also the fluid work culture. Hate the Wlb. Heard wlb is better at MS. Interviewed, got the job. However, pay is a 150k less than meta TC. Same level at MS. No uplevel. Did I forget to mention I’m on PIP too. Makes sense to switch asap. However, looking at the Mic
- link I feel bad about negotiating... I got accepted as an SDE2 at Amazon and am matching with a team in the next week or two!! Woo! I have some other job offers, but not at FAANG so they are lower in TC by a good margin. I'm already emotionally set on working with Amazon and don't want to lose the opportunity or start in bad standing.
- Google vs Oracle vs Pinterest I'm at Google now, 3 years, L5, 5 YOE. I'm looking both internally and externally. I've got offers from Pinterest and Oracle cloud (ic4, could uplevel to ic5). Oracle is saying they need to get approval and to name my number. I've worked with the hiring manager in the past, he claims 500k TC migh
- Data bricks leveling/comp (non-eng) I'm heading into an onsite with Databricks soon and have a couple questions, if anyone is able to shed some light. Mostly curious if folks have had luck with level/comp negotiation with their recruiters. I'm L2 (level 5 manager) at FB with TC ~$210k (maybe more tbh I don't really know my RSUs at th
- Level changes when switching companies I'm currently an L4 at Amazon, been here for almost a year, and have started thinking about switching to another company like fb, google, uber, etc (somewhere that pays more and has similar type of work). Assuming I'm on track for promotion at my current position within the next few months, would it
- Amazon L4 offer going out of max band? Hey Blinders, I just got an initial unnegotiated offer for an amazon L4 position coming in at 190k in the Boston area. I have a competing offer at 200k but I was told the 190k initial offer was high band and they weren’t going to be able to move it much (this was before I got the 200k offer). At fi
- FB offer comp approval I’ve cleared the fb interviews and been matched to l5 for a PM role (ml) . I have competing offers and the fb recruiters already confirmed that they are now working on the offer. Two questions , 1) recruiters asked a lot of questions and numbers from current comp (Amazon) and competing offer. Shar