Want to see the real deal?
More inside scoop? View in App
More inside scoop? View in App
FOLLOWING
Show more
Welcome
Posts
- vote Which job title to apply for? Hi all, I'm a self-taught web developer with 18 years of experience. Most of that time I've spent running my own S-Corp agency making websites and SAAS apps for startups and small/medium businesses. I started out just freelancing 18 years ago, and have never had any formal education in this indust
- vote Machine Learning Research or Software Development? I am currently doing both applied machine learning research and software development in my job. I don’t have a PhD degree or publication records in ML. I tried very hard to get into the field and finally got myself involved with ML applied research project. But then I felt a few things were quite un
- American Nightmare I have been in the US since the fall of 2019 on a student visa, but I swear there hasn't been one single day when I wasn't worried/uncertain about my visa status, one way or another. Finished MBA, got a job, and then started worrying about OPT (work authorization) when it took longer for me than my
- Feeling nervous about upcoming interview I was not actively looking for any change myself, okay with where I am right now, no risk of losing job. I have only worked one full time job, have not done any interview or change job for more than 7 years and never prepared for interview in my life (was lucky enough to land a full time job with m
- Validating Interview Feedback Role: L6 SDE I had an L6 loop with Google. Coding, TL rounds were SH/H/LH and design rounds were LH/NH or SNH. Got rejected. Honestly both design questions were easy and I talked in depth for both. Design 1 - Interviewer was becoming conscious about few concepts which I was talking about and kept
- Analyst Career Path Advice Hey everyone! First time post. I'm a data analyst w/ four years experience at a relatively old startup (7+ years). I was our first data hire and since then we've built a modern infrastructure (Stitch/Snowflake/dbt/Looker/some custom Airflow DAGs). I've been lucky enough to work on the engineering si
- How does engineering manager transition back to IC? TC: 400k YOE: 10 in tech and 8 outside Age: 35-40 Please take it serious (jokes are welcome, but I’m looking for a real help from blind community). I am EM with 3 YEO being a software developer and 7 YOE being EM, 10 in total. I’m depressed in EM role and have always been, in all 3 companies where
- Long term in the US or home country? Want to ask all immigrants who have been living in US for long time - if you could start all over again, would you rather live in the US or while you had the chance, would you want to go back to your home country after some time and work there (after all, gone are the days of the ‘big American dream
- Try to start project at Big N, V.S. waiting for a startup to emerge V.S. founding startup myself Each passing day, as I become a better engineer I am increasingly starting to have my own opinions about how things should be and what things need to exist in this world (for tools, APIs, products, directions etc related to my domain of expertise). At this point, an employer could literally hire me
- Blind glossary for newbies Every proper forum has a glossary page for new visitors. I've started one for you. You're welcome TC: total compensation. Normally base+annual bonus+annual allotment of RSUs GTFO: get the fuck out, as in TC or GTFO YOE: years of experience COL: cost of living RSU: restricted stock units Refr
- Feature timelines set without any consult of product or engineering. Mad rush to make vaporware real. Need advise Just over a year in a product role for an enterprise app with primarily large pharma clients (launched shortly after joining) A few months into role I began noticing an unfortunate trend. Our CEO will take initial design concepts and essentially demo them to our client. Talking about them as though
- Compiling behavioural questions for Amazon interview While I was preparing for my interview at @Amazon, I prepared a 10-pager with the different behavioural/leadership principle questions and my answers to them. Sharing the list here as this might be useful to someone someday. 1. Tell me about a time when you were not able to meet a time commitment
- Oldie Programmer seeking advice I have been lurking the threads for the longest time and in a way envious of the TCs and all but I would like to bring this up and hopefully would get some advice. Based in the US, on a visa, working for those desi consultancies with a legitimate work experience (aka no inflated/fake credentials),
- 10-12 years of software engineering. Looking for next challenge TLDR: losing excitement for typical swe work. Interested and currently developing skill sets for high level, business work. How to structure the next decade of my career. I’ve summed up my skills and any other roles I could think of. Need suggestions on where to go next, should I study, switch caree
- Physics undergrad looking for a mentor to help transition to Data science Hello people, I hope you're doing good. A friend of mine is a physics undergraduate student, and right now will be joining physics masters course. However as he recently realized, though he is very interested in physics, he'd want to head to a career where he gets to work on application end build s
- Career Advice TL;DR at the bottom Kind of a rant to help me cope with poor life choices, but any advice or roasts are welcome. So basically I have a BA double majoring in philosophy (lol) and english. Originally the plan was to pursue a degree in law, but realized that the law field isn't really for me. I am the
- London is Crappy For Tech & Getting Wrong Advice 5 YOE - all data/analytics/BI roles in EMEA. TC lower than 80k GBP every year since I started. First tech company I worked in the EMEA HQ, worked hard to get promoted, then was told non-eng roles wont get sponsored VISAs and I need a Masters for a US VISA. Left the company due to FAANG offer also a
- vote Tekion vs Licious (Need Career Advice !!) Hey Guys , Advice Needed . Please help Current TC : 8L + 1L Joining Bonus+ 2L Performance YOE- 1 year 1 month offers: Tekion : Salary - 18.5 lac Joining Bonus - 2 lac Relocation - 1 lac Stocks - 6.5 lac vested over 4 years Total Comp : salary + bonus + stocks = 23.12 lacs for 1st year Licious
- SWE TC across companies, how much NW and growth to beat the TC? TC Display: Top Tier: Pinterest: 450k~600k Stripe: 450k~600k LinkedIn: 450k~600k Facebook: 400k~600k Airbnb: 400k~580k Snapchat: 400k~550k Netflix: 450k+ 1st tier: Uber: 380k~600k Lyft: 380k~480k Slack: 370k~500k Dropbox: 350k~600k Twitter: 350k~550k Google: 350k~500k Apple: 350k~450k Splunk: 350k
- Quitting academia hi! I graduated in 2016 from a tier-1 college in India with a Bachelors in Computer Science. I really wanted to do a PhD, but I had no funds for masters/no research papers/no letters from professors. I also had a lot of debt, needed to put my sister through college, buy a house for my single mother
- Google Interview Experience Long time lurker here. Blind has been super helpful in helping calm my nerves as I read of others' experiences and timelines (while making up worst-case scenarios for myself), so decided to share my experience and timeline of Google in case it might help calm the nerves of others who might stumble a
- SDM - depressed, stuck in career TC: 400 YOE: 10 in tech, 7 outside prior to tech in several industries, including 3 years of entrepreneurship/startup M, mid-30s, married/kids Company: JezoSsss... I really need an advice and honest response from this community. Haters - please skip. Jokes are welcome, but please do provide your i
- Stuck at a job not relevant to me, no motivation to study and interview. Bad and uninterested in my current role I started my career at Intel as a software engineer working on cloud infra and data center management, using the latest tools and tech. I loved it. Until they decided the project wasn't important and scrapped it. We were given 9 weeks to find another role at Intel, so I started interviewing around w
- Solution to India Greencard backlog There are more people in the India GC queue than the entire population of many countries. India has over 4x the population of the United States and could easily clog up ANY application system with millions and millions of offers. Right now that clogged system makes life hellish for India applicants,
- 0 to swe internship, quick quick quick! Hi! I’m looking for advice on how to go from basically no experience in coding in swe to being able to get a swe internship for the fall of 2021 or earlier! (summer 2021 / asap 2021) Here is my current plan to get internship ready as I work full-time: 1. Take 2 university classes: an intro. to pr
- link THE US EB GREEN CARD STORY Posting for the benefit of the community. Based on first hand experience. Employment based US permanent residency or EB GREEN CARD Starts with a permanent job offer, PERM application and an I-140: 1) Interviews and job offer 2) You have ANY legal status which allows you to stay and work in the US.
- Befuddled ***TL;DR: Long and tedious vent below. Mostly me being frustrated with my career. For those who have their lives figured out, congratulations and thank you in advance for reading all the BS I put up here.*** Like probably a good number of ppl here, I’m from outside of the US and came here for colle
- vote Litmus test for future academic career TLDR; Let me know of a good litmus test to see if I'm wasting my time pursuing theoretical physics/neuroscience. I've added a few options below, but you're welcome to suggest other methods. I'm a new grad who'll be starting at Amazon next week. Over the past few years (and especially this pandemic
- Depression or Not?? I am asking this question here so people who had experienced something like this in their personal life can share their experience and may be help me out. I have read some old posts on Blind on this topic and see many people throwing up their suggestions without even knowing how it feels to be in th
- Is this wrongful termination??? I am on H1B and my wife has a dependent H4 visa with employment authorization document(EAD). Her EAD is literally dependent on my H1B status and it renews as and when my H1B is renewed. In Pre-COVID times, it used to happen either simultaneously or with 1-2 weeks gap. My wife is/was employed with a