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WSJ's article on IRS' tech

TL;DR: IRS sits on top of archaic cobol code and is very expensive to make changes. They're investing $80B over the next 10 years and code redesign is included. I lived in 2 other western countries and will tell you I didn't need to pay $60 tax filing software, nor did I pay $200 CPA every damn yea

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Apr 17, 2023

Toxic manager at Oracle Legacy

I am currently an IC2 at one of the teams in Oracle Legacy unit. Was successful in delivering outputs at the start of tenure and my current manager was impressed and he pulled me with a team which he newly formed after re-org. I started to feel the shift in his attitude when almost all engineers

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Apr 19, 2023

Twitter interview

Posting for OP since his post was taken down and account suspended for “Invasion of privacy”. Just took an interview with Twitter. Was interviewed by: an engineer (TD for anonymity) for a software engineering position. Was the most rude and unreasonable interviewer I have ever met in my 10+ years

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Jul 25, 2023

Which One Should I Choose, A Workforce Strategy Consultant At Big 4 Or Data Engineer At A Mid-Tier?

My very humble background... After messed up my A-Levels and only got A*AA due to bully and sexual abuse, I ended up in a Russell group university doing a useless degree in psychology as an international student. I felt worthless and was very lost and it wasn't until in my final year, I decided to g

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Mar 18, 2021

Review of recent interviews

I’m a senior SWE with 3.5-4 YOE, all at Microsoft. Since September, I applied to almost 50 openings, landing 7 callbacks. This is a worse callback rate (15%) than 2021-2022, when I applied for mid-level roles with &lt2 YOE and got interviews for &gt25% of my applications, and even than 2019 when I h

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Nov 11, 2023

The best HVAC load calculation software

The advent of modern technology has transformed the world we live in. What seemed like an impossible task only a few years ago, can now be completed within minutes. All you need to do is click a few buttons on your computer or smartphone. This is no different for HVAC load calculation either. The h

Dec 14, 2023

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

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Jan 18, 2021

Looking for remote ML referrals

I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Compass India, looking forward to get some help in jumping out of a sinking ship. It appears that the Tech Market is really bad these days (or else, it's just my luck which is super bad). Most of the companies do not seem to have an ML opening suitable for my year

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Sep 16, 2022

Parental Leave - Washington State (WA) - Amazon

I’m writing this to share what I learned about taking leave as a non-birth parent living in Washington state (WA) while employed full-time at Amazon. The WAPFML leave may work the same regardless of your employer, but I'm not totally sure on that. Contact WA leave people (not your employer) to under

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Jan 12, 2023

What is @Polkadot?

Thanks to Crypto boomer (twitter account ) To understand what @Polkadot is, you need to know what is a blockchain platform. Examples of these are platforms such as @ethereum @solana @Cardano . These are blockchains which allow developers to build dApps - decentralised applications, ontop of them.

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Nov 6, 2021

SWE is Paradise

The College Years You've always been an ambitious person and have known that tech was your passion from a young age. You remember being the kid in every class who would fix the teacher's computer problems, in 5th grade the IT guy even said they should hire you. You know he was only half joking. Your

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Sep 12, 2022

Career confusion

Long post disclaimer! Looking for direction and guidance. Mostly I am writing this to get a clarification of what I am really feeling. It's complicated in my head and I am not able to find my way out. I got into my previous company (Xandr) chucking Amazon offer after 4-5years of stuggle and hundre

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May 31, 2022

Infosys==Hell==Depression

This is gonna be a long but completely veracious(truthful on the account of everything I've experienced) post, so kindly bear with me. I'm currently located at Infosys Pune(one of the better offices of Infy), India. This will be an account of WLB at Infy. This is my first company and I had some exp

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Oct 7, 2021

Senior management career question

Long Read. Summary: 25+ yoe, 12 years in USA, then 15 years in China, then back in the US and career got reset. How to get it back on track? So, my first several years of career in the USA was fairly typical of folks here on Blind - Was a Junior Engg, Senior Engg, then Tech lead. Then decided to

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Aug 8, 2021

Some facts about CCP and China

I find most people in US know nothing about CCP or only biased info from the media. As a Chinese, I have to tell you guys something about CCP and China: 1. Most Chinese people (more than 90%) strongly support CCP, because CCP helped most of the Chinese people earned a better living. 2. In China, t

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May 26, 2021

The benefits of learning SQL

1) The information you need is already in your hands, no need for research Exploration is costly. In case you're hoping to do overviews or different techniques for social occasion subjective information, you can hope to lose valuable time and cash. One of the SQL benefits is that it permits you t

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Oct 16, 2021

Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2

I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc

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Apr 17, 2022

Quite the Book on Amazon Culture - Women of Tech Blind - what do you think?

Just published yesterday - 12 year Amazon L7 It’s like she published every possible post on Blind about Amazon as 1 big book - the best part is it’s all sourced now to actual Amazonians https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/review/exit-interview-kristi-coulter-amazon.html EXIT INTERVIEW: The L

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Sep 13, 2023

4 offers, all non-FAANG, but reasonably good companies

I wasn’t aware of Blind when I joined Amazon. But once I joined the community, I realized how badly I got screwed over with my Amazon offer. In these past years, I’ve benefited a lot from the information which has been shared in this community and wanted to contribute back. I recently received offe

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May 3, 2022

How to land the unicorn/trading firm/FAANG company of your dreams (as a student)

This guide applies if you’re a senior looking for a new grad position, or a freshmen/sophomore/junior looking for an internship. Obviously you’re not going to get a internship that pays 6 figures, but you CAN get one that pays 10k a month (which would be 6 figures if it was year-round) Some things

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Aug 14, 2021

Answers and advice about changing GC country caps

I keep seeing questions/comments/rants about the GC country caps, such as: 1 - Why not let in high quality people? America needs them 2 - Why the hate against Indians? 3 - Why not a pure merit-based system? 4 - Show me the data on so-called "ICCs flooding the system" Here are some answers to those

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Dec 22, 2022

Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing.

Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing. TC: 450 – YoE: 10+ (Can’t say more or would be too widely identifiable) Let me tell you a story abut Micro Focus. Yes it’s worse that what you heard… HP/HPE were not bad. But not only is it now a world of stagnating products, uninspiring leadership or

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Feb 9, 2022

Expose on FLG: Part 12 Shen Yun and Li Hongzhi

In part 12 of this expose on Falun Gong’s transformation from a meditation practice in China to a global right wing disinformation machine, I will talk about the performing arts side of Falun Gong, the central role that it has played in FLG since 2006, and how Li Hongzhi’s management of Shen Yun is

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Sep 24, 2023

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