Hello Blinders, Here is my background: - double majored in Econ and statistics in undergraduate - started phd program for neuroscience at age 22 at a top 10, dropped out after two years (without masters). Learned basic computer science skills while there - have been doing a combo of programming
Hi all, ##I’ve spent the last 4 years working in DS at American Airlines - I joined directly out of UG (Top 5-7 school Math/Econ degrees). At the time, I thought AA, though I’d be leaving $ on the table, would allow me to travel at a point in life where I didn’t have familial obligations and work i
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I finished my onsites with Google last week for L4 SWE. Previously I worked ~10 years as a Petroleum Engineer, then most recently ~3 years as a Data Scientist. I have a Masters in Computational Analytics from a top 10 school in the US. I have been published since I've been working as a DS and I was
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Just summarizing my resume so that I can get accurate suggestions (putting education because some companies have asked me for it 😬) About: US Citizen, White Female Education: * BS in EE/CS, minor pure math in a Top 10 CS school with 3.95 GPA - EE/CS Courses: Computer Architecture (basic stuff
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
Hi blinders, Posting on behalf of a friend. I graduated in Master of Science in Statistics on may end from SJSU university. I am struggling with job hunting since many months leading to depression and have 2 more months before I will be kicked out from here. I am looking for any new grad data sci
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TLDR; Downleveled from L6 + Rejected low offer for Amazon L5 DS position Blind tax: 260 TC after Meta stock time-traveled to 2016, IC5 DS, 5 YOE, remote Happy Monday you beautiful and paranoid people! Wanna share my experience and contribute a data point from my recent experience with Amazon. Will
I’m M/mid thirties worked at small startup. TC 220. Thanks to Blind I’m determined to start interviewing to get higher TC. I want to share my experiences and want to let anyone who is struggling that you are not alone. There are so many things you “can’t” control For my first three on-sites I cou
This is a rant so be Warned ⚠️! Companies have no clue what they are hiring these days. Most Banks have Business Analysts in the Scrum team who are actually product owners because there is no concept of BA in scrum teams. Then later changed to Product Owner and now they are using the word, Product
The answer to this is actually quite straightforward and can be summarised in optimising over one or more of these axes: 1. location 2. company Location Switzerland is the best country in Europe for high salaries. A 100k there is achievable by a new-grad getting a junior job at a local/regular com
I've seen a lot of ranting on unanswered applications, people applying over 1000+ applications with no call-backs etc. I feel for you, this is a tough market... you're competing against startup founders whose companies went bust... "directors" of product at random startups who are willing to downlev
Hi! Meta is not what I expected and my team is really stressful. It’s a good enough company but just not for me. I’m thinking of two options (1) start applying for jobs now because Meta is not where I want to be long-term and leave when I get something (2) Stick around a few more months but sometime
***To preface, in no way do I want to come off as complaining or incompetent — I am merely asking for shared experiences and outcomes For context, I interned for the role I am in prior to joining full time. However two weeks before starting full time, my team re-orged and I had a new manager. Long
I interviewed with Amazon for the L6 PM-T role but was down-leveled to L5. The interview went well, the recruiter told me that I did good and mostly had a hire decision 4 v 2 for L6 and all hire for L5, so they decided to down-level me. I have 7 years of experience 5 in strategy analytics and the
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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
Product Execution Interview is highly relevant in the day to day execution job of a Product Manager. The problems given are analytical, strategy and goal focused. One such product execution question is to debug an issue in a product, feature or KPI generally asked in FAANG/Big Tech Companies (Go
I've been on blind for a little over a year now and with all the negativity, I wanted to (hopefully) share some positive encouragement for those looking to break into FAANG. As the title states, I had a very unconventional path to ending up at Google. My undergrad was in Physics. Sure we had to tak
Reddit employees who lost their jobs are livid that the company is painting them as low performers: 'A cruel and dishonest way to kick a person when they're down' Reddit insiders say a sense of dread has filled the social-media giant as the company has cut employees, one by one, in recent week
I currently have 13 yoe in software and I am at a very senior role at my current company. (senior TL / ML / Architect). I lead a team of 10 people (Engineers, Data Scientists, and etc...). I was promoted recently to an Architect to lead multiple ML teams of the same size with more scope, responsibil
https://hbr.org/2022/11/tech-talent-is-flooding-the-job-market "A recent series of mass layoffs in the tech sector, including Amazon and Meta’s dismissal of tens of thousands of workers, has created an incredible opportunity for companies that previously aspired to grow their ranks but couldn’t bec
It's difficult to encapsulate my time at Tiktok in the form of a few bullet points, so as a form of closure and just so people can be made aware of how toxic this org can be, I want to share my experience in more detail. TL;DR - if you care about your mental health at all, work anywhere else. Duri