Life at my current company is pretty chill, great WLB, friendly team, but still pretty deep technical problems in which I'm learning a lot. Would I be crazy to throw all of this away for the sake of increased scope? On the other hand, one of my friends whom I trust very much told me about an opport
Are there any good retread programs in NYC? I am just doing your average backend work at Bloomberg without a specific focus. What I want isn't something to grind LeetCode (done plenty of it) but something that give me enough expertise that I can pivot myself into that kind of SWE role. I feel like w
Hi community, This is not a snob post where I'm showing off, I'm seriously looking for some advice here, so please keep the hate comments away. I've been at G for 3.5 years and am going to be promoted to L6 this cycle (I know nothing is public yet, but based on my VP, it's a done deal). I worked my
Apparently, I was evaluated as a strong hire after on-site. Despite the hiring freeze, the recruiter has confirmed that I will be given an offer for Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer in London. I have 7 YoE in industry + PhD. The offer will be for E5. I was hoping E6 but the recruiter s
Hi all, I am sorry if my English is not good (I stared learning English 2 years ago). So, I am working as a research scientist and project manager leading a team of 7 people on big project. I want to switch job and I want to try to get an offer at big tech. I am not good at coding and I am learning
I have been senior swe at Google for a couple of years. Despite trying hard to get into promising projects and coming up/implementing with new technical proposals - I am not able to grow. I have always been a decent performer at Google, never got a cme. Due to current hiring freeze, I can't seem
Hello! I joined DD around 9 months ago and left last week. I experienced that the hype about “you will grow faster at DD”, “you will learn a lot as their tech stack is cool”, “their refresher is insane” etc. All this is bullshit based on my personal experience as described below: 1. TC: AFAIK Thei
I do wonder what I’m doing. Going back to Amazon though after 2.5 years to get some work done. Meta has much friendlier culture. Lot more peer pressure though. Lot more passive aggressiveness where people go build the same thing you are doing just to have something to show on their psc. Managers ar
I’ve been interviewing for a couple of years now and have been on 50+ interview panels. Been a Bar Raiser at Uber and also preparing for Staff level interviews next year. YOE: 6 TC: $400k I’m ready to help out anyone who needs help with mock interviews for System Design. I usually take 1.5 hour s
According to the recruiter, it was because someone made the recommendation. I asked if I can get any feedback and was told I did well on my coding interview, but my system design was a bit lacking. I thought the system design was my strongest round. I did 3 coding, 1 coding/behavior, 1 system desi
I have recently had 5 job interviews for swe positions at finance companies in the uk where I went through the usually gruelling multi round, multi day gauntlet of take home tests, coding interviews, technical deep dives, behavioural, system design etc etc only to be told at the end of the process t
I had a PhD in physics and did work in hardware industry at a no name company for a few years before deciding to switch to software in 2017. I had some people management experience at the hardware company. I broke into the industry in 2018, worked as an IC and eng manager at smaller companies, and
Tc : 370ish Yoe 4 in summer On good trajectory to get to E6 by summer as well and will be working to transition to Eng Manager after with undefined timeline I am wondering if folks have some guidance on what I should look to do. I think going to EM is what I want to do and I like supporting and g
As the economy is opening up more and more, I am seeing a pattern of people not committing to certain thing with the excuse of COVID. I have a couple of examples: 1- Both my barber and the guy who runs a restaurant in our city are complaining about not being able to find help even when they offer $
I'm graduating with a degree from a T10 school's fifth year masters program and will be starting at FB in a month. I want to be an MLE and hopefully grow to high levels like E6/7, but I don't actually have a handle on what skills I need to prioritize and develop to succeed as a MLE. I took a bunch o
I'm getting close to FAANG offer or two at the tech lead/principal level (think E6 at FB, L6 at G). Currently a director level at finance company. What I really enjoy about where I am, even though finance may not be known for it, is the flexibility. By that I mean I work (and am happy to work) 45-
Hey Guys, I've around 3 months of time to prepare the FB interview for the SWE role. Right now I am in a very mediocre role and mostly write code for QA automation tests in Java or manually test the android/ios web/app. I must confess that I have been writing code since 2005 but it always someone
I am an L6 SDE at amazon. I have 66 RSUs vesting over the next 12 months and a 160k base salary. So the current value of my TC is roughly $380k. I also expect to get a back-to-back top tier rating this year, which will bring me to the top of L6 band for the next 2 years. Last year, that was 419k fo
How is the offer level at Microsoft determined? I am leaving FB after 4.5 years to move home and be closer to family. There is a super nice Microsoft office here. I found a team I was interested in and passed the interview loop. The comp I am being offered is very competitive with the local market b
At the risk of doxxing myself: Have an E6 signed contract to start fully remote in EU in a couple of months (offer is ancient; I delayed start for the max permitted, as wife has several months' notice clause in her role, and replacement roles few and far between). Not pre-allocated to a team. Recru
I keep seeing people saying that it is easier to get promoted while you switch jobs. I am not sure how to approach the topic with recruiters. Sometimes they just straight up ask me what level I am at meta and sometimes they just auto guess based on my years of experience. I see so many people on he
Thought I would share my onsite experience with dropbox and uber. Currently at FB E6 with TC ~570k. FB (7 YOE) is good but wanted to give a shot outside and see how things are (also nothing wrong to keep to those interview skills sharp) Dropbox interview process is fairly straight forward. Phone sc
TL;DR: Sorry for the long post. I have issues with brevity after midnight. I'm starting to interview for an E6 Graphics SWE position. I'm being recruited because I have a niche skill set. How best should I prep for all the interviews and should I delay interviewing so I can study for more than a
I keep hearing stories (both here on Blind and elsewhere) about people who were really successful and did a lot of grind - focusing on work at expense of wlb, crazy hours, etc. I'd like to hear stories about successful people who didn't grind. I didn't grind, but I'm not sure I'm successful. Got e
Yesterday was day one of my two day E6 virtual onsite loop at FB. Two coding rounds, that were really straight forward (yes they're still asking LC hards). But what was interesting was the Product Design round. From what I understand, they used to give 2 systems design interviews and now for many a
Hey Blind, TLDR; I need some geniune career advice: I’m thinking of jumping ship to Google after the 1 year mark at FB. The Details: About 8 months ago I joined FB Seattle as E5 SWE. I also had an L5 offer from Google for the Kirkland office. After negotiations FB’s offer was better overall (~405k
Note:I am not trying to shit on anyone's job. It's my very subjective opinion on what excites ME. For all the crap that meta gets and all that shit we get about how we make the world worse and shit. The reason I work for Meta is because they have Oculus or RL or whatever they may want to call it la
Interested in more of such posts? Sign up with Blind today! https://us.teamblind.com/invite/qs7Kmvaz ----- Annoyed by all the repeated questions about offers on Blind, I went to collate the numbers from the posts I see on Reddit and Blind. I update this list as and when I see compensation d
I’m not trolling. This is serious. I’m asking because I think I want to leave Meta and go work somewhere else (nowhere in particular, still looking), but I’m struggling to gain the confidence because of my depression. TLDR at the bottom if you don’t have time. I got in to Meta as an E6 without ever
I have read that the most important thing is interview performance. However, I have also read that interview loops are different for different levels. That suggests that there is a substantial influence coming from what's in the CV, right? I am especially interested in what it takes to be T6(Google