Had my phone screen with FB today. After a 3-4min brief introduction he asked an LC medium Binary tree root to leaf path sum question. Slightly trickier variant than LC. https://leetcode.com/problems/sum-root-to-leaf-numbers/ There was some back and forth about definition of the question. I told I
I’m pretty average dude who made his way to Amazon. In Amazon I’m a top tier YoY. This is mostly because my org does very basic stuff. The traffic is Abysmally low (< 1 tps) but business complexity is high. I’m not really proud when I talk about what I do to anyone. Whenever I explain what I do
Hi! A friend suggested I post here for advice. Thank you in advance for the help, I am extremely thankful for being in this predicament as I am a first-gen immigrant. I had been passively looking to see what's out there for the past year when 2 weeks ago a recruiter reached out. I decided to give i
As giving back to this amazing community, I wanted to share the list of resources that recently gave me really good preparation that eventually led to 4 offers after 4 onsites: Apple, Meta, LinkedIn, and pre IPO startup. I canceled 6 onsites after I found out I was getting these offers. Old TC: 215
Hello Guys I have developed eye floaters while leetcoding and preparing for interviews. Actually I started interview prep in Oct 2020 and started doing LC heavily. 5 ques a day with my office meetings and work. I applied in few companies like FB and G etc and got the call for phone screen as well.
Hi Everyone, I'm a graduate Mechanical Engineer with Masters Degree specialized in Design and Manufacture. I have 2 years of Intern experience and 1 year of Research experience in Product Design and Manufacturing. I have been searching for a job for the past 8 months with no great success. I have be
Assume google l4 phone screen in two months Starting point: - hate leetcode - not good at leetcode - haven’t touched leetcode in two years - not the brightest bulb in the box Baseline: Can handle LC medium although not as fast, around 40-90 min depending on the kind of question I run into. Curr
Details about TC and offers in original post: Pregnant, hiring freeze and FAANG offers!! (Software Engineering Career) https://us.teamblind.com/s/kOYxRrq2 Warning: Wall of text incoming!! In the beginning of 2022 we decided to try for our second baby. I was also extremely fed up with my current ma
I’m a 37 SWE @ MSFT (career changer; switched careers in 2018). I’ll hit my two year mark at the company in February & recently got married. I’m part of a team that supports an internal app & was told by the recruiter that the team doesn’t have “much equity” when I was negotiating my comp. Although,
I’m currently in a systems engineering role and would like to eventually be a tech entrepreneur. I studied computer engineering and was more focused on hardware my university, leaving me with a lack of confidence in CS skills and ability. I’ve been to final round SWE interviews with Facebook and Ama
Had a phone screen with Facebook last week. Want share some of what I learned with anyone new to the process. I got a DP problem. It could be solved without DP but it would be very slow. I started by solving it the slow way. I'm not sure if there would have been another question as I ran out of tim
I was rejected by DoorDash for a Sr. DS role after on-site and of course got 0 feedback and not even a courtesy phone call, just an email “sorry not moving forward.” I got offers from Instacart and Amazon, and I’m not posting here for sympathy or whatever, but I really wanted to go to DoorDash so i
TL;DR - Title. Currently, I’m a senior SWE with Apple (Not IS&T) joined about 1.5 years ago, good and smart teammates, decent ratings, never have been on any performance plan despite pressure from manager. But there’s way too much friction with the manager and growth opportunities far off, I’m afra
I just finished my third month at Amazon and it's been a living hell. I truly felt like I was hired in a rush to replace the people who were pip'd. During my first two months, 2 people "left to pursue other opportunities outside of Amazon". They didn't say anything before they "left", we didn't eve
This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ____________ ## before onsite ## - Double check with the recruiter
Last week, I was put on performance project by manager and told me I have 4 weeks. I found out there is no grace period for h1s at Uber. I felt like that's it, the end! I had to pack up and go back India! Feeling totally hopeless, I asked for help here! Surprisingly, God's grace was upon us, so man
Just wanted to share my experience interviewing for a PMT ES role for AWS. The phone screen was with the Hiring Manager which went well. He seemed like a nice guy to work with. Very down to earth and transparent. I felt that he would be a good manager to have. He was also very open about his expect
TL;DR walls of text 4YOE in startups, below avg gpa @ top 10 cs school TC 170k HCOL -> Google L4 TC 290k M-HCOL 85 hrs EPI/interviews, 22hrs behavioral/resume/applications 100 EPI scenario 4 problems, 5 LC targeted companies Been a while since but wanted to tell my story and share my process. I i
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
Long post alert !! Not at Deloitte. Using a friend's work email since mine is blocked. Hi All, I am currently in the middle of a delicate situation and need help with referrals and maybe some advice. Currently based out of India and was working in a Non tech role at an IT services major (hint :
I'm back. Who am I? Check 1. Intro here: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-System-Design---Part-1-4yufM3RY This time we're going to some heavy lifting. Sit tight, grab a cup of coffee and read carefully. So from the intro I referenced above you should already know that
L6 SDE 11 YOE, 10 at AMZN TC this year is 630k due to stock growth. Next year 460k. YOYOYOY "TT" (top perf rating) Net worth 1.3MM (1MM invested, 300k in home equity + cash). Age: Early 30s Married, no kids Mortage: $1700/mo I live in a MCOL city with an Amazon office, but no other major tech firms
Everyone must have been approached by amazon recruiters. I did too, unfortunately by some weirdo. I have been consistently receiving linkedin msgs from amazon recruiters. One day I thought of giving 1 recruiter a shot. He told me that he will schedule a call to talk more about my profile and what s
[I didn't write this but found this old post in 'Tech Industry' group which not everyone has access to. Sharing this to more broad group to increase exposure. Original post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/SDE-guide-to-getting-the-best-offer---part-2-VXz1n07A ] ## before onsite ## - Double check wit
Right now my job is a joke, I work maybe 3 hours a week and maybe a few hours of meetings, it’s remote too. Lots of free time. Problem is that it’s hardly engineering, more like consulting internal teams on platform choices and creating app proof of concept hello worlds accompanied by tech docs. I’v
Hey all, I've been wanting to write this. But I've been busy with settling in. Due to recent news, I decided to write it sooner as some of you might not be working at Expedia any longer. If you are not working at Expedia, you may skip this. I cannot post this on Expedia topic. My intention here is
Hey blinds! I have 3 years of PM experience at a medium sized tech company and just over a year as a Co-founder. Long story short, I cofounded a startup to build a platform for the foreign labor recruitment industry - that allows farms, forestry and landscaping companies hire seasonal workers from M
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
Warning: Long post with no tldr Goals: - Let people in similar situations (OCD, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety) know they’re not alone - Get feedback from people who have improved in similar situations I’ve always been depressed. I remember being unhappy at even 5 years old. My father was an angry ty