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- Memoirs of a Brogrammer - Day 2 Sup bros. Today was sick, not gonna lie. I got up at 5:30 and smacked some espresso and adderall, the morning ush’. Grabbed the ipad and hit the leets hard AF before my phone screen. Did some string and matrix problems to prep. Went over some React stuff. Sent some emails to some recruiters, etc.
- link H1-b Transfer - LCA Odds of Denial UPDATE: Guys I would like to apologize for the misinformation I provided yesterday. It was not intentional, the data (link provided below) is there referred to as H1b program data and description field for Case Status is given as "Status associated with the last significant event or decision. Valid
- Blind and the Predatory Moralizers tl;dr Blind has some real sh*tlords who throw those of good-will (the OP, usually) under the moral bus, under the guise of righteousness, all for their own selfish preservation of their personal warped idealism. It’s boring, predictable, and gross. — I’m just sharing an idea that’s been bouncing i
- vote Google - Competing offers needed to get average/middle of the band offers? Hey all, I posted a similar thread recently but posting again as it didn't get much response, with details simplified/updated and a poll added this time. I have an onsite with Google (general SWE, L3/L4) coming up in 2.5 weeks and i’m hearing that they are downleveling and lowballing a LOT these d
- Pee on Urinal Floor (POUF) So, there has been a lot of threads about bathroom COWs (cup-o-water) and POUF (Pee on Urinal Floor), at least in the MS lounge. Well, the pouf problem has had exactly zero explanation as to why it occurs, so here goes. And this is important. Basically, the pee has to go through a dual-purpose hose
- My journey to FB/G/Snap I think the way i prepare myself for those interviews might interest you. I decided to create this topic to both gather last seconds advice and also share my experience. I'm a father, husband and a senior sde at amazon SF (which mean i have not a lot of free time), and I'm an imposter. I'm happy a
- link Experience transitioning from DS to SWE? I’m looking to transition from Data Scientist to SWE(ML) and was looking to the blind community for your take on some of the aspects. Perhaps it might be useful for other aspirants too. TC: 250K, YOE 2, PhD in Engineering (non CS) 1. What are some of the things you wish you had known before you s
- vote Is Uber worth joining now? I'm preparing for Google/Netflix on sites and I made an interview with Uber as a warm up. Got a 5b offer for ~500k. I was planning to try Google L6 but I'm pretty sure from what I read here that they will low ball me at L5, I guess top band is below 450k. From what I've read Netflix would likely be
- vote Is web front end inferior to other engs? Now before you immediately object to me, please hear me out. I was a web front end developer in a product team doing consumer-facing features with ReactJS. However, the traffic nowadays has shifted very heavily to mobile and web was always less of a priority than iOS and Android. A lot of times desi
- I'm a minority. Here's why I think diversity is important. This originally was a comment in another thread but I decided to make my own post: I'm a minority, I can shine a light on why diversity is important. It comes down to two things: Differing mindsets and representation. 1) Differing mindsets: If you keep hiring the same exact people then it'll becom
- Tech lead back stab I am a swe with 1.4 yoe. I report to 2 tech leads(TL1, TL2) and a manager(M) who is common for all three of us. TL1 gave me a story(S1) to work on. TL2 gave me another story(S2) to work on. Initially S1 was assigned to a different person(D) and D was taking more time to complete and I had already
- Vaccine Mandate future costs and court battles First off, this thread is not meant for vaccine mandate debate. I’m fully vaccinated and ok with the mandate personally, and I don’t care whether you do or you don’t support it. However, what I am interested in is the legal ramifications and costs. Frankly, I was a little surprised this vaccine mand
- Stuck in career, Need advice/help I have been in SAP world for past 10+ years (my entire IT career), started in the service industry, working for a consulting firm as a functional consultant and 5 years ago joined my current employer working as Technology Architect mainly in SAP area with a current TC of 140K. Since I am in Seattle,
- bay area fang -> nyc hedge fund？ background: late 20s. Im (4yr exp) currently senior swe at linkedin (275 tc). been here for little over year. my performance is great and I hope to get to 300 tc or close this sept. im hoping to get staff in a year or a bit more and expecting 350k then. (just assume this is true for the sake of this
- Need Career Advice: Move away from SAP to increase TC Reader for the past few months now, first time posting. I have been in SAP world for past 10+ years (my entire IT career), started in the service industry, working for a consulting firm as a functional consultant and 5 years ago joined my current employer working as Technology Architect mainly in SA
- Am I underpaid? $120k + ~$55k equity, 100% remote, in video game industry I have about 2 years of experience as a full stack dev. I've developed with UI, serverside, and SQL/NoSQL DBs. I've worked for a FAANG as a consultant. When I was hired, I was pretty broke, so I didn't negotiate. On the surface, the pay doesn't seem so bad: about $175k in total comp, for 2 YOE a
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- Devlist, PIP, and other questions Going to start off with some useful info which may lead to better answers to my questions. I already have a new job lined up (PwC, contract hire), but still going through paperwork/background check/etc. I'm presently with AWS/Amazon as an L4 Systems Engineer. I've been here for 1 year, 4 months, 1
- Amazon candidates beware - know this before applying to Amazon Been in Amazon for 6 years as SDE. Plenty of my friends ask me about joining Amazon. Four years ago, I encouraged all of them to join and apply. Recently, I stopped. This is why. # NYT article is true Recruiters will refute this and say that 1) Amazon has changed a lot 2) NYT article is only true f
- DD: Basic Attention Token (BAT) I posted this as a reply to another thread, but it pains me to see Blinders new to crypto chasing animal coins or creating their own pump and dump schemes, or not knowing where to invest in market corrections. I've been in crypto since '16 and during the last bullrun did a TON of research on cryptos
- link RSU sale strategy after IPO lockup period expiration Hey guys, My ex-company (Pinterest) IPO'ed this year and all my RSUs vested on the IPO date (mid-April-2019). This is the first time I'll be receiving a decent amount of money in bulk so I'm trying to read up on how to approach liquidating my vested RSUs. I'm hoping this thread can yield a good disc
- Strategy to deal with difficult stakeholders at work Data science and analytics peeps - What are your strategies to deal with difficult stakeholders or even leaders at work? Data family has many ad hoc requests that people think you can whip up a number in an hour when you need to connect multiple data assets, write long code etc - Stakeholders or
- Lyft 90 minute interview questions Could someone please provide more details about the 90 minute interview part for Lyft? I know I can bring my own laptop and will have full internet access. What sort of problem will I be asked to solve? Will it be something I can solve by writing code from scratch or should I expect to search for
- Alibaba Cloud Video Interview Preparation Tips I have an upcoming video interview with Alibaba Cloud. Any preparation tips, besides LeetCode and reading up on Alibaba Cloud, to take into consideration? This is for a role in the Seattle/Bellevue area. Incidentally when I received the interview invite there was mention having passed a prior inter
- Interview with Paytm I appeared for an interview with Paytm Mumbai it was scheduled at 10:30 am and after waiting for 3 hrs at 1:30 a person took my first round of interview which I found fairly easy the questions asked during the interview process were: Traverse a binary tree in zig Zag order. Print numbers using 2 thr
- Deployment Strategist / Echo at Palantir - Experience Needed? - Advice Canadian here working at a marketing agency. Looking at making a career shift to stay sane! I work in the consumer electronics & retail verticals, managing the retail and training program for one of the big PC manufacturers. Work very closely with the vendor's (Canadian) category and account team,
- Google on-site I recently did an on-site at Google and here's my experience. Interview 1: Easy question, I talked about the solution and then we collaborated for another solution. Discussed the time complexity of both and coded both. Had follow up on it, interviewee gave some hints and just discussed it. She did
- Depressed after back from maternity leave I am a SWE and new mom with my first baby arrived during COVID spring. My family couldn't visit me or help during delivery because of travel ban. They are far far away in another country. My husband and I managed to survive the whole thing and luckily, both my baby and I are healthy. We are both bac
- Experienced Blinders, how do you cope with family+kids & LC? Inspired by the recent most popular thread, i am just curious how other experienced blinders with kids, able to manage family, have some family time, personal time as well as time to relax and LC on the side? I want to improve myself, have been complacent for quite sometime on my current career pat
- Bad experience with recruiter I can't help but feel that the recruiter I'm working with is not on my side. I'm leaving out the name of the company because it's a small one and I'm afraid they can easily identify me from this post. It's been two weeks since I signed the offer letter, but the immigration team still hasn't reached