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- link H-1B CAP Round 2 Found on reddit, seems helpful so sharing here. Here are some thoughts (based purely on anecdote) from an EB immigration attorney. First, within our attorney threads (closed FB groups) most immigration attorneys are reporting lower selection rates for their CAP cases this year. Selection rates can
- Oracle OCI interview, first interview after 4 months Hi Blind community, I have an Oracle OCI final round interview coming up after few days. This is my 2nd interview after being laid-off after 6 months, and first interview after 4 months. I have around 1 and half years of experience and majority has been on frontend side of application. I want to d
- Doordash culture and Values This has popped up on a few threads so x-posting here Doordash values are on this page but organized poorly - https://careers.doordash.com. It’s a big banner which has the 12 values organized into 4 themes (see below) Theme: We are one team 1. Make room at the table. We’re committed to growing a
- vote Google - Post Interview Anxiety Hi All, I recently completed my onsite at Google. Was targeting L5 Feels like I was able to complete the questions in all the rounds , got optimal solutions everywhere except one round where it was semi-optimal. On another round I was able to solve the warmup, the actual question and also discuss t
- Just want to say fuck it and quit sorry for venting. I have gotten decent perf reviews historically but I'm not sure how and at this point I'm not performing to my or anyone's expectations. Part of me wants to buckle down and do better but I have already done that for the past year and I'm just running out of steam. All of the non-
- Oracle OCI interview, first interview after 4 months Hi Blind community, I have an Oracle OCI final round interview coming up after few days. This is my 2nd interview after being laid-off after 6 months, and first interview after 4 months. I have around 1 and half years of experience and majority has been on frontend side of application. I want to d
- How to get good at problem solving ? I need a sincere advice This is a long post, but please bear with me. I really appreciate everyone's help. First, a bit about myself. I got my bachelor in Computer Science in summer 2018. Right after, I did all I could to get accepted into a US college for a masters. In my country, it's the absolute minority who could com
- link Data Science at Shopify [Hiring] Hey, we're hiring for Data Scientists at Shopify. If you're interested, add your LinkedIn profile here: https://bit.ly/3GO4JhV. I'll review every submission personally and if it looks like a good fit, I'll reach out to chat. I'm a hiring manager. -> Last time I did this on Blind, I hired someone
- Can we afford a 2.5M home? Help me check my thinking Hello! We are planning to buy in the red hot market of SF South Bay area, and would like to hear people's thoughts on my thinking. (Whether to relocate is a separate discussion we are having, and I'd like to focus on just affordability check in this thread.) Household TC: 500, conservative round-do
- Move from System Side to Cloud (or SaaS) company Hi Guys, Hope all you guys are keeping safe. I'm around 10 years experienced in a bunch of system-side companies. Over time I have got this feeling that these companies have pretty much plateaued in growth and they are NOT fast when it comes to embracing new tools and ways of developing software, b
- Product Strategy Interviews (what you may not know!) I receive (many) DMs from people asking me to coach them on interviewing. I would love to do that, but I couldn’t scale it. However, I do like to provide posts on here to help as I can. To those that have sent me a DM asking why I do this, or if I am helping bad candidates game the system, let me e
- Overworking. I was just reading through the other thread where a poor Amazon employee was put under PIP for taking maternity leave. This is totally absurd! But it got me thinking deeper. For all those who work crazy 12-16 hours a day, do you at-least know the implications of doing so? Consider two engineers who
- Critique my early retirement plan Hey, I'm only 31, but I've recently put together a plan for early retirement that I finally feel good about. Inspired by another thread on Blind I decideed to post it here. It's a humblebrag only to some extent - I'm genuinly looking for feedback on whether I'm missing sth from the folks who tried
- link [Closed] [06/22] New changes to immigration / work permit [06/23] I will no longer post updates in this thread. We will definitely see changes to STEM OPT extension and H4 EAD very soon. 06/22 : More regulations coming folks. STEM OPT extension is going away and H4 EAD is going to be taken away. Wait begins for another change now. My guess is within 2-3
- link Fake news about Cambridge Analytica I already post in a few threads on how Facebook is being attacked by publishers because we moved their cheese. Unfortunately their tactics remained the same, that is by creating fake news and click baits to make ad $$$. We specifically changed our newsfeed ranking because nobody likes fake news and
- vote Humiliated by Salesforce Hey all, This is a very very interesting story. I got a call from salesforce. I gave hackerrank of 3 hours. Then I moved forward in the interview process. After that, I was redirected to another position. Gave all the interviews. Went very well. Talked with the director, explained, “salesforce ha
- How do you learn to take risks? I read multiple threads on Blind about people either making millions or losing 300k worth of money in past 6months in stock market. TLDR version:- I was comfortable investing 7.5k ten years ago when my TC was hardly $75k while today I am wary of taking risky investments of same percentage. How do y
- Worst interview experience with UBER Today had a scheduled full loop of interview with Uber. So far I have given full loop of interviews with 9 companies in the latest interview run. Uber recruitment process comes out as the worst one ever for the following reasons. 1. It took 2 weeks to even connect and schedule the first round. The
- Cliffnotes on Europe: Immigration and Taxes A thread on somewhat related topic prompted to make this comment. I've had a strong interest in immigration as a topic and thought y'all might find this helpful to an extent. Although immigration is a complicated topic, I've attempted to chart out the most common path to PR/citizenship for some of
- Advice on negotiating commission increase? Have been doing sales and account management for an event/webinar/live stream production company. I sell and manage, sometimes produce, programs and individual events. Been doing this for my current company for 1.5 years, focusing solely on producing events for Amazon, one of our bigger clients. St
- link Post FIRE Life: Notes to self for a meaningful life in 2022 Almost a month late in posting this New Year Resolution, but better late than never. TC: 0 (Financially Independent / Retired Early) My FIRE post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Context: I've begun trying out early retirement and have been on a break for nearly an year now. Although I've
- Hired last year as Sr, new person joins as Sr but not qualified Background is I was hired last year as a senior designer at a startup. This year we hired another designer for a senior role but after a few months of working with him it’s clear he’s an associate level to low mid-level at best. I personally had my doubts when I was part of the panel in the design
- How to escape analysis paralysis, stop running from problems, & move forward? See title. I came up from nothing - poor family, 1st gen college student, have overcome a horrible childhood to turn myself into something: a whole, happy person, with a great career. Somewhere along the line, however - I lost my way. I have detailed suicidal thoughts daily, the startup I’m at has
- link Amazon L6 vs. Google L5 Product Scope & Experience Asking for advice: Has anyone worked in both Amazon L6 and Google L5 product roles? How has your experience compared? How has the scope of your responsibilities and WLB compared? A first L5 team match call with Google indicated a junior scope - partial roadmap ownership and small, focused projects
- Interview preparation tips I have been interviewing(as interviewer) a lot for last 3 4 years and these are some of the tips I like to share. 1. Leetcode - there is no escaping from Leetcode. You need to cover wide variety of topics like trees, graphs, array, DP, list. How many questions you do is based on at what point you s
- link AMA I moved from Amazon to Google 2 years ago L5 to L4. Let me give you some of my experience at both places, I might be biased and you may not be able to relate to these, that’s fine, these are my personal experiences anyways...so.. Amazon: Pros: - Customer obsession is real, this helps you understand business better and keep the priorities straight.
- vote How easy did you have it growing up? On another thread there was an interesting sub discussion about how most people in this industry come from well off or rich families and had it pretty easy growing up. How easy did you have it growing up? I grew up in a Western country and while my family wasn't poor we certainly didn't have a lot
- Apple, FB and more interview stories All of these happened around early 2020 when I was looking to get into FAANG, now I am graduating soon (I posted this in another thread but thought it could be fun to make it its own post): Had an interview with Apple, it was 4 30 minute rounds back to back, the first 3 went great and thought I’m g
- Oldie Programmer seeking advice I have been lurking the threads for the longest time and in a way envious of the TCs and all but I would like to bring this up and hopefully would get some advice. Based in the US, on a visa, working for those desi consultancies with a legitimate work experience (aka no inflated/fake credentials),
- Free advice I am writing this post because I feel I owe this to the Blind community. A few months ago I decided that it was the right time to consider switching companies. I had got rejects from some of the top companies (Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc) when I had applied during my masters, so needless to say I