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- Applying to a second org in Amazon This is a tricky question to ask without divulging too much information. I have an offer for a role in what I'll call org A at Amazon. I would rather work in org B at Amazon and I see open recs online for the same type of position. Most people have told me to accept org A's offer then transfer inter
- Didn’t enjoy coding. Sales or Product Manager? Hey guys. I learned coding is not for me and didn’t enjoy it. I left Amazon a few months ago to do some soul searching and have been reading/Studying various career paths. Looking for suggestions whether I should pursue PM or Sales? Note: I did a lot of research before making this thread but blind
- Indian 29 female This thread is not for reaching out to men . But for fellow Indian females out there, who are in their early 30's and are single. To get some support from them and understand - How do you deal with loneliness, are you doing well in life and stay motivated and do you feel fulfilled. Though i know t
- What would have gone wrong? Did a lab126 phone screen for embedded, Interviewer asked to write code for reading various temp sensor with different intervals for different device platforms. Gave a problem statement and I suggested approach of Bridge Pattern for implementation and he said ok. Written full code seamlessly(Sensor
- Software to Systems Engineer Transition I've been working as a SWE in SaaS companies software problems for 4 years. I've built apps in react. Helped improve and implement GQL servers. Managed and setup databases. Built data pipeline applications on Spark and Flink. I have lots of AWS experience. The problem is some of the most interestin
- vote Need Advice : Switch In India Or Master's in US Hi community, I needed some pointers here in making an important life decision from people who have been in similar situation before or have walked the same road I am currently working in India as an SMTS Tc: 56 Lpa (base + perf + stocks) Yoe: 4 yrs 9 months I am seeing most of my peers have moved
- Thanks Blind, went from being laid off at Uber to joining Airbnb before IPO I wrote about my story in a different thread but felt compelled to post since my memories came back strong. I am non-tech and the companies I worked for were "normalish" companies, think 3M, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson. After discovering Blind and learning the ins and outs of interviewing (had no id
- Mixed feelings about starting at Microsoft in two weeks. Second guessing my decision to move. I'm starting an Microsoft in two weeks and am really nervous. I made the decision because I thought I didn't like my current job, wanted a change, and it was the best offer that I received. It's also Microsoft and could really help me in terms of career development for the future. In retrospect I th
- The head in the sand reflex is so strong. So, I started a thread about how tech is in a glass house and how we shouldn't be throwing stones and how hey, some peanut jobs might be spreading peanut butter at our workplaces someday, especially the big disrupters and anger creators, facebook and google mostly. And then the community together de
- Amazon Cool Down Master Hoping this makes it to the popular search thread and reduce the same questions every other day. Assessment - Usually 6 months but depends on the team/org. Phone Screen - There isnt a policy for phone screen cool down. Most recruiters will wait a couple months just to let the heat die down but
- Stand up for myself or am I being petty? (I am no longer at Meetup) I recently developed a feature that affects another team. Someone from that team has made comments that undercut my credibility. When I gave a perfectly reasonable estimate for the dev work (based on my teammates' related work), he asked in the thread (involving my manager
- Role of the PM I was posting a reply to a thread questioning the role of the PM and whether it provides any value at all but the OP deleted that post before I could post my reply. So rather than wasting the time I spent typing the response I figured I’d make a new thread! I’m also a little tired of people saying
- Is Blind becoming a marketing platform? Some weeks ago a Mr. Nobody did an AMA about the "life experiences that inspired his startup" or some 💩 along these lines (how he was a born entrepreneur and all these cringy cliches), with the thread containing an obvious amount of canned questions, making it more of an add for recruiting/hyping t
- vote Is it worth learning React & NodeJS for developing websites as a hobby? [Reposting this in SDE career thread] Context: I work as a data scientist in a startup. I have a hobby of developing websites. I want to continue this to earn passive income for a long time. I am currently using Django and Bootstrap as my stack. And I am pretty bad at SEO. I want to improve my we
- link This SUB is dead wrong regarding mixing Covid vaccines On April 12th.. morning 10:45 AM EST, the poster (X) from Amazon started this thread. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Should-I-get-another-vaccine-qxu2nDuK He asked a genuine question about mixing different vaccines to get superior immune response. Majority of the people in the sub responded that
- vote Investment Advice - Summary I created a post on here a few months ago asking the community on investment advice. I asked what I should do with about $250k in cash. It turned out to be a very popular post with many responses, so I decided to go through all the responses and provide a condensed version of that thread (at the end
- link Referrals wanted -- hypergrowth startups/pre-ipo unicorns! YoE: 10 (2 in leadership) EDIT: Wow, what a showing! I wrote a follow up thread for this if you're curious about what happened with my search: https://www.teamblind.com/post/oXQhcVqb Thanks again for all your help folks! Hi all, It's that time of the year and I'm beginning to ramp up my intervi
- Advice on path from business undergrad to technical job Im looking to get advice from anyone on my current plan to move from my computer info systems / business degree into tech. ive spent the past two years in management consulting. I taught myself enough Python and statistics to move to the tech arm of a non-technical Fortune 500 as a “data scientist”
- Exit opps for a Big 4 consultant Hi Blind community, I need some advice here. I have a Software Engineering + MBA (Finance) background. Worked as a software engineer in Europe for a few years before getting an MBA in US and joining a Big 4 firm in NYC. I am a Senior Manager in Tech Consulting and have led teams for Business / Data
- WFH and need for H1B Question: if WFH is efficient, what is the need for H1B? Why can’t folks stay at their home country and do WFHC? I’m just trying to understand this factor. Time zone is not valid. Almost all software companies has branch in India and all HW industry has to work with Asia (hence meeting in one time
- Aggressive manager at Microsoft My wife works at Microsoft and for the 1st time in her career experienced over the top aggressive behavior from her manager He was blaming her for potential risks on a project he already sold to SLT. While explaining to him she always flagged in her communication engineering commitment was not 100%
- My tale of an insane Twitch (Amazon) interview loop I recently interviewed with Twitch, an Amazon subsidiary. With about 10 years experience and an L6 loop, I was excited. I crushed the interview, technically, but received a no-offer. Fast forward a day, the recruiter reaches out and says the manager and director would like to have drinks/dinner. We
- Looking for partners/mentors for ML engineering interviews. I am looking for some partners or mentors to help me prepare for upcoming interviews for ML engineer roles. I basically want to find a small group of people (5-10 people max) who want to discuss , share tips, resources and recent interview experiences. This could include algorithms, system design an
- Dream company interview tomorrow. Entry level problem difficulty vs LC premium list? I have this interview, and looking up this company it seems that almost all the info I can find is on them interviewing for jobs with 3-8 years experience. I will be interviewing for an entry level spot. The company has problems on LC premium, and they are all very difficult mediums and a couple h
- Controls will ruin the audit industry Apologies in advance for my rant. In many ways, I think SOX has made auditors dumber in the last 15 years. The emphasis (at least at kpmg) is so focused on controls that I see many coworkers lacking the common sense and technical abilities to handle complex accounting problems and understand the mo
- link Am I the only one in Silicon Valley who doesn't drink the kool-aid? This chap from Workday posted this article comparing volunteering time off policies between Workday and Salesforce. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/why-marc-benioff-makes-salesforce-employees-do-this-on-their-first-day.html I like my job more than I like doing what I was doing before, but does anyo
- Should I lie about my major? I am currently a rising junior at a large state school with a top 5 business program. As a finance major and a self-taught developer, I understand that I am at a disadvantage compared to my computer science peers in regards to competing for internship spots. Therefore, I've focused on working as ha
- Program Manager (PgM) Interview Preparation Hi there internet people! For various reasons I have been taking jobs that are not Program Management / Project Management, although I was a Program Manager before and quite successful. For the last 4 years I have been doing something else and lost a lot of skills. It is really hard to get a signifi
- New Grad in Tokyo Japan Hi folks, My friend looking for referral to companies in Japan, especially in Tokyo . Leave a comment if you can, I’ll dm you. Here is his background: At this moment, I am an international student at Language school in Tokyo. I have bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Software Development.
- vote RE: I have no respect for people that complain about leetcode interviews TL;DR: Leetcode is a bad way to evaluate candidate quality, but that is not a justification for not studying. It's just an excuse. About a year ago, I posted a thread titled "I have no respect for people that complain about leetcode interviews". The link for it is at the bottom of this post. Looki