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- vote Which company should I join? Not counting my chickens before they hatch, but I am the final rounds with a few different companies and would like to solicit some opinions on which to join if offers are extended. Assuming that TC and location are the same across these three companies, which would you choose? my priorities: 1. c
- Responding to consulting/help requests Hello Blind Community :) Friday is almost here so keep it steady Alright so the thing I want to learn about is how do you all deal with consulting/help requests? I get a lot of requests of these kinds: “paid consulting”, “paid advisory”, “help us by giving us feedback on our product” A lot of the
- ‘Act like an owner’ taken too far Every time I try to escalate an issue to the upper engineering management, they feed me some cool aid saying ‘You need to learn how to solve your own problems’. I get that already. I usually try to do that. I have resolved many issues on my own too. But there are legit scenarios where I do want the
- DM for MSFT referrals A couple of days back I started this thread to help out folks getting laid off. Since then I have had 50+ people reaching out to me, and I have tried to help them all. In some cases the interactions didn't go all well, so I am clarifying a few things: 1. No, I am not doing it for money, or persona
- Code Screen for Amazon L7 or L8 - Tips for experienced dev new to shared code screens? Hey! I've got about 15yoe and will be interviewing (remotely) over at Amazon sometime early in the New Year. The last time I interviewed with anyone it was a phone screen followed by a whiteboard interview, so I'm genuinely curious about how the online / livecode thing works. The recruiter I'm speak
- Google L5 Onsite Review Had my onsite today for L5 SWE. Below is a summary of my interview experience. 1. Coding: Variation of max island. Solved perfectly without help 2. Sys design. Open ended question. Did not go well. Expecting no hire on this. The interviewer was a staff engineer and walked circles around my design
- How to Show Some Appreciation to a Google Recruiter? I have always heard that the recruiting/interview process at Google is painfully slow. However, my experience couldn't have been better. It was super fast. I got HC cleared in 2 weeks after my VO (one week just to collect all the feedbacks, so I guess technically she got me right into the next HC).
- LC Premium on sale, worth it even if I am not targeting FB/G tier? Yes I have read through the past 'is LC premium worth it' threads but my situation is a bit more specific. I am not at Infosys any more. LC premium is on sale at $129 for the year instead of $159. Here is why I am questioning if it is worth it for me: 1. I am a noob at interviews. I still need to
- FOMO on US TC. Joined Uber 2.5 years ago as new grad and currently working as SDE-2 in Bangalore. SDE-2 in US easily earn 200K and maybe even more with stock appreciation or blocker buster IPO like Airbnb, Doordash etc. Seeing these numbers, I have FOMO that US TC, career growth and lifestyle will be better. I d
- Switching jobs while on Day 1 CPT Hello Blind, I have a question for people who might have knowledge of this, are looking to do this, and for those who have done this in the past. I am a product manager in the bay area, on Day 1 CPT, but am not sure about how I could go about switching. I know a lot of the bay area tech firms are
- Polkadot is the future $DOT Let me preface this to say, anyone that believes Bitcoin and Ethereum is too high and they missed the boat is completely wrong. It’s not too late and would be wise to still buy fractions of each. Remember you aren’t committed to buying a full coin. I do think there are other coins with higher upsid
- vote Walmart staff engineer offer(Bay Area) Long post alert Hi folks. Kindly help evaluate my offer for staff software engineer (automation engineer) Location - Sunnyvale CA Offer split up 200k base 20% annual bonus 80k regular equity for 3 years 80k new hire equity for 3 years 30k cash sign on bonus Current TC after 2022 pcs- L6 QAE f
- Microsoft New Grad Max Comp w/ Amazon Hi everyone! I'm an upcoming summer intern at Microsoft and an upcoming fall intern at Amazon. I'm really interested in getting a high new grad offer from Microsoft. I've looked on salary sharing threads on Reddit and such. I've found that competing with an Amazon offer in Seattle can get you L60 -
- 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
- A roadmap for financial independence (FIRE - RE optional) I made this post a few days ago that had some 1100 comments and good conversation: https://us.teamblind.com/s/LeFeeVAy I’m writing this follow up post to help people realize that financial independence is possible with a tech salary even if you’re not making >300k as a household. Case study: Se
- Best tools for valuing private equity stock options I’ve read a lot of threads on blind about valuing private company stock option offers and they are almost all full of incorrect methods or misinformation like saying they’re worth nothing (they could be, but that’s not the effective value or potential value). Here are tools I’ve found that more clo
- Some weird system design interviews @Netflix: Design an API to create/update user's favorite list. List can be re-ordered. Wrote gRPC code along with protobuf for both create/update. Built a DB schema which started simply by overwriting. talked about how to make it ASYNC if SLA is not real time (client can wait for some time to have i
- Google PM on-site interview coming up - tips welcome! 🤗 TL;DR I've read all the threads on this over blind. I'm looking to getting tips on more things i can do to ensure success! I'm scheduled to have a PM on-site interview at Google soon and would like to see if anyone was willing to PM me some insight into details they wish they would have known earli
- vote Hope for the future? We should be rewarding the future. I bought socks today connected by plastic. It could have been thread. Texas's grid went down because they bought 2 year temp turbines, not 50 year temp. There's a million choices...we will lose in our lifetime. My theoretical children will not have what I had. Th
- how to ask for more exposure w/o throwing my boss under the bus? My manager (L7) is a good one, but one thing that annoys me is that he asks me 5-10 ad-hoc analyses a week, taking me 10-20 hours a week, sends them to his peers/partners (L7/8), does not copy me (L6) and I have no idea if I am getting the credit for it ,except for his verbal thanks. I am generally
- FAANG, H1B, GC and a sad story of 2019 In 2018 I had the wisdom of getting rejected by almost all FANNG, some more than once. My current employer (not marvell) had pity on me in 2019 so they started GC process. whole year passed in this slow process and I still don't have perm approved. In this entire sad year, I kept on looking at how
- link Meta PM Interview I had my first call with a Facebook talent sourcer this week and have opted to go down the long road of interviewing, for better or for worse. I plan to document this experience as completely as possible so I can get some insights, resources, and recommendations to increase my chances of getting an
- sdet opportunities and comps I know that sdet is viewed as career killer by most people on blind and that might as well be the fact. The thing is I was pretty good at doing that. Been stuck at L61 for 3+ years since we switched to quality/combined and phased out sdet positions. My reviews have been over the target each yr sinc
- How i became a Racist A discussion on another thread and i thought ill bring this up. I am a normal techie like most of you. i am polite to people. Do my work and socialise a little and spend time with my family. Outwardly i have never ever shown any racist behaviour but deep down i cannot tolerate Islam and the follower
- How to deal with Nitpickers? TLDR: How do you deal with coworkers who constantly rewrite,edit, or nitpick your work? I’m in month 6 at this new company and I’ve been working alongside a coworker who started 6 months prior to me. We’re both working on a project together, but I’m doing most of the work since they have other more
- link Mission Possible: FB E5 I want to thanks blind community for my success and wanted to share my experience and journey to help other fellow members. I finally made it to FB E5 this year in my third trial. First I gave in 2015 and then in 2018 and then in 2021. I am glad that this time I bounced back more harder and tripled
- 6 months prep plan for SWE jobs | Joining work after few years from graduation If you are to start learning computer science with the focus on getting a job in 6 months, how would you go about it? My wife never worked after graduation in 2015 because of the family obligations. Now it's a good time for her to join the work force. Ideally we would like to be in a position to g
- Seeking inputs on picking up career track to pursue It’s a long thread but hope I get your attention. I have been in software field for 15+ years. Initial 7-8 years as Software Engineer then transitioned to Tech consulting and for last few years in Presales role and then more recently as a generalist (Enterprise Arch) responsible for supporting the
- May have switched to the wrong team at Amazon. What to do next? L6 PMT here. I'm a few weeks into a new team at Amazon after having spent 1 year and 6 months in my first team here. My new team is in a fast-growing domain and has revenue growth projections that are high for Amazon's standards. Pros of the new team include potentially becoming a people manager by
- link Prepare for the rejection from facebook Dear blinders, the reason why I wrote this post is that I can feel maybe there are many people in the blind community also suffered from the similar situation. There are some background first, I failed google's phone screen 3 months ago, and realized that I was underprepared. Then 3 months later, I