- Losing Hope. Need help Hi All, I am a contractor QA at Google and have been trying hard for a full time PgM job. Tried applying at many companies and at few rejected after onsite. Applied at Google as well but I feel contractors are not given the fair chance. I recently appeared for two interviews at FB but did not make
- ebay vs lyft - prospect? i have an offer from Lyft for a t4 level(QA), but its partly a manual testing role with some automation in it. Currently at ebay in a fulltime automation role. TC is not a big factor, so trying to get perspective on whats better for longterm. current tc - 230k, lyft tc - 250k Thanks!
- Agile I’m a big fan of one week sprints, eliminating daily standup (it provides little to no value), cross functional and highly cohesive teams, and (this is controversal) no QAs. Instead lf 4 devs and 3-4 QAs, I would much rather have a team of 6 devs who are really good at testing. Who is with me?
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and industry lounge. - flying from seattle to india have to go for work and i have never been before. Is it worth it to fly on one of the super nice airlines and pay for business class. it seems like exonomy is about $1500 and business on qatar/emirates tyoe airlines is like 3k. I have never been on a flight longer than 6 hours and i have always want
- Interested in a fully remote developer role with a super cool company culture? Please pm me! We are an e-learning company, we a're a fully remote company with about 400 people and we're growing like crazy! We are a Microsoft shop with Angular front end. Our positions are interesting in that we can choose to be a Back end Developer, Front end, Database, QA, etc because we know doing full sta
- Why is everyone being so thankful on LinkedIn with their Microsoft internship offers ? Why all these priveleged top school kids feel the need to post on LinkedIn everytime they get an offer ? Is Microsoft making them do this ? They are hella thankful and then thanking their recruiters and then they share a challenge like "I was so nervous applying as I never worked in the industry be
- vote Are QA/QAE necessary? Do you find QA/QAE’s to be a criticsl asset to your engineering team? Or do you feel they’ve become obsolete? Give me your honest, logical thoughts.* This is not meant to be a caustic debate, just looking to hear how non-QA folks feel about QA as a whole. *unless you work at LinkedIn... You’re
- Need referral for QA/Automation Test Engg positions in Apple Can someone please refer me to QA/Automation Test Engineer positions at Apple. I applied to almost 25 positions in the careers portal and didnt get any call. Can someone please help me and do the needful. thanks in advance.
- vote ICT4 or ICT3? role: Software QA Base: 170k rsu: 160k over 4 years sign-on Bonus: 50k yeary bonus: depends ~10% Yoe: 5.5 plus masters location: Bay area What level do you think it is?
- HOW TO BE HIRED BY company and avoid AGENCIES??? Seriously, I am done. My last agency was freaking awful. Please, tell me, how to be hired to full time by company (apply on career page?🤔) and avoid those terrible agencies, who wanna pay me 30% of what company pay total. That's crazy and I am frustrated! P.s. I am QA, not dev
- Male colleague keeps asking me for “help” him in doing all his mundane dev work 😒 I joined this Client ( a big bank ) side project in May ( as a contingent worker and the only female developer in the team ) and this male colleauge ( has been on the project an year longer and is a FTE ), who has otherwise been helpful during my learning curve, keeps “requesting” me to “help” him d
- Interviewing for a Sr. SQAE role, what to prepare? I have a lot of experience testing in my particular area of expertise, but never had title of SQAE. Would appreciate some good pointers for things/toolchains/frameworks I should familiarize myself with from a QAE perspective. I'm guessing just busting my ass on LC isn't going to help since they're n
- Nvidia green card process : born in Qatar, Computer Science B.S. What's the process like ? Do they initiate it day one or no ? Immigration firm ? How many months for 1. Getting Perm done 2. Getting i-140 with premium processing 3. Getting green card in hand ? Total number of months from initiation to the finish line ?
- vote highest paying company for software QA Which company would give higher TC for same yoe? (not a new grad position) I am assuming that the QA role is more on the automation side, so it is not pure manual testing. Leave comments with TC/YOE for QA!
- Need referrals for FB, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snap, Spotify, Twitter Full-stack-dev with 3.5 years exp. Looking for backend/data-engineer roles. Passionate about Distributed Systems. Currently preparing for GCP-Data-Engineer certification. Onsites scheduled - Google, Twitch, Oracle Need referrals for - FB, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snap, Spotify, Twitter Repher
- Why is software development still so male dominated ? I’ve been working in FinTech in NYC for more than a decade now and almost all the time I’m the only female developer in the team however big or small the team is whatever the business unit or firm is .... I see women as BAs and QAs ( sometimes in majority ) and even as PMs but barely have I had a fe
- Software testing salaries *ONLY* — SDET / SET / QAE / QA / SQA / Auto Eng / etc... Please post your TC breakup, yoe, title, location Testing salaries only. I’ll start with myself Base $85k (no stock or bonus for signing bonus) - 6 YoE - QA Engineer (but I act as a senior SDET/frontend engineer/Devops engineer) - Nebraska. What about you?
- Anyone here work for Starbucks Software Dev team? what’s your title, YoE, and TC? any QA/SDET info would be much appreciated!
- vote TechLead on Facebook's H1B Visa Abuse https://youtu.be/6CIXZljyQAo
- link Senior TPM interview at Amazon - tips and experience Recently interviewed for a Senior TPM at Amazon and got the job. My overall experience was very good. Started with a call from the Amazon recruiter who explained the role with a lot of clarity. First round was a phone interview with hiring manager - it was behavioral with a lot of emphasis on the te
- vote H1B = Modern Slavery? Do you think h1b is modern slavery? My experience in watching h1b ppl: I heard the h1b horror stories of getting treated like garbage. Lower wages, getting pushed back on paperwork, having to leave the country to reapply for visa, etc Techlead: Are Facebook employees depressed? (H1B slavery visa
- Why all the QA hate? I see a lot of dev and scientist bozos looking down upon QA. The fuck is your problem? Do y’all have any idea how shitty your code is and how hard our life is because of that?
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and industry lounge. - I’m a seasoned QA Engineer and I have no idea what I’m worth I’ve been a “QA Engineer” for 5-years but my job duties are definitely more in-line with a Senior Software Engineer in-Test. I’m the sole QA engineer across four 10-person I’ve been a “QA Engineer” for 5-years but my job duties are definitely more in-line with a Senior Software Engineer in-Test. I’m
- Worst timing in life and worst decision to send wife home I made a huge mistake letting my wife go to India to attend visa interview. My wife went to give l-1b blanket interview and got denied. She appeared for h-4 visa interview after that and got denied again. Reason give was that she was traveling to a different city than her husbands city. Now, I was
- preparation for amazon QAE I am having an onsite interview coming up . I have an excellent QA skills but i lack in coding. does this affect the whole interview process? And what if we are unable to solve the coding problem on onsite interview?
- Salted 🍩 I resigned this week. I worked as QA for an auto recycling company in Atlanta, I most tested their point of sales systems as well as their data generated reports for executives. So for the last two weeks this company had fallen to ransomware attacks ( Company uses dedicated hardware running Window
- link Wow Google changing hands Sundar already had it anyway I'm guessing https://apple.news/AqAHzU2npRSW5BWZ7uFFkRQ
- link How to get into FAANG guide i'm subscribed to the rooftop slushy newsletter and they sent out an ebook. they intereviewed some people in the industry. it's a good read if you're interested in working for faang. cheers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tbQ74E5noNGS3ZarqAUMoErPasosilj7/view
- link I live in Tokyo, AMA. Been here for 2.5 years. Looking to relocate back to Seattle for family reasons (better support network for our kid). (About to go to sleep, so I'll answer in 8 or 9 hours) EDIT: Got a lot of responses. Thanks! Here's a more easily accessible format in case you want to reference it later. https://
- vote Is TPM a better career than software QA? Interested in Facebook, Google, Apple for SW side. It is a technical low bar, but TC would be better or same? Would there be more competition? More stress? Less TC later in career? I have 5 YOE in QA. Is it too late to switch?
- Laid off in October, looking for leads PA/MD Spent the past 2 years at PayPal as part of their compliance QA team. Due to the ongoing reorg, my position was eliminated. Have been on a handful of interviews in the past month, but with nothing coming out of it. Curious if anyone could extend a referral for anything in the realm of Baltimore, MD
- link How true is this video about H1B abuse at Facebook? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CIXZljyQAo This video was recently posted by The TechLead, and I was somewhat shocked to hear about this. Are immigrants/H1Bs really treated this badly?
- Looking for Advice I have been working as a QA engineer for a couple of years and want to move out of this field. but I am not sure what to do. I have technical skills but those are not enough to move to the Software engineering filed or SDET role. Please suggest to me what I can do. What are the options for me? Rea
- whats my next move? I dont have a college degree, I bartended and worked in customer service for years. I recently became a Sales Development rep and so far I hate it and am not good at it. Ive thought about customer success or manual QA but not sure I have enough experience - any suggestions would be super appreciated
- vote Am I Stagnating? 35 YO TC < 130K DC Area 3rd Tier Company Hello Blind, I've been reading blind posts for a while now. It's shown me what's possible in Tech and I find it amusing at times as well. Thank you. I'm in sort of a cross roads of my career and wanted get some feedback from fellow Blind members. Some background about me. - 10+ years of industry
- Indeed QA Automation Has anyone done onsite interview for QA automation at Indeed? What to expect? yoe-3
- Amazing job so far YouTube 💯 But you need to do better - CNN, MSNBC are almost right-wing. They gave free publicity to Trump. Please highlight LGTBQA and POC voices instead. Looking at you Facebook; when will you get on the right side of history?
- LA Compensation for SDET 5yoe Considering moving to LA with partner. FAANG or not, what TC for SDET with 5yo can I reasonably expect? Any compnies I should look into? My current TC 107k; Software Test Engineer in Chicago, no management experience. Partner current TC 70k; QA Analyst in Chicago New to blind, thank you for your
- Potential offer from Cognizant How much can we expect/negotiate from cognizant for a Senior QA Consultant / manager position in Los Angels metro area as a lateral and what would be salary strucure ? YOE - 12
- link jack ma is he really that unaware or is it because of the medium he is using to communicate? link to video https://youtu.be/aHGd6LqAVzw
- link Are Facebook employees depressed ? (H1b Slavery & absue) https://youtu.be/6CIXZljyQAo I am not sure if someone posted it earlier ..
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and industry lounge. - vote Non-SWEs of Blind: do you wish you were a SWE? I've met my fair share of data scientists / analysts, BI / data engineers, QA / SDET / automation engineers who told me they would rather be a SWE though I always get the impression it was more about 💰 to them. And for those who wish they were SWE... what's stopping you? Feel free to comment on w
- Hulu TC for Software Developer in Test in LA SDET 3 yoe (5 if you also count QA experience) What is the compensation like for Hulu SDETs in Los Angeles? Are there levels for test engineers? Would IC3 be reaonable for me?
- Dealing with worst manager I am having a hard time of my career dealing with worst manager. He is a micro manager. He wants the team to come to office everyday on time between 10-4:30, but actually wants us to stay late in office. He himself comes at 11am and leaves around 3:45 or max by 4pm. Always criticize and never apprei
- Lowballed by Amazon Initial salary compensation discussion for a QAE 5 role was in the $160k (max base salary) range prior to my on-site interview. I completed three total rounds of interviews and Amazon’s first base salary offer was $105k with a $37k sign on bonus. I politely declined and indicated that it was well be
- Switch to TPM role I want to switch career from QA to TPM.. looking for advice if there are any Training I should take or how should I approch. Thanks in advance.
- Looking for PM or Sr. Service Mgr Position I've been applying like mad to various Program Manager or Sr. Manager jobs in SF, Seattle, and Vancouver but absolutely no bites. Even tried overseas for a few (dual national). I'm afraid that my time in Oil and Gas has tainted my experience. Databases, programming and managing Engineers can't be th
- me and my husbad are in different states, Tennesse and New York/NJ. we are deciding to settle. which state to choose? which would be the better state to sette? one of us will change the job. his profile is better so him finding a job is easy. he is working in nyc and stays in nj. i work as a QA in Tennessee. we want to settle and deciding the location.
- Might join Amazon. What should I expect? L5 QAE. 7 years experience. Automation. Seattle. No masters. Ctc and breakdown. Please help to suggest, is there a room for negotiation generally?? How much to negotiate!
- Tips for new grad seeking SDR/BDR role at top tier tech company? Just graduated and I’m in the process of landing interviews/interviewing for entry level sales positions. Do you have any tips for me? https://repher.me/r/-LvkfcQAnxryQdoMzdlX