- trying to help a friend my close friend got impacted during a companny wide layoff and needs to find a job soon to avoid visa issues. i am hoping that through blind I can help find leads for him. He has solid experince in QA and also some program management. please dm me if you think your team is hiring such candidates.
- what is a good offer for amazon qae2 with 8 yoe can someone pls help me understand what is a good TC for amazon qae2 (level 5) with 8 yoe ? Thanks
- Looking for better opportunity Hello folks, Currently I am serving notice period in Western Union TEC Pune. Having offer from Amazon Hyderabad. But seems like offer I am having is not much good to move to Hyderabad from my home town Pune. Looking for counter offer. Please suggest companies which I should deliberately apply and wh
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and industry lounge. - vote TechLead on Facebook's H1B Visa Abuse https://youtu.be/6CIXZljyQAo
- 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?
- 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
- Super sexually attracted to my dates but need to pick one to sleep with. I’m dating a few people and find all super attractive. I’m kind of old (37) and don’t have time to play around. Here are my options - Data scientist at google - really nice guy but his personality too logical for my taste. Same age as me. (37) valuable Google RSUs 🤣 but not sure of compatibility.
- Compensation query for Amazon Hyderabad. Selected as QAE 1 in Amazon Hyderabad. Its level 4. I am having total 4 years of experience. They are offering me 12.3la(base) + (4.7 1st year sign on and 3.6 lac 2nd year sign on) and some stocks(not sure as it was telephonic discussion and couldn't hear exact details. yet to receive offer letter)
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- Amazon QA How to get a call for a QA position from Amazon? Made over 50 applications with referrals, all of them matching skills and profile. All of the applications are no longer under consideration. Improved resume several times. Experienced in both Manual and Automation testing. What am I missing? yoe : 3
- link Are Facebook employees depressed ? (H1b Slavery & absue) https://youtu.be/6CIXZljyQAo I am not sure if someone posted it earlier ..
- QA Manager - San Diego - salary range? I'm looking to transition into a QA Manager role here in San Diego within the next year and want to know the range I should be looking at. Years of experience in testing: 5+ Lead experience: 2+ TC: 74k @qa
- Indeed QA Automation Has anyone done onsite interview for QA automation at Indeed? What to expect? yoe-3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- How good is research on my resume Hey, I'm currently a junior computer science student. Have a QA internship. I was offered to work with a professor on a research project where I will be working on my own and be given a project and deadline to work on (about month and a half ). He said it will be pretty difficult and the pay is 600
- 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
- link Referral for Salesforce looking for referral for a Senior or Lead Manual QA Engineer, Philanthropy Cloud in NYC. --> https://www.rooftopslushie.com/request/Referral-for-Salesforce-1004
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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
- DevOps/SRE/Infra Percent of Engineering Hey all, I'm trying to get a sense of what percentage of engineers at different organizations fall under the (loosely defined) DevOps/SRE/Infra/SysAdmin/Internal Tools/Security/etc. Don't want to fight about the strict definition of "DevOps", but basically the folks that are full time operational/fo
- 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
- What’s your suggestion on learning new technology Hello, I worked in QA for 3+ years and then in Mulesoft for 7 months. In my new team I have to work on React and later in Java. Can anyone please tell me how should I start learninh React? what should be the approach and from where should I start? Thanks
- 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?
- QA automation to SDET role 5 years or experience as QA automation engineer, currently working in a small company, experience in python. Thinking about moving to SDET roles at bigger company (possibly FANG) Motive: to advance career, better company and better compensation. Current: 120 TC. Requesting suggestions in terms of TC
- 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://
- QA Lead here, have 10 yrs of experience. have been applying constantly in USA and in India not getng a single interview Have been working in USA for 5+ years. Have been trying to move move back to India due to personal issue. Have tried to apply to numerous opening but dont get any response. Any suggestions to improve my chances?
- What should I do to become a SDE? I do have a technical background(qa, support,sa) but I'm not an sde. How should I transition to an sde role. I'm decent at easy and medium leetcode. Apart from being able to crack the interview how can I be successful as a software engineer.
- QA automation lead vs mid-level SWE I spent some time doing QA and test engineering(building test frameworks, implementing best test practices within eng temas). I got two offers - senior test engineer with 200k base + 160k rsu + 15% bonus and SWE with 185k base + 150k rsu and no bonus. What should I do? I beleve in eng career long t
- Amazon hiring: SDET or QA with strong coding background. The role is for Sdet1/2, or a QAE2 with strong coding background. Transition path from QA to SDET can be an option/ planned if candidate showcases they meet the SDET role guidlines.
- How you speed up your work? Any effiency rule? So, I am manual QA. For testing UI and all that stuff it takes so much time, just to setup, etc. My manager determine our work (performance) by the time we complete the task, I feel I burned out. Any advices?
- Have you ever had an interview go so badly that it felt like an out of body experience? I had an interview for a QA role for a consulting company and it was clear that I was not cut out for the role. Honestly, I'm glad I don't have to stress about this one because I know there will be other interviews. But wow. I was definitely the captain going down with his ship and I could only own
- NYC Spotify/Squarespace/Bloomberg Spotify vs Sqaurespace vs Bloomberg vs Oscar health. All in NYC. Curious to know what companies rock to be a software engineer at.
- vote List QA experience on Resume? I worked as a QA engineer before i got a CS degree. I now work as an SDE. Is is QA experince a plus on my current resume? Or will I be negativly stereotyped by listing it? I look younger than I am, so I feel like I could leave off everything prior to my CS degree if that is better. resume from most
- interview tips friend of mine got onsite at Ellie Mae, any interview tip for Senior QA role will be approciated
- How do I get my shit together Background: Graduated from undergrad target school in May without any offers. Meh GPA. Meh internships (large business enterprise company, qa, didn't learn shit). Didn't do any student orgs. Barely know anything about web development because none of the classes covered it and my dumbass didn't do an
- Googlers - Any insights on the Engineering Productivity Role within Google - is it a fancy name for a QA or tester? Interviewing as a "Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity" role. Reading up about the role online seems to suggest that it got rebranded from SETI Engineer (Software Engineering Tools and Infrastructure) to Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity a short while ago - there seems to have been
- 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
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and industry lounge. - Job search ...seems hopeless I am searching for QA role. 5yoe. All recruiters contact me only for the same one role, or maximum 2-3. Any specific lifehacks I can apply for job search to be visible for normal recruiters?
- 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!
- Heard Rackspace just asked all its QA engineers to join Tech Mahindra or quit. Is it true? So they don’t have to pay severance or anything.
- QA in Facebook I'm wondering if any QA jobs will open soon in NYC? I know there are multiple vacancies but most of them in CA and I'm wondering if any QA positions will ever be available in NYC. Facebook folks, I would really appreciate any comment from you . Thanks :)
- Looking for a long term career path Hey all I’m currently a nontechnical role at fb doing sales (TC 170k). Previously I was data science at a gaming company and before that was a front end dev. I like different things about each role I’ve been at and have performed fairly well at all of them. Is there a career path that can make the
- Apple offer for Wireless tech position I m trying to evaluate Apple offer for WTE in Apple for QA position in cellular team TC:155+105+40(Base+Rsu+sign on bonus) YoE:9 No information whether it’s Ic-3 or ic-4 Please share your thoughts , should I take it?
- H4 EAD jobs Hi friends, Any company that is hiring H4 EAD for Mainframe/ QA automation role? pls let me know
- How to make the change from QA Engineer (manual) to Data Scientist/Analyst? Is there any overlap? What should I learn? Is the leap from QA to Data Scientist too large?
- link Point out a logical flaw in this immigration post? Please read Senators Grassley's position on a significant immigration bill. If you support the post by Senator Grassley, I only ask that you call congress and tell them you OPPOSE S.386 or the fairness in high skilled immigrants act. It is VERY IMPORTANT TO CALL BECAUSE MOST OF CONGRESS IS UNWITTING