- link 3 YOE - 5 Offers - Seattle I’ll lead with this: I’m a straight white guy with a neutral-American accent and US citizenship, so I have a lot of unfair advantages in life that not everyone is lucky enough to get. Blind was a big part of what inspired me to seek out higher compensation and gave me confidence in my negotiation,
- Unimpressed by Google Interview Hear a lot about how Google is the center of the tech universe; THE mothership. I decided to interview there. But I was really shocked by the quality of the interviewers there. I enjoyed just one interview out of the 5 scheduled. I must say though that one interview was really good. People doing te
- vote (How) Can I brute force my way into Google/Facebook ? I've been on the LC grind for quite few months. Please no "oh Google is not the only company out there etc", I just know that. Well, I've sharpened my coding/algorithmic/data structures skills with LC, no doubt. However, I suck at coming up with good solutions in a reasonable amount of time. Did yo
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and industry lounge. - Google offer | Thank you Blind | AMA I started heavily using Blind about 3 months ago when I started preparing for my job search. Today I received an offer from Google and I owe Blind a huge thank you for my success, from preparing for the interview to negotiating the offer, I probably wouldn't have done as well without this platform.
- Solution Architects (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure): how much do you code? I want to learn more about how technical these roles are in the day to day as I plan my next move from SDE. Please help me get a picture of how much of the pipeline Solution Architects actually own. 1 YOE, 85k
- link Catalog of FAANG interview information Hey Blind, I'm currently interviewing for SWE positions at several companies and periodically read Rooftop Slushie to help with my interviews. I made a reading list and I picked out some posts that were helpful for me which I organized by company. There aren't tons of posts about SWE for every comp
- Interview Cycle: Facebook M1, Google L7, Microsoft L68, and Local Public Company Hello all. I recently interviewed for positions at a local public company, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and promised in another thread to recount the experiences, since there’s not a lot of Blind info for the experienced/higher level folks. So I don’t have to GTFO, TC is currently $396k (was $5
- Google on-site I recently did an on-site at Google and here's my experience. Interview 1: Easy question, I talked about the solution and then we collaborated for another solution. Discussed the time complexity of both and coded both. Had follow up on it, interviewee gave some hints and just discussed it. She did
- Time to receive feedback after second Google onsite interview! I went to the second onsite interview (the first one was back in late June with 5 interviews back to back plus a presentation for 30 minutes + QA ). In the first interview results was good but the position was given to an internal employee, the recruiter told me that he will continue looking for a
- Google L4 Offer I received an L4 offer at Google Cloud Sunnyvale location. Base $150k Target Bonus 15% Stocks: 190k over 4 years No sign on Bonus TC = $220k Background: Phd in CS from Top 15 University in U.S with focus on Machine Learning. 7 years experience Current TC: $250k I've done 500+ Leetcode questions
- Down-leveled Google (L3) vs Salesforce (SMTS) vs Lyft Current TC 190K. 4+YOE, OCI Senior MTS Can you please help me compare Google vs Salesforce vs Lyft. All of them are bay area based Salesforce: I have heard a lot of good things about the company culture and I liked the team/project a lot. They are offering me Senior MTS and 185K Base 200K stocks/4
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- link [AMA] Interview tips after a recent round of offers (380~500k) TLDR: Offers ranging 380k~500k from Facebook, Uber, and 2 other companies. Non-exceptional IC with 5 years of experience. Interview tips are nuanced and its your loss if you don’t read. ### About me ### Software engineer with 5 yoe in the bay. B.Eng (not comp sci) in a well-known school. Mostly se
- vote Can I get into Google or FB? - 3 YOE. SWE. Working at a Series-B B2B enterprise software startup. - Solved 150 LCs. - No CS background / Self-taught & coding bootcamper. Can I get into Google or FB? TC: 😢
- link Will not having a degree hurt me later in my career? Hey everyone! I'll be joining Amazon soon as L4 with 1.5 yoe at $185k TC and I'm a college dropout from Carnegie Mellon. Two years ago, I started FreeCodeCamp and instantly fell in love with coding, especially algorithms. Finished most of the front-end module in 4 days and realized I may have an
- Why did I get reject from FB? For some context, I have done 500+ leetcodes around 100 hards. I grinded them in the bathroom, in my dream, under the bed, eating, etc. I also mentored people to get internship at Google, Microsoft, Lyft, Dropbox, Facebook, etc. I had final interview with FB for internship 2 weeks ago. The question
- Need help with leetcode Count: 350 questions (mostly mediums) Over the past 3 years, I must have solved ~500 questions. And in the last month, I solved 350. However, I am still not able to solve new questions. I can get to brute force solution but optimal solutions are hard (success rate ~40%) I have onsite with Google
- 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
- Nordstrom Total Compensation Ranges (My TC: 325k) People seem to not believe me when I share my Nordstrom TC. Yes, Nordstrom does have decent pay. We have done a lot to modernize our stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, Lambdas, AWS+GCP hybrid). Being in Seattle, it's the only way Nordstrom can stay somewhat competitive in hiring talent. Here are the current
- Google onsite choosing between domain interview and coding interview Is there any advantage of choosing one over the other? If I feel confident about clearing both of these, which one should I go for?
- Apple EPM vs. Google Program Manager I'm currently an L4 Program Manager at Google and a recruiter from Apple reached out to me about an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) role at Apple. I have an interview with the hiring manager next week. It would be for a Software team at Apple. I like Google as a company, but don't love my team, so
- Engineering Manager Role Advise I have around 13+ years of experience in software development, from last 5 years mostly into system design/architecture and leading/guiding engineers. I was wondering how does Engineering Manager or Staff Engineer roles at my level works at Google and Facebook. Do they require these people to code w
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and industry lounge. - vote Technical incompetence at Wayfair -- is there anything worse?? Is there anything worse than Wayfair at this scale in terms of sheer technical incompetence and poor engineering practices? Wayfair's codebase and infrastructure are stuck in a pathetic, sorry state. The PHP repo, the databases (which are all mirrors in some way), the vertical scaling -- it needs t
- Prolific leetcoder seeking referrals I’ve attached a pic, I’ve done every problem on Leetcode. Also fairly comfortable with system design. I’m seeking referrals at Apple, Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Dropbox, and Microsoft. I can share my resume and would be happy to jump on a call. Thanks for your time :). https://repher.me/r/-LkaqWohkBV4
- From laid off to 6 offers and 2x TC Sorry this post is late, I know some people were waiting for me to write this TL;DR: Got laid off, was sad, studied hard, did a bunch of interviews, did a bunch of back-to-back onsites, got 6 offers, doubled my previous TC This is my story on how I went from someone that never leetcoded or done a
- Let's start a movement - Interview process changes Ever since the WeWork fiasco, I have had to begin interviewing again. I was appalled to see how ridiculous the process has become since even 1 year ago. It can be as bad as a series of a 30 minute recruiter call, manager screen, technical phone screen with an engineer, take home coding challenge, an
- link Update: Still poor, but now I've got a future! (& I kept my soul) Hi everyone. Two weeks ago after a particularly long, difficult day, I got on the internet and started researching how to get into the tech field. This first led me to reddit's CS Career Questions board. While reading the posts, I noticed how people kept mentioning "blind" and curiosity led me to d
- [Google Phone Screen Interview] - Not sure why they asked me for 2nd phone screen. Interviewer asked me 2 questions. I've explained the naive approach and optimal approach before asking to start writing code. Finished with coding both the questions within 45 mins taking care of all the edge cases and explained him all the edge and test scenarios. I took 2-3 minutes of time (befor
- Bad Interviewing Experience at Facebook. I had a second phone screen for a Facebook L6 because the first screener wasn't able to get a great signal due to technical problems during the call. Now, if I could imagine what an ideal second phone screen might look like, the second interview screen with Facebook would describe this. I felt lik
- How difficult it is to return to Google with a level up(L5->L6)? I left Google 1 yr ago to pursue some startup adventure, now am considering getting back to Google for personal reason(family). The alumni team told me that I can get back to Google at the same level(L5) without interview but base on my experience I can also try to interview for a higher level(L6)
- Goldman Sachs Video interview Has anyone given a GS video interview using their bluejeans platform? I've a interview coming up tomorrow and I'm freaking out in the last minute. Will I be asked to write code on the platform? Does their platform have like a code IDE or do I have to use Google docs or something? If anyone has any i
- Laid off with 1 year of work exp. in Go, Python & ML. Looking for referrals. Laid off since 30 days working at small startup. YOE: 1 year 2 months Locations: Bay Area, SF, NY. Tech stack: Go, Python, C, Google Cloud, AWS, Docker. Education: MS in CS from Top 10 CS school. Specialization: - Machine learning(ML): 2 years research experience with NIPS and 4 other ML papers -
- Code quality As an outsider I think of Google as having top notch code but then I see stuff like this. One of their Android app's MainActivity class has over 7k lines. To those at Google - or any company for that matter - how would you say the code quality is on your team's projects versus where you worked prev
- Can an average iq person pass the coding interviews at google with hard work? I'm average intelligence and couldn't get into a prestigious company. I tried getting into Google twice but failed on the first round of interviews despite studying. It's my dream to work at google or at a prestigious company. Is it worth trying to study again or is just impossible for stupid people
- Google, Uber or Twitter? I'm in various stages with the listed companies, and am trying to decide which one would be best. I feel like Google is by far the most impressive on my resume, but I am the most concerned about the culture there. I've heard that if you get a bad manager, you are just screwed because your transfer
- There isn't anything hard about scaling Scaling to millions of users is easy, just put some simple microservice behind and lb and add an off the shelf database. Google doesn't even use a real database, it's all flatfiles. The only reason scaling is hard is if you gave ridiculous overcomplicated code. When insta was acquired it had like 5
- Fixing the Gender ratio in tech I fully understand and accept the problem but I feel that the way we are tackling this at the moment is not correct. All I see in the name of WIT is millions of $$ spent on fancy beach side conference vacations, expensive travel and swags, reserved ticket for women in Google IO and certain unreason
- link Machine learning engineering and ML systems design resources master list Hi Fellow Blinders, I'm trying to make an ultimate thread of recommended ML/ML engineering resources. Contributions much appreciated. I'll add them to the OP. Looking for anything, from resources for learning machine learning theory to deep learning to the latest trends in ML engineering and system
- Very bad Google phone screen experience... I got rejected... Here's how it went Question 1: fizz buzz PRINT not store. Answered it straight... Question 2: fizz buzz don't use modulo or division. Also keep O(n) time complexity. Also keep constant space. I struggled a little as in I thought out loud, but got a solution (a bit different from
- My Leetcode strategy I wanted to give back to this community after I've been lurking for a while. I want to share some Leetcode tips since I'd say my strategy differs from most that are posted here or elsewhere. My account will probably be deleted soon since I've used a non company email to sign up (I don't have a compa
- If Facebook has the worst code quality, why are they regarded as top-tier engineering org? I hear these two things about Facebook: They’re a tier-0 engineering org with only Google as their peers, and they have the worst code quality of any major tech company and it’s mostly PHP and is so bad it will make your eyes bleed. Is the bad code just all legacy stuff? Are they using more general
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and industry lounge. - Need Google host for winter internship I am in host matching and in the need of Google host for spring/winter coop. I have done a lot of full stack dev with React and Express, also some python, and java, c++ for performance stuff. I am willing to refactor the entire code base, clean your toilet, buy your grocery, sing for you, anything.
- Mad about Google and Facebook I've around 2 years experience in soft dev and have failed Google phone screen twice and fb's once. Not just failed but did terrible in all 3 interviews. I did go to onsite for other top companies like Microsoft, Amazon n LinkedIn but didn't perform great. I have both my bachelors and masters in co
- link PM Interview Prep Plan: How I got PM offers from Google, Expedia, Microsoft, and Facebook Five months ago I got fedup with the crap culture at Amazon (needs a separate post) and decided to start working on my game plan for interviews at tech companies. Now, I have three offers from the tech companies - Expedia is travel not in the same league I know. No trolls please. Profile: CS Engine
- Finished all interviews but still failed No shit. I failed Google interview. I am a loser feelinf bad enough. The thing made me feel even worse is I don’t know what I did wrong and how I could do better. So my question is for those who finished all coding interview questions, sit there chatting with interviewers but failed. Have you figure
- Google interviewers: what feedback did you write for candidates who got no hire what feedback have you left for candidates who didn’t get offers from Google. For example, “struggled to code algorithm”, “had the right idea but the code was buggy”, “code was suboptimal”, etc
- Google onsite interview: Can have all coding or have 1 systems design question mixed in Hey there, I have a Google onsite (Seattle) scheduled at some point in the future. The recruiter told me it would be for L4. YOE: 6 years. That being said, they told me I had the option of having my onsite be all coding questions, or I can have 1 of them be a systems design question. I haven't read
- Weird MSFT interview loop? I'm going on site for an SDE 2 (Level 61) at Microsoft in a couple of weeks and I just got the info for the interview loop. Its 4 interviews, everyone is a Principal Program Manager or Senior Program Manager. Only 2 of them have ever been software engineers, one a sys admin previously, and the other
- Leetcode done. Google cracked. What next? Seeking recommendations. Hi Folks, I want to become good at software development. By leetcoding I have been able to crack few of the great companies ( Google / LinkedIn / Facebook etc. ) but I am a bit apprehensive about the next steps. I do not have a lot of high bar production coding experience. I have couple of months b
- Regretting joining Google Joined maybe 8 months ago. At the time I felt underpaid due to my company’s low performing stock and my Google offer was a lot higher than I expected (~240k for L3). At my previous company I had a lot of responsibilities and ownership, and I felt like I was on a fast track for promos. Here I feel li