I have around 3.5 years experience. This is the current offer for a software engineer role (without negotiating) Base 140000 Bonus target 15% RSUs 140000 over 4 years Sign on 25000 Thoughts ?
Got matched to a team within Google Nest. Planning to join the team next month as an SWE. I heard Nest was a separate entity and then was made a part of G hardware. Is there any difference from other teams within GCP/Ads while moving team/location if someone is from G Nest? Also how are the teams ...Read more
I have verbal offers from these companies for software engineering roles ( I have around 3.5 years of experience along with a Masters ). Will hopefully get the numbers this week. I am inclined a bit towards lyft as its still young, seemed to have good culture and felt like the work will be exciting....Read more
I have the Google nest wifi (don't ask why, it's crap) and I am looking to replace it with a budget friendly setup (3 points). House is 2000 sqft but has some tough walls so one room needs a dedicated point (range extenders don't work well). I couldn't find any alternative that gets consistent revi...Read more
I got a call from Google India for L4 SDE role at Home and Nest team. Team sounded to be doing embedded and iot work which I am not very interested in. Can I clear the interview and ask for a better team at later stage? Any reviews around the team. How tough it is to change team after joining Google...Read more
I had been with the company for less than a year, but I did well on my reviews and everything seemed good however, I got laid off a few days before paternity leave was suppose to start. It was a part of a mass layoff so I don’t think I can say it was because of the paternity leave but I am windowin...Read more
Hey folks, title says it all. First time homeowner here, need to change the front and back door locks. Thought of trying out smart locks (not sure if it's really convenient and secure than traditional locks though!) I have a bunch of google smart products at home so I am thinking about Nest Yale bu...Read more
I've done 1st technical rounds for both and am preparing for the next ones. What I've done: - TTD: n-way set associative cache - refactoring, optimizing and quizzes about concurrency & technical decisions. Platform: CodeSignal, it's not required to run, as long as it's syntactically correcr. - Rippl...Read more
TC 300k at signing, 🥜 after docucrash. YOE 12 Feeling like I'm a loser, would appreciate any advice. Spent many years caring very strongly about code quality, modularity, component design, api design and that knowledge seems to have just put me at odds with folks on my team, prolonging code revi...Read more
Colleague is a couple years more experienced than me. But code they write is very substandard. Private nested classes accessing private methods of parent classes for example. Every code review ends with the same comment - "let's merge this in now but refactor it later". Code base is ugly, modules ...Read more
Hey guys, Can someone explain my rejection after their OA? It was 3 questions (2 LC mediums) and a basic problem to fetch some JSON data from a Hackerrank API and return a formatted string based on a nested field. I passed every test case (which also check for runtime), the code was fairly clear, a...Read more
No long texts, direct points Work Experience: - 3 years in 2 different MNCs Current status :- MS CS top 50 school international student Dominant tech stack :- Javascript, Node.js, AWS(SQS, SNS, Lambda, Eventbridge, EC2 etc.), React.js, GraphQL,C++, Python etc. Application count :- 200 - 300 ? l...Read more
I've been coding since 12. Roughly 30 years, but 15 to 20 getting paid. Love programming. Never made much, empty nest now. I lived my life in reverse and raised great kids, everybody super happy but now want to chase money. My most recent side gig, was almost all code review on weekends. Catch-up t...Read more
Hi, [non Amazon employees may ignore] My post may be obvious to my manager. I don’t care. just using my wife’s account to avoid the possibility of getting OP’s email. Here’s my situation: I am L5 at Amazon working for one of the Alexa teams related to Ring, Nest, Simplisafe etc. I have been in ...Read more
I recently had a tech screen at G and it was an interesting experience. The interviewer asked me a question they had not thoroughly reviewed or were familiar with prior to the interview. At the start of the interview, they pasted the question into the shared document and read it out loud. I asked a ...Read more
TC: 210K YOE: 12 Non-Tech I’m currently interviewing for a Director level non-tech role at Fitbit. Thus far the recruiter and I have not discussed compensation expectations and I don’t want to be the first party to bring it up. I have questions about Target Bonus and timing, RSUs and Unvested Equi...Read more
Saw this from some Amazon reviews of the Python version of EPI: > The coding style in many cases is just... bad. The authors often use wonky Python tricks at the cost of readability and simplicity. For example, their definition of a BST search is a *one-line* nested ternary conditional (chapter 1
I'm very old by Blind standards, in my 24th year as a software engineer. From day 1 (ok, maybe more like year 2), I've completely loathed most of the nonsense corporate BS that surrounds software engineering: standups, 1-on-1s, really all meetings, performance reviews, interviewing, etc. What I'm i...Read more
I’ve worked in SW for 13 years now and I’ve amassed a nice nest egg of $2.5M NW from my work. I’m extremely blessed to be where I am but I’ve lately tired of the industry. I can’t take the daily stand ups, weekly planning sessions, constant code reviews year after year. I personally want to have a ...Read more
I’m a founding product designer. We work extremely agile (ship in 1-2 days). My boss expects me to design extremely fast, while managing a full fledge design system, handling research, and also think about new features. Recently I had a performance review and the feedback I got was: -Extremely poo...Read more