Is creating YouTube channel and educating people for FAANG interviews one of new "principles" of Amazon SWE Promotions ?
Passed hc recently and now team matching. Got a few candidate teams in YouTube, mainly on media playback/ discovery Wanna hear any reviews on YouTube org or company? The promotions, culture WLB or anything. I know it’s a part of google so wanna know if I should tell hr to help me match with classic...Read more
Main point: Laid back engineering culture, privacy issues and cancellation of services will eventually lead to Google's demise. Problems: 1. Search is down the drain. https://weirdmarketingtales.com/why-people-are-adding-reddit-to-their-google-searches 2. GCP is losing out to competitors. It has a ...Read more
How are the teams that are part of youtube infra in MTV? Wlb, toxic/not, promotions, etc etc
Would taking a 20% project (in a big product such as Maps/Youtube etc) have a negative impact towards promotion? How was your 20% project experience?
Current TC: 220K YOE: 5 Two offers: Google L4 SWE TC 260K Youtube team in Venice Amazon SDE2 TC 240K Ring Team permanent Remote (I will still live around LA) Google Pros Learn new technology Lots of more senior devs on team to learn from Google office perks when wfh ends Youtube is huge impact/b...Read more
I pay for Google one and also YouTube premium, what else do you need me to pay for? Just remove those ads from my Gmail, I accidentally click on them while opening my social/promotions section on the phone.
Amazon Inc are you really trying to support environment with this paper promotions. We all in Seattle know that there is amazon music which is not doing anything newer than Spotify/ YouTube music. Please don’t waste paper.
Steve Huynh seems like the way more genuine version of the “Tech lead” aka Patrick on YouTube. Steve owns the YouTube channel called “A Life Engineer.” He recently quit his job at Amazon cause he wants to spend more time with his family now that he has a second child. He also created a program cal...Read more
I am having a lot of trouble deciding between these two. They would both be out of the Bay Area. I care mostly about career growth, promotion cycles, and team culture. I care about total comp too, but more so as it comes with promotions/performance rather than initial compensation. Also, quality of ...Read more
Hi folks. I have been locked in a 2bd with wife and two year old for 2 years almost. I’m experiencing declined cognitive abilities. And most importantly I really can’t focus on work. My works are months late. And whenever I open my laptop I just watch YouTube and think of a way to bullshit in the ne...Read more
With youtube team. What’s the career outlook and promotion track like? I already cleared 4 interviews and getting to the VP and HC soon. But their proposed TC is lower than my other offers and it requires me to move to Bay Area to get slammed by high tax and rent. If I come back applying for google...Read more
FYI: it's a serious ask of a referral. Need to proceed asap. I'll wear the Noogler hat on every meeting until I get a promotion. I use Google stock Android on a Pixel device and allow Google to collect as much data as possible. I've spent countless hours on LC and it's the #1 goal of my life. I hav...Read more
Googlers - What are your thoughts? TL;DR: Slowly eliminating rest-and-vest culture. Is Google = Amazon What do you do when you have over-hired but you don’t want to stoke panic by laying people off? Change the performance review process. And rip out the Toto toilets for good measure. Metrics to w...Read more
Hi I know Google system design questions are not like grokking or anything you find in youtube videos. Can we share all questions? Last year, they asked me to design static analysis tool. For one of my friend they asked to design load balancer in cloud. Few more: Design logger Design code coverag...Read more
Hi I know Google system design questions are not like grokking or anything you find in youtube videos. Can we share all questions? Last year, they asked me to design static analysis tool. For one of my friend they asked to design load balancer in cloud. Few more: Design logger Design code coverag...Read more
I don’t work a full 8 hours on a work day, and I feel like I should either work harder at my job to work towards a raise/ promotion, or spend time on other meaningful things like reading, exercising, leaning new things, etc. this includes after normal working hours. But instead of that, my downtime...Read more
Hi: Looking for some advice around team match at google. I am at the team match stage with google now and hr start to sent teams that are interested in me. Background in front end and some backend works as well. Here are some teams that have shown interest: 1. Google search quality team(area in ...Read more
Saw this commentary about #google ‘s new GRAD performance review process and thought was interesting… Thoughts from people who work at both companies? #Amazon ————— What do you do when you have over-hired but you don’t want to stoke panic by laying people off? Change the performance review process...Read more
One of my coworker is notorious for not working. I understand that he is more experienced (in his 40s) and has not been given the kinda promotions that he likes. He still holds title similar to me as an engineer. He doesn't like the fact that company leadership is bringing in managers/directors youn...Read more