Learn everything from hardware to software to support, you get to do it all. Meeting heavy, but you can shorten your week coding instead of participating.
No growth in job paths, must manage to rise. Lack of vision, and that leads to lack of execution.
12 YoE Samsung Austin Semiconductor offer for system engineer position for Austin location. 135k base + 1.5% quarterly bonus + 6% annual bonus 25k sign on bonus 22.5k relocation bonus CTC - 130k They are not willing to negotiate base pay. Is this a good offer? Thank you for your input. #offer...Read more
Both SWEs and SAs get system design questions in their interviews but should there be any difference in their responses and approach ? What I'm trying to understand here is should a SWE focus more on database design and estimating users etc and SA more on Infrastructure architecture ? Or should the ...Read more
Hi All, Thoughts on the Solution Architect (SA)vs SDE career growth paths and experiences. Which domain is good long term based on opportunities, pay, Benifits, skills, etc. (The SA can be the roles of Solution Architects, Technical Sales Engineers, Customer Engineers, CSA and all here) More speci...Read more
A bit background of myself, I’ve been working as IT business analyst for quite a long time with 1.5 year experience as SAS data analyst and 1.5 year experience as QA analyst on the side. My past projects mainly focused on mobile/web application implementation, data and system migration, and busines...Read more
I have an interview for fullstack web developer at SAS, I passed HM screen and i have a two interview panel and I am wondering what style interview. Is it going to just be behavioral and some technical Qs or is it going to be a Leetcode style algorithms interview and OOP design questions. I am prepp...Read more
For many SAs, they do hands-on coding and code reviews apart from their involvement on the system design/architecture side. For them, their responsibilities are similar to that of a principal/staff engineer. However, I see most new-age companies including FAANG are reluctant to even shortlist their ...Read more
Is DS filled with many more expectations than SWE? Communication, presentation, dealing with conflicts, SQL, Snowflake, Teradata, Tableau, R, Python, SAS, packages (TF, Scikit Learn, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn), design (for decks), higher level literacy, Office, stats (endless here), ML/AI, ...Read more
I graduated with my MBA in Management Information Systems last May (which combines business courses and technical courses such as programming in Python, SQL, Business Analysis (Excel, SAS, Linear Regression). Also completed a fullstack web development and an AI bootcamp and got accepted into Georgia...Read more
Hi there I’m looking for a referral for entry level position. A little bit about me: I have army reserves exp as systems analyst 7+ yrs exp working for state of Ca with regulated data (business analysis and ETL mostly) Skills sql: Proj mgmt Business analysis Data analysis —> sql (beginner) sas (
I’m looking for an opportunity in the area of: - Hardware/Sytem/Post Silicon Validation - Customer Application Engineering/Account Management or - SDET/Software Test Automation/Python Scripting - Product Engineering I also have good understanding of SAS, MVMe, PCIe protocols, CXL, embedded systems...Read more
As you likely know already, return-to-office policies can vary based on your job, department or location. We surveyed software engineers in Blind’s community of over 9 million verified professionals to find out companies’ policies and in-office or hybrid work schedules. As a reminder, Blind’s ret...Read more
I got two internship offers -Stats programmer intern at a biotech •Amazing work life balance, cool culture •In the past, 2/5 of the candidate able to extend their internship/transit to full-time •work from home •responsibility is very ‘niche’ Perform review for FDA subm...Read more
My friend is a technical consultant at Accenture. He wants to make the switch to Amazon. His current role is "technical architect." (As an SDE at Amazon, I find the existence of such a role where you design large systems and don't code and don't maintain interesting and think of it as a bit of a j...Read more
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I'm in the mid-age crisis here... I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, and been working so many different roles and projects ever since I graduated. Here's a quick summary of the roles and projects that I played so far: QA (manual testing) - 1 year IT BA (web/mobile app, dat...Read more
Does Amazon allows their SA to work from home permanently? I knew one of them who joined couple of years back in Amazon Mumbai but managed to come back to their home location within 6 months of joining (although Amazon doesn't have much footprint in their home location except few SAs working). I hea...Read more
Not super well known (the likes of FANG) Great WLB (<;= 40h, no or low on call). Good culture, no stack ranking, nice people, family friendly. Ok salary, enough to live but not for the TC chasers. I’ve heard good things about Expedia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc. Can you share your gem company?
I've mostly seen tenured people join the SA organization but I've also seen some junior or fresh out of school join. Currently a Cloud Support Engineer (network) and would like to make some short term and long term goals in becoming an SA. I'm coming from a network heavy background and would like t...Read more
Hello! Been on the data scientist job hunt for the past few months and casting my line out to the Blind community for any potential referrals. To give some background I’m a data scientist in biotech that dabbles in embedded system software development. I have experience in data visualization, stat...Read more
I'm choosing between aws and gcp for personal projects(sas, niche, web apps), I have experience in both, I'm more familiar in aws. And was wondering which one to commit to and invest my knowledge and time in? I will be deploying multiple apps to test out different ideas, I'm looking for something t...Read more