- Losing Hope. Need help Hi All, I am a contractor QA at Google and have been trying hard for a full time PgM job. Tried applying at many companies and at few rejected after onsite. Applied at Google as well but I feel contractors are not given the fair chance. I recently appeared for two interviews at FB but did not make
- Facebook Interviews (non tech) Anybody who has been part of non tech interview loops at Facebook? What sort of questions should I expect in the interviews and how best can I prepare? Are there any reading materials or resources that you can recommend? Pls share your experience. TC = 330K Interviewing for Partnerships role at
- link Companies Paying 300k+ For Senior SWE Lots of posts online say "competitive pay" but then you find out it's 100k + 0.01% equity in SF. Please contribute senior roles (at least partially overlaps with Google L5 or Facebook E5) in the following format: Company / Level / TC (not counting stock appreciation, since this is for people looki
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and industry lounge. - Laid off 🤕 Looking for referrals due to time constraint Hi Guys, Yesterday was my last day at work and being on H-1B, I have 60 days to look for a new opportunity so hoping if someone can help with referrals if their company is hiring. Looking in NYC or remote only, ideally senior backend/software engineer roles. I have been interviewing actively since
- 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
- Rejected from FACEBOOK for not having a H1b I recently gave a technical interview for Data Specialist, Product Support Operations role at Facebook and I can say that they liked me a lot as I received an update within an hour that they want to schedule an onsite. But here’s the tricky part. They said that I need to provide a proof of my employ
- How long to hear back from FB after phone screen pm role tc 465k 7 yoe
- Facebook - Manager, $230K-$260K TC?! Out of a first screening call for a non-technical role that requires 10 YOE, MBA but will remain an Individual Contributor for now. Comp shared at that stage looks low: Base: $165k-$180k Bonus: 20% TC: $230k-$260k Equity (guessed from numbers above): $180k-$320k vesting over 4Y The hiring manager w
- First Date - Asking her to pick me up/I get uber for us? So im in my last semester of college and have new grad role for FB starting in Spring, (I told her Instagram as it has more clout for college girls), and this girl I met asked to hang out more with me. So I asked her to go see Joker with me. Gave her date and time and set up everything. The problem
- Frustrated with hiring process at fb I'm a former fb cw applying for a non-tech, full-time role. I was referred in August and somehow the process is still ongoing. The recruiter ghosted me on multiple occasions (was able to get responses by reaching out to contacts), my onsite was rescheduled three times and eventually most of the inte
- Is it better to start a job at a lower level but top of band or higher level at the bottom of the band? Say for the sake of a hypothetical situation you get a offer at FB for 450k a year at T5 (top of band) and another offer for Instagram for T6 also at 450k a year (nowhere near top of the T6 band). Not real numbers or even possible (I think IG and FB would sync their TC / leveling if you got offers
- Product Manager Referral (Top 10 US MBA + 5 yoe as Software Engineering Lead + PM at BCG DV) I'm a 2nd year MBA at a top 10 school in the US. Have 5 years of experience as a Software Engineering Lead in the Bay Area and interned as a Product Manager at BCG Digital Ventures. Looking for referrals for Product Manager/similar roles at Uber, Lyft, Slack, Netflix, Facebook, Apple, Dropbox, Intui
- link Prepare for the rejection from facebook Dear blinders, the reason why I wrote this post is that I can feel maybe there are many people in the blind community also suffered from the similar situation. There are some background first, I failed google's phone screen 3 months ago, and realized that I was underprepared. Then 3 months later, I
- Facebook DE -> SWE I recently accepted a Data Engineer, Analytics new grad position at Facebook. Joining is in June 2020. Can I ask my recruiter to consider me for SWE instead? If yes, will I have to go through the entire loop again or just the on-site? If I get rejected for SWE position, can I keep the original Data
- Referral after RIF Hi all. Was laid off 5 weeks ago and sadly I didn’t get an offer from the 5 onsite/final round interviews I had. Trying to stay positive and learn from and Hoping to make one final push for interviewing in 2019. There are a few roles I’m very interested in from Twitter, fb, Uber, salesforce, docusig
- Facebook PIP Been seeing posts from Facebook engineers about getting PIP'ed. It's unfortunate. How common is it for other roles at Facebook to get PIP'ed? Like product management, product marketing, etc. ?
- Facebook Onsite Feedback Finished my Onsite for FB TPM role last week. the recruiter sent an email after 2 days saying she is waiting for all the feedback to be entered and she will be in touch soon. Sent the recruiter a follow up email yesterday, the reply was little confusing. It says all the feedback is in and she is wa
- If I am a front end engineer, should I apply for Google, Facebook, Amazon? The experiences interviewing with Google, Facebook, and Amazon was that for a front end role, they still ask you about hardcore algorithm problems... such as a solution for convex hull... oh well. You know, having been a front end engineer for 10+ years, there is no way I can be fluent on convex hu
- Facebook Comp thanks for the PTO advice. Now help me with comp negotiation. Just spoke with recruiter and got TC details for L4 non-eng role at FB in SF. Seems like a lowball to me. Would be base cut, but slight increase in total comp. Fortunately, I’m expecting two other competing offers which should help neg
- Need advice I Interviewed with Facebook for a PE role about 5 weeks back . My recruiter was super hard to get in touch with even before setting up onsite. I never got a response without dropping two emails.. on the day on onsite I was told I'll hear about the result in 48 hours, but I never heard back .I follow
- uber, fb, or google? did I make the wrong decision? longtime lurker, hoping the blind community can help me in my dilemma: a couple months ago, I got super lucky and got a bunch of offers including fb, google, and uber 🙏 All were around the same TC and I ended up choosing uber. With lock-up expiration, a large portion of my TC has gone to shit. I
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and industry lounge. - facebook university grad data analytics role received an email from a recruiter asking for my answers to a bunch of questions. this happened to me before and i responded promptly but did not get an interview. does anyone have any advice on how to get an interview this time? yoe: new grad
- Citadel Securities London Currently have a L5 Software Eng role at FB London (10y of experience). Total comp about 200-220£ per year. Pretty relaxed and chilled environment, good manager, but probably close to zero chance for promo to L6. passed an interview for Citadel Securities, for Quant Dev role (C++), fixed income de
- Does fb provide visa sponsorship to US Hi, I am from india and have an interview with fb on a swe role. Does fb provide visa sponsorship to US . Anyone knows about this. Thanks
- Apple vs Fb which one to choose, if offered same tc? apple or fb? current tc: 140 offered: 215 yoe 4 role: engg thanks!
- Staying at FB vs. Small company I have a amazingly well paid job (EM) at FB but recently got an offer from a pre IPO company to do some interesting work. Comp is same (~530k). I am looking to take it as I think company has potential but wanted to throw it out there and see what folks would do in this situation. Am I crazy to make
- 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
- FB to Guidewire? Didn’t know a public company called “Guidewire” existed until I got an email from their recruiter a month ago for a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager role in Cloud Data platform team. Though wanted to move out of core data group here, I wasn’t planning to leave FB. I happened to hear about Guid
- FB PE onsite - bombed coding Had my on-site with FB for a Production Engineering role. It went really well overall (4/5 rounds) but I bombed the coding interview (1 round). The interviewer asked a strange question (file manipulation) which is fine but basically just wanted me to write code without talking or explaining my algo
- 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
- vote machine learning hype in FANG? Had an onsite interview at FB for a general engineering role. EVERY single interviewer said they were working on machine learning related projects. Is that what it is now in FANG that everybody is wanting to somehow get involved in ML?
- 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
- Google Facebook Analyst leveling What does IC4 in Facebook map to in Google hierarchy? Looking at Analytical lead roles in google and wondering how it aligns to fb analyst roles. any insights would be helpful
- facebook business operations director I’ve been approached by FB for a business operarions director role based in NYC. I’m curious if anyone knows -directionally- what comp is like for a this sort of role. I’m a senior L7 at Amazon (about to make L8) leading a big team in product, bizops and analytics (inc other L7s) and with both top t
- Which companies have real data scientists? I have a MS in DS from top tier CS university, and I have been working as a data scientist for less than 1 year. Daily work includes analytics & AB testing (60%) and building ML models (40%). The current team has some modeling projects, but the larger organization is mainly doing analytics. Their da
- Is it possible to get blacklisted after recklessly applying to the same company over 20 times together... well, the question says it all.. Last year was the first time I started applying to roles, and I went overboard after my first reject from Facebook.. I applied in there for literally every possible internship position (using referrals from different people) over the course of 3 months.. Well, I did
- AMA - How I got multiple offers from FAANG and Tier 1 companies I see a lot of folks asking about interview preparation and topics to study for the SWE roles at FAANG. Here's a list of topics that I studied and managed to get offers from Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Linkedin, and Amazon. If you study these topics and once you develop a knack of identifying patterns an
- Facebook Onsite done. Recruiter says " I have update ." Hey Blinders, I did my FB onsite for PM role at FB MLK this week. Got an email today saying there is an update to discuss next week. Is this something like a standard response before being rejected or anything positive to hope for?
- Best tech company to work for in Singapore Singapore tech market is booming, google fb are opening swe roles here. Open discussion: As a SWE in Singapore, what is the best company to work for? open to faang, hedge funds, banks etc yoe 3 TC 140k SGD
- Facebook Data Science Have 1 yoe exp at Micrsosoft as a data scientist, have completed masters. Want to apply to other companies as my team is disintegrating and internal feedback is not great for anyone on my team as my manager in general doesnt give anyone huge creds. So i cant even think of moving about internally wit
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and industry lounge. - Offer from Amazon. FB onsite next week. i got an offer from Amazon today. I’ve FB onsite scheduled early next week. I told my recruiter that I’ll be able to make final decision around end of next week. The recruiter mentioned that it should be fine but they will keep the position open and keep interviewing other candidates in parallel. if
- Google L6 TPM comp expectations Hello everyone, I'm currently at Facebook Level 5 TPM. I'm going to get a L6 TPM role at Google (on-sites done and team match done) it is with the hiring committee now. what is the range one can expect with the following break down: Sign-on Bonus: Base: Yearly performance Bonus: RSU's: Help appreci
- Got invited to FB onsite after one week of joining Amazon Should I give it seriously ? Should I quit Amazon if I get an offer this early ? Have already changed 2 companies in 2 years. Update : FB role : Enterprise Engineer TC : 190K YOE : 2
- 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
- facebook - best teams to join for PM career growth? received verbal offer (no numbers yet) for PM role at facebook and would love any insights into the best teams to join or teams to avoid, across ARVR, Groups, Newsfeed, Messenger. care about career growth and culture. thank you!
- What does it take for Netflix recruiter to get back I applied online for Netflix Android dev role. Haven't heard back Got a couple of offers from snap and Facebook. My priority was to move to Netflix but the recruiters never reached out and I don't have friends at Netflix for referral. FB offer: 165+360/4, E4 Snap offer: 200+800/4, L4 Goog: 340k/L4
- TPM vs Product Managers. There has a high rise in TPMs demand around the top notch companies spl in Google linkedin and Facebook. Microsoft still follows to have just 1 role to drive their program. Question to all product guys Will you switch to TPM ever with the fancy compensation and tech depth it can bring to you ?
- Hardware TPM Role at Facebook Infra hello Blind, i would appreciate some insights on HW TPM role in FB infra. Does the role get to drove roadmaps and dive deep technically or is it mostly an execution and schedule monkey?
- vote Is Amazon a door to a better career? I interviewed for L5 at Amazon but got bumped to L4. But they were able to offer me 200k tc in nyc. The project/team sounds very exciting as I would be able to work with lotd of data/ML which is whar my masters is in but I havent been able to use it in applied work. My current gig is as a tech lead