- 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,
- Help defeat S386 After seeing so many posts drumming up support for S386, packed with misleading statements and demanding "fairness", here is a post to seek support to permanently kill this selfish, repugnant bill. S386 removes the 7% per-country cap for Green Card (GC) approvals. This is being pushed by a well-fun
- Immigration voice - F U S386 was a horrible bill and not fair. If they really wanted to change something, they could have taken small steps like increase GC % for people born in India or have a different queue for folks with US degree. But, they came up and lobbied for a very unfair bill which has lead to just one thing
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and industry lounge. - Is Vanguard customer service always this horrible? After reading many posts here (thanks Blind community) and some research, decided to rollover my MS 401k to Vanguard. I needed help with something, tried calling them several times in the last week, put myself up for call back. Never heard anything back from them. Fidelity client service is hands d
- 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
- Austin to Bay Area I'm contemplating relocation to the Bay Area (I've been in Austin for a decade, I think I'm ready for a change). I have a few interviews lined up with FANG and was trying to figure out what would be a reasonable compensation to mantain my current lifestyle (don't own a home and not interested in buy
- Apartment hiked my rental- ideas? My apartment is up for renewal and theh hiked my price by $350 making total rent after renewal $4340. however, on their website same type of apartment in same complex is available for $4180. my issue is that moving will probably cost the same as the price hike. can i negotiate my renewal? Ideas on
- How would the government break up facebook? Elizabeth Warren is talking about breaking up facebook. Which components would be spun off? Its one big website. When ATT broke up, they broke it up into regional 'bell' companies. ATT had a near 100% monopoly on phones in the US before this. I'm not sure how you break up facebook. I think the bett
- 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
- How to quit? tl;Dr: how to quit and not burn Bridges? Yoe < 1 My former boss referred me to a company where his friend works as the only dev (it's a pretty small company). About 2 months ago, I was taken on as a contract to hire (decision needs to be made in 3 months). Right now I do not have any kind of benef
- 1M+ TC, 99 percentile earnings in tech, how to get there Compared to medicine, 99 percentile earnings in tech (~450k) seems to be lesser than p99 in finance, management and medicine (1M+) (source: 80000 hours website) Since I'm an SWE atm with 200k at FAANG in Europe, and have low utility for an additional 200k of income (60% savings currently, earning t
- vote A Traumatic Experience That Left an Impression This happened when I was 24, and I'm 31 now. I was in a serious relationship, and was likely going to get married to this Indian girl (I'm also Indian). We were dating for about a year, and we started fighting a lot, and eventually broke up. She said a lot of things upto the point when we broke up,
- What is Antifa? I tried looking up, but it seems the news comes up from the websites I don't know. Major outlets didn't have info for some reason. Any info you guys could give me? Of course I know they're opposed to fascism, but what's with the violence? Or is that even true?
- International Women’s Day - let’s call out the fakers I’ll start. Hootsuite. I have kept quiet for a long time about my very negative experience working for Hootsuite but having recently seen someone else go very public about her own experiences of discrimination and then after having been let go finding her face used on their website to promote divers
- failure At what point do you just give the fuck up amd realize no amount of hard work and ‘pulling yourself by the bootstraps’ will ever result in any success in this industry unles youve already been set up from the beginning? I come from literally nothing, an unwanted child from two hateful parents, home
- What are you side hustles? Let’s use a template to make it easily readable: Type: e.g. app, website, software, consulting Category: e.g. tech, fashion, ecommerce Hour: Hours/month spent to maintain Income: Net profit/month Setup: How long it took you to set up
- 500 start ups So i got an interview with 500 start ups and it was only for 10 minutes. But the website said it was for 30 minutes per startup. Is there a difference between the interviews.
- Google PgM Interview Prep Hello. I have an interview with the hiring manager coming up soon later this week. It’s for a program manager position in Google Cloud. Could you please help me with how to prepare? Any good websites for preparing answers to behavioral questions? I was told that by the recruiter that there will be a
- Deppressed? Horrible person? Work: I am senior engineer. I am above average but not the best Engineer out there. I dread my work. It has been the same ever since I started 7 years ago even though I worked in high profile supposedly interesting projects/companies by the standards of many. I hate it when there is something I do n
- Looking for referrals Hi all, I have been preparing on Leetcode for over a month now(200+ problems) and I need help getting referrals for some of the companies I am interested in. Currently, I am interviewing with Amazon and Palantir but I would really appreciate if you guys could help me get referral in some of the com
- Most recent I94 online is not up to date I just checked my I94 and website doesn't show the latest entry. Travel history is up to date. How do I get this fixed? Will this be an issue? Looks like the officer didn't update it
- Which one of you is behind leetcomp.com I was trying to come up with a name for the TC sharing website that I’m thinking of developing. The name leetcomp.com was taken: which one of you is behind it lol
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and industry lounge. - vote Wealthfront vs Ally vs Citi vs Marcus I was bored and was looking at bankrates today. Apparently Citi now offers “Accelerate” account at 2.36+. * WF = 2.57% * Ally = 2.1% * Marcus = 2.15% The cons of Citi is the rate is not transparent (last known is from the news). But I am curious (1) has anyone signed up for Citi AA, (2) would you
- Company Alliterations Austere Amazon (door desks and bananas) Bungling Boeing (737 max fiasco) Condemned Comcast (ppl hate them) Duplicated Dropbox (services like file storage are duplicated by lots of companies) Eclectic Ebay (can find an eclectic selection of items on it) Fickle Facebook (social media is fickle) Glorif
- Slack Interview Does anyone have any tips for getting an interview at Slack? I applied a few weeks ago for one of their SWE roles on their website but haven't heard anything. From what I found on their website/blog, they try to respond within a week, so I'm guessing they're taking a pass, but I want to be proactive
- Are LinkedIn and Netflix actually interesting? People say good perks and salary. But isn't it super boring there? LinkedIn just has the website. Netflix just has streaming sitting on top of AWS. Both already up and running. Where is the challenge.
- Employer wouldn’t approve posting on my Medium On my last month of employment (trying to keep it professional) I was working on a very technical and detailed blog post series. I finished it on my last day and followed up on fixes and proofreading out of my free time. Now the articles are up on the company’s blog (low traffic, bad looking). I ask
- Failing at interview --Input needed Hi I am an SDM and am looking for new jobs but I am failing constantly in my interviews, and the is the worst part I am not sure why I am failing, this is a short summary I started looking for a new job in January, It took me a little time to update my resume and prepare and eventually line up a
- AirBnB Data Science - Analytics insights? Seeing a few of these of interest on their website now. I'm not actively looking and like my current situation... but that's also when I'm most marketable and have least to lose. These are the only jobs I've seen that have piqued my interest in quite a while. Most curious how the broader org is set
- Working on my startup project (long before joining Google) and then joining Google but continue it in my free time? So I have a social network type startup project ( no funding, just app and website ) that people are semi-using right now. The app is free to use not that it matters and it's not a b2b business but a b2c since it's just a social network type. My question is, could this be a problem if I will be joi
- vote Behavioral Interview Questions MEGA LIST For those struggling in behavioral interviews, here are some questions from the top companies: ## General - Why do you want to work for X company? - Why do you want to leave your current/last company? - What are you looking for in your next role? - Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with
- Fastest way to deploy a static site? Hey everyone! I’m a product designer trying to get more comfortable at prototyping and leveling up my (very basic) front-end skills. One thing that always trips me is: I haven’t figured out an easy way to share a static website online. AWS/Netlify/Heroku are still pretty intimidating to me, so I wa
- Doordash Tip I recently discovered that the amount of your tip paid by Doordash to delivery guys is something like: delivery_payout = $5 + max((customer_tip - $4), 0); So basically, your tip benefits the driver only if it is greater than $4. Otherwise it goes into the pocket of Doordash, and its better to not
- Early Career and not doing much work I'm early in my career and this is my first job out of college, im making great money right out of college but not doing enough work. The culture here is great as well as the environment and office space, but im mainly make front end changes to highly visible website. I'm doing about 1-2 real hours
- Best way to scale a new website? I’m creating a new Craigslist type website (buyers and sellers, online payments, etc) but I don’t have any idea about scaling up, etc. is there some service that’d take of scaling up automatically, atleast initially? Say I create a django based website and deploy it somewhere and the platform automa
- how to stop porn habit If you feel like porn is hurting your relationship, making you compare your sex life and your partner’s body to unrealistic standards, but don’t know how to make yourself stop, here is how I did it: 1. In iPhone Settings app, go to Restrictions. 2. Make up a random, hard-to-remember password, write
- Looking for a cofounder What’s up everybody. Wanted to write a post to put out a call for a potential cofounder. I think I’ve got a pretty good idea on my hands. The product is personal finance / blockchain related. But it’s not just some blockchain for the sake of blockchain idea. Without giving everything away here’s w
- Insurance for immigrant parents with pre-existing conditions? YOE : 15 as java, includes 8 as android. TC : > So, I have had first-hand experience with a Traveler's Insurance I had purchased in the US for my parents while they were visiting my place about 2 years ago. Unlike traditional other regular insurance plans for us - immigrant workers on H-
- MS in Data Science Hi folks, i have bachelors in Accounting and 10yrs of experience in accounting field. Now studying masters in data science in UW La Crosse, i have tried multiple times to get internship but no luck at all everyone declines not sure why even though i have projects on my website and did a lot of inter
- link AWS Solution Architect interview questions & concepts Please add questions as you see fit. Good luck! #amazon #aws #sa #interview Security IDS encryption at rest/in transit symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Web Application Firewall Vs Firewall? Where are customer encryption keys stored How would you mitigate a DOS? What is identity management? St
- Isolated world of apps and robots How do you guys deal with being lonely? I'm not looking to date or be in a relationship just to be around people, because for those, I want to seek out the right person. But in general, I'm socially isolated. I have literally no one to talk to about anything in my life. At work, I'm professional, m
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and industry lounge. - Marijuana and Tech Who wants to start a marijuana start up with me? I need people in all facets but most important is people who can make the back end successful and scalable. I need programmers, website developers, app developers, database folks and personnel I don't even know I need yet. I'm a cannabis industry ex
- Old and new startups for G/F/Amazon employees I have an existing side project A (website in beta), and there are projects I want to work on - B in due course of time. I have interviews coming up for G/ F and Amazon. 1. Will I have to disclose Projects A before joining ? 2. How will the IP ownership work for projects B (assuming my work does
- link Coinbase falling apart!? stay away! This is just a summary of the many similar stories people are sharing on reddit right now: Buys taking 10+ days instead of promised 3-5 even though money left your bank on day 1, people with withdrawals pending for months unable to collect profits, people suddenly locked out of their accounts for w
- Mega backdoor Roth Looking to hear only from this who actually do mega backdoor Roth conversions on a regular basis, not those who may have just heard or read about it. I make after-tax contributions (and max out pre-tax) from my paychecks to my 401k account at Vanguard. The 401k plan allows taking in-service withdra
- Amazon technical phone interview I have a technical phone interview scheduled coming up for a senior software engineering role (5 yoe). There seems to be a website to visit. What's the typical format? Any advice?
- applied to startup, want to follow-up I applied to a Product Manager position at a startup and received a “thank you, we’ve received your application” email, but I haven’t heard back so I’d like to follow-up (very interested in the position and company). The email says “do not reply.” I think I have four options here for following up.
- ANA flight If anyone has travelled through ANA JAPAN flight internationally (USA to India) then please provide suggestion. 1)Can one have two carry-ons (laptop bag) + one small carry-on. I am asking because it is not mentioned on their website (however, Lufthansa etc do mention this) and I don't wanna mess up
- How accurate and true is glassdoor review? i just got an offer from palo alto network recently and I compare the company reviews on glassdoor. i found out that it has a lot of bad reviews recently due to mid level management. How true are these review? I compared my ratings for my past companies and I felt that glassdoor rating kind of matc
- Take the chance? Received "Greetings from Google" email Received a "Greetings from Google" email earlier today. A recruiter reached out to me proposing to talk about potential opportunities at Google. I have 1 yr of engineering experience at Microsoft and have been thinking about changing a job (for better compensation, career growth etc.), however I do