- 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,
- Need male perspective Met this dude on a dating website 6 months back. He pursued me and we met almost daily for 6 months. Both of us work at Amazon, him in AWS, live in downtown Seattle. So are pretty close to each other. We discussed everything from family, ambitions, fear, past relationships, career, and even call eac
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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
- Amazon SDE2 Interview failed I just had a second interview with Amazon for SDE2 position and I failed. The first one was 1 year ago and that time I did not even make it to the onsite interview. The second interview which I just had, I made it to the onsite interview but I am rejected. It was 5 round interviews (3 coding, 1 sys
- 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
- Contract -> FT Im a contract to hire and my time to switch to FT is coming up soon. Im getting underpaid, 10-20k annually less than the avg swe in my area according to google and other websites. Should i expect a pay increase ? If so, generally by how much. I assume other offers can bring it up even more but wh
- Resume help!! planning on rewritting my resume from scratch and seeking advise on: 1) what website/tool/word template do you use to build it up 2) helpful guide on what to focus on or avoid while writing it. is there a good online source you can point me to? 3) what do you do with your resume to get maximum exp
- 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
- Airbnb app so slow Can someone tell me why the Airbnb app and website are so slow? Does anyone have tips to make it speed up? Is iOS faster? I often have to use Chrome mobile browser just to check things because it loads about twice as fast but still terrible. 30 seconds to load and 80% time out rate They don't o
- Airbnb Rejection after Clearing Hackerrank coding test Applied on Airbnb website for SWE role in paris. Got a hackerrank test the following day and i took the test and secured correct output for all test cases. Got a mail from HR in 30 mins congratulating me for doing well and set up a call , where he asked about experience and visa requirements etc. Tw
- 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
- Rate my new job offer Hi, I have received an offer for the role of “Enterprise Application Manager” role based in LA- from an apparel company whose headquarter is in Australia. They have just opened their US location just last year and are trying to build their IT team in the US now - a team of four potentially - CIO is
- Expired I-94 on h1b My latest h1b extension approval came on Jan 15, 2019 (valid from 2nd May 2019 till 2022) After that, I traveled out of the country from Jan 30, 2019 to Feb 3, 2019. However, on point of entry, officer stamped validity till 1st May 2019 (on the passport and on their online I-94 website).Probably
- Renegotiating my TC 35m / SoCal / TC $140k (all cash) I work at a startup that's grown from about 5 employees to just under 100 in the 7 years I've been here. I'm currently underpaid, and the company owner knows it. He actually came to me yesterday, and said we're going to renegotiate my compensation package and that
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
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and industry lounge. - Advice moving forward in life Looking for input on how i should progress my swe career from where i am now. Current TC: 50k YOE: 4 months. Background: No degree (some bio), self taught. Currently a full stack dev with Typescript, React, Redux on FE and Java, AEM on BE. Medium sized non tech company with my team of 5, the only
- 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?
- Need to escape the black hole of a Government job TLDR: TC: 99k YOE 7, hate being underpaid and need advice getting into the private industry. I work for the government. I moved up the ranks and gained a lot of respect in my organization but I realized too late that I should have gotten out a long time ago. I've always been a high performer at wor
- list of new chinese startups is there a website that automatically highlights new startups coming up in China month over month?
- 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
- 5+ years as a solo tech startup founder, burned up & confused I’ve been in an emotional roller coaster ride running my social media / dating platform. As a solo founder, i designed and developed everything. Both website and iOS app. The website did really good when I first launched it due to SEO, getting 1M monthly visits. Knowing the traffic might disappear,
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- product/ web app idea (youre welcome) they say most recruiters read a resume in 10 seconds, and use 6 seconds to form an opinion about the resume. make a website where you upload your resume, and people get only 6 seconds to scan and give a thumbs up or thumbs down. the first 4 seconds it shows the title user is applying for. user pays
- 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
- 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
- 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
- used desktop or laptop computer? windows or mac? Does anyone get a cheap, reliable, and functional used desktop or laptop computer website? I want to set up a penetration testing lab.
- 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
- 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.
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and industry lounge. - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- T-Mobile website/apps What horrible pieces of shit these are! My God. I recently moved to T-Mobile and the app never worked, it does nothing on logging in, just says "sorry we're working on this". The website is a nightmare. Been trying to add a card and the "make payment" button still stays disabled. Happens to every ca