- Amazon cloud infrastructure architect What's the target total compensation for cloud infrastructure architect position at AWS. Anyone in a similar role please suggest. Thanks!
- 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
- 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
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and industry lounge. - Anyone feel a deep feeling of lack of purpose? Despite having everything I could want (I'm not really materialistic, I am happy with comfortable life) I have always felt like I lack a deep sense of purpose. I see other deeply passionate individuals that are pursuing their respective goals and I can see the passion in their eyes. How do people
- Facebook Culture Not attempting to bash the company here. But do FBers have an elitist personality or something? I graduated with 2 of my other friends and we all work here in the Bay. They both are at FB (one is a Prod Eng, other is a Data Eng). First couple of months went fine, but now it seems like they always j
- Amazon vs Yahoo vs Docusign vs Google Yoe: 9 Amazon (AWS) TC: 295k (Base: 179k, 1st Yr Equity: 6 shares, 1st yr Sign-on: 105k) Yahoo (Ads team) TC: 275k (Base: 195k, Bonus: 15%, Equity: 50k/yr) Docusign(API) TC: 265k (Base: 195k, Bonus: 5%, Equity: 65k/yr) Google (Team matching ?) TC: 265k (yet to no the split) What do you guys sugges
- Reflecting on the Page/Brin age Google used to have a cool innovative culture. Now it's known for firing people who speak out. No more TGIF, food is meh, lots of people getting shitty TCs. iOS still way better than Android. Oculus is doing way better than DayDream. AWS and Azure doing way better than GCP. Larry and Sergey had a
- 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
- Just got into Wayfair, Amazon AWS onsite Hi, This is the first time I am posting here. I need some guidance related to the onsite. I am expecting a baby soon and I just joined Wayfair. I have cleared the AWS screening interviews and I am being invited to AWS onsite. Should I go for AWS onsite also in Boston location where I am currently l
- Microsoft vs Amazon current L7 PMT-ES at Amazon. TC 400. Have offer from Msoft (the role is level 64) but TC is the same as AWS role. is it worth it to negotiate to 65? or go in as 64 since TC is the same and work on promotion? More realistic to go in as top of band at 64 and set up for success? thoughts?
- I am done with Amazon!! I have been in Amazon for around 3.5 years now. Worked in India for around 2 years 8 months and then moved to AWS, Seattle. SDE2. Comp 180k Getting shitty comp as compared to other native Americans and other SDEs with masters degree. I am having 5 years of total experience. I can't see enough good
- AWS Interview (on-site) - What to wear? I have an on-site super day with lunch in Seattle coming up and was wondering what should I wear? Typically I wear a suit for interviews, but I’ve been told the office is very casual. It’s a sales position so any insight would be great!
- vote DD vs. AMZN vs. G Hi Blind, 1. Google L4 (Sunnyvale) - Gmail EngProd 2. DoorDash E5 (SF) - Consumer 3. Amazon SDE II (SF) - AWS (new product) YOE: 7.5 I did a couple rounds of negotiation and the TCs are around 300k. I will note that the Amazon recruiter did say it was an exploding offer of 4 days. At Amazon, I w
- vote Apple (Bangalore) vs AWS (Bangalore) vs Spotify (Stockholm) 26 yo with 4 yoe based in India. Have offers from all 3. Currently working as a technical lead with TC 42L. Even if you're based out of India, would love some advice. 1) Apple | ICT3 30L base + joining bonus 5L + rsu ($74000) + 2.5L relocation + 5% yearly bonus ~ 48L/year 2) AWS | SDE2 TC is ve
- Why India can’t build top tech companies like China? Because China bans US internet companies like Google/Facebook/Uber/AWS/MSFT. While our Indian CEOs of US companies help their companies to beat Indian competitors in India. Shame on them. We should also ban US and even some China companies (I don’t like Tik Tok, it is so stupid). We should build our
- Ph.D from Ivy league I recently got into AWS and going for Google soon. However, I am more inclined towards Ph.D (after few years of work experience). Any tips on getting into Ivy league for Computer Science Ph.D? Which Ivy league would be easiest to get into? I am confident I can score 330+ in GRE and get good recommen
- link Should AWS be a separate company ? Scandal is brewing. https://apple.news/AlcIjoWa-TrGXc-iNCLNStw
- Google interviews? Anyone else getting similar experience? Like clockwork every year, or so many months Google contacts me and wants to interview me. Sometimes for the same, and sometimes for different roles. I’m happy to oblige and I seem to do very well until the very last interview, at the very end of then interview cycle, just before they’re about to ex
- AWS re:invent Who is at AWS? What do you think is cool? What is all hype?
- Salaries in Berlin I am expecting an offer from AWS in berlin for a software manager L6 role. what would be a good offer?
- aws wlb? how is it? are people happy? burnt out? why does that place have such a bad rep in general, the leadership principles seem to make sense. tc 425k 7 yoe
- Help me find a job :) Hi Everyone, My profile: 1. Recent MS Grad. 2. Summer internship as Web/Python developer. 3. 2 yrs exp in Front End and some backend. 4. Done some projects in ML/DL and interested. 5. Leetcode: 180+ and counting 6. Good in DS/Algos. 7. Good with one liners. Skillset: Java,JavaScript, Python, Reac
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and industry lounge. - Amazon L5 offer Hello, I got an offer from Amazon (AWS) for SDE L5 position: TC 225k Base 148k Sign up y1 69k Sign up y2 53k RSU 177k in current price Based in Seattle/Bellevue How much could I negotiate from here? 20 YoE (I know, it sounds a lot, but I'm less than 6 months in US and my current TC is ~112 includin
- Where’s Your Tegridy? Important disclaimer: this is an opinion thread. It’s based on my observations using this app in the last couple of weeks. Take it for what it is. Before i make my hypothesis, I’d like to share my observations of the Blind community. 1) Many of the people using this app are intelligent, higly moti
- Nordstrom Total Compensation Ranges (My TC: 325k) People seem to not believe me when I share my Nordstrom TC. Yes, Nordstrom does have decent pay. We have done a lot to modernize our stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, Lambdas, AWS+GCP hybrid). Being in Seattle, it's the only way Nordstrom can stay somewhat competitive in hiring talent. Here are the current
- Amazon India Bangalore Teams I am in process of getting interview with Amazon Bangalore for a SE2 role. Wanted to know more about the different teams present and chances of moving out to Seattle after a year. Have heard bad feedback regarding WLB in aws team.
- Laid off with 1 year of work exp. in Go, Python & ML. Looking for referrals. Laid off since 30 days working at small startup. YOE: 1 year 2 months Locations: Bay Area, SF, NY. Tech stack: Go, Python, C, Google Cloud, AWS, Docker. Education: MS in CS from Top 10 CS school. Specialization: - Machine learning(ML): 2 years research experience with NIPS and 4 other ML papers -
- Tech Companies hiring TS/SCI Cleared Engineers TC: 250k Lets get a list of Tech companies confirmed hiring TS/SCI cleared engineers. Not looking for traditional defense contractors (Booz, Lockheed, etc) Ill start: Microsoft (Redmond WA / Reston VA) AWS (Seattle WA / Herndon VA ) Salesforce (Reston VA) Palantir (Seattle ? all over the place
- What (company + SDE level) in Seattle can offer 300K TC without competing offer? YOE: 6 TC: 220K+ (expected on w2 for 2019) SDE2 (L5) in AWS Edit: Paper money is not the real money.
- Azure , AWS or Google If you want to start getting cloud skills, which of the 3 will you start with? Is it good paying gig?
- Moving to Microsoft, paranoid about ZR I quit Amazon on a dev plan (prePIP) and now have an offer with Microsoft Azure (sde). How often does one get ZR/PIP at Microsoft compared to at Amazon? UPDATE: To give more context:- I joined AWS as a new grad. I had previously worked on research and theoretical stuff before. During my internship
- vote Amazon vs Goldman Sachs: Entry Level Hi yall, heres yet another Amazon vs Goldman but this time, new-grad edition. I genuinely like the work more at GS because I would be on Apple Card there, but Amazon is big too. Team with Amazon is AWS Route 53, and team for GS is Marcus. I know both are going to be tough on WLB, but for being 21
- Info on AWS Aurora Team Can anyone shed some light on working in AWS Aurora Team Palo Alto compared other AWS teams? This is for SDE I and II. Especially the DB UI team. Welcome any info like the quality of work we get to do, wlb, yoy hike/refresher, managers and leads, etc.
- Scalability challenge Have you heard any of your interviewers asking this? What's the scalability challenge you solved recently? How do you develop features at scale? What is scale? I mean, if one is a regular application developer, what's exactly is scale? If you follow the documentation and design apps with right dist
- Amazon SDM opportunity Hey there I am an Australian, who got invited for an AWS SDM interview for Seattle. Upfront I am requested to advise expected TC. Dont even know if its level 5 or level 6. Ang suggestions what range I should be considering..
- vote Amazon Recruiter Asks for First Number Hi Blind, I recently interviewed at Amazon for a Frontend Engineer position on AWS team in SF. I was evaluated as a strong SDE II (L5). The recruiter got back to me, saying that they would like to move forward with an offer. However, they are expecting me to give the first number of what my expect
- vote Amazon or Microsoft offer? New grad. Amazon(Seattle) --> base: 112k 1st year sign on: 36k, 2nd year sign on: 36k Stocks: 120k (5, 15, 40, 40) AWS Microsoft(Redmond) --> base: 110k Sign on: 50k (over 2 years) + relocation 🥜 Stocks: 120k Azure Data Which is better for both career and TC growth. Edit: Amazon has revised t
- Referrals in Bangalore Hi All, I am looking for top companies referral in Bangalore for SWE (IC / Lead) Roles. Area of expertise - Distributed systems (Backend), AWS YOE - 12+ Solved 200+ LC problems Previous companies - Amazon, DELL etc. Especially interested in companies like LinkedIn, Rubrik, Cloudera, Grab, Atlassi
- AWS Elasticsearch onsite Hi , I have upcoming onsite with AWS Elasticsearch team for sde2 role in Palo Alto. Can someone from the team or someone who attended their interview shed some light on their level of difficulty. Does leetcode medium suffice or do they ask hard questions as well and how about system design questions
- What’s the most prestigious team on AWS? EC2, RDB, LB, etc. give it to me bro
- worth leaving AWS for nvidia been at AWS Sea for 4 years as sde II. is it worth leaving for nvidia santa clara for senior sde role?
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and industry lounge. - AWS Seattle or Amazon Bangalore? I am an Indian without GC. Have an offer for AWS L6 PMT for TC $320k in Seattle and about INR 70 Lakhs ($100k) In India Need advice on what to choose. Married with a 2 yo kid. Spouse not working. Points I am considering for this decision: India Pros - Closer to family, ageing parents, domestic help
- Fast track career path in Amazon To all seasoned Amazonians, I've just joined AWS as L4 sales rep. I'm looking to fast track my career by working hard and proving to my team with quantifiable results. However from what I've heard, results are not the only thing that Amazon/managers look at here. What would your advice be to some
- Why is Amazon recruiting so poor?! I have interviewed at Amazon about 2-3 times so far. The first was in 2017 and twice this year so far. One time at Audible and other at AWS. All the three times, recruiters would just not communicate well, i don't understand what is the issue with their recruiting. Once, the recruiter messed up big
- vote Google Cloud vs. AWS Which is preferred for retail and why?
- I love Europe! Came for a business trip to a couple locations in Europe and I absolutely love this place more than the States. I understand that living in Europe would entail lower savings, but are there any other concerns if I decide to move here? How easy is it to socialize and make friends if I move to, say, Ge
- AWS solutions architect at AWS vs a partner I’ve seen quite a few ex-aws solutions architects working for a consulting partner. I thought aws itself would be the best place to work as a solutions architect. What are the pros and cons of working for a partner instead?
- Completed AWS background check... But I just received a welcome email from AWS, saying that the BG check has been completed. However before this, accurate background reached out and ask for further information/secondary references from previous employers. With that in mind, will accurate background (third party BG check vendor) still c
- AWS vs Azure Which platform do you think will be more successful long term (from a revenue pov)? Which do you like using more for personal projects & why (objectively, ie an employee credit is not a valid reason here) PS: whats your best gcp joke
- Regret about company choice Hey folks. About three weeks ago I received offers from Nordstrom and Oracle SDE 1 level for both. I was set on Oracle because I thought the cloud experience would be really cool but there were some red flags that led me to take Nordstrom. Either way they're both a tough sell. Oracle cloud is not as