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- Google offer | Thank you Blind | AMA I started heavily using Blind about 3 months ago when I started preparing for my job search. Today I received an offer from Google and I owe Blind a huge thank you for my success, from preparing for the interview to negotiating the offer, I probably wouldn't have done as well without this platform.
- vote Sharing my offer numbers from big companies for your reference I see many questions on compensation here and would like to help answer some of them with the limited data I have. I'd like to shed some light on what the industry is paying and also encourage people to negotiate hard. I went on an interviewing spree recently with the big companies for an SWE posit
- Can I interview within the same year for different locations? Hi, I interviewed for both Google and Amazon. For Google I made it to onsite but they flew me to a country where they speak very poor English. Plus my language preference was Java and some people there had never used Java, hence asking questions and not believing my answers, then googling the answer
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and industry lounge. - link Offering interview prep training Hi, I am an experienced tech interview trainer. Most recently, over the past 6 months, I have helped around 40 people (mostly from Blind) prepare for their interviews. My students were able to get job offers from companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Apple, LinkedIn, Qualcomm etc. I am glad to
- 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
- Amazon ban for 2 year Can Amazon ban you for life from the interview process ? An external recruiter got back to me today that they have note in the system that my interview didn't go well last time so they will not allow me to apply to any Amazon company. Is this for real? Post edited - recruiter clarified it might be
- vote Offer Off: Google (L4 SWE EngProd) vs. Amazon (L5 SDE Alexa AI) Hi, I'm trying to decide between offers from Google (L4 SWE EngProd) or Amazon (L5 SDE Alexa AI) in Seattle. My primary concern is that at Amazon I would be working on an AI team doing NLU, which is where I want my career to go. At Google I would be working on quality of another app, which is not
- As an interviewer, I can't solve all LC problems. Can you? I've been an interviewer for a while (before LC existed). Now when I go through LC, I can see that I'm not able to solve many of those questions (especially hard ones) within the 30 minutes timeframe, or without having seen them already. The questions I ask are not in LC and when I got into Amazon (
- Harsh Job hunt story - 11/11 Rejections Sometimes it gets so tough. I have a friend of mine who is looking for job as a masters new grad international student with 2 yoe outside US before masters. She also has an offer from the company where she interned. And to tell things in perspective- she was the first one to get the internship offe
- Never choose Amazon even if you have no choice I saw a lot of persons compare Amazon offer with other company. But as SDE working in Amazon AWS for two years, I would like to give a warning to person never work in Amazon, never choose to work in this company even if you have no choice. Everyone know that Amazon hire bar is really low, lower tha
- Recent Weird interviews process Recently I have two remote interviews which I think is weird . Amazon send me a online assessment. I finished the two coding questions in just 30 minutes even though the total allocated time is 90 minutes. It’s online IDE and all the test cases in the assessment showed my code passed. Then I finish
- SDE2 offer at Microsoft Vancouver Hey all, Will be getting an offer from Microsoft in Vancouver this week for SDE2. It'll probably be L61 because the recruiter insisted levels are internal matters, which she wouldn't say if it were L62 lol. There are very few data points for MSFT in Vancouver online so can someone tell me what my
- Amazon Ads Toronto/Vancouver I have an interview at Amazon Ads team toronto. I want to ask how that team is in terms of tech, work culture and compensation SDE1 and also interviews. I am hoping to work on the infrastructure side rather than web dev so also unsure of whether I would get to explore that side over there. I would r
- Offering interview prep training Hi, I am an experienced tech interview trainer. Most recently, over the past 5 months, I have helped around 30 people (mostly from Blind) prepare for their interviews. My students were able to get job offers from companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Apple, LinkedIn, Qualcomm etc. I am enthused
- Impressed with L3 Google Interview Interviewed with Google today. I was very impressed with the questions. I've never seen any of those before, on leetcode, hackerrank. 4 interviews went pretty well. I screwed up 1 royally. Topics covered were trees, lists, stacks/queues, math, graphs. Recruiter told me if there's a positive feedbac
- Sharing my preparation strategy for offers from Fb, Google, MSFT etc. I have a post out sharing my offer numbers(under Compensation topic). People Pm'd me asking about my preparation startegy and interview experiences, hence this post. Background - Total 5.5 years exp, MS in CS. Currently SDE2 in Amazon. My team is good, only issue is I have been working 65-70hrs/w
- Amazon or not? Guys, I get Amazon offer. This is the first interview and it went well. I don’t have time to wait for other offer before giving response to amazon. But seems amazon is pretty shitty as per blind. Should I pass it and continue? How is amazon comparing to oracle ? Worth to go?
- Update: sick and need to reschedule, contacted recruiters no reply My flight is tomorrow morning, I don't think I can do the interview because my temperature is actually going up. I think the team is trying to hire someone very soon, and I get it if they decide to move on, but what does the status look like internally to Amazon if I don't go through with the onsit
- How to negotiate levels? 2 YOE 200k Received phone interviews from amazon, LinkedIn, Google, dropbox, snap, uber and a whole bunch of smaller companies. Everyone is ready to offer the new grad role(SDE1, IC3, L3), but no one is keen to offer a higher level (SDE2, IC4, L4). I tried to strong arm some of them into giving me
- Dropbox and Uber onsite experience Thought I would share my onsite experience with dropbox and uber. Currently at FB E6 with TC ~570k. FB (7 YOE) is good but wanted to give a shot outside and see how things are (also nothing wrong to keep to those interview skills sharp) Dropbox interview process is fairly straight forward. Phone sc
- Entering final year of undergrad need job advice I'm just about to finish off my 16 month internship at AMD and enter my final year of studies. I worked at the Markham campus in Ontario on the driver development team and implemented a decent number of features while improving existing ones. I was also involved in working on a lot of the new GPUs w
- Sde1 amazon nyc tc Friend got verbal offer from amazon nyc sde1, and wonder how much she can get. Assuming her tech interview went well(got sde2 interview but lowered down to sde1, saying lp was not enough) Heard nyc sde1 can go up to 200+? Yoe 3
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and industry lounge. - Interview is Monday but I have a sore throat, cough, fever like symptoms I'm taking meds and stuff but I have to fly (and probably get more sick) and then interview. Where I probably won't be at my peak However flight and hotel have been booked, as well as the interview obviously. Would you go through with it? Especially since it's amazon where LP and behavioral conv
- vote Amazon (AWS) vs Google Engineering Resident I am a new grad with offers from AWS in Seattle and Google engineering residency in Mountain View as a SWE. The total compensation for AWS is about 8K more for first year and 4500 less in the second year. And I do realize that AWS is in a cheaper location. However I am much more interested in long
- Amazon Offer in hand , FB onsite pending Hey everyone, I have amazon offer at hand and fb onsite is yet to be scheduled may be next week or so. My situation is, I have accepted amazon offer but I want to go for FB interview, I dont have much time as the processing of new offer ( background check, relocation , immigration etc) is catching
- vote Amazon vs Bloomberg (new grad) I currently have full-time offers from Amazon (in AWS) and from Bloomberg, both for new-grad Software Engineering positions. Here are all the pros and cons I've gathered so far, both from my perspective and from browsing through here: Amazon: 108k base + 44k signing (over 2 years) + 70k RSUs(5/15/4
- Salesforce SF offer ok? Just got this offer this week 11 yoe 170k / 15% / 100k rsu = 220k TC Married w/2kids - wife stays at home. Moving from SoCal LA (TC 165k) Messed up my leets in interview and got downleveled to SMTS - kind of surprised I even got offer. They are not giving a lot of time to decide. Working on gett
- Advice Needed: H1B vs new job I am a student on F1 - OPT working at Intel for a while now. I have been looking for other opportunities and have a promising one from Amazon coming up soon. The problem is that Intel will be applying for my H1B visa lottery and and I have the Amazon interview next week. I am not sure if Amazon will
- Amazon -> HBO? I'm an SDE2 at Amazon. 6 months in role. TC 180K. On a whim, I interviewed at HBO and got an offer for Staff Engineer (equivalent title). 200K in cash and bonuses, and they're probably willing to go higher. Also, 35-hour work week. I'm looking at 3 options: 1. Go to HBO. I'm leaning away from this
- Amazon got offer data engineer but did not work due to immigration issues Hi guys, I got offer from Amazon for data engineering role but the hiring manager wanted me to join in h1b transfer receipt which I did not agree to. So my offer was revoked by the HR. Now since I have cleared the loop and the interview process. Will the interview process be any different if I appl
- Amazon Phone Rejection - Cool-Off Period? I had a phone interview for a Amazon L6 role last week & got positive feedback from both the hiring manager & the recruiter. Before the loop interview, they asked for a second phone interview with a team member. That interview didn't go well & I got an email from the recruiter they decided not to mo
- Transitioning from Semiconductor industry to Cloud/distributed systems? Hi, I have been employed in various Semiconductor companies doing low level to driver level system software work but I feel kinda tired of it and also think opportunities are drying up in the sector because massive consolidation. So looking for a path out of the semi's. Has anyone on her gone throu
- Interview at Google as L4 I just recently received an offer from AWS for SDE1 (still waiting on offer details). I have 1 YOE as a full-stack engineer, plus 3 as a DBA. Spoke with my Google recruiter today and she told me that there's no headcount for L3 at the moment, but I could attempt the L4 interview. It's definitely a b
- Got amazon offer but can’t relocate Interviewed at Amazon and got the offer but the position is in Seattle and can’t relocate. There’s the possibility of finding another team in their NYC location but would I have to go through the interview process again for that?
- FB vs. Google (E4 & L4) Updated with offers: FB: 167 base, 360 RSU, 10% bonus, 75 signon Google (NOT a real given offer yet, but what I'm comparing against): 160 base, 420 RSU, 15% bonus, 75 signon (But I'm assuming FB will give refreshers year1, while Google won't & FB can get to E5 a year earlier than L5 at Google). --
- Can you accept Twitch offer and interview amazon If Twitch in SF is about to offer, but there is amazon Seattle position phone interview just scheduled, want to go for Amazon in Seattle but not sure if can definitely get the job, shall I accept Twitch? What to do?
- Optimizing onsite interview scheduling Living in Maryland and looking to move to Seattle. I'm looking to apply to the following companies: * Google * Facebook * Uber * Microsoft * Amazon I have a couple of questions: 1) As a remote candidate, I have no idea how I should go about scheduling these interviews. I've heard that G/MS can ta
- amazon team switch I recently interviewed at amazon and am in offer stage for L5. I had a good interview but am not sure about the group I am interviewing for. Is it possible to switch groups if there are open recs for similar positions in other orgs under amazon? eg. switch from “amazon fresh” to “amazon go” or somet
- First round phone interview with Amazon for SDE 1(?) Im assuming it's sde 1, because I have 1YOE what kind of questions can I expect I know the leadership principles are stressed so I'll be studying those but should I expect leetcode medium or hards? Are there any types of algo questions amazon likes? Like Google has a n affinity for binary search, bu
- Amazon Rejection Phone Call I've had my on site interview 5 days ago and I've received an email to schedule a time to go over the result of the interview . Does Amazon normally schedule a call to inform the candidate that they've been rejected ? Or do they usually send emails ? Thanks
- link Senior UX Designer Salary at Microsoft I am currently interviewing with multiple teams at Microsoft for a Senior UX Designer role. I've been asked for my salary expectations on a pre-interview form, and I do not plan on providing this. Either way I'd like to be prepared so I did some research and found that there is a lot of variance bas
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and industry lounge. - vote Low TC in Seattle or High TC in Midwest? Goal to get into FAANG. I failed in my current round of job applications, couldn't get into any FAANG, MSFT or unicorns. My options are now low TC $130k in Seattle or a $170k TC in a Midwest state. COL are comparable in both locations after adjusting for no WA tax. I'll go out 6mth from now in June 2019 to interview agai
- Boomerang back to MSFT Currently at level 62 in Microsoft, thinking of interviewing at Amazon to improve my TC. Planning to stay there for few years and switch back(love the overall laid back culture). How is the interview process like when I want to come back? Should I go through phone interview or online screening befor
- It couldn't be that easy to get interviewed by a FANG+M?? Until I tried. Lesson Learned: I couldn't understand why ppl kept saying just go interview with another company to leverage your offer. How easy can it be to just get interviews at the top tech companies in the world? I swear I thought yall were lying. Then I got hit up by Microsoft for a job function I'd never consider on my ow
- Prioritizing career growth vs other ventures Im 22yo, SDE, 150 TC. I'm trying to seek advice on what to prioritize what I should focus on for 2019. Anyone with experience doing the following while working fulltime and be willing to share their experience in how they did it: Leetcoding and ML interview prepping: Ive been working fulltime for
- Preparing for FB onsite I am preparing for Facebook onsite thats gonna happen in next 2 weeks. I have been preparing for last 3 months and also was able to secure an amazon offer for SDE but I am scared and anxious to go for Facebook onsite. I notice that I tend to forget tricks of a problem in few days, really feeling dum
- Amazon L5. Advice needed Was at Microsoft for over 4 years and stuck at L60. Managers consistently leaving, reorgs, sdet->sde and my own stupidity of not getting involved with office politics (I now believe this is a useful skill). Joined as an SDE-2 at tier-2 company in Seattle and after an initial rocky start I am doing f
- AWS base salary less than my current base Recently, I was lucky enough to pass all interview tests to AWS and got an offer. However, they offered base salary less than my current base salary by appx 5%. TC will be bigger, but RSU is some sort of lottery, and Amazon stocks already shot high, so there are chances it will be a plateau over n
- How should I prepare for Amazon Toronto interview? (Any tips / suggestion) Hi all, I am located in Canada. I was recently contacted by Amazon recruiter for position in Toronto office. Question(s): a) How do I go about preparing for web + onsite interview? b) Anyone who works at the Toronto office, what are your views on the company / culture? c) Should I even consider
- When are you Amazon ready?? Solved 150 Amazon tagged(of 6months) LeetCode problems. Interviewing in amazon for the first time so not sure when to go.. All those who recently went for the interview, please share your feedback.