- Got terminated from Amazon because of so called performance issues I got terminated today from Amazon because of so called work performance issues. They had setup this whole facade of the appeal panel and pivot plan process when my manager had already made up her mind about letting me go Is that seriously gonna impact my career to a point where I wont be able to f
- Highest paying public non FAANG companies What public non faang companies pay the most in the bay area? Do any come close to 350k tc for Senior SWEs? I can think of Splunk and Roku. Exhausted my options with Snap, Slack, Twitter, Square, Stripe, AirBnb, Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox, Netflix, Twillio, and Uber (mostly from applications going to
- Ghosted 😢 I just got ghosted by Amazon recruiter. He told me that I will have the online assessment in first week of December and then onsite. I did 550+ lc to prepare and now the recruiter has not been replying for more than a week (I contacted him a week back). I got referred to Uber and fb, but no response
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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
- Free advice I am writing this post because I feel I owe this to the Blind community. A few months ago I decided that it was the right time to consider switching companies. I had got rejects from some of the top companies (Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc) when I had applied during my masters, so needless to say I
- 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.
- Yet another Senior TPM Compensation thread Hey Blind! I just completed an onsite loop at Amazon, and was contacted a few hours after I left the building with an email (and phone call that I missed) saying they were moving ahead with an offer. I know there are a lot of threads asking for TPM compensation, but I thought I'd toss out another s
- How to move easily out of India? I'm working as SDE1 in India. I've been here for almost a year, 3 months as full time and I don't really like this place much. But getting promoted to SDE2 is easier in my org. My aim is to move out of India and I'm not planning to study abroad. What's the easiest way to move out of India? Should I
- Sumo Logic vs Amazon SWE intern I have an internship offer from Sumo Logic and Amazon, both for SWE roles. The compensation are: Sumo Logic: Pay: $50/hour Relocation: $5000 one time Location: Redwood City, California Duration: 14.5 weeks Amazon: Pay: $7933/mo Housing: $1925/mo post-tax Additional: Flight tickets to and fr
- 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
- vote Amazon vs Atlassian vs Nextdoor New grad offers w/ first year TCs. If you vote, please let me know your reasoning!! Amazon - $179k + Highest 1st+2nd year TC <----------- I think some of you guys are missing this + Potential for the most interesting work considering the variety of different teams. I'm especially interested in stuf
- 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
- 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
- Amazon - Ghosted after final onsite round? Role : SDE1 Exp : 6 months I had given all the rounds of Amazon during a hiring even(elimination rounds) on 23rd Nov'19...I think I did fairly well in all the interviews but the BR(aced the first 2 technical rounds and the HM round,made 1 mistake in the coding question in BR. I don't even know if he
- Two paths diverged in the cloud Hello! I am trying to transition from an on-prem infrastructure solutions architect (6 yoe TC $140k) to a SA for either AWS or GCP. Both have operations here in LA. I got all the way to an on-site with Amazon for an Enterprise Solutions Architect role but didn't get the job. Since the interview I'v
- How to tell manager my pay is not at par with Apple? Hello! I got a verbal offer from Apple a year ago which went nowhere because the req was not approved by the Sr VP at Apple. They said they hired someone else before me who got the req. It was a bummer to me as it happened after i got the verbal offer and negotiated. Anyway, I have moved on to Amazo
- Not eligible for rehire at Amazon This is what I found out about me from a friend who is a manager at Amazon. I worked for Amazon in 2006 for a year and left as my manager wasn't happy with my performance. Since then I could never apply again until my friend had a position and wanted me to go through the process. He discovered I am
- Avoiding interview jitters YoE - 2 Worked in Amazon for 2 years straight out of college with no prior industry experience except the internship. In my first year, I was sexually harassed by a senior SDE (who later moved to a different team) and mentally harassed by my manager who was best friends with this person. Both these
- 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
- No Response After Onsite Invitation (Amazon Luxembourg) I'm a soon-to-be graduate located in North America. I applied in late-September for various positions in Europe and North America, completing the Europe OA1/OA2/OA3 in mid-October. This week I received an invitation to an onsite interview (SDE1) at the Amazon office in Luxembourg. The email was fai
- Google L3 vs Amazon L5 First of all, thank you all for creating such an awesome community! From the last few weeks, I have been spending more time on Blind than on any other social sites :) About me: I am currently pursuing MS CS in one of the top US universities and will be graduating soon. This summer I interned at Goo
- Amazon to FB - how common is down or up leveling I know Amazon L5 is equivalent to Facebook IC4 (I'm not eng). How common is it to go from Amazon L5 to IC3 (downlevel), IC4 (lateral), or IC5 (promo)? Do they determine level based on interview performance, or do you get slotted into a level before you begin the process?
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and industry lounge. - Next move after accepting a lowball offer from Google? I didn’t have leverage when negotiating with Google. I accepted an l3 offer with 175 TC, 3 yoe. I desperately needed to leave Amazon, so I’m happy to have the lifeline and ofc I’m excited that it’s Google, but also after spending a few months on this app I’m finding it hard to be really thrilled. I
- Apple employees: Do you get callbacks from hedge funds? I want to optimize internship interviews at top hedge funds like JS/Citadel/TS for next summer (2021), and I’m worried I made a mistake turning down Amazon for Apple for this summer (2020). I go to a top 4 CS school, and from what I’ve seen here, Amazon + 3.7 gives you interviews from Citadel and Tw
- Interview Prep these days is a huge mountain to climb with invisible peak I have been a passive interviewee. I randomly prepare 5-6 interview questions before an interview and depend on presence of mind/luck to go to next stage. I obviously haven't got any offers but did make it to two onsites. Recently I decided to do this the right way once for all. I was looking at in
- Consulting vs Tech role in FAANG Looking for suggestions/opinions: I currently work as a Data Engineer(DE) at a Fintech startup and my long term goal is to become a CDO. Keeping that in mind, would it make more sense to go into Tech consulting to get breadth of experience by moving to tech consulting or move to a FANG company to
- 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
- Much love to Blind (a PgM success story) I know a lot of ppl on here love to shit on Blind and say how toxic it is, but truth is, without this community many of us wouldn't know the success we have today. I'm way overdue for posting my thanks on here, and tell you guys that I'm so thankful for all your posts, rants, tips, and thoughts. I L
- Would do anything for referrals Happy Friday everyone, After completing my Masters from CS I got a job in D.C. Unfortunately, despite having some of the best colleagues to work with the upper management at my company sucks to the core. For my first H1B attempt after getting all the documents from me the HR lady calls me in to of
- Sharing a lot of information from my recent interviews (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc) Since I am going to delete Blind soon, thought I would share offer details to give back to the community before I left. I got some help on here about interviews, negotiations and team selection, so I hope this info is useful to someone. The information is from a few months ago. Some background info
- Google Intern : Time to get a host match for Summer 2020 SWE internship I have my 3rd interview tomorrow and have an internship offer from Salesforce expiring this week. I might get an extension of 1/2 more weeks. The recruiter said they will do all they can to get my interview feedback as soon as possible. May I know, if it's possible to get a team match in a week or
- Mad about Google and Facebook I've around 2 years experience in soft dev and have failed Google phone screen twice and fb's once. Not just failed but did terrible in all 3 interviews. I did go to onsite for other top companies like Microsoft, Amazon n LinkedIn but didn't perform great. I have both my bachelors and masters in co
- 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
- GOOGLE PROJECT AND PROCESS MANAGER INTERVIEW Hi everyone, I am a 2nd year MBA student from a top 30 school and spend my summer working with amazon as a Senior TPM within their retail and ecommerce arm. I am not going back to amazon full time(No return offer) I just started my second year of MBA and got the call for an interview with the Goo
- vote Am I studying/leetcoding too much? I've been studying algo + DSA on and off for a while, but the last 2 months I've been actively applying/networking and now interviewing with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Bloomberg. Since september I have just been going HAM on leetcode, algoexpert, recently algopro, and techinterviewpro. I work fu
- How to get to next level in Google/FB from Amazon L5 SDE? I have heard this many times that Google downlevels people coming from Amazon. I am L5 SDE in Amazon with total 6 years of experience (4.5 years in Amazon out of that). I don't want to wait for promotion in my current team as it is flaky situation due to shitty manager and work. Switching teams is a
- Amazon L6 Sr. UX Designer Onsite Interview Next Week So I passed the 2 phone interviews and will be going out to Bellevue, WA to interview next week. I was given a doc about how to present my portfolio and it seems simple enough. I am excited to move to a company of scale but I honestly hear some gnarly stuff about Amazon, but is that specific to ce
- I want to know more about Amazon I'm going to start working in Amazon AWS soon. I read a lot of negative posts here and really want to hear anything good and inspiring from Amazonians, because I like the idea of LPs and found interviewers being good and interesting people Any tips how to fit the team and earn the trust fast? any
- How much should I ask for Facebook and Lyft? Got phone calls from both companies and they both extended offers. They are working on comp right now. Wondering how much I should be looking for. Super thankful to be in this situation! SWE 4 yoe Lyft interview went very well (don’t know level yet, but probably high T4 low T5) Facebook is going to
- OCI offer IC2 Received a verbal offer from Oracle OCI. TC: 290k (170k base, 9k RSUs vesting over 4 years) Location: bay area total years of experience: 5.5 (3 years before masters and 2 .5 years at Amazon after masters) current level at Amazon: SDE2 I am preparing for more interviews but it might take longer
- Amazon | leadership principles | star format or story ? Hello all , For amazon interviews that are around leadership principles , recruiter advice is to focus on STAR format. Does this mean that when you answer the question, you call out the section before going in detail ? Situation was ... task at hand was ... action I took ... result of the acti
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and industry lounge. - link Google Seattle L4 range Asked my recruiter what the range is for L4 at Google is, and he responds 168-190 TC, which doesn't really match what I'm seeing here or on levels.fyi. What's going on? I have a Amazon SDE1 offer (I got downleveled in the interview..) for 180 which I didn't think was going to be competitive, but I t
- How to transition from small companies to bigger ones ? From 80k to 120k PM roles I think I went to 20 interviews in the past 2 years. Never got the job. I get approached on LinkedIn by recruiters for jobs at companies like wayfair, bed bath etc. My experience is at small companies where I do everything, built websites, edi integrations, account management for 30+ channels like
- Principal Solution Architect @AWS, Singapore I’m going through Principal Solution Architect interview at AWS, Singapore. My current TC is 150k SGD, with 15 years experience. Can you guys throw some light on how much I can expect for this role (if I’m offered)?
- vote Stay In NY or Move To Seattle - 125k More Post Tax My wife (4 YOE) works for a bank with a TC of ~200k as a PM and I (5 YOE) make ~300k at Uber. Both currently in NYC. Likely not relevant, but JIC, I have a MS in CS (from a top 20) and she has a BS in Info Tech (from an Ivy). She recently got an offer (no numbers yet) for a role at Amazon as a sen
- Entering tech at 40. What's my best option? I'm retiring from the Navy (submarine officer) in a few months, and am about to finish up with my Masters in Data Science from JHU. I have an old BS in Computer Science, and another Masters in Eng Mgmt (Old Dominion). I am looking at a few different options and want to know how I should best spend m
- vote Happy but possible visa issues I am pretty happy at Credit Karma with my manager and growth and all. My manager is pretty cool at CK, perks are nice, annual stock refresher starting this year. WLB is very good (chill team). I have 2 H1B chances left and CK really can't do much if I am unlucky both the times & some companies won'
- Google vs Amazon Alexa AI vs Uber Freight vs Microsoft Got offers from those 4 companies. Advice needed. PhD 2.5 yoe with some ML background. Google L4, MTV, still matching the team. Potential teams Google ads infra, cloud data center supply chain optimization, still exploring more. Amazon Alexa AI, Boston, Applied Scientist L4 (interviewing for L5,
- Amazon Go SDE Interview How are the interviews for the Amazon Go team? It's for a position that requires 6+ months of experience (so not new grad but not experienced).
- Made up a story on behavioural interview and regret it I had a behavioural interview with Amazon and they asked the following question "what have you learned in your free time that helped you at your job"? Like, you know, every book that I've read was useful, but they asked for some specific example. I was stuck and decided to make up a story on the fly