- 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.
- 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
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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
- Does chime (Skype like internal app at amazon for communication) work properly on Linux? Had phone interview with amazon. I used chime on my laptop and it just didn't work. They don't have a native client for Linux. So have to go with webapp. It work on my phone with low audio and Interviewer told me he wants me to use laptop. FML. And you can't check if that webapp is working on you
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- Feeling sad for my manager Left Amazon for a company. After joining the new company for 2 weeks, I received a much better offer from a third company (a great team I already know its people from FANG in a field I'm very interested in, and higher TC). My manager has been great (I've done lots of interviews, so can gather strong
- 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
- How to respond to recruiters when you're still prepping for interviews? Recruiter from Amazon advertising reached out, I'm interested, but I'm still prepping for interviews. Should I just say let's keep in touch or be more specific and say I'm interested but too busy to interview right now? Or go with initial phone call (is it technical?) And schedule next phone screen
- 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
- vote Am I Stagnating? 35 YO TC < 130K DC Area 3rd Tier Company Hello Blind, I've been reading blind posts for a while now. It's shown me what's possible in Tech and I find it amusing at times as well. Thank you. I'm in sort of a cross roads of my career and wanted get some feedback from fellow Blind members. Some background about me. - 10+ years of industry
- 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
- Offer Review Offer @ Cisco Base: $120k Stock: $45k Bonus: 8% Signon: $5k Current @ Startup Base: $96k 1.5 YOE Just started interviewing for my next role and got an offer from Cisco. I also have technical phone interviews lined up in the next few weeks with Airbnb, Amazon, and Oracle... but I only have a week
- another amazon assessment post disclaimer : im pretty sure amazon just changed their assessment process again like 2-3 months ago becuase everyone i talk to had a different experience. I believe i got every question right on assessment 1 i beleieve i did pretty bad on assessment 2 i got a terribly ineffience solution (linear sea
- Applying for multiple roles at Amazon Can I apply to multiple subsidiaries of Amazon and get the interview going? Or to put other way, if I fail at IMDB, would I still be considered for Amazon or AWS? TC : 250K YOE: 6
- Hows my Microsoft offer? New Grad L59 offer Location: Seattle Base: 110k Signing: 15k Stock: 70k Compared to other offers I've seen the signing and stock could both go a bit higher but I have no competing offers to negotiate with right now. Have an interview coming up with Amazon but that's the only one which could give
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and industry lounge. - Last Mile Bellevue roles? Hello. I saw a role in Amazon Last Mile but keep hearing bad things about this management. Is it still bad? Why? I think I have the background for it and its the only thing interesting me in amazon now, but don't want to waste a chance getting in if its going to be a bad interview experience. Co
- Already signed with google. Will I get blacklisted if I pull out? I'm sde2 at amazon but got an offer for L3 at google and I signed (higher comp than sde2 at amazon). I signed the offer letter (does that count as the contract? It's long and has all the conditions etc..). I then interviewed at facebook and got E5 with 1.5x the comp of google so I really want to go.
- Is this a good plan for a manager? Managing Down: 1. Be human not a recorded tape by upper management. 2. Be transparent almost every time (You cannot be transparent every time. You will know what I am saying) 3. Give space to your IC to experiment and fail and encourage them in failures. 4. Provide all kind of supports (personal/p
- 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
- vote Chase ML work, or leave for TC? TC 180, 6yoe, Seattle. I went from Systems Engineer to SDE after 2 years. Then SDE I > SDE II after another 2.5 years. Been SDE II for about 1.5 years. That SysEng experience hurts me at Amazon (waiting in line for L6 behind those more senior SDE IIs), but doesn't prevent me from interviewing for,
- Companies where I can learn and grow alot Throw em at me. Pretty sure I'm going to bomb my amazon interview so I plan on taking prep more serious, mainly targeting startups but I'm open to large companies with interesting problems preferably in the kube space as it's been pretty interesting to learn. Would really prefer companies in Bosto
- 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
- 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
- Should I grind out another 1.5 months out at Amazon for 25 stocks? I hate my team at Amazon. Have hated it for a year now. Everyday, I have to muster up all the energy i have to go to work. In march, I got tired of it and started interviewing. Got an offer from Uber in April and accepted. My next stock grant was going to be in September, so I didn't care. Unfortun
- Should I join Accenture Latvia with low TC or regional middle east company with double TC I am an Engineering Manager working currently in Egypt. I am planning to relocate to Europe or America and join a big name. I failed in some interviews in Amazon, Google, Booking and Zelando. Recently I got an offer from Accenture Latvia as an "Associate Manager" with a very low TC. I accepted th
- 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
- OCI vs AWS vs Carta age:28 no debt and not married, but was thinking buying a house current: SDE II @ AWS yoe: 2 yrs 3 months in the us (<1 yr before coming to the state) TC: base ~140k with ~30 shares/incoming years Just got promoted in Q2. Team has pretty heavy operational and work load. Great revenue product with q
- Msft to Amazon, worth it? 3 yoe at Msft, joined after college top performer 3 years across still, still, low compensation, well below market price decided to vote with my feet. prepared interview and got Amazon offer, Uber onsite gets canceled die to hiring freeze, FB and Google Seattle do not have SDE2 openings as of now
- Amazon bar raisers are a joke I have been in interview panel for like 4 years and today I’ve decided I’ll no more be taking part in the interview process at Amazon. It was the end of my patience today. Out of 5 all except the bar raiser were Inclined and the bar raiser vetoed to ‘Not Inclined’ because he felt candidate just Met
- Rejections after you think you did well ! Hi All I recently got rejected by Amazon Google Verily and some other companies . During the interviews everything looks positive and I finish coding well before time as well mostly . After that I double check with them if it’s fine and they say it’s great or perfectly ok etc .. then I get these
- Amazon Interview I was recently interviewed at Amazon for SDE. I did well in technical & system design interview but bombed LP in few rounds. Does it really going to affect the result? Also, Amazon respond within 2 days if they are gonna extend the offer but it is almost 3 days since my interview. Is there still 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
- Don't get lured like me - Scam company experience So I thought this was fairly common and industry well knew about this. But I decided to share so that people don't fall into the same situation like I was (or at least spot something down in this industry). I'm originally from non-tech field. I majored in some other engineering principles and worke
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and industry lounge. - L7 Sr SDM offer from Amazon, which team should I choose? I’ve passed L7 interviews at Amazon. I am now going through the team selection process. The team choices shared by recruiter are Fire TV, Alexa Mobile, Alexa Smart Home Platform and Freetime. Would love to hear feedback about these orgs wrt culture and growth opportunities. The final offer will
- GCP L6 TC SF, NY, Seattle @Google friends: Current TC 350+ YOE: 15 AWS SA SF Interviewing for L6 GCP SE or SA roles in SF, Seattle, NY. What's the realistic on-going rate/TC break down for L5/L6?
- 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
- 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
- Burnt out at 39 Going to work is a strrretch. Don’t feel like working for even a minute I know I can get it to FANG etc, (have been close on 1 occasion each with G and FB), but don’t feel like studying a bit ! I plan to interview at G/FB/Amazon in 2 months but at this rate it’s a goner. Thinking of FANG because “
- vote Interview for SWE at Amazon I've been reached out by Amazon for chance to SWE interview. It should be next month. I'm now still learning programming! Should I go through the process an try it ? Or better telling the recruiter that I'm not ready for now ? Thanks in advance.
- Did not get into FAANG, how soon to reapply? My current interview spree ended in failure. I did not get into FAANG not even the lower tier ones with AMZN and MSFT. Made it to onsite but did not get selected. How soon would you go on the market? Would it look weird if I am job hunting with 1mth experience in the new company? Been seeing posts
- Amazon Hiring Event I got Amazon on-site & was yet to choose a date. Recruiter called me & mentioned we have hiring event. Instead of you coming alone, come to hiring event and it will be easier interview that day. Any disadvantages while coming on hiring event compared to going alone? Does it affect leveling?
- I declined the offer from AWS. Many people will die just to get a foot into FAANG companies, this is exactly what I thought, to work in the first-tier corporation will be prestigious, that is why I applied. I completed usual prescreening, online coding test, phone interview and was invited for 5 hours interview on site, after whi