- Sr PM @ Amazon and Hate it i hate my current role at Amazon. i joined as a senior pm 8 months ago and struggle with knowing all the systems, design, and solutions as well as each business. I can identify gaps but struggle with how to fix them. also, so many tech stacks and silos. Suggestions on what to do? i have 14 yoe prior
- microsoft vs. finance company Hello. I have two SWE offers: one from well-known company, Microsoft after an internship there and one from financial company. Pay is about equal at both companies (msft has higher comp package). Benefits better at Microsoft as well. Issue is that I am interested the financial team’s product and n
- Took me a whole month to understand cloudformation Was working on a project that required setting up infrastructure. When I started, took so many shortcuts and was finally able to build a cfn template that worked. I was not satisfied by the process, but I succumbed to deadlines. Once the project got done I spent 3 hours everyday of my personal time
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and industry lounge. - vote Anyone else here hate scrum standups? I hate giving daily standup updates. There is so much pressure from management to say you completed some deliverable every single day. But in reality, in order to do good work, I need to sometimes just spend a whole day doing research, or meeting with other teams, or writing documentation, or learn
- Indeed is hiring | 10+ fullstack devs (open for WFH/REMOTE) Hi, We're in need of full-stack devs who lean more on the frontend. Two teams: Team 1: Java | React Team 2: Django | Python | React Strictly L2s (3.5 - 7yrs of experience, given the comp) Culture: very flexible, can wfh/remote, HIGH autonomy, very collaborative. These roles aren't posted yet.
- vote Help a new grad choose: MS (bing ads) vs. Palantir (gotham) About me: undergrad in CA, studying CS. one prev. internship at a startup. Goals: Make a lot of money in the short and long term. Work hard to start and then chill more as I have kids. Offers: (base/stock/signing) MS - max new grad apparently 110/150 over 3.5 yrs/50 =~ 167/yr over 4 yrs AI/R - Bi
- Interested in a fully remote developer role with a super cool company culture? Please pm me! We are an e-learning company, we a're a fully remote company with about 400 people and we're growing like crazy! We are a Microsoft shop with Angular front end. Our positions are interesting in that we can choose to be a Back end Developer, Front end, Database, QA, etc because we know doing full sta
- 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
- Offer from VISA Considering taking offer from VISA The position is in network processing product dev. Org in Visa and requires Java/spring skills to design microservices to migrate from old mainframe system platform for clearing and settlement systems used for funds transfers between banks Anybody have any idea
- Future Manager emailed me on my personal email id after I accepted the job offer ! 😊 I accepted an offer yesterday and to my suprise my ( soon to be ) reporting manager at the new firm sent me an email congratulating me on accepting the offer and if I wanted to ask him any questions about the product, team or role” while I wait for the hiring process to complete. I’m not sure what t
- How long is team match process at Google for L4? Any strategies to share? Today I found out that I passed HC for L4 and I move on to team match with Google. I am honestly open to a lot of teams working on full stack products ideally related to ML and in DC NY or SF areas. How long does this process take? I have a competing offer from Citadel and I want Google to try to be
- Leave Tech Lead Position and NYC for Amazon L4 Interviewed for L5 at Amazon, and I got placed at L4 in Seattle. I’m currently a tech lead for a large insurance company and am curious if it’s in my best interest to take a position two levels down from my current(tech lead -> senior eng -> eng(L4)). The position would require me to move to Seattle
- Broken that I can't get past the Applicant Tracking System - SDE I am a Software Developer with 4 years of professional experience. Also holds a MS in CS degree. Developed Full Stack Web applications single handedly. I feel broken that I can't get past the Applicant Tracking System. I have good grip on DS and Algo. The place I am working as an intern is closing
- What to do about senior coworker who threw me under the bus? Upper management wants feature X. I propose architectures A, B and C, with C being my last choice due to its crudeness and unnecessary complexity. (But my manager and a manager one level above him had originally suggested it.) The senior coworker and the manager two levels above us pick C during th
- vote Compensation vs Team Fit Hey Blind, I find myself in an interesting position. I'm not growing in my current role and didn't see any teams with open headcount I was interested in. So I started interviewing. A few weeks ago, a team I've long been interested in got headcount so I reached out and its a fit. This team checks
- Am I underpaid? I make 80k living in Los Angeles with not so fantastic benefits. I have a BS in Comp Sci from a fairly highly ranked university (top 50). I have worked remotely for a small company since I graduated for a little over a year on a team of 3 (myself and two superiors). Since I am remote I was not given
- 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
- Scraping bots DDoSing website I'm at a smallish company that is running into issues with someone scraping all of our products on our store. It's at this point a huge part of our bandwidth and we've tried a lot of different tactics to block them but they're always managing to bypass whatever it is. We wouldn't care if they were d
- Thinking of joining startup Background: Im a full stack react/node developer, 3+ YOE. My current contract position in Los Angeles is ending in the next couple of months, current salary is at 130k. Got an offer at an early stage startup TC: 115K + 0.5% equity + benefits. I actually really like the product the company is buil
- Netflix compensation by skills It seems like Netflix compensation can vary greatly depending on the skills, even for engineers with the same exact years of experience and performance. Can folks who work/ed at Neflix comment or pm me with their specialty and a tc range? Especially if you come from Facebook with a php/hack backgro
- 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
- too much “startups” is affecting my career options I’ve been the last ~8 years working in early stage small startups mostly as fullstack, building MVPs, helping on finding product-market fit quickly by fast hacks (barely changing my tech stack so I can move fast), and all that jazz. Now that I need a real and stable salary, I’ve started to look into
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and industry lounge. - 3yoe in marketing - anything for me in Atlanta? Full stack marketer (adwords, inbound/hubspot, paid socia, product mktg, creative, partnerships, events, PR) with 3yoe leading US marketing of UK cybersecurity company (some nonprofit marketing experience too). Looking to move to Atlanta from Charlotte, fiancé got a really good offer in finance. Cu
- How can I make a switch into the Solutions Architect role at AWS, Azure or GCP from the software engineer role? I am a software engineer with 9+ years of full-stack(heavier on the backend though) experience. I want to make a switch into the Solutions Architect role in a technology product company like AWS, GCP or Snowflake. I do not have any client-facing experience. How can I do that?
- 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
- Hiring!! Friends if any of you are looking for relocation opportunities(Japan/Singapore/India) then do send me your CVs in PM. We are hiring in bulk Full stack developer, automation qa engineer, product managers, program mgrs and UX designer from top notch companies. Helping the needy ones.
- What’s better for your career if you eventually want to be a founder? I’ve been a SWE for about 1.5 years and really like distributed systems and a lot of DevOps aspects. I find building webapps and other pure SWE tasks to come pretty easy and scaling and systems to be pretty challenging (intellectually stimulating). If I’m being honest I really don’t see myself wan
- Imposter Syndrome I find everyone else smarter than me. Sometimes it feels like I am not able to see the obvious things or to use technical terms like my colleagues. I have a good degree and I was good at studies all my life. Here at work no one has ever complained about my work but I keep feeling I am not doing thin
- Teammate's politics making the workplace shitty I work in a great team, it's fun to work with and spend 7-8 hours of my life. However recently some issues have started coming up in the team and team dynamics are changing So we are a team of 7 devs, one of them is a tableau dev (girl causing the problem) who has been assigned the task of doing th
- Pivoting into a completely different field after 8 years of engineering? Here's my path: Full Stack (3 years) -> Lead(3.5 years) -> Solutions Archtect (1.5 years) Something that's has been on my mind these past few months is where do I want to go or be in the next ten years, and I don't think it's coding. At every role I've worked at, I've made it a mission to involve t
- Recently started great new job but my depression is severely affecting motivation and performance 4 months ago, I landed a sw dev position making 100k TC, which is I hear is very reasonable for San Diego, and 30% more than my previous job. The company culture is great, tech stack is cutting edge, and it's nice that our products are undoubtably helping people. Teammates are friendly and intellige
- FB Interview Hello guys, I have been contacted by FB for an interview for a senior dev role( they did not tell me which one yet). I have 13 YOE( 3 in US working for a product). Although in 3 years I have been promoted twice and an internal champion here(leading the product tech and development - full stack in An
- vote Facebook team matching. Confused. Need help. I have a react, JavaScript, and node.js background, full stack engineer with 3 yoe. I wanted to work on the core product that people use when they go to Facebook.com, but a lot of the code is using php server side rendering to render the front end, instead of using react. Should I choose a team that
- vote Help A New Grad Evaluate Offers Hey Blinders, I have really appreciated being able to gather insights from folks with more experience in tech here to help me along my own journey in the industry, so, first of all, thank you! With all the advice etc. I've gotten on here and elsewhere, I'm now in the process of deciding between 4 g
- Audible Teams taking Interns? Hi, I recently received an interview invitation with Audible, and was asked to choose a team to apply to. Some of them include: Player, Library, Consumer Domain(Shopping;Discovery;Accounts), iOS, Android, Homestead, ACX, Content Systems, ADAM, dataX, International, Financial Systems, Enterprise, Es
- Moving from AWS to Microsoft Azure. Any advice ? I am moving to Azure for an SDE2 role . Does anyone have pointers for navigating the landscape, any pre-work in terms of understanding the tech stack , what to be mindful of .. etc ? I have been familiar with Microsoft’s products and business to a normal extent, but if any of the Blind community c
- Affected by Capital One Layoffs? Zillow Group is Hiring Senior SDEs Sorry to learn of the layoffs at Capital One in Seattle. I am looking for Full Stack Engineers with Open Source experience to help with our new product Zillow Offers. Zillow Group is the best company culture I have worked for. If interested. Drop me a message. All the best, Tom
- New grad SDE 1 looking for a team in Seattle Hi, starting at Amazon in July as a new grad SDE 1. HR has told me org placement won't happen until 90 days before my start date. Looking to proactively find a team that I can work well on. Background is in full stack web and data science. Prefer to be on a customer-facing product/team with a gre
- Groundbreaker hiring for engineering roles in Chicago Amazing office, culture & benefits, hot real estate tech market / post PMF, startup with a small team and hiring in engineers in Chicago HQ. Looking for front end react engineers and one lead full stack engineer PM me!
- How learn how full-stack systems interact My underanding of how technologies interact is limited. Idk why Ruby on rails is a necessary component. Idk when something should be processed on the browser vs requested from a service. Are there comprehensice resources to get a wholelistically view of how/why an entire full stack product is arch
- Front end engineering career options Hello front end engineers of Blind! Expecting lead FE offers from a couple startups. Keeping the names out of this because I want to solely focus on the work aspect here. A: One is growth team in a consumer product company. Focus will be on feature development and mentoring existing engineers. B:
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and industry lounge. - Lyft vs Cruise - Internship Got internship offers offers at both. Cruise would be the product engineering team, Lyft won't give a team until later. Both are @15b valuation but Cruise seems to be growing faster. Comp is comparable at both(for internship, full-time I think Lyft wins). Hoping to hear thoughts on the work, caree
- Android Dev - May get laid off in next 2-3 months. What TC should I be aiming for at my next company? I received a BS in Computer Science in 2014. I've worked at 4 companies now. All of them "start ups" as an Android Dev/Engineer. I do have skills as a full stack dev but my bread and butter has always been Android since I started it as a hobby in 2010. Job hopped a bit until my last two start ups.
- Hiring SDE2s in Seattle for a new AWS product I am hiring SDE2s for a new team in AWS in Seattle making products from scratch. There is no legacy code. Our stack is serverless and built on 100% native AWS. Direct measurable business impact and lots of interest and internal customers already lined up. We offer excellent relocation packages. Mes
- Is it good to gain experience on C++/Assembly for your career? I have been doing full stack development till now. Java, C# and JavaScript is what I have experience in. I got an opportunity where I could work on core CS fields like interpreter, compiler, jit, memory management, profiling for a very popular product. How does this kind of experience is valued and
- Lyft referral? I have a verbal offer from Uber but wanted to interview at Lyft and see what that was all about. Can anyone give me a software engineer referral? I have lots of experience with full stack development and being a tech lead. Worked on product seen by millions of people.
- Hiring software developers for AWS (Amazon) in Seattle. Relocation package offered. I am hiring software developers with more than a year of experience for a new team in AWS in Seattle making products from scratch. There is no legacy code. Our stack is serverless and built on 100% native AWS. We offer excellent relocation packages. Message me directly to find out more! Please uploa
- Genuine Advice, no trolls please... YOE - 15 as Java, includes 8 as Android. TL;DR - Not a story or experience, seeking genuine advice and take-aways. Hitting a mid-life career-crisis. Just begun LCing, have to jump onto CTCI soon. What I have seen thus far on LC, and some previous interviews with the Big-Brand Tech (FAAANGMU), some
- L4/L5 PM Interview @ Google... What to expect for technical? I have an on-site in Mountainview on Friday for a L4/L5 level PM role. I'm feeling great about every interview type except for the technical. I became a PM from the biz side, no CS background. 4 yoe. I've got a general understanding of web and mobile tech stacks, and feel fairly conversant with m
- vote Android vs. Search backend vs full stack I'm about to join a new team and I have 3 options for different roles in front of me. The first is a pure Android development role The second is a position on the search bsckend The third is a full stack position on a product team where I would own features across the backend, iOS, Android and web.