Hopefully this will help some people. The rankings are: shit tier, mid tier, top tier. Shit tier: - AWS: The worst WLB. PIP factory. Employs dev-ops rather than real software engineers. Toxic cut-throat banana environment. - Alexa: Sinking ship. Toxic cut-throat banana environment. Sweatshop onl...Read more
Really interesting to see how App Store rankings change over the holiday. Fitbit #1, Alexa #4, lots of VR apps and games moved up, all the major social networks still in the top *except* Pinterest which crashed to #64 (wtf?). Uber down at #77 (expected since no one working just hanging at home). Bi...Read more
FYI - FAAAM stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft Big papa Microsoft is touching $2T soon. And I'm glad my TC is touching $500k L65+. The great part? I work 30 hrs/week, have zero work stress and get so much time off every month I have friends at Linkedin, who ...Read more
Saw this on LinkedIn. Copypasta: -Telegram and Signal, privacy-first comms apps, are #1 and #2 on the app stores currently, knocking out WhatsApp. A global trend. -At one point today, Newsmax and OANN apps (“alternative” news networks) were outpacing CNN in the stores. -Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey fr...Read more
Spent 4 years working in different teams across retail, ads and Alexa. Some lessons and experiences. 1. Your experience is very manager and skip dependent. I was lucky to have managers who were good human beings - not all were good leaders. 2. Any role can be tagged as a PM role in Amazon - in fa...Read more
I had a lyft onsite for SWE ML last week. Here's how it went. 1. 90 mins round. A Leetcode medium to be coded and submit the code via email immediately to the interviewer at the end of 90 mins. I could code it up, explain the solution and ran the attached test cases. Went well. [I forgot to handle ...Read more
I wanted to share my experience, it has ben some time I left Amazon but never shared this on public Blind channel. Many of the things I will say may identify me, but I give a damn. I joined Amazon as L5 Research Scientist, Bay Area in the Alexa team working on screen devices. I wanted to work on c...Read more
I recently had an on-site interview at Google and some of the rounds seem to have went well, while others not so well. I think the two rounds with female interviewers didn't go well and they asked me pretty open-ended questions : 1. Give an algorithm to find the vertex cover of an undirected graph. ...Read more