Thank you blind

Due (in part) to all the great discussions and PMs on blind, I have received great offers from Amazon, Apple and Google recently. Blind consistently encouraged me to "leetcode", "TC or GTFO" and "vote with your feet". Thanks for that!

TC and Yoe
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Current Microsoft TC - 180
New TC - close to 350
Yoe - 7

Prep details
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Coding -
Leetcode - Easy 46, Medium - 62, Hard - 14
EPI - 3 chapters

System design -
Grokking system design - basics glossary, first 5 problems
Interviewbit - level 1 intro and problem
Designing data intensive application - Few topics eg quorum consistency, RPC.

ML -
4-5 papers on YouTube, Ads, recommeders systems and Google rules of ML blog.

After all of above, I felt I wasn't learning more and found interview questions were within my reach.

One mistake was not focusing enough on DP. Only Google asked it and I messed it up, but other interviews were strong enough for an offer.