EDIT: Wow this blew up since yesterday afternoon. I'll go through and try to answer questions. If I don't answer your question, it means I've already answered it earlier so please scroll up. Also getting rate limited by blind so will take a while to respond to everyone. COMMON QUESTIONS: TC BREAKDOWN? Base between 230-250, sign on 40-50, rest RSU. WHERE AM I GOING? Smaller public company. PREP TIPS? Blind 75 + company tagged leet code with premium. DDIA, System design interview Vol 2, Grokking, and the engineering blogs in System Design Primer GitHub. For experience questions, showcase business impact of your projects with hard numbers. If you don't remember, make reasonable estimates. AM I LYING???? no. If you think I am, you're free to do so. It doesn't affect me. - Just accepted an L6 offer. Starting after I receive my bonus at Meta. - Never been promoted in my life before, just up leveled when job hopping. Currently L5 at Meta. Always have received equivalent of Meets all at all 3 companies I've worked at. - Indian ethnicity but born and raised in USA my whole life. Attended random state school with decent but not exceptional grades. Undergrad degree only Ask me anything about anything you feel like. TC: 330K. New TC 490K YOE: 5.5 #tech #ama #career #relationships #hobbies
Personal Finance
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What do you think the Fed will do tomorrow?
Software Engineering Career
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Cleared Amazon onsite, but lowballed.
Tech Industry
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I am starting to think Chinese interviewers currently fail non-Chinese candidates on purpose.
Tech Industry
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Cute girl on the floor
Tech Industry
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Crossed a line with my boss
What does ABCD mean?
It means EFGH
basically have Indian parents but grew up in USA my whole life
Just 490k for L6? Which company
Not gonna say which company, too risky sorry. It's a well known public much smaller company on blind
Also, they barely budged on negotiation and I only had one potential competing offer so I didn't want to risk losing the offer. 490 plenty for me
L6 at what company
See response to Morgan Stanley
Some tenured l5 will suffer under you lol
You're probably not wrong lol
Ah nvm you’re not at Amazon, congrats!
Is that amazon l6? 490k is low for l6.
Nope. See response to Morgan Stanley
Even if it were it seems inline with levels.fyi? Also we dont know where he's located. What you you expect for an l6 at Amazon?
Do you feel like you’re competent as a SWE or at least can get there? Like you don’t fear getting pipped basically
I don't ever fear getting pipped and have never been close (according to my managers). On the other hand, I've never been closer than 6-12 months to promo at current roles.
Good for you bro
Thanks man. Hope you crushed your Q4 sales goals 🍻
I most certainly did 😊
No questions. Fck the system. They gave you a rigged game and you hacked it, good for you. Enjoy the money, big companies are a farce anyway. Nobody does anything and is all politics. Happy that non trust fund kids can also enjoy the party while it lasts
Thanks my friend. Cheers
was w/ u all the way till “nobody does anything”. big company ppl often work harder esp the ones promo beyond mid level
How do you feel about being ABCD? Is it better than being full desi?
I've had a pretty easy job search every time due to having US citizenship, but other than that I don't think being born elsewhere is inherently bad
Do you mention that you are a US citizen in your resume?
Hi Poser. This is your hiring manager. I put on some time on your calendar for a quick 1:1. Looking forward to our chat!
Originally declined the invite, but saw you had that rizz and now accepted. Look forward to chatting
Glad to know ur chill like that. I canceled our meeting.