before blind. tc 142k, yoe 5, tech lead, D round startup, sf. i thought i was doing okay seriously. i bragged to my fb friends about leading a big team. then i joined blind, it opened me a whole new world. How come those faang guys made 350k? one of my fb friends is L6 and others on L4-5, but none of them shared their tc. i felt shamed seeing them any more. I started LC as suggested by blind. it was hard initially, when i implemented a heap in php. Then I noticed faang do not like php. I switched to c++ and learned built-in data structures. After a few hard interviews, i managed to get my current job. not faang, but near 200k tc. It requires traveling abroad, but perfect to me. Even my fb friends admire my position and asked for referral, when i met them again after almost 3 month. written from my new blind account, hahaha
Friends should always share TC; it may be uncomfortable but it’s the only way to make sure you’re not getting raped or your friends aren’t
it made me feel really bad, yes.
it's a really sensitive topic though, can cause strain in friendships :(
Hey Kimsoo, i can imagine my TC sounds high to you. However, that is the very fact. I won't take your reply as offense and I am open for providing referral if you are interested in. I assume you are bilingual and open to international company right?
So your world revolves around having bragging rights in front of your FB friends?
lol
Congratulations!
thank you! hope more people will get inc
Blind is having the same effect on me. I wasn’t making much working at a startup. We got acquired and now I make 6 figures which is a personal milestone for me. Then I join Blind and see people making 4x what I make etc. see leetcode mentioned everywhere. Gonna get on that and now I feel motivated to move up quickly
thanks for sharing your life as well. the job market has gone crazy, but we sre not even aware of it.
Mulesoft or quip?
Next time you interview, use Python, or, alternatively, Ruby. You have to write a lot less boilerplate code in those languages than in C++.
i could do that in php pretty quickly
PHP gets no respect, though. A majority of interviewers will respond well to Python or Ruby.
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congrats, enjoy the 33% TC bump 😀
thank you buddy!