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Based in Dublin, Ireland. Left Facebook for Microsoft in December 2020. I had a friend refer me to Amazon, applied to MS and Bloomberg myself. Applied to a bunch of places around end of August/ early September: \- Microsoft (offer) \- Amazon (offer) \- Bloomberg (offer) \- Google…

I went through full interview loop at Google for L6 MLE position. This is how it went. I won’t be able to share the exact questions. Round1: ML system design, went well. Question was about designing a content moderation system. Feedback: Positive. Round2: ML system design, went v…

Last November, I got fed up with the crap culture at Boeing and decided to up my game plan for interviews. Now, I have 2 offers. Previous Role: Senior Product Manager, Boeing Commercial Airplanes  \* Background: Aerospace Engineering, MBA  \* Experience: 9 YOE (Years of…

I recently started as a data scientist at a fairly large tech company in Palo Alto, and figured I’d share the process since my background was pretty nontraditional. I was working as a financial analyst for the government, so I definitely didn't have the typical CS/ML background.…

Started my prep around October 2024 and I was consistent with the planning, efforts, applying and studying. It was painful but sweet. Applied mostly to backend/full stack roles in USA. Resources -  Coding \= Leetcode, Leetcode discuss section company specific, Leetcode explo…

Wanted to share a recent experience interviewing for a Product Marketing Manager role at InMobi — partly to vent, partly so other PMMs can avoid walking into the same trap. The assignment they gave was for a “media buying product that enables automated buying across multiple chan…

Thought I'd share some positive news! Just accepted an offer for a Senior Product Designer, and here are some things that I learned, in hopes that it might help other folks in the job market: Total search: 6 months From application → offer: 50 days Total Applications: 32 (15 refe…

Landed an L4 SWE role at Meta earlier this year. Got pretty lucky with the timing and signed before the Feb 10 layoffs lol. 2.5 YOE | $350k TC $193k base / $29k bonus / $128k stock I’d been looking for a job for 9 months before this, so this was definitely not a quick/easy search…