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I am a SWE (full stack) with 2.5 YOE from a Tier 1 college with tier 23 startup experience. People from Big tech, how do I get shortlisted? How to increase my observability?

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I am a SWE (full stack) with ~2.5 YOE from a Tier 1 college with tier 2-3 startup experience.
People from Big tech, how do I get shortlisted?
How to increase my observability?

People at Big Techs, how to get shortlisted(SWE)?

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I am a senior Data engineer(9YOE) and have worked on a large scale Data warehousing, Spark, Orchestration(Airflow) and visualization on AWS and Azure. I currently don't have scope for tech stack improvement in my current org and would like to learn and implement my personal projects. So far, I have been advised to learn golang and kubernetes so that I could deploy ML models in the future or even move into observability space. Any suggestions on what tech stack I should learn? I want to jump to startups in a couple of months and eventually move into a pure software engineering role. 
Already working on leetcode and practicing system design for the same.

Senior Data Engineer-Which Tech stack to upskill?

Data engineer

I work in a startup, been here for around 3 yrs. I have been applying continuously for a long time and am not even getting an interview call (Even with referrals sometimes)...
Is it my resume? But ATS parses it just fine? Maybe I have too much written in it.
I don't have a flashy college, company. That clearly hurts my chances, but what could I do now? 

I'm working on random projects I find interesting on the side, and thinking of posting some on linkedin for now. What else do you think I should do?

Advice for a tier 2-3 college SWE?

Frontend Engineer

Hi,
How to get shortlisted in top tech companies in Bangalore .
Even after getting rejected in 2nd round do I have chance to get interview calls in same company. How do I get to that level .
Is LC the sole hope?

How to get shortlisted in top tech companies?

Software Developer

Hi all, I have around 2 years of experience, and I am getting a chance to interview with Google. I am currently working on frontend, but I want to move to backend and I have been preparing for that, but with phone screen round coming up, if I tell them I have worked on Frontend, then I will definitely be considered for frontend role and if I lie there, then I might fuck up interview if they ask backend questions, any suggestions will be appreciated. What should I be doing in this case, Thank you! 
Please advise!

Interview w Google

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What are some of the tried & tested ways to get shortlist from big tech firms in Product domain ? Have applied to their portals multiple times but hardly got any response, despite good profile and experience

Best way to get resume shortlisted in big tech firms for PMs

Product Manager

Heard the job market is pretty tight for early SDE1s < 2YOE. How to make the best out of this dire situation any tips on how to atleast get a interview to showcase ur skills ? Also any good startups or product based companies hiring SDE1s to be on a look out for

SDE1s and Job switch

Hello friends 
Hope the title is self explanatory
Some context, I am a SDE - 2 with 3 yoe and my resume never gets shortlisted . 
Whatever interviews I had given were because of recruiters reaching out to me on LinkedIn. 
I’m from a Tier 1 college and have good ratings on codechef and CF 
I’m so confused seeing people talk about how they get 1-2 calls a day. 
Could someone please let me know what could be the issue? 
I apply to companies like Stripe, Postman, coin base , msft etc

How to get Resume Shortlisted

Hi,
I am a 2023 passout btech graduate. Currently I am working as a full time SDE (Full Stack) in a well established startup (8 years old , Series A funded). It's been nearly half year here.

My compensation is 10.5 lakh base + 4.5 lakh performance bonus + free lunch and snacks + Insurance (Including parents) benefits 

I am pretty good at DSA (around 2000 rating on leetcode, 4 Star at codechef in 2nd year itself, 2000+ dsa problems)

I have worked in 2 startups as an SDE intern during college days and completed 5 internships overall out of which one was a US based startup. Also, I have many publications under my name over the internet.

I had many offers when I was graduating from college.

Most of the time people say, "Hey, you have done so much so Why are you not working in a big tech". Well I always wanted to work for big tech during college days but after I started working in startups my thought process changed  as here I got the ownership of the product.

Now it has been nearly 1 year since I started working in startups. Should I give it a try for big tech now?

Would like to hear your views guys

Am I doing something wrong?

I'm actively searching for SDE-2 roles for more than 2 months now.  I have 2+ yrs of experience. From almost all the companies I'm getting rejected at resume level itself even tho I'm having relevant experience. Any tips on how to fastrack this and get interview calls?

Not getting any callbacks

One who is entering into Product role in B2B company. What should they be focusing on initial days to get well versed with the Product and what's is the scope of PMs in India in this domain for next decade?

Transitiining to PM -B2B SAAS

Product Management

Hi All,

I have 6 YOE. Initial 2.5 years I worked as Backend developer in Python, Django, AWS and Little bit JS.
After that all of my experience is in Data Engineering mostly in GCP (have few certifications as well.)
Currently I am working at Walmart.

Most of the work I do in Data side is adhoc and projects are also not upto the expectations lot of manual work is also there. I am not really enjoying my career as data engineer. Pay is good.

I am thinking to move back to Software Engineering, 
1. is it a good idea for long term? 
2. What skill should I focus on if I have to move back? 
3. Is it just the projects that I am working on making data engineer look less interesting to work ?

Data Engineering to SWE

Yoe: 2.5
Tech stack: React Native, React JS
Current: 25 base 

Will Indian startups be willing to hire for this much base in current market? If yes, will the work life balance be absolute shit?

I’m currently working at a startup, want to switch
Please help a fellow SWE. Thanks 🙏

How realistic is it to get 36 LPA base

I worked for the first 3 years of my career as an SDE at a bank. I was allocated to an internal tooling team which meant that I got no exposure to cloud technologies like AWS, architectures like microservices and frameworks like Spring Boot which are in high demand today. I wasn't even allowed a team change in that bank. To compensate for this lack of experience, I created a basic project from scratch involving these technologies. But still, my resume is not getting shortlisted at any premier company for SDE/SDE2 positions.

I would really appreciate if you guys could please suggest a way forward for me and help me out.

Thanks!

Need guidance. Please help!

Why AMA?-
New to GV. I see potential here; trying to gauge audience and perhaps I can talk about a thing or two; can definitely learn from ya’al otherwise.

Primer Qs (from some successful AMAs outside of GV)-
What tech has better future?
Is Ai going to kill our jobs?
How to increase Tc 5x, 10x, 20x+?
Startups vs big corps?

Background, Tc stuff-
Decade+ yoe
Started with <10Lpa. Crossed >10Lpm.
Life is fun and no amount of money is enough.
I’ve seen it firsthand that the investments and luxuries grow at far bigger rate than your comp, Can’t complain though.

A Staff engineer :: AMA

I am an SDE-1 at a product company for the past 1.8 years, I need help with the things / qualities I should develop so that I hopefully get promoted in the next cycle. I wish to show a lot of ownership but in our team, the work gets shared with senior engineers, so it seems or appears that we get overshadowed by them. How do I stand out and make an impact, that my manager notices?

What are the things / traits I should be showing to work towards a promotion to SDE-2

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Hello Folks,

I am a full stack dev with 2 YOE and will soon start looking for a switch. Till now I have worked on NodeJS, Express, REST, GQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Vue and Svelte. The current company is a small startup so if I want to switch into some good and stable company what should I must know like technologies, dsa, good side projects, cloud technologies?

Expectations from 2 YOE Full Stack Dev

Web Developer

Hi,
I am working as an SDE in Oracle. I am from a tier 1 college. I am quite dissatisfied with the quality of work that I am doing. I want to work in a fast pacing startup. Can anyone suggest some good startups which will accelerate my growth and has a decent culture. I want to switch in backend tech stack mainly.

List of good startups to work

I am actively giving interviews these days and one common pattern i see for big tech like MSF or WAlmart or golman, tesco
Even if you soln is fine and completed you might rejected for Coding problems due to
- you solved too quickly 
- you solved but took time and used some debugging 
- You solved but you didn’t knew the other way interviewer have seen
- Fully observation based, code running is must 
- somehow your interviewer is smart then you you’ll be rejected for sure. ( here smart is subjective***)


Pls comment out your experience!!

Pattern in Swe interview@ big tech

Happy to connect with like minded people to start learning and building together.

Been on a job break for around 2 months, joined not so great startup with 10% hike. What should be my approach now in learning to get 40-50 LPA in an year? What tech stack to move to? Please guide. Currently has 2.5 yoe with 28 base ctc.

I have been working with Infosys for past 5years(total exp) and my current salary is 20LPA CTC. I work on Apple projects and the work has become repetitive over the last three years, primarily focusing on Java, Spring, Microservices, and Elasticsearch. I really want to join a product company now, for better compensation and more engaging work, but I’m uncertain how to proceed. 
I’ve just been writing APIs and scheduled jobs, and at this point I think I know nothing beyond it. The thought of facing the interview processes of tech giants for senior roles is daunting.  
Where should I start from? How do I regain my competence?

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