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> Pro tip if you're working at Amazon: if you get a PCS with no additional grant and no base increase, you're on the development list. Find another job, or do something amazing.

Allegedly, the only sure-fire way of knowing if you are on Focus/Dev list is if you ask your manager point-blank about it and they have to respond with the truth.

Nobody will ever get documents that proves as that is confidential information. If you want anecdotal evidence, you can check Blind.

> When we've all had our time with the candidate, we meet back up to discuss. And at the end, the Bar Raiser- not the HM- makes the decision.

Either you haven't been part of the panel in a while or you haven't worked for Amazon. BR's responsibility is not to make the sole decision but help the panel achieve consensus. This is very clear in the interview training.

> Managers simply cannot hire people just to fire them because they do not have the final say in who gets hired and who doesn't. They can offer an opinion, the same as all the other 4-5 interviewers in the round, and then the bar raiser makes the final decision.

Having been part of debriefs, this is not correct. Bar Raiser is there to help the panel make a decision, not be the sole decision maker.

They may not do that because they are more risk averse than WSB. WSB can distribute losses over individuals and can tolerate, hedge funds probably can't. And it goes without saying - WSB can remain retarded longer.

Not quite accurate.

It's - WSB can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent.

And a few Pokemon ones too with Emerald at the top of that list.

Indeed. The starting salaries of fresh grads in (Wipro/Infosys/TCS/etc.) has been stagnant at INR 300,000 to INR 350,000 / year for the last 10-15 years. Converted to USD this is: ~ 4000 - 4700 / year.

20 USD / hour * 8 h/day * 21 days/month * 12 months = ~ 40,000 USD / year.

Of course, experienced ones don't receive that might higher salary either. About 5 years of experience would probably get you around double to triple the starting salary.

>Bad interviews make for bad hires. Bad hires can cost a company more than not hiring at all.

But is that really true? There are plenty of companies who take a Fire Better approach (Amazon, Netflix to name a few) who seem to be doing just fine.

I'm not sure how exactly it works but if I had to guess, the non-local talent would have fudged resumes showing they had the relevant experience. It's not like the relevant Labour departments would actually do the background check on hired candidates. All the companies/consultancies need to do is to show that they couldn't find a relevant candidate locally to satisfy the sponsorship requirements.

Note that I'm not just talking about US. Most countries in Europe have the Labour Market tests requirement before a foreigner can be sponsored for the position.

Some are also designed to be impossible to satisfy so that they can bring non-local talent to satisfy Labour Market tests. Not sure if it is in this case, but there have been plenty of such cases in the past.

Your questions are answered at:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPStj2ZuXug&t

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSTTFS8Uco

And more such videos at PBS SpaceTime. A fair warning though that that is a rabbit hole and likely to consume a lot of your hours/days to get through.

It's clear that you are trying to sell something here. Might as well be obvious about it. Direct marketing works best in some cases (and definitely yours going by your other posts).

Not entirely true. See: https://www.mondaq.com/india/contract-of-employment/614370/e...

Not sure why this is being downvoted. This advice is far more useful than OPs.

Be careful of anyone claiming to be an expert on anything, especially on an anonymous forum - even if that forum has in general higher quality opinion.

And the OP does not mention Vitamin K2 at all. How does anybody who claims to have done a Masters on Vitamin D not mention K2?

https://www.sens.org : Solving the problem of aging and diseases of aging. Watch a few interviews of Aubrey de Grey to get a better idea of the possibilities of their research. Though this would come under the "to watch" not for the immediate future but for the next decade or two.

If I opt-out and make my profile non-public, what kind of information in the profile will still be public?

Because, in the "Visibility" link in the profile builder says: Your public profile will be invisible and will not appear in public search engines. This simplified version of your Triplebyte profile showcases your technical achievements based on actual skills, not pedigree (it does not contain your score details, job status, or preferences). Turn your visibility “ON” in order to share your unique Triplebyte profile URL on job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, and other platforms.

However, "Learn More" says the URL will be inaccessible when not Public. So, which is it?

The only Podcast app worth using.

I hope Google understands the slippery slope they are treading and its implications and consequences.

When I was looking for opportunities in Europe (specifically tech hubs - Berlin, Munich, Dublin, Amsterdam but not London) few months back, I had cold-applied on the respective Company portals to about 100-120 different Software Dev roles.

My resume was definitely good enough to be pass the HR screening at Google/Amazon/Microsoft (as they did get selected locally), and yet the ones that I heard back from and agreed to give me a phone screen numbered in single digits (about 8 - Uber, Stripe and a few more). I was also in the high-skilled category and wouldn't have a problem getting the respective visas. And I did not clear for even 1 onsite. It's just that the competition is just greater these days.

Not quite: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/march-2020/rese...

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Maybe, depends on the work profile.

Willing to relocate: Yes to Europe. Will consider US.

Technologies: Embedded systems (mostly C, some C++), Cloud Backend Microservices (mostly Go, some Java Spring Boot), Security protocols - IPSEC, TLS and VPN in general. Experience with standard cloud tech - Kubernetes, Docker, Redis/Hazelcast, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Cassandra etc.

Resume/CV: Can email on request. Gist of it - About 7 years of experience with a Product Company in Fortune 100, working on Embedded Systems as well as Cloud Backend in a Microservices architecture. Most recently, built multiple backend microservices at scale and looking for Cloud backend roles - preferably in Go/Java but open to learning others.

Had phone screen with Google (was the absolute first interview scheduled after many years, did not go as well as I'd hope for). Since then, had onsite with Twitter (waiting for result) and onsite scheduled with Microsoft, Amazon and a couple of others.

If there is development work happening, then there is a tech industry. Perhaps you may consider a tech industry to only exist if it is spawning a million startups a day but that is not a view shared by the rest of the world. See: http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/global/item/how-the-tech-...

Reducing the emphasis on thinking out-loud every single one of your thoughts might have helped. I'm not the type of person who can verbalize everything and moreover, it's too slow and prone to errors. Perhaps I should have fought back and asked for the interviewer to be quiet and also let me be quiet for a while.

Also, the absolute requirement that any of your workings should be done only on the shared Google doc seems like an overkill. There are a lot of times when I wanted to quickly note down / draw something on the notebook I had but couldn't.

Just so you know, salaries in Bangalore are comparable to that of SF if adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity. If you don't believe me, feel free to look up levels.fyi for both and match the conversions through: http://salaryconverter.nigelb.me/

I have tried a milder version of this and as anyone can guess - it did not work. The supply is too much and demand not so, the organizations will always pass. Only if you can get the demand-supply to work in your favour will this work.

You just described me haha. In my Google phone screen, I fumbled around on solving an easy-moderate problem - so much so that when it ended, I felt that there was no way even I would hire me. And once it ended, I wrote the code for it in probably 10 minutes. Also, arranging it so that it was the first in the loop did not help either. The only good thing about the process was that the recruiter was nice about the whole debacle and did not make me feel too embarrassed.

> As many companies are backtracking from India...

What makes you say this?

Please see if it is possible to add Bangalore as well!

Its protected somewhat by the ~3000 steps that you need to climb down to reach it (and then climb up, most likely the same day as there is not enough space for a lot of people to stay the night at the bottom).

Not quite. Because the chance is 0%, the fact that you were able to pick the choice (with 0%) at all implies a contradiction.