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Concerned I\u2019ll drown with the scope/ramp/hours- Con: The commute sucks (50% RTO)LinkedIn (Infra)- Team and tech is less interesting but commute is short (RTO Tues-Thurs starting October)- Con: Less clear info on current state of culture- Con: I have more belief in Uber\u2019s business, not sure on LinkedIn\u2019s long term growth prospects.Interested to hear thoughts on both. Uber TC can beat LinkedIn if I negotiate, but at this level of TC I don\u2019t care muchTC: 405kYOE: 8-9---------------- PREP ----------------[Edit] Lots of people asking for prep advice, here are the deets... honestly, nothing special or anything you haven't already heard of. Just keep practicing and interviewing consistently.-- LC --Start with topics from Neetcode 150 until you feel comfortable with them. If you don't feel comfortable with a topic, do a spike for a day: read about it, solve a bunch of problems, then continue to keep it fresh by keeping it in your rotation. Once none of the problems seem particularly surprising, do random LC from the Leetcode top 100, FB top 100, etc. I mostly did mediums, the occasional hard, most of which I didn't solve in a reasonable amount of time to be honest. The main thing is taking the few minutes at the beginning to really understand the question, hash out exactly what your solution will look like, and run it by the interviewer for a change in direction in case you've gone down the wrong path.-- SD --SD interviews are a skill in themselves. Even if you have a lot of experience building distributed systems, having a consistent and reproducible system (heh) for doing these interviews is important. Use Alex Xu's second book to get the format down and refresh on a bunch of miscellaneous topics. The first book isn't nearly in-depth enough for senior or higher--maybe useful for ideas for things to practice designing. Even with the second, anything that doesn't go into enough detail--you should find a couple things every chapter, or more--write it down and research it later. Question claims the author makes. If they say \"X is a good choice here\", and they don't also answer WHY, look that thing up and make your own assessment. The interviewer may well ask you why you made that choice, and you should be able to explain that to them with an informed perspective.Once that's done, start doing \"design X\" on your own, 45-60 minutes. Then look up examples of that system and see how yours compares. If there's anything you felt unsure about, note it down and research it. You should be able to guesstimate what scale you can handle with an RDBMS and when you'd want to consider something else; you should understand WHY Cassandra comparatively performs so well with high write load (i.e. B-trees vs. LSM trees). It really helps if you find this stuff genuinely interesting; try to approach it out of personal interest rather than \"stuff to memorize\" and you'd be surprised at how often the knowledge comes up.Note that the overall idea here isn't just figuring out \"what to remember to pass the interview\", it's actually improving your knowledge and confidence.For these deeper details, consume SD talks and relevant books, such as the following:DDIA - Martin KleppmannDatabase Internals - Alex PetrovUSENIX - YouTubeInfoQ - YouTubeAlso read company blogs: FB, Netflix, Uber, etcSome talks I have noted down(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_7W4XzRgk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_7W4XzRgk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4teCbHvZw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4teCbHvZw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIvHttFjdI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIvHttFjdI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6E_B55p0E) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6E_B55p0E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO4t7G8Bmk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO4t7G8Bmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc3PPmHvrA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc3PPmHvrA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpzNAPiC0E) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpzNAPiC0E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDJBTPdaOA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDJBTPdaOA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfMH4GQWnk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfMH4GQWnk -- Behavioral --Honestly you just have to have some stories prepared and be able to speak to your experience. There's no secret here. If a HM asks you about a conflict you have at work, think of something, present the scenario, and present the solution. Overall, I'd recommend being solution and customer oriented no matter the question. I probably do the least prep for this, but did write down a number of things I could imagine coming up as well as write notes on previous projects in detail, so I wouldn't forget them, and even referenced them during interviews. Nobody seemed to mind.Even with the above I still got rejections, even for SD which is for sure my strongest. It's a numbers game, folks. Just focus on continuously improving, studying at a sustainable pace, staying consistent, and putting yourself out there.(/search/offers) #offers (/search/Offer) #Offer Evaluation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc3PPmHvrA) (Streaming a Million Likes/Second: Real-Time Interactions on Live Video) Streaming a Million Likes/Second: Real-Time Interactions on Live Video () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4teCbHvZw) (Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users) Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6E_B55p0E) (Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix) Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_7W4XzRgk) (NSDI \u201913 - Scaling Memcache at Facebook) NSDI \u201913 - Scaling Memcache at Facebook () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIvHttFjdI) (USENIX ATC \u201913 - TAO: Facebook\u2019s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph) USENIX ATC \u201913 - TAO: Facebook\u2019s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO4t7G8Bmk) (Netflix Networking: Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request Routing) Netflix Networking: Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request Routing () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpzNAPiC0E) (Scaling Instagram Infrastructure) Scaling Instagram Infrastructure () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDJBTPdaOA) (Cassandra Internals: The Read Path (Tyler Hobbs, DataStax) | Cassandra Summit 2016) Cassandra Internals: The Read Path (Tyler Hobbs, DataStax) | Cassandra Summit 2016 () YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfMH4GQWnk) (Cassandra at Instagram 2016 (Dikang Gu, Facebook) | Cassandra Summit 2016) Cassandra at Instagram 2016 (Dikang Gu, Facebook) | Cassandra Summit 2016 () YouTube Offer 1,327 Participants Select only one answer (1788856) (1788856) () LinkedIn Staff Software Engineer Seattle, WA, US \u2022 Staff TC: $510K $240K Base $230K Equity $40K Bonus - Sign-on (1788857) (1788857) () Uber Staff Software Engineer Seattle, WA, US \u2022 5b TC: $501K $250K Base $205K Equity $46K Bonus - Sign-on ... View Result (/company/Uber) @Uber (/company/LinkedIn) @LinkedIn (/company/Dropbox) @Dropbox 47 243 19K Share Related Companies (/company/LinkedIn/salaries) (LinkedIn) LinkedIn Median TC $248,651 (/company/Uber/salaries) (Uber) Uber Median TC $213,504 (/company/Dropbox/salaries) (Dropbox) Dropbox Median TC $259,375 Sort by : (/company/Yelp) () (/company/Yelp) Yelp norangee (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Why not stay at DBX? 2 Reply (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 It\u2019s a dumpster fire, no professional growth, haven\u2019t been happy for a while. I\u2019d rather leave now than job search with a layoff cohort lol 65 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox boxing \ud83e\udd4a (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 5 Don\u2019t leave us Dripbox the company channel the company channel won\u2019t be the same without you! 28 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 5 \u2764\ufe0f I\u2019ll lurk even after leaving as all good Blinders would, I just won\u2019t have new tea to offer myself!Gosh I feel like a D-list celebrity \ud83d\ude02 thanks for that! 44 View 6more replies... (/company/Splunk) () (/company/Splunk) Splunk tggjz (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Both offers seem low for staff. But LinkedIn sounds like a better option than Uber especially given that neither has a sign on bonus 27 Reply (/company/Expedia) () (/company/Expedia) Expedia Group MyxY32 (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 LinkedIn staff is Google\u2019s senior level, isn\u2019t it? 42 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Agreed @Splunk. Seems in line for LinkedIn, and low for historical Uber. They\u2019ve changed their comp bands and reduced RSU grants + front loading; I think it\u2019s a reflection of the current environment 16 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 @Expedia LinkedIn staff is like, top half of Google senior and partway through L6. I think they\u2019ve cut down on the title inflation in recent years but Staff is still a thicc band lol 22 View 5more replies... (/company/Amazon) () (/company/Amazon) Amazon git-pull (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 LinkedIn has much better wlb compared to Uber. They give you plenty of holidays as well. Uber stock may not grow as much considering the competition for gig economy and the million extra fees each local government is imposing. 72 Reply (/company/Meta) () (/company/Meta) Meta scapular (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 6 How'd LI now after msft acquisition? I heard they're still kind of under their own mgmt and wlb is better than the regular msft teams? 1 (/company/Google) () (/company/Google) Google jlkmapor (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 6 They are under their own management and WLB is fantastic. Their business is kinda unique\u2014 I hate the platform, but can\u2019t deny they have a ton of usage with no competitor in sight. Uber on the other hand is going to go through a challenging period with AVs. And their stock has been very flat 8 (/company/Marqeta) () (/company/Marqeta) Marqeta monksmurai (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Linked in Hands down 70 Reply (/company/Meta) () (/company/Meta) Meta otcogxgl (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 With LinkedIn you get better commute and WLB.With Uber you get better TC over time with refreshers and possibly better career growth.Given your priorities, LinkedIn seems to be the winner. 30 Reply (/company/Meta) () (/company/Meta) Meta otcogxgl (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Some advice on LinkedIn\u2019s interview prep will be appreciated. Especially the craftsmanship. 9 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Yeah this is kind of where I\u2019m landing. There\u2019s been less chatter about hunger games at LinkedIn vs a year ago, so I\u2019m hoping things have stabilized now\u2014I\u2019d rather take Uber if I\u2019ll be working the same hours at LinkedInThanks Meta! 6 (/company/Meta) () (/company/Meta) Meta otcogxgl (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 When you can, please share interview prep. 2 View 3more replies... (/company/Amazon) () (/company/Amazon) Amazon livefree-1 (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Just got recruiter message from LinkedIn. Do you think I can aim for staff with 7 YOE? 2 Reply (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 I believe in you, leave the bananas behind for greener pastures 20 (/company/Amazon) () (/company/Amazon) Amazon livefree-1 (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Hahahaha, I make 400K as L5 I\u2019m not depressed here 16 (/company/DoorDash) () (/company/DoorDash) DoorDash tc.peanuts (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 6 Staff at linkedin is like senior ay other companies so you can do it with 7yoe 2 View 6more replies... (/company/Salesforce) () (/company/Salesforce) Salesforce JumbaJuice (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 7 Fuck OP. Responding to people who give info about LI and Uber. But won\u2019t answer a single question about interview prep. C*nts like this at are all over Blind - take a lot but don\u2019t give anything back. 12 Reply (/company/Roku) () (/company/Roku) Roku vTfkf (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 7 Exactly. Very selfish 2 (/company/GoDaddy) () (/company/GoDaddy) GoDaddy blueberryh (Sep 8, 2024) Sep 7 Agreed. Me me me culture. 2 (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 8, 2024) Sep 7 I\u2019m going to update the post with some ideas on prep, don\u2019t worry. Decided to hang with the family today :) 2 View 3more replies... (/company/Flexport) () (/company/Flexport) Flexport dndh4o (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Honestly the commute is plenty reason to choose LinkedIn itself. My commute went from wfh/10 minutes to office any time I want, to 45 minutes each way 5 days a week and I'd value that at 75k-100k 19 Reply (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Yeah the commute is definitely a concern for me, about 40 minutes each way. That\u2019s time you don\u2019t get back!I\u2019d be less concerned if the WLB were good, but I hear mixed things. Seems team dependent, and either great or terrible 5 (/company/LinkedIn) () (/company/LinkedIn) LinkedIn run[in] (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 5 () 22 Reply (/company/Walmart) () (/company/Walmart) Walmart ml_data (Sep 6, 2024) Sep 6 @run are you still at LinkedIn? Like (/company/LinkedIn) () (/company/LinkedIn) LinkedIn hdh86h (Sep 7, 2024) Sep 6 It\u2019s team dependent. I like my work and team \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f 1 (/company/LinkedIn) () (/company/LinkedIn) LinkedIn pfleoefs (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 5b > staff. You probably won't get much refreshers if any at linkedin at that tc. 14 Reply (/company/Dropbox) () (/company/Dropbox) Dropbox Dripbox\ud83d\udca6 OP (Sep 5, 2024) Sep 4 Gotcha, I\u2019m guessing there\u2019s a target middle-of-band TC that they try to adjust to? Do you know what that is for Staff? 5 (/company/LinkedIn) () (/company/LinkedIn) LinkedIn ytredfgf (Sep 6, 2024) Sep 6 +1 to pfleoefs. mid point TC for staff is 420k ish and you are way above that. unless you get exceeds ratings don\u2019t expect any refreshers. refreshers aren\u2019t great either so setting the expectations. Like (/company/LinkedIn) () (/company/LinkedIn) LinkedIn slimp (Sep 6, 2024) Sep 6 Midpoint for staff is not 420k, it\u2019s 450k. Also that\u2019s for apps, not infra which would be higherI agree refreshers at LinkedIn are hit or miss. Depends on many factors. I got 150k refresher this cycle as exceeds staff 2 View 13more replies... 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For me, WLB > career growth > TC. I\u2019m engaged and like to do good, focused work during normal hours, but I don\u2019t like being pressured to work a million hours a week to avoid PIP.\n\nUber\n- Team is growing, high value area\n- Con: was told it will be very busy, minimum (?) 50 hours/week for the foreseeable future. Concerned I\u2019ll drown with the scope/ramp/hours\n- Con: The commute sucks (50% RTO)\n\nLinkedIn (Infra)\n- Team and tech is less interesting but commute is short (RTO Tues-Thurs starting October)\n- Con: Less clear info on current state of culture\n- Con: I have more belief in Uber\u2019s business, not sure on LinkedIn\u2019s long term growth prospects.\n\nInterested to hear thoughts on both. Uber TC can beat LinkedIn if I negotiate, but at this level of TC I don\u2019t care much\n\nTC: 405k\nYOE: 8-9\n\n---------------- PREP ----------------\n\n[Edit] Lots of people asking for prep advice, here are the deets... honestly, nothing special or anything you haven't already heard of. Just keep practicing and interviewing consistently.\n\n-- LC --\nStart with topics from Neetcode 150 until you feel comfortable with them. If you don't feel comfortable with a topic, do a spike for a day: read about it, solve a bunch of problems, then continue to keep it fresh by keeping it in your rotation. Once none of the problems seem particularly surprising, do random LC from the Leetcode top 100, FB top 100, etc. I mostly did mediums, the occasional hard, most of which I didn't solve in a reasonable amount of time to be honest. The main thing is taking the few minutes at the beginning to really understand the question, hash out exactly what your solution will look like, and run it by the interviewer for a change in direction in case you've gone down the wrong path.\n\n-- SD --\nSD interviews are a skill in themselves. Even if you have a lot of experience building distributed systems, having a consistent and reproducible system (heh) for doing these interviews is important. Use Alex Xu's second book to get the format down and refresh on a bunch of miscellaneous topics. The first book isn't nearly in-depth enough for senior or higher--maybe useful for ideas for things to practice designing. Even with the second, anything that doesn't go into enough detail--you should find a couple things every chapter, or more--write it down and research it later. Question claims the author makes. If they say \"X is a good choice here\", and they don't also answer WHY, look that thing up and make your own assessment. The interviewer may well ask you why you made that choice, and you should be able to explain that to them with an informed perspective.\n\nOnce that's done, start doing \"design X\" on your own, 45-60 minutes. Then look up examples of that system and see how yours compares. If there's anything you felt unsure about, note it down and research it. You should be able to guesstimate what scale you can handle with an RDBMS and when you'd want to consider something else; you should understand WHY Cassandra comparatively performs so well with high write load (i.e. B-trees vs. LSM trees). It really helps if you find this stuff genuinely interesting; try to approach it out of personal interest rather than \"stuff to memorize\" and you'd be surprised at how often the knowledge comes up.\n\nNote that the overall idea here isn't just figuring out \"what to remember to pass the interview\", it's actually improving your knowledge and confidence.\n\nFor these deeper details, consume SD talks and relevant books, such as the following:\n\nDDIA - Martin Kleppmann\nDatabase Internals - Alex Petrov\nUSENIX - YouTube\nInfoQ - YouTube\nAlso read company blogs: FB, Netflix, Uber, etc\n\nSome talks I have noted down\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_7W4XzRgk\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4teCbHvZw\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIvHttFjdI\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6E_B55p0E\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO4t7G8Bmk\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc3PPmHvrA\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpzNAPiC0E\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDJBTPdaOA\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfMH4GQWnk\n\n-- Behavioral --\nHonestly you just have to have some stories prepared and be able to speak to your experience. There's no secret here. If a HM asks you about a conflict you have at work, think of something, present the scenario, and present the solution. Overall, I'd recommend being solution and customer oriented no matter the question. I probably do the least prep for this, but did write down a number of things I could imagine coming up as well as write notes on previous projects in detail, so I wouldn't forget them, and even referenced them during interviews. Nobody seemed to mind.\n\nEven with the above I still got rejections, even for SD which is for sure my strongest. It's a numbers game, folks. Just focus on continuously improving, studying at a sustainable pace, staying consistent, and putting yourself out there.\n\n#offers #Offer EvaluationStreaming a Million Likes/Second: Real-Time Interactions on Live VideoYouTubeScaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion UsersYouTubeScaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @NetflixYouTubeNSDI \u201913 - Scaling Memcache at FacebookYouTubeUSENIX ATC \u201913 - TAO: Facebook\u2019s Distributed Data Store for the Social GraphYouTubeNetflix Networking: Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request RoutingYouTubeScaling Instagram InfrastructureYouTubeCassandra Internals: The Read Path (Tyler Hobbs, DataStax) | Cassandra Summit 2016YouTubeCassandra at Instagram 2016 (Dikang Gu, Facebook) | Cassandra Summit 2016YouTubeSelect only one answerLinkedInStaff Software EngineerSeattle, WA, US \u2022 StaffTC: $510KUberStaff Software EngineerSeattle, WA, US \u2022 5bTC: $501KRelated CompaniesHide company name0 credits left" ], "output": "readability/", "pwd": "/data/archive/1732770971.004682", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2024-11-28T05:16:26.884765+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "screenshot": [], "singlefile": [], "title": [ { "cmd": [ "/usr/bin/curl", "--silent", "--location", "--compressed", "--max-time", "60", "--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/{VERSION} (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/)", "https://www.teamblind.com/post/Uber-5b-vs-LinkedIn-Staff-Offers-NCsy5Y61?utm_source=share&utm_medium=normal&from=share_link" ], "cmd_version": "8.10.1", "end_ts": "2024-11-28T05:16:26.365444+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "Uber (5b) vs LinkedIn (Staff) Offers | Offer Evaluation - Blind", "pwd": "/data/archive/1732770971.004682", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2024-11-28T05:16:26.237873+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "wget": [] }, "icons": null, "is_archived": true, "is_static": false, "latest": { "archive_org": "TimeoutExpired: Command '['/usr/bin/curl', '--silent', '--location', '--compressed', '--head', '--max-time', '60', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/{VERSION} (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/)', 'https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.teamblind.com/post/Uber-5b-vs-LinkedIn-Staff-Offers-NCsy5Y61?utm_source=share&utm_medium=normal&from=share_link']' timed out after 60 seconds", "dom": "output.html", "favicon": "favicon.ico", "git": null, "media": "media/", "pdf": null, "screenshot": null, "singlefile": null, "title": "Uber (5b) vs LinkedIn (Staff) Offers | Offer Evaluation - Blind", "warc": null, "wget": null }, "link_dir": "/data/archive/1732770971.004682", "newest_archive_date": "2024-11-28T05:16:52.772407+00:00", "num_failures": 1, "num_outputs": 8, "oldest_archive_date": "2024-11-28T05:16:13.225050+00:00", "path": "/post/Uber-5b-vs-LinkedIn-Staff-Offers-NCsy5Y61", "schema": "Link", "scheme": "https", "snapshot_abid": "snp_01JDRK5FCVB8084B8E01N4GTYQ", "snapshot_id": "8ff658ea-840b-4603-9797-e19b6a486bd7", "sources": [ "/data/sources/1732770968-import.txt" ], "tags": null, "tags_str": "", "timestamp": "1732770971.004682", "title": "Uber (5b) vs LinkedIn (Staff) Offers | Offer Evaluation - Blind", "url": "https://www.teamblind.com/post/Uber-5b-vs-LinkedIn-Staff-Offers-NCsy5Y61?utm_source=share&utm_medium=normal&from=share_link" }