If you are a lousy engineer with loud voice, and no shame at taking other ppl's credit, you will be promoted very soon.
If you are a lousy engineer with loud voice, and no shame at taking other ppl's credit, you will be promoted very soon.
Senior management don't even know who you are.
Senior management don't even care to know who you are.
Spend less time kissing up to your boss.
Let engineers with real talent lead, instead of the kiss ups or political kinds.
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
The technical interviewer went through my resume and asked me relevant technical questions on several projects. Then we moved on into some general vibration, dynamics and structural questions. Then some servo motor and vibration questions.
Machine Learning Intern
2 rounds both focusing on ML questions, mostly focused on resume. The second round was with hiring manager and also included a LeetCode question which at a medium level. The ML questions were focused on GANs, learning rate schedulers etc.
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1.email from recruiter, listed of question about basic question 2. Hire manager interview, question about the experience on resume 3. Product manager and TL interview,question about the experience on resume 4. presentation on site
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Milpitas, CaliforniaNovember 6, 2026The technical interviewer went through my resume and asked me relevant technical questions on several projects. Then we moved on into some general vibration, dynamics and structural questions. Then some servo motor and vibration questions.
Machine Learning Intern
Milpitas, CaliforniaAugust 21, 20252 rounds both focusing on ML questions, mostly focused on resume. The second round was with hiring manager and also included a LeetCode question which at a medium level. The ML questions were focused on GANs, learning rate schedulers etc.
Optical Engineer
Milpitas, CaliforniaAugust 12, 20261.email from recruiter, listed of question about basic question 2. Hire manager interview, question about the experience on resume 3. Product manager and TL interview,question about the experience on resume 4. presentation on site
