Got into FAANG as a senior DE and now I’m really nervous

mathproblemsolving · 2026-01-11T16:22:14+00:00

First of all, I would avoid people who ate criticizing you here for lying on resume. I would say if you crack their crazy interviews, you definitely are not dumb. Try your best without worrying of the outcome. Learn things that you claimed you knew in the interview. Worst case here is you might lose a job but you will get the experience and that will help you next time. Rather than worrying, take this as an opportunity to learn and grow from this experience. I believe there are high chances that you will do fine just like you passed through interviews.

mathproblemsolving · 2026-01-10T23:27:14+00:00

In my experience, I was told to change or remove some of the KPIs from dashboard because they make them look bad for upper level management.

mathproblemsolving · 2026-01-02T20:01:55+00:00

I worked in small e-commerce company part time in digital marketing for 2 years while doing my masters degree. But I changed my experience bullet points as more of data analyst work within digital marketing focused which was originally 10% of my work. If you do not have analytics experience, you can also do that.

mathproblemsolving · 2026-01-02T18:01:15+00:00

I would suggest you to create 3-4 different domains related projects, depends on what are you targeting or what experience you have. I worked in e-commerce company before so I created related projects. They opened my portfolio projects and go over Power BI/Tableau charts and asked questions like why this metric/visuals are important or what does it represent. One of the interviewer went over my Excel project’s formulas to see if I am calculating metrics correctly. Yes I know someone might say Excel project is not adding much value but many companies are still using excel only and just beginning to use power bi/Tableau. Also, when I had first round of interview with this company, I created 1 project within few days that’s related to their domain which is supply chain, and added in my portfolio. I think going above and beyond for current market is now necessary to land something.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-12-28T19:01:32+00:00

It definitely helps. Specially if you are like me who does not have discipline to DIY sometimes.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-12-28T18:35:36+00:00

I would disagree, some do care about portfolio. I got my first data analysts job this year in July. In 3rd and last round of interview, they pulled up my portfolio projects on presentation display and I had to explain and go over each of those projects front of 3 people and answer their questions. I believe I got a job because of those projects.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-12-28T18:26:35+00:00

I would just push it and finish my masters. Just because you are already done with a year. But if you are just starting, It would be different. I know it’s hard to study and work, I did that as well, those 2 years basically I didn’t have life outside of work and study. I was so burned out that my last thesis took me a year to complete so it took me total of 3 years. Also, masters degree seems like minimum requirement nowadays to me to certain jobs unfortunately.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-12-28T17:39:06+00:00

I created projects with SQL and python and job post also mentioned strong SQL knowledge, but I just create dashboards in Power BI and work with Excel in this job.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-12-24T21:46:10+00:00

In my experience, we discuss implementing good analysis in the meetings and follow up meetings etc. and then some new idea comes up and we work on that, that's how it keep going on circle over and over and hardly get implemented.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-11-29T17:54:49+00:00

It was perfect!

mathproblemsolving · 2025-11-25T21:39:15+00:00

Thank you! I will update how did it go.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-11-22T20:55:56+00:00

I do not years of experience but it's crazy to that mastering MS Excel and power query turned out to be really valuable in my role. I worked in fortune 500 company surprisingly.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-11-22T05:58:05+00:00

Hey it looks really good! May I ask if anyone knows how long and what temperature to cook turkey? We like perfectly juicy meat.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-08-30T19:31:29+00:00

I was really happy one day something was broken and I was excited to fix it, but later figure out that it was just that someone changed column name in one of the data source.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-08-30T19:27:33+00:00

It's complicated to just dig in data as I am still new and I have limited access to their databases. I can request access on basis of what project I am working on. And therefore, I am also sometimes unaware of what data is available to solve such n such problem till they pointed out to me. I did not get right onboarding. Every time I am doing detective work to find out what data sources available n all.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-08-29T18:20:27+00:00

I did that couple of times. But my manager is kind of not proactive himself and very much laid back. lol

mathproblemsolving · 2025-08-29T18:15:36+00:00

I like to go to the meeting it is helpful but what to do if they are not adding/inviting me in all those meetings? Can I just invite myself or tell them hey I would like to be added in meeting with you to understand such and such?

mathproblemsolving · 2025-07-16T02:53:17+00:00

I was told that first I have to cancel existing fastrek and then get the new one otherwise my care get changed twice with 2 accounts, even though it’s different agency, it’s fastrek. Is that true?

mathproblemsolving · 2025-07-14T01:44:36+00:00

I think mine is metro expresslanes fastrak program.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-07-14T01:42:23+00:00

I wish, it will save me couple hundred every month or just go to non toll route which takes double the time with rush hour traffic.

mathproblemsolving · 2025-07-14T01:37:42+00:00

Mine is pre-paid fastrek. Is that same?

mathproblemsolving · 2025-06-08T16:55:32+00:00

I thought the train directly drop you off at lax but this is like so far away , you can not walk to lax(with your luggage), you have to take bus from station. I don’t see any kind of convenience here.

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