Highest possible comp for Uber L3 SWE?
Recently went onsite in SF and felt like I crushed my interviews for L3. Recruiter reached out the following day and said that everyone that I interviewed with “really liked me” and bolded the really in the email haha. So this begs the question, what should I be looking for in regards to my offer? I’m scheduled to talk to my recruiter soon about concrete details and want to be prepared. Is there any chance I could be upleveled to L4 with just 1 yoe? I also have an offer from another FAANG company for 175K in a lower col area and waiting on another for their hiring committee. Wondering if I might be able to use these potentially to negotiate with Uber but have read some stuff on blind that suggests otherwise. Also wondering if the upcoming IPO might affect this. Current TC: 120K at a smaller startup in SV YOE: 1
Leetcode will only help you for 1-2 of the interviews and for the phone screen. You also need some architecture and know how to answer HM questions. OP don't limit yourself by asking what's the highest possible. Just use those counteroffers to negotiate. Don't be afraid to stall as they will never not make an offer if you were a strong candidate, no matter what the recruiter says.
For L4 you need to show that you know what you're doing and can work on a project on your own without any help. Do you think you have demonstrated that during the interview? Counteroffers won't help you with levelling.
Hm, I mean I think I did well on the system design portion which might indicate I can work on a project without help. But on the flipside I only have 1 yoe and I actually don’t have a CS or engineering related degree which may hold me back (or potentially work in my favor since it shows self learning capabilities or initiative?). I feel strongly I can work on projects on my own though
It's not demonstrated by system design though, did you get stuck and need help during the coding and algo interviews? Or were you able to unblock yourself by figuring it out or articulating exactly what's blocking you?
About to go on-site and also have 1 yoe - do you mind sharing the offer they made you?
OP did you take the offer?
Just want to know how you prepared to crush it, waiting for answers to your question too 😅
Just leetcode
I did about ~100 leetcode questions, but I actually don’t think its necessary to do much more than that. What I found the most important is to identify certain themes and make sure you have them down 100% so you could recognize variations. Also make sure you’re good at explaining why the algorithm you’re choosing is correct and your time and space complexity analysis is on point. Most problems I got at all the companies I interviewed with weren’t that difficult, more about speed, analysis and writing clean code with unit tests. Spend very little if any time on LC hards (except for the handful of common ones that don’t rely on obscure algorithms)