I have been a passive interviewee. I randomly prepare 5-6 interview questions before an interview and depend on presence of mind/luck to go to next stage. I obviously haven't got any offers but did make it to two onsites. Recently I decided to do this the right way once for all. I was looking at interview prep sites, Leetcode discussions and looking at people's experiences and questions they were asked. It seems interviewing is becoming harder day by day. I'm pretty sure if I prepare for 3-4 months I will be eventually able to clear at least a few interviews. But it seems like a big mountain to climb the peak of which is not visible. On the other hand, I can invest these 3-4 months learning some new skill and focussing on getting promoted at my job. More TC would be great but what's the point if I'm only good at interviewing but bad at sought after skills? I had got into Amazon through internship back in 2015 (Leetcode wasn't a thing back then, interviews didn't need preparation). TC 200k 4 YOE
The plateau for FAANG will be visible in less than 1,000 problems. I can assure you of it.
A little bit more clarity please ? Since you are at google will be great to know how your prepped for your mountain climb and at what point during this club does it seem the plateau is visible.
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Agreed. With everything. I just don't have any idea of how they could do it better, either. Perhaps it's just that: motivated people will prepare, and they merely want motivated people... I would assume lots of people wouldn't be able to clear the programming interview even with preparation, so maybe there's a little bit of that too. I do wish they looked for real skills too though... I would love to do something useful with that time to show instead (my own mock app or something: I spent the last 4 months building this instead of practicing data structures I will rarely use, if ever in real life)
This!!
I believe intuits onsite has building some apps
Its more than a mountain climb i think now
I agree. Specially with Facebook, Google it's like you need to do leetcode else there is less chance you will make it through. I have seen people prepare for 4-5 months before they cracked interviews.