Hi folks, TL;DR : DM me if you would like to prep for big N interview I am prepping white-boarding problems to get into big G. I have a detailed 2 month plan to proceed ( not requiring more than an hour daily if you are good enough already with algos). If anybody would like to join me in this journey DM me. I would be focusing on DP, graphs, trees, array and string problems. Many of my friends work at G and honestly the interview is not NP hard or something, it’s totally doable, you just need consistent practice with leetcode style problems (medium and hard). I am smart enough, can grasp complex stuff quickly and explain it to a layman but the missing component here is lack of consistency and laziness. I am trying to apply the Feynman technique to this problem so that I myself be on track and in the process benefit others. The interviewing process is broken so let’s use it to our advantage, people only complain when they haven’t practiced enough. P.S : I don’t want to be working at a company that was once considered a pioneer of the internet, that era is long gone! I want to work at Google because it’s innovating right now and will possibly be at the top of its game for the next many years to come.
How are you prepping for sys design?
Donne martin’s github guide , loved it 👌. SIT videos, engg blogs, gainlo course you have many sources but I would say the best option is to actually discuss with a fellow how you would design Twitter / Uber / a url shortener / rate limiter etc
I hit my girl big g the other night. Would recommend.
Hey I am totally interested also ✋🏼
Interested. Where are you?
I am based in Sunnyvale, have formed a slack group and had our first session today :)
Interested but no more DM left
no problem, messaged you the slack invite
I am down.
I just don't understand this mind set and will probably never be able to. Google is a monstrous company with thousands of teams working on completely disparate products, technologies, and industries. There's not some special sauce that makes all their teams amazing to work on, trust me. Worked there. My advice is to not get hung up on the name of a company and identify what characteristics of a project, team, and manager which would make you happy.
Interesting, you seem to be over the obsession most young software devs like me are hung up on. So I am assuming you are an experienced dev and I’ll value your insights and thanks for the advice :) Nevertheless my main motto here is to get the google stamp on my resume, try out the env there and get a feel of how things work and then leave for more interesting startups / projects / teams that I am genuinely interested in. Having gone through the experience already you may know of better paths but for most of us this seems to be the most viable path. Google ( other big N) attracts talent and I want to have people smarter than me , more experienced than me around me so that I can grow as a developer. I would also love to hear more about the lessons you learnt as you progressed in your tech career.
You seem to have a good head on your shoulders. For sure, Google stamp looks good on your resume... But just don't get hung up if it doesn't happen. Tech interviews create a lot of false positives, so there's no shame in not making it past a single companies interview process.
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https://goo.gl/b2XNRX is the slack invite , we are having sessions daily
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Cool. Good luck!