Recently interviewed at three companies: one FANG like, one FANG, and third non FANG. During the interviews almost all of the questions I received were LC-hard style. Since I solved 300 LC questions I can pretty much tell the level at this point. I'm completely astonished by this. What is going on with companies these days? The FANG and FANG like companies already rejected me even though I solved their crazy questions. I feel very desperate at this point. After preparing so hard I failed two interviews and my intuition tells me that the third one will be a nay as well. Any advice will help. I feel like the level of interviews is completely off the charts... or perhaps its my bad luck.
Sorry that sounds awful 😥
Im supposed to go to a Google onsite, but at this point lost all my confidence. I'm thinking that if other companies are asking crazy ass questions, Google will break the record.
Don’t lose hope. It’s a chance game on who interviews you. Take what you learned and hope for a better slate of questions.
I’be solved 200 leetcode questions and failed 2 FANG interview loops. One ended at the phone interview stage and the other one on-site. Cleared the third one and got an offer. The ones I failed were all mostly leetcode medium or hard. The one I cleared was all leetcode medium. So I think you just need to get lucky. Don’t give up! Fortune favours the brave!
Do you feel that the level has gone up?
I’m not sure what to compare it with because I’ve interviewed with each of those companies only once. But in my experience google was hard. They asked me more leetcode hard questions than any other company. The others were mostly medium.
Stop worrying about things like fang and fang like. Find something that you are truly passionate about want to pursue. Getting an offer is a lot more than just meeting the skill bar. I can tell you that regardless of this process, most companies still hire a certain kind of personality. And unless you figure that out no amount of leet coding will help you.
That's why I can't wait to switch to another role, hopefully PM.It's really lame and sad that most interviews are now depending on people studying and memorizing these questions, not even a good indication about how bright or smart are you , Just memorize the topic, the workflow and act like you solve it for the first time!
Don't worry much. Do you leets daily and keep hustling/applying. Sometime it's not your fault.
I doubt it was you coding that held you back. It may be your demeanor, the manner in which you answer, the manner in which you took feedback and acted on it. It all plays a part in whether you get selected. Act too aggressive? Get rejected for not being a team player. Act too meek? Get rejected for not having a backbone. You need to have the right amount of pushback coupled with driving a consensus in a discussion. During my time at A FANG company, we interviewed a girl who was super smart (and super hot!) but she was so damn aggressive. It was like every question was a challenge to her feminism. In the end, despite almost every engineer wanting her to join, as a group we decided that hiring her would be more of a pain in the butt to deal with her on a day to day basis then hire her.
Don't be discouraged. You can only control what you can control. It's possible they didn't reject you because of your coding performance but because you didn't have the relevant experience they were looking for.
FANG don’t usually give a shit about experience. It all comes down to whether you can answer their questions and the manner in which you do. Experience only comes into play for high level roles. Lower to mid-senior, they depend more on how you perform in the interview
People need to understand that interviewing is not only about writing solutions for leetcode exercises but, it's about how you go through your solution, how you explain your approach, how you take feedback and react to new requirements. Stop practicing leetcode and start practicing the way you behave during an interview
Can you please be more specific?
Failing is normal. Supposedly a lot of Google employees failed on their first applications. Just shake off the bad interviews and apply more places.
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300 is too less. The new standard is 700 x 3 times
Seriously?
300 is the standard maybe 3 years ago