How lucky do people have to get? I've applied to tens of dozens of places for software engineering. Was told bad practices in the beginning, like "Oh, it's your thought process that matters and that you write up the gist of the question." Come to find out that there are 20 categories of algorithm questions that you have to know near perfectly, AND that you're expected to solve MULTIPLE problems during one session. AND you'll need some extensive system hardware knowledge that you need to know somehow. But then I either get told nothing, or I get told "Oh! Thank you! You did fantastic! But we're so sorry. You will surely succeed with that 4 YoE that you have" and other useless advice from paid professionals. Then I take notes and code dozens of problems while watching Byte By Byte, Tushar Roy, Kumar, YK Sugi, and numerous others. Then I do several mock interviews, after a while, they recommend me to do real phone screens, and then BOOM! New type of problem! And then I don't even get the same recognition and notice that other people get who are living in the right states or who made it to the right schools and were invited to the right conferences and got the right contacts. The few connections that I were able to work strenuously to find are in different and higher fields now. Then, on the of chance that I DO demonstrate the knowledge at a critical speed and the interviewer IS convinced to forward up strongly positive feedback, I get ghosted! If you're not a member of the elite groups, you're sent to the back burner to be boiled dry. After a certain point, there's nothing you can do and no one you can turn to. Doesn't matter how growth-minded you are. No matter how creative and ingenious you get and no matter how much of your heart you pour into building and mastering this craft, you will get nowhere.
So are you saying that life is not fair
What are you going to do about it? Nothing?
Something besides whine about it on Blind?
Study harder on the leetcode
Someone solved 452 problems so far, but boy, if they just get to 453, whoo! That's when the difference hits! NOT!
I mean, solving 452 easys probably won't help.... In seriousness, if you have solved 400+ leetcode questions, of considerable difficulty, and still having trouble solving the interview questions, perhaps you need to revisit approaching problems.
It sounds to me that you are upset that you are not asked problems you have seen before in your interviews. It's not about knowing the answer. It's about solving a problem even if you haven't seen it before and how you think about it. I also refuse to believe that if you have seen 17 types of problems and get thrown off if you see a new 18th type. If you know how to solve problems then you will apply what you learned from the first 17 to solve the 18th. Again, it's about knowing how to figure out answers not having them already memorized.
People tell me that I'm golden for implementing Dijkstra's algorithm in a linked list format. Then someone from Uber asks to code an implementation an algorithm to get rid of N nodes that are connected to malware and save the max number of nodes. Explained some of the algorithm and talked a lot about trade-offs... And then I hear that others are just asked to find string permutations. Mama bullshit.
Sounds like they just don’t like you
Are you expecting to see problems you’ve already seen before at interviews? Just from that I know you wouldn’t make it. You should be confident in solving unknown problems. Also, if you’re in the US and want to become a good SWE there is no hard barrier for anyone (short of mental handicap or something which OP does not fall under).
It's not a hard barrier because you can't see it.
I assure you that is not the case. You have a bad attitude and no drive. Work harder and you’ll see it’s possible.
TL; DR
Interviewers and companies always moving the goalpost. Can't win unless you are lucky enough to be a part of the system. If you were born outside of that, nothing you learn to advance yourself will matter.
A lot of it is a crapshoot. You just have to keep plugging away or be content at vertivco I guess.
You're that person in the window blowing your tongue at the people on the outside, while on the outer walls there are signs saying "aggressively hiring like crazy". It's not a crapshoot. You have the keys. You are the one blocking.
Perhaps if you learned English you would have an easier time in interviews.
People who say “Everyone said you did good” and then not hire, please let me know one thing. Would it be good if the interviewer told you “You fucked badly in interviews and so you get lost” would it help? HR and recruiters tend to soften the message for good reasons and to keep you motivated. Don’t listen to that part. That is immaterial. What matters is the outcome. If they have decided to ghost you or reject you, it simply means they got someone who appeared to be better than you. Stop whining. World is not a fair place. World does not care what you know or not. Every selection process is rigged and can be gamed. Asking system design or no coding questions is not the solution. Why do you think there would be no designcode.com when such questions become mainstream? Stop whinning and go back to leetcoding. 20 is a very low number. I would say there are atleast 200 categories of algorithmic questions.
You seek to be an employee, you play by their rules.
Lol dude don’t have to be in the rat race all the time. Enjoy life
You have to earn money somehow...
You are already earning! All you need is a clear career path and work toward it
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