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- Exit interview I’m leaving Microsoft because of my manager. He has been micro managing me over a year. And have not been listening to my career goals. I feel he does not respect my opinion. And my mental health have been in bad state due to multiple incidents with him. Q1. How Microsoft conducts their exit inter
- Your worst interview experience Spill the tea on your worst interview experience as either a candidate or interviewer.
- Crazy Amazon Interview experience I just went through Amazon interview loop for L5. One of the craziest experiences I ever had. I was getting about 5 emails from Amazon recruiters every week and I decided to entertain one for Practice🤣. Went through the Phone Screen. Was asked 1 question here - The easiest question I ever had to
- Highest Resume Bars and Hardest Interviews A lot of people talk about company prestige. Instead of prestige I just thought I'd rate resume screen bars. I've interviewed and received offers from a lot of these companies and have a general idea from friends and acquaintances on the others. Resume Bar: Hardest: Five Rings, Jump, Jane Street Ha
- GitHub Interview I have some interviews scheduled for this week with GitHub and I really, really want this job. I think I have a good understanding of what to expect from the technical rounds, but are there any specific soft/behavioral skills they're looking for? Any tips for answering those behavioral style interv
- Worst candidate you interviewed What was the worst candidate you have ever interviewed and what they do?
- Meta interview canceled Same response that everyone else got. “Filled all existing positions that match your experience and qualifications.” - Software developer role E4 role TC - 185k, 3.5 YOE
- Shadow interviewers in Meta interviews What is the role of a shadow interviewer in a Meta interview? I noticed pretty senior people have been marked as shadow interviewers in my upcoming interview. Are they A. Judging the candidate B. Learning how to interview C. Judging the interviewer I was under the impression that it is B., but look
- Frontend interview resources Hi All, I am preparing for frontend interviews SDE2 equivalent. I have never given any explicit frontend interview. Any good frontend resources anyone is aware of? Current L62 4 yoe 200K TC
- SRE interviews - AlgoExpert Hey folks, I’m planning to grind AlgoExpert’s section on Algos and System Design for upcoming SRE interviews at big tech companies. I have the résumé and experience, I’m able to get interviews. What I don’t have is the f**** tech interview skills. I was (un)fortunate enough to never go through cod
- Husband fails all the interviews My husband has been looking for a new job from 1/31. He applied everywhere, got a bunch of phone screen, only 3 on-sites and failed all of them. He is still in the loop with 5 companies but he doesn’t feel that he will be able get any of them. I have been helping him with résumé, referrals, intervie
- Twitter interview? Anyone interviewed recently or has one soon? Wondering if I should postpone... For Sr sde Tc 200
- vote Fuck Google Interviews Seemingly neverending process Absolutely disrespectful to interviewee's time No clue which team you're going to work in Need written offers to negotiate. Company is fine, interview process is not. Update: Got an offer, not joining. The process made me salty.
- Feedback for interviews between roles Hi, I got an offer from Meta a few months back for E5 for a sdet - privacy role but I passed on it. I have now got a call for a swe - automation role. Can my feedback for sdet be reused for swe - automation interview loop? I know that I might have to go through 1-2 rounds, but I don't want to go t
- Google interview question Leetcode 2128 remove all ones with row and column flips. Took me a while to get this and eventually just was able to guess it after a while of guessing optimal solutions. Would an interviewer really expect someone to figure out this though? Even as someone who frequently attends cp contests (2200 r
- Hardest to easiest interviews by company From your experience, list out the hardest to easiest interviews by company. And if you want, share with the community why your ranking is what it is. TC: 155K YOE: 6 @google @meta @facebook @netflix @apple @amazon @bloomberg @microsoft @goldmansachs @etsy @paypal @stripe @coinbase @atlassian @ube
- Another failed Interview Today marks my 50th Rejection from an interview. Not just single round interviews. I had gone through more than atleast 2 rounds with each company for Permanent position and got rejected at the end by everyone. The enthusiastic recruiters would suddenly stop responding to emails when asked for feed
- vote Interview at twitter? Have an interview at twitter coming up - should I go through with it? How does Elon Musk buying up twitter affect RSUs/offers for someone coming on? Blind tax: Tc 250k (all base) Loe 12 years
- Weird Amazon interview Hi ppl, I did an Amazon interview yesterday and the guy asked me lot of DSA questions. Difference between linkedlist and array, stacks and queues and then asked me abt hashmaps and how they worked. I answered all of it. Then he asked time complexity of hash maps. O(1) is the average and worst is O(n
- Disengaged interviewers are the worst Had a final round interview today with Coinbase and they interviewer clearly could not give a **** about what I was saying or the code I was writing. Every time I asked a question he would give me a one word answer and sometimes his answers would literally contradict the problem statement. Even afte
- vote Frontend interview experience I am preparing for frontend interviews. However as far as leetcode is concerned I am more comfortable with Java instead of javascript. Can I give my leetcode rounds in Java instead of Javascript/typescript? Would giving in Java be a negative point? L60 170k TC 1.5 yoe
- Netflix interview timeline I had the final round of vo with Netflix for a software engineer role last Thursday (04.21) and the recruiter told me that I should hear about their decision by early this week. But this Monday (04.25) I received a follow up from the recruiter saying that they are wrapping up the interviews with so
- Unreasonable Interview Expectations Capital One requires you to complete a 10+ hour data analysis assignment to get past the second round of interviews. These assignments are becoming way too common among data science interviews these days. Why does one assignment count more towards a hiring decision than 5-10 years of experience o
- vote Amazon Onsite Interview Result I had my Amazon virtual onsite last week. It's been a week after the onsite, I haven't heard anything from the recruiter after the interview. I contacted the recruiter but no response so I contacted the coordinator (who is very responsive) and got replied saying she also contacted the recruiter abo
- Burnt out from interviews I scheduled 8 on-sites in two weeks and I am going through a bout of depression I got rejected from the first two and now I’m finding myself getting very frustrated and kinda rude with the interviewers Should I just cancel the rest until I’m in a better headspace? Tc ~200k
- vote Fang interviewer was guy I personally interviewed and rejected 😬 Did a fang loop and aced all rounds except one of them. In that round, the interviewer was a guy I rejected a few months back for TikTok sr backend swe. I immediately recognized his face because he flunked and got upset since I gave him an uncommon mega LC hard question like I usually do and I gave
- My experience with Interviewing Signed FB E5 offer few weeks ago. I had started looking for a new role 5 months ago, interviewed for ~40 companies; ~25 onsites; 10 offers along the way. Blind was my go-to tool all along this road; damn this community is filled with rich content about every company. Here's my small contribution for
- 5 offers 6 months 7 interviews Prep time- 2.5 months Lc solved - 400 System design- ddia, system design interview channel, codekarle, infoq, meta/yelp engineering blog Offers from- google, meta, linkedin, oracle cloud infra, doordash Rejected by bytedance, microsoft Bytedance - interview was super good, discussed numbers then
- Microsoft Interview Result Timeline Completed final loop interview for SDE 2 position more then 3 and half weeks back. Haven't got result yet. On checking they are saying they are working with other candidates. Is it worth to concern about the result anymore? I dont have any other offer and very much reliable on this result. Is it nor
- Interviewing is fucking brutal I just got rejected after an on-site for a job that I didn't even want. I thought I was faking it well. I have so many interviews these days and none of them are converting into offers. I read about people's ratios here in terms of phone screens, on sites and offers, and I believe I am on the right
- Folks currently interviewing with Google Did you undergo team match before On-site, before HC or after HC? Did anyone get to skip HC?
- Worst Google Interview Experience I'm sure this is a one-off, I've read about a lot of great Google interviews for PM's - Cancelled multiple times - Multiple No Shows - Wrong resumes sent out I was reached out in October of 2021.... 6 months ago to schedule an interview, the coordinator was out of the country and constantly OOO.
- Mad respect for the interviewer Had a telephonic interview for L5A position at Uber. I took 3 weeks to prepare to revisit and grind my leetcode lists. Did tons of problems since I heard they ask hard questions. But to my surprise, he didn’t ask a single coding question, I didn’t even open codesignal! He started off the discussion
- Google interview Was able to come up with a workable solution, but visited the tree thrice rather than twice or one time Chances
- Amazon Applied Scientist Interview Loops I was interviewing for an AS role. Passed the first screen then did the 5 rounds + presentation. Then recruiter got back saying I cleared the high bar for Amazon but the team I interviewed with was looking for something else so she connected me to another recruiter who in turn connected me to anothe
- Instacart Sr manager interview Anyone interviewed with Instacart for a Sr Manager or higher role? If you can help me with pointers on how to prepare for the coding interview (difficulty level etc) it'll be super useful for me. I'm also told their design interviews will be more "realistic" with a question that's choose to Instaca
- Frustrated with Meta interview process! Meta is my dream company. I started interviewing for it in Feb this year and than hiring freeze came. Recruiter told me that she will be reassigning me to different group and will be having interview in April . Last week I gave final loop interview. Now recruiter is not replying to my emails. Is the
- Rude Interviewer Amazon Loop I recently completed the final loop for the Amazon L5 role. One of the interviewer in the loop was very rude, constantly interrupting my thoughts, and not letting me speak. All other interviewers were fine. But, just wanted to make sure one interview feedback, doesn't affect the final outcome. Sha
- Meta Interview Cancelled Just had my interview cancelled for Meta for L4. Anyone else? The ship is definitely in trouble
- vote Interviewer shut down the interview after 10 mins I fkd up bad. Had an interview, was confused about the question and how it had been set up, and exactly the context of the code. I kept asking questions and saying I would do it like this... 5-6 mins in and the interviewer just wrote out some of the code said it should be like this said we're don
- Best Frontend Interview Experiences Hey blind. I’m looking to jump ship and don’t want to leetcode. Who knows of good frontend interview processes that don’t require leetcode? TC tax 365 (on paper) 7 yoe in tech
- Nvidia interview prep Hey blinders - how's the interview process at Nvidia? Was reached out by a recruiter for a Senior Software position and thinking to go through the interview process. Do they ask LC questions? Any insight would be very helpful :) TC ~410 #nvidia #nvidiacareers
- PM interview struggles Had rejections after onsites at 3 of the MAANG. Few other reject/ghosts from mid sized (series B to D) startups. Never did any preparation, and took the sign of getting to onsites easily as I can maybe skirt by. Today’s rejection was a wake up call that PM interviews require serious prep and study
- PLEASE - Don’t panic during Solution Design interview People who come for design interviews. Don’t panic. It is no different than your every day conversation with your coworkers 1) Don’t dive deep too early. Your success doesn’t depend only on an architecture diagram. 2) You DO NOT need to cover everything. 3) Understand what is asked by asking que
- vote Amazon - Re interview I had interviewed with Amazon for an L5 role 6 months ago and they'd down-levelled to L4. The feedback was I had scope to improve on System Design. I had turned the offer down then. Now a manager has reached out via LinkedIn (managers contacting directly these days?) and want me to re-enter the loop
- How to wrap up an interview? When I am screening a candidate, how do I wrap up the interview when they ask about next steps and I have no intention of passing them to the next round? If you recommend being honest with them, please recommend how I can deliver the message in a way that isn't awkward.
- Is my meta interview canceled? Interviewing for a e5 swe role, scheduled onsite 2weeks later, today i logged in to the recruiting portal and i cannot see the onsite schedule anymore, the stage goes back to the phone screen status. Last week i asked recruiter he said my onsite is not canceled. Sent an email to recruiter and I have
- Atlassian interview feedback I recently interviewed (final loop) with Atlassian. The following day I received a calendar invite from the recruiter titled "Interview feedback session". No indication in the invite of whether this means they are going to be giving the thumbs up or thumbs down. Does Atlassian schedule an "intervi
- Interview with Albertsons tomorrow, any tips? Really nervous for this one, recruiter told me I should expect to solve 4 LC hards in ~30 minutes, anyone got any tips to clear Albertsons phone screen??
- Go forward with Robinhood Interview? I have an interview coming up. After today’s news, not sure if I should proceed with it It sucks because I really like the product. Any suggestions from current Robinhoods will be appreciated. TC 335k