Had an interview scheduled. Waited 10 mins on call, no one joined. Week later get the email for moving to on-site round. Told the recruiter what happened, he said he has feedback in the system from the call. he rescheduled the phone screen with another interviewer. Did I get the first guy in troubl...Read more
I was supposed to start the process for E5 (phone screen soon) but my recruiter mentioned that they are pausing hiring rn due to business needs. Another layoff coming?
I had an interview with a recruiter today. He liked what I was saying, I guess. So he came back with a "we want to invite you to a virtual on-site". Then he scheduled 9(!) interviews over 2 days. When I hire someone my recruiter gives me a hard time if I request 4 interviews. 5 is a non starter. Her...Read more
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.
I started at Google more than ten years ago as an L3, and have been an L6 for a few years now. If I want to transfer to, let’s say, Meta or Amazon, I need to go through the code interview grind. Shouldn’t culture fit and team match interviews be enough? Having a full cycle of interviews from FAANG ...Read more
I’ve had on average three interviews a week for the last six weeks. I either get to round 1 and receive rejection or I don’t pass the initial phone screen. I’ve had one panel interview, which went alright but probably won’t translate into an offer. 10 YOE TC 385 -> 0 Edit: round 1 isn’t phone s
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...Read more
My interview got canned but I'm already in SF. Going to go visit apple park and other places just to do some sightseeing. I have a stack of resumes in hand too. Anyone have any advice they can give me? Edit - Thanks for all the advice everyone! I appreciate the feedback and travel tips. Back home ...Read more
I got into fight with my interviewer who was intentionally giving me hard time and was doing his best to make me look bad. Every question he asked, I answered and he kept twisting the problem, even though the original problem statement was different and kept pushing me to fail. So I knew that this...Read more
I had given interviews in December, and the feedback was positive. But after completion and positive feedback, a new recruiter was assigned to my application as the position for which I was interviewed was filled. She told me I was considered for L3. And I was interested in L4; she asked me to give ...Read more
I was reached out by a Meta recruiter for a SWE position. I was not really looking for a job, but I decided to take it for practice, and who knows if the offer was right, I would take it! I did the interview. I was able to do the first question, which was trivial. For the second/third questions, I ...Read more
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 ...Read more
No joke I had my open Ai software engineer interview scheduled for next week Will I still get asked LeetCode hard or will they now ask me just to be candid? #openai Seriously though is it even worth my time?
Hi, I have a phone interview with Anthropic scheduled soon. I was wondering if anyone has given this interview before? What questions do they ask? Recruiter mentioned Prompt engineering and using LLM. What does that mean? Thank you #software #swe #anthropic
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 ...Read more
I hate PM interviews, especially at big companies. I feel like what is asked in these interviews is rarely a good measure of how well you will perform on the job. I’ve founded and sold two successful boot strapped startups which were generating low seven figure annual profits so I get interviews bu...Read more
Hi everyone, This is my first ever post on blind. Kinda feeling a bit heartbroken so wanted to get this off my chest. I had my Meta final interview a week back and today I got a call from my recruiter that I got rejected by HC (hiring committee). I was told that the feedback from my interviewers w...Read more
Hello Team Blind, A recruiter has reached out to me to schedule interviews with Google. I have never interviewed with Google before and I need your help to succeed. I have been unemployed for the past 8 months and I'm mentally not even prepared to sit for interviews. Please let me know what to prepa...Read more
I just got my first rejection from a complete interview round after layoff, and it's so brutal. You think you do a good job on the interviews, or at least okay, but they give you no feedback, and then ask how they can improve the candidate experience. Like, if you can't at least give me some detai...Read more
Recently, I had an interview with a startup where they gave a file with a multipart question and asked me to start coding. I approached the problem as a graph problem, and ultimately arrived at the correct solution. The interviewer mentioned she hadn't considered solving it with graphs and usually u...Read more