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- Interview Cake Anyone have an active Interview Cake account they can share? i will venmo you something. Preparing for google interview in 3 weeks. Broke college student 😢
- Interview cake Has interview cake worked for any of you? Or anyone you know? Would you suggest I take it for $29? #interviewcake #interviewprep
- link interview Cake Hi, Interviewcake.com currently discounted due to Corona. Has anyone had an experience with this website? Is it worth the $29 for three-month access? Want to buy my cousin, new grad something useful, I am not sure how much he would get from 3 months.
- Interview Cake - Reviews? Anyone here who used it and found it useful. Finding hard to focus or apply myself on LC.I was thinking if using a paid service, seeing that I burned money might push me to do better? Any other paid interview prep sites that you highly recommend? Thanks as always Blind!
- vote Interview cake vs leetcode What will you chose for paid membership. FYI, I am not high paid oci, so I can afford only one
- Interview cake vs interview camp.io? They both teach basics of dsa and system design. Cost is the same (around $250). Any thoughts which one is better? Does one actually get fng offers after these, as they claim? For those who completed either of these, how much can I estimate my weekly time effort towards the prep? Any other competi
- vote interview cake va leetcode subscription which one gives more bang for your buck? results-wise.
- Is buying Interview Cake worth it? Has anyone here gotten a job because of interview cake? They claim you get the job you want or you get your money back. Anyone have experience with it? Or is it better just to cram leetcode?
- link Interview Cake $29 instead of $250 They usually have 3 weeks for $250 but they have a virus sale going on for $29. I was on the fence but just bought it, have heard good things from people who prepared using them in the past. https://www.interviewcake.com/upgrade #leetcode #interviewCake
- Has anyone tried Interview Cake? How's it compared to Leetcode? Their subscription fee is $200 for 45 interview questions. Leetcode is $200 for 540 questions. Has anyone tried IC? Is it better than Leetcode?
- Grokking the Coding Interview: Pattern for Coding Questions | Interview Cake | bytebybyte 6 weeks interview ready course Hi, Need advice on preparation for tech interviews. I know that LC is the bible, but wanted a course which will help me in recognizing patterns. Among these three - Grokking the Coding Interview: Pattern for Coding Questions, Interview Cake, bytebybyte 6 weeks interview ready course do you have a f
- For those considering buying programs like AlgoExpert, IK, Interview Cake, etc. etc. etc. Deep down, you know all you really need is leetcode or a used copy of Elements of Programming Interviews. But it's a grind, and you're looking at these programs to provide some kind of magic shortcut to FANG that doesn't exist. They justify themselves with video reviews, mock interviews, "structur
- Interview = Cake walk for Women.Is it true that interviews are easy for female candidates rather than men. I know few colleagues who work for FAANG & M who I dont consider deserving. Any experiences?
- Is it worth choosing interview prep for FB interview preperation ? Like byte-by-byte, interview cake, outco etc. #engineering #software
- Wtf Stripe? Had a Stripe interview scheduled for last Monday morning. No one showed up. I emailed + called the recruiter the day of and a few times in the following days and haven’t heard a peep. I’ve dealt with shitty interviewing processes before, but this takes the cake. I’ve had other offers in hand and was
- Only 1 coding challenge in Onsite interview for ml engineering role. Red signal? Onsite interview at Salesforce was piece of cake. I wonder if they are desparately looking to fill the position or what?! Tc 150 Offer from SF 250 Senior position
- vote Leetcode poll How many questions do you need for FAANG+ coding interviews to be a cake walk? I know everyone’s mileage may vary, but answer this with an average candidate in mind.
- Paid subscription InterviewCake Has anyone taken paid subscription of interview cake? Is it worth buying? How different is it form others like Leetcode?
- Best companies to apply for right now What companies have soft eng positions that have - above average pay (not Meta, Google levels of course, let’s say 65- 75th percentile) - easy to medium interview difficult - good to great wlb Drop ‘em down below (Yes I’m trying to have my cake and eat it to, but not asking for Google or Meta lev
- Cracking interview for senior positions by BSing? Interviews for Sr Manager and director positions are mostly soft “skill” based, while the technical part would be a piece of cake for most SWEs! So is it possible to crack through these interviews just by BSing??
- Leetcode solvability What resources you may have used to prepare for solving Leetcode problems? Come across interview cake. Anybody used it? If so, is it worth? Can you please share any resources you may have used?
- vote Are your competitive programmer colleagues good at software engineering too? The current LC style interview heavily favors competitive programmers. After doing ICPC, IOI style questions, leetcode is just a piece of cake for them. However, do you find your colleagues who were/are competitive programmers to be good software engineers too?
- What was/is your technical interview practice regiment? Google onsite in less than a month (flying out to Mountain View). Those two phone screens were no cake walk. First time interviewing there. I’m doing SRE (SWE track). How did you practice? 5 YOE
- What's the fcking point of Stripe sending me through 8 rounds of interviews only to no offer? Sorry just venting. Huge waste of my time. Everything seemed to be going well until the last interview. Just 30 minutes with the hiring manager. Should have been cake right? The guy just didn't want to hire me because I don't have faang experience. Really obnoxious because he had only been there 4 m
- It’s rejection day!! Please comment if you happen to receive that frustrating notification that “the team has decided you are not the best fit” today. Or maybe “the team is moving in a different direction”. Today or even this week. Why? To remind all of us job hunters that not every interview is an offer, and finding
- Amazon online assessment - how to prepare Ive seen a post on leetcode about what kind questions are frequently asked on the Amazon online assessment. Anyone have any recommendation outside of leetcode, interview cake, and algoexpert for interview prep? i dont care for CTCI since its mostly in Java and not Python. ive done about 40 leetcode
- More worried about behavioral interview As I prepare for SWE interviews over the next few months I am more worried about the culture / behavioral / non-technical interviews. I've noticed people voice similar concerns. I've also heard plenty of people who think these are a piece of cake. It seems some people are just naturally very bad at
- vote Is Amazon India still valuable on resume? I see someone getting hired at Amazon In every time I open LinkedIn and these days they are hiring every Tom, Dick and Harry. I joined Amazon few months back from a hiring test and with relatively good interview questions but seems like the regular hiring rounds are cake and they literally hire anyo
- Seeking some motivation Hello everyone, Today I really feel so much guilty & disgusting about myself. Here is the reason A really very good friend of mine guided me so well every step starting from preparing my resume till prepping me upto the final onsite for one of the FAANG , even i followed all the steps & went throu
- L5 level, best company to work providing you pass interview. currently at uber but was at google. had offers from FB, Apple, etc ... interview isn't a pie of cake for me but I can make it happens. which would be the best choice for L5. considering leaving uber due to stock pricing going down. I value $, growth, WLB, in that order :) Edit: update TC TC: do
- FB Onsite I have an on-site at FB coming up! Any advice? I don't know System Design enough yet and I am torn between Leetcode, Interview Cake, Coderust, etc for prep. My graphs/trees/dp/backtracking is shit. Panic attack. Should I push and ask to do the onsite a week or two from the date so I can be better
- What's your Leetcode workflow Everyone says just LC, fair enough. But how do you actually LC. If you start a problem and have no idea how to do it, how do you break it down if you don't know what's going on, do you look at the answer bit by bit? Interview Cake is pretty good because it takes you step by step to understand the t
- chances at getting interviews could a junior applied math major (CS minor) with high gpa (3.93) but no projects and average school get interviews at faang/ 🦄 come fall recruiting ? I graduate in December and only have one internship at a startup as a testing engineer and probably just one big project this summer because I c
- Facebook Brand Name? Hi all, I’m just wondering. What makes FB a “good brand for resume”? I mean, isn’t it just the Facebook social network the main product? I can understand Google, Apple, MSFT. Life changing suite of products. And there is FB where I can upload a photo of my birthday cake and people like it and I
- Weird MSFT interview loop? I'm going on site for an SDE 2 (Level 61) at Microsoft in a couple of weeks and I just got the info for the interview loop. Its 4 interviews, everyone is a Principal Program Manager or Senior Program Manager. Only 2 of them have ever been software engineers, one a sys admin previously, and the other
- vote My Google Interview is tomorrow, chance of solving coding test with allotted time? I’ve been postponing my coding interview for quite some time mostly due to busy work schedule launching a new product at current company where I’m managing a few teams in 3 different countries. To keep it short. Coding test is tomorrow. All these BFS, Graph, Linked list, b-tree stuff is a piece of
- Missed an interview @Tiktok and was in for a surprise I missed an interview at TikTok due to a time zone mixup as it was scheduled at 10pm ET and this was scheduled almost two weeks before the day of the interview. I only realized when the recruiter emailed me 7 minutes after the interview started asking me to let her know how it went after I was done.
- Companies evolving from leetcode... Currently a second year student at a top 4 university interviewing for summer 2021 internships, was pleasantly surprised when I made it past the resume screen and onto the technical phone interview for a unicorn company. Grinded out 300 lc over the summer along with some side projects, was feeling
- Practicing Python before LC? So I’ve been trying to tackle Leet Code algorithm data structure problems and I’m feeling especially dumb. Even the super easy ones I need to look at the solutions. And even then most don’t make sense. Should I practice just straight Python first? I’ve tried Data Camp course and I feel like I didn’
- Study plan for 2 months Guys, i have been asked to leave. I was working as a Senior Data Scientist. ( Contractor) I have saved enough money to pay my bills ( at least for a few months) and have decided to take 2 month's time to study and prepare for interviews. As a data scientist, coding has always been my Achilles heel.
- Prep material for SW jobs Hi guys! I know there are few threads here re switching to sw roles from ASIC/hw. I am considering this option and would like to refresh my sw skills. I can dedicate 3-4 months to prepare. I am interested to know if anyone here moved to sw from HW and if you did then how you prepared for the intervi
- How did/would you get to 15M net worth in ~5 years? How did/would you get to 15M NW in ~5 years? Would you go for startups or very high potential investments? What types of jobs (if any) even make that type of wealth accumulation possible? Is this the type of growth where there’s just not a consistent approach anymore? ——— Context and Giving: money
- LinkedIn : on-site interview (screwed the interview 🙁) I gave my LinkedIn on-site: 1) system design: Design abusive/inappropriate content identifying system It went flawless. I was on top of it. 2) coding module: it was LC hard I took 20 mins to get to the approach with hints from interview and finished the code in last moment. ( went bad) 3) technic
- Need Helpful suggestions!! Background: not from IT Background, however got a job through an employer in a IT based product company, worked my ass off to keep up the job. Today I am a FTE with CAI. I am going through a crisis in my current job, not learning anything new(just keep working on stuff and issues that I am working f
- vote Google L4 Phone Interview Just had my phone interview at google. Did a lot of leetcode going in. First question was just a data structure question I was able to answer really well. Second question was a super tough dp problem. I did a lot of dp problems and this one took the cake. I explained how I would solve it, wrote out
- link Thanks Blind. Made it to FB as E6 Got a lot of help from Blind and I wanted to share some details that helped me succeed. This year, I finally made it as E6 in FB. I am thankful for Amazon where I worked on really challenging distributed system problems. I not only gained technical skills but also learnt to get work done by others
- Google Interview Process Rant Recently interviewed with Google. The interviews went well "according to me". Some minor bugs. Except maybe the last interviewer who asked a pretty vague design question. The hr called back and said I didn't make it. I have been preparing for interviews for months now. Have cleared every interview
- link 125 cold applications to 5 offers AMZN disclaimers: Not on PIP. Good team and work. meh comp. Blind Tax: 230K, L5, 7 YOE 125 cold applications across 40 companies 21 phone interviews/online assessments 15 virtual onsite interviews 5 offers Interview Summary: - All interviews were targeted for Senior/Staff Software Engineer roles.
- Need help from community to pick myself again and rebuild Hello Blinders, January this year I decided to change my job. Tech world is so deep ahead in shit that everyone around you makes you believe that getting 350 TC is piece of cake you deserve it. If you are not making that much you are not meeting the bar. With that mindset I fell into the trap that
- Interviewing for Software Engineer position while being Black Male! Here it is the situation I been to several interviews and I even have solved 200+ questions on LeetCode(I just do it ones in a while). All this binary trees, common algorithm and design patterns is piece of cake to me, my system design skills is pretty good too, as I have designed good amount of sys