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Nest Interview
- Nest interviews Have a nest labs interview coming up. Anyone has insights on what to expect ?
- Nest interview Howz Nest doing? I read multiple threads abt ceo fired, attrition at peaks and others things. Is it good idea to interview at nest for SWE role? How are things there?
- Nest onsite interview I had an onsite interview at Nest almost 2 weeks back , last week I followed up with the recruiter , got a response back saying still waiting for some feedback from my interview, and no response till now , what do you guys think is happening ?
- Nest interview process How is Nest's interview process compared to Google? What is the level of coding problems?
- Python code format in interviews (nested functions, global variables) Asking about a general case, but specifically wanna know what Google thinks since it cares a lot about code readability and quality. I use Python for interviews, and sometimes when I face a problem that requires a recursion and where global variables (like `self.something` or using `nonlocal someth
- Interview at Nest and google at the same time? Does anyone know if there can be any issues interviewing at Nest and Google at the same time? Assume Someone gets an offer at Nest first, will they not be able to reject that offer for Google's offer?
- Is interviewing with Nest the same as Google now? I’ve been invited to a phone interview. I feel prepared but not “google prepared” if that makes sense. My plan is to interview with google 5-6months from now once I’m done with all practice companies. If I bomb this, will I lose my google interview chances? I plan on talking to the recruiter about
- Had FB Sr. PM product sense and execution interview today. Need idea about nest step. I had the product sense and execution interview today for Sr. Product Manager. Could not assess really how the interview went, but I did my part did not not realize how 45 mins were gone spoke a lot of different scenarios and metrics. I think sense was better that execution, I was grilled on Instagr
- Google PM Interview, What to expect? Have an interview scheduled with the Hiring Manager in the Nest team. Any prep tips? #google #nest #productmanager
- Is working at nest = working for Google (alphabet)? Had several recruiters ping me from Nest on LinkedIn. Is working for nest the same thing as working for Google in terms of interviewing bar? Are employees free to internally move to other companies in alphabet from nest? What's the culture like at nest? Same benefits, pay, perks?
- link Uber coding interview expectations for L5B Hey there just wanting to check with this LC example: https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-continuous-subarray-with-absolute-diff-less-than-or-equal-to-limit/ This question has 3 potential solutions: 1) Nested loops with O(n^2) time and no memory solution 2) Sorted tree solution O(n*lgn) time an
- Is getting into Nest essentially getting into Google? I have a Nest recruiter who reached out recently. I’m trying to figure out if I should interview or not. Is it easy to move from Nest to Google? Are the offers/benefits similar?
- How long until you heard back from Nest/Expedia? I completed a phone interview with Nest last Friday. I completed an online assessment for Expedia last saturday. How long does it usually take before I hear back from recruiters? I'm not entirely optimistic about my Nest phone interview, since I only answered one question and it took me almost the
- Onsite coming up for Nest I have an onsite interview coming up for Nest labs. What should I prepare? I heard their interview is different than Google.
- Transfer from Nest to Google If you’re a current Nest employee, say a Software Engineer, how hard is it to transfer to Google? Do they require you to go through another interview process just like others outside the company? Or do you just talk to Nest HR and they’ll work it out with you? I heard someone saying that Nest HR wil
- vote Google Nest Hardware Future Hi Blinders- Google has been reaching out to me with increased offers after recently rejecting their lowball offer … I’m surprised that didn’t deter them. Anyways, I haven’t thought about this before interviewing but want to know about the future business growth and career growth possibilities at
- Google Bengaluru Interview I have my google interview coming up for google nest team in bengaluru location. What is the expected difficulty level for telephonic round? leetcode medium ? #leetcode #google
- link Is there any body works in Google Nest ? Hi Guys. I need some help . Not much information for Google Nest. Before the on-site interview, the recruiter wants me to let him know the salary I want. I have no idea on Bay area. I'm a industrial digital designer ,Hardware designer, with 13 year experience. I checked in Levels.fyi. I could be
- ok to use "nonlocal" in python? in the interview, Is it okay to use nested fuctions and "nonlocal" variable to access outer function variable in inner function? this helps me a lot in recursive solutions. will I be penalized in the interview for this?
- How to prepare for coding interviews and Design related questions I keep hearing people in the group posting about TC which is way beyond my current TC.Can someone guide me the nest way to prepare for coding interviews and design questions and any other tips .
- Advise on Nest/google offer I interviewed both, neat did mention they are part of google hardware now, but at present they are still different hiring process. I am expecting l4 from google and l5 from nest. Assuming comp are very similar. Which one is preferred. I am more interested in google team and work, but also wondering
- vote Stripe tech screen poll Completed 2 questions passing all test cases in my own IDE with 15 minutes to spare, interviewer decided to stop to give me time for questions. We seemed to vibe well but something to maybe note is that while coding the solutions I did have to use the debugger a bit to figure out that I was creatin
- Internally Moving From Alphabet Subsidiary to Google My recruiter for one of Alphabet's subsidies told me that it's easy to transfer to other companies under Alphabet (including Google) without having to re-interview. So long as the job I'm applying for is similar in another Alphabet company, I was told that I would just need to put a packet together
- Tips to improve code quality during interview Preparing for some interviews right now and would like to invest time in improving the readability of my code. I noticed that during interviews I get so anxious about implementing a working solution that I start giving one-letter names and nested ifs etc... Do you have any tips or guides that helped
- Microsoft application status My candidate portal-action center originally showed the role that I had applied/interviewed for nested beneath the ‘interview’ tab on the panel menu. Following my finals loop and case study, there’s a second req that is now showing (without being open/hyperlinked) beneath my ‘interview’ tab, but wit
- Constantly make it to the final stages of design interviews but don’t get the job I’ve interviewed with Google, Amazon, Nest, Palantir, and some other companies. I make it through every stage flawlessly but at the end don’t make it through. It’s definitely not a question of skills. Does anyone know common reasons for this? Maybe I just don’t fit in with them?
- Help me choose an offer Have offers from Google, Uber and Apple for SWE role and not sure which one to choose. Google L4: Google sounds stable but boring. TM done. Need to choose between Nest and GCP. Nest team seemed better. Numbers not given yet. Location: Bay Area Apple: ICT3. AMP org. Team looked good and offered ro
- NEST vs LYFT Autonomous Driving Got interview calls from both places. Any help in which one has more potential. Nest - all the chatter on exec leaving and merging with google hardware. Looks a bit chaotic Lyft L5 Driving - pretty new team being created in Palo Alto less than a year. Not sure how much direction the team has and l
- Google PM Interview - GCP vs Google vs others Hello there, Happy weekend mats! Question about Product Manager Interview process at Google, specifically about Google vs GCP vs YouTube vs Nest etc Does the process differ for different division? I see some openings at YouTube vs GCP vs Google Chrome teams and wonder if we prepare in a generic
- vote Using Python closure in interview Hey all the interviewers out there. What are your thoughts on a candidate who uses Python closure incorrectly as nested function to update states.For example I see lot of people define dfs function in their top function and use variables from enclosing function. Something like this def solve():
- Google team change during interview I got a call from Google India for L4 SDE role at Home and Nest team. Team sounded to be doing embedded and iot work which I am not very interested in. Can I clear the interview and ask for a better team at later stage? Any reviews around the team. How tough it is to change team after joining Google
- Interview question Asked a following question in faang company interview and would like to ask people how this can be done in 35-40 mins. Write a program which takes a json payload and path as input and return the element that exists at the path, if path is valid. Note : Handle corner cases in the program. In gener
- Alphabet hiring bar and internal transfer I have gotten the sense from some Googlers that the hiring bar for SWE is different for certain parts of the company. If you apply to Nest, could you later transfer to cloud and vice versa? It sounded like people applied to the part where they would interview best, then after one year, transferred
- vote Google Nest vs Android for India Google Interview process with google has completed and i have to choose among these two teams. Will be joining as L4. Google Nest is responsible for google home app and focused on developing the ecosystem for iot device . Its an already established team so would help in guidance . The second team has work
- AWS to OCI - really worth it ? Got a verbal offer. They are saying its for a IC5 but not opposed to IC6. Its a Cloud CTO role as a part of the pre-sales engineering org. Is it worth the risk? Any idea about the team there? Life is good(busy) here at AWS, so thinking why shake the nest. Base: 215 RSU: 7K (over 4 yrs) Signing bonu
- How to learn advanced SQL quickly for DE interview I have an interview externally for a data eng position at a non-FAANG, but kind of large company. I work in a non-technical role at amazon - but I can code in Java/Python quite well and have solved 600 LC problems. Trouble is most of those were for DS&A, as I was trying to become an SDE . A friend
- vote A Facebook interviewer told me if I didn't get the maximum stock gain in O(n) time, I won't even go to onsite interview I went to a first round Facebook interview, and I requested to be on campus, since the phone can be unclear. *It was for a web front end dev role* So the interviewer asked me to solve the "Maximum Stock Gain" problem. Simply enough, given an array of stock prices, such as from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of
- link Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2 I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc
- Google past contractor not even getting an interview I worked as a contractor at Google over 10 years ago. I did not perform really well to be honest but there were times I did really well and my manager recommended me for a full time position and went through a shortened loop but didn’t work out well as one of the co workers gave a bad recommendation
- vote FB Onsite Chances Hi Everyone, I recently appeared for FB interviews and wants to share the experience Round1 -> Coding 1 problem on Heap(Kth Largest), 1 problem on Stack. Explained Solution clearly and writes code clearly. In second problem, interviewer points one edge case which I handled promptly after that in
- 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.
- link Interviewed for Meta for policy Comms / metaverse. Will I destroy my reputation? How much salary in Germany? Applied a while back but a recruiter reached out and we had a very pleasant phone interview. Even got asked for salary expectations which I didn't expect but I guess it's a procedure. Another 30 min hiring manager call will follow and I assume 1-2 longer ones with the team/future boss. However my f
- Google - Recruiting processes Back in December I applied for a generic google position (non technical role) and after a month or so a recruiter emailed me saying "the hiring team was impressed with my skills blah blah and would like to move forward with the next steps for the XYZ position". She introduced another recruiter and I
- vote Google Team Match: Hold out for NYC or take MTV and transfer internally? I passed HC for Google on friday, L5 PM. as I understand it, Team Match is severely backed up. I have 1 Hiring Manager interview scheduled with Nest. I’m from NYC and I’m dead set on staying here long term—but I aslo know G is WFH until 2021 at least. So its not like I have to move right away. Sho
- Interview tips for laid off engineers or those preparing for interviews Yesterday's layoffs at Uber, and other ongoing layoffs have many preparing for job interviews. For those Blinders who struggle a lot with algorithmic interview questions and/or are rusty on their coding skills, I'd like to share a few interview tips that have helped me interview at FANG++ comp
- interview help - code challenge. obligatory tc - $90 per hour, consultant. obligatory yoe - 16+ java, includes 9+ android (pigeon-holed?), with 13+ in the us as an immigrant h1-b work-visa holder. what do you do when the interviewers won't accept your approach toward solving the problem, particularly code-challenge in white-board
- Are all versions of Elements of Programming Interviews created equal? Saw this from some Amazon reviews of the Python version of EPI: > The coding style in many cases is just... bad. The authors often use wonky Python tricks at the cost of readability and simplicity. For example, their definition of a BST search is a *one-line* nested ternary conditional (chapter 1
- A Failure’s Guide to the Facebook DE (Analytics) Interview Hi Blind, I’m fresh off of failing my second attempt at the DE analytics virtual onsite at Facebook and I want to help other people avoid that feeling of emptiness and despair that comes with rejection. I’m well aware this interview isn’t impossible, but I feel it’s hard only for the sake of being h
- Got asked LC hard for Samsara phone Basically i had a phone interview. The interviewer told me there will be 2 questions and i should complete both in 30 minutes. I couldn't even complete the first question. To me it's an LC Hard but i feel like i missed something out. Basically i approached in an iterative way where for everything n
- Developer Burnout I appear to be doing well career-wise, with a senior development position with good pay and benefits. I am definitely in a privileged position. But I am feeling completely burnt out. I have worked at this company for a long time and am tired of the politics and subject matter and the thought of goin