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- Worst senior engineers you have come across? Post your stories of the worst senior engineers you had to work with who clearly lacked technical/people skills to back up their position or YOE. 2018, manager pumped about hiring this guy on the team with 12 yoe. First 2 months into the job and we all realized dude didn't know jack shit about scal
- vote Google L4 experience/ predict my result Had my onsite for L4 2 days ago. This is how it went ratings are estimates which can be wayyyy off: 1. Strong Hire. Easily my best interview coded warm up and follow up and discussed theoretical concepts as well. Really nice dude. Medium ques. 2. Lean Hire/ Hire. I managed to give multiple soluti
- 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
- SystemsExpert (algoexpert.io) vs. Grokking the System Design Interview? Which would be better for Facebook E4 interview's design round? One advantage with SystemsExpert is we can buy the package and get the DS/A questions (algoexpert) Try to keep the hate for the dude that made algoexpert away from this post. Yeah he copied leetcode and made millions off it, idgaf. He
- vote Meta E4/E5 chances Did Meta SWE loop. I know I’ll get to know when I will get to know but just trying to get a feel. 2 coding, 2 system design, 1 behavioral: 2 coding: Did well on all 4, optimal solutions. 1 Sys design: Dint do well prob between bad & okay 2 Sys design: Did well but not good enough for E5 as in I w
- vote Microsoft Interview event: rate my chances Hi blind, Blind tax: TC: 90k 🥜 Just finished a Microsoft interview event for the day. I’d appreciate any ratings of my odds. I’m hopeful but don’t wanna get myself too hype Interview 1 - found an acceptable solution but pointed out it wasn’t optimal space wise because of appending to strings bei
- Google Winter 2020 internship - HC asked for one addition interview My first interview was really, really good (1 lc ez and 1 lc hard and I got the optimal solutions for both and had a really nice conversation with the dude overall). Second interview was weird AF. Like started with lc easy - did it in 3 mins. Followed up with lc hard. I start solving and actually g
- I have failed 4 onsite in the past 6 months I hit 2 YOE and so I thought maybe it’s a good time to start looking for a better opportunity with better pay. I studied LC for a month and a half and I would say I’m really solid on LC Mediums but hards I struggle a bit. My end result is multiple failures and tons of failed OA. OA Failure: Palan
- Capital One - Terrible interview Interviewing for intern positions at Capital One. I took this interview as practice for other interviews and I had the worst experience ever. For the coding portion, interviewer gave me a leetcode hard. I coded a solution, asked him if it looked good. Took 5 minutes to read it, which told me he wasn
- Less than perfect FB phone interview So about a month ago I had a phone screen and it went horrible. Dude spent the entire time grilling me on the first question that we didn’t even have time to start on the second. I was sure I failed but the next day I was requested a follow-up. I gave myself some time and just had my follow-up yest
- How to cut interview short as an interviewee if the interviewers don’t show respect? Recently I interviewed for a position at Dell Cloud. It’s such a disaster. Interviewers were not paying attention and doing chores on his house while leaving me coding the solution. Another instance was the guy didn’t even care what we are doing. He was expecting a call from someone and took off sho
- Does Instacart consider " Thought process & Approach " in a coding question ? Does Instacart consider the solution approach in evaluation of a onsite Coding round or the baseline requirement is to pass all the TCs 100% on CodeSignal ? My code was working perfect , passed few test cases but failed few others because I didn't do a trim() on the input and extra spaces creeped i
- Worst experience with Microsoft Was called to a drive from Microsoft last week. I was not prepared but I was not actively looking either, so gave interviews without any expectations. First round: 2 questions were asked, solved both with optimal time complexity - Interviewer liked both the solutions, wrapped up with 5 mins to spare
- Rant over the interview So I was interviewed by one of the fangs. Interview asked me a question which I solved recursively. Then dude asked me to solve the question iteratively. I explained the solution to him however (my bad) I couldn't complete the code correctly. (It was not even coderpad or hackerrank). Just a plain e
- Leetcode difficult problems marked as "Easy" These days, even DP/bactracking problems are marked as "easy" in leetcode. Even after solving 600+ problems, it takes 1-2 hours for my to analyze and write the code(most of the times i sneek into the solution to get some hints) Now the real frustration comes when the interviewer comes up with such
- link Solution to fear of approaching girls in busy workspaces Hi Blind, i was sitting in library today, and a girl that i like sat in front of me. Woww, so awesome dream come true. To be honest here i have noticed that girl noticing me many times, but today she wasn't paying much attention. Idk reason, how would I, AM A NERD ? But here comes this interesting t
- Oci interview Just had a bizzare oci interview , had a virtual interview set over 2 days, the last day interview was probably the worst interview exp I had. Second day was even more strange, I finished the coding after that I was told that this is not the question basically he wanted me to just calll the methods
- Combinatorics questions asked in Amazon interview: L7 SDM (Dude was from QA background) asked me some combinatorics questions (no code required). 6 boys and 6 girls at at party shake hands with each other: -How may handshakes if there are no restrictions : 12c2 = 66 -No B:G type handshakes allowed: 6c2 * 2 = 30 If all possible 5 letter permutation
- Ever had a really easy Facebook onsite ? Hi guys, Just like the title says - I recently had a Facebook onsite and it was quite easy and yet I got rejected (Not mad, I'm sure there are far better candidates than me) Anyways, I just wanted to retell my experience and someone might be able to point out, what I did wrong, despite of it being
- eBay hiring like this? Got hooked up by 3rd party recruiter to an SDE position at eBay. Wasn’t very interested but gave it a try. No HR call or tech screening, booked 6 hours virtual onsite right away, split into 3 sessions. (The recruiter may have pushed the process a bit.) First 2 sessions were pair programming. The f
- Switching from SWE to PM sorry if is long I recently asked a question here on blind “Why PM” because i have been thinking about switching. A little background. I graduated a year ago. It took me awhile get a SWE job but after i started i realized how much i prefer overseeing the product life cycle, writting requirements a
- What to do if your manager and Sr. make you feel inferior? I'm a mid-level designer but my Sr. has pulled me aside a couple of times telling me: - he doesn't like being challenged so much by me (I'm asking questions because I thought my job was to understand the problems and help find the solutions to them) - that I'm just a Jr. (I'm not) - that I can get
- link Interview at Twitch: Experience Few months back I interviewed at Twitch for SSE. Experience. Screening: Asked to solve 1 Easy and 1 Hard LC problem in 20 min. Solved both in 10 minutes as I had seen the Hard problem already on LC. Result: Cleared. Onsite: 3 rounds of LC and 1 System design. All 3 rounds were given Hard LC probl
- Bungalow interview experience Sorry for the rant. I applied for Bungalow.com for a senior position and had gone through the interview. - Recruiter call - Hiring manager call( he sounded blah or probably cold about anything I'd say) - take home coding assessment, it was about 3-4 hours task, which I finished (this take home
- Career advice for an old dude I’m an old dude that has been writing software for many years. My career has spanned design, project management and director level positions, but I have loved writing code most of all. So I’ve decided to go back to a developer job and write Java. It’s not even about the money anymore. I just want to
- Overworked, underpaid SWE in a startup looking for opportunities I am a SWE with 2 yoe. Graduated with a master's in 2019, and have been working for an ecommerce startup in the DFW area since. Given the size of the company, I was given big responsibilities very early on, and quicky rose through the ranks. I proved myself beyond expectations. To the extent that it
- I just had a really good FB Interview experience I honestly hear everywhere that FB interviews suck but it wasn't my experience. I've had 4 rounds of interview today. Systems design went well that we were discussing details of the designing product (for some reason it felt more like data structures design rather than back end) but Interviewer said
- Have you ever been denied a job and then talk them into hiring you? SE I’m getting denied from Front End Software Engineering jobs left and right for knowledge gaps in my skill set: “sorry we need someone who can write Apollo GraphQL on day one,” or “Sorry but you’re Redux skills just aren’t up to par with what we are looking for.” I wish I could respond with the foll
