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 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
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 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
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’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
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
I got an opportunity to interview for L5 Software Engineering role a few weeks ago. I have been busting my ass off on LeetCode cos go big or go home right? I had my first phone chat with the recruiter yesterday, she said it went really well and she that is rooting for me to make it to the end. She ...Read more
What was the worst candidate you have ever interviewed and what they do?
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’ve got contacted by a recruiter to start Citadel SDE interview process, I’m told there will be a phone interview round, then on-site full loop. Anyone interviewed with Citadel before? What questions do they ask? Do they have system design? Behavior questions? Are coding questions just leetcode?
I have a technical interview scheduled at Apple with HM.. I have worked with him couple of years back in QCOM for multiple issue debug in cross team, i was engineer/sr engineer and he was Sr.staff on that time. I am not sure if he still knows me or not (mostly yes) but is it ok to mentioned in the i...Read more
I got a rejection from my Stripe interview, they mentioned it was due to the coding round but refused to provide more feedback. Stripe folks, can you please shed some light -what is the criteria used for coding rounds? I did 2 iterations on the question and had to look up some APIs.
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?
So I just had a phone screen with Apple Media Products... and it was the weirdest interview by far !!! I am a Software Engineer at Amazon (L5) with 4 YOE. My expertise lies in distributed computing. I was interviewing for a team in Apple and my whole interview was in SQL !!! The interviewer asked ...Read more
I had my phone screen with Amazon, such a bad experience, the interviewer was just showing how much he knows. I never felt like this before. What shd I do Update: I passed the phone screen and the recruiter reached out for an onsite, I have decided to move on and politely declined to continue the p...Read more