Tldr- 13 reject, 2 offers I hope my story will help others who are interviewing and also give some insight in current job market. My plan was to start interviewing with trial companies and be ready for real companies. But the plan went up in smoke due to the hiring freeze everywhere. Rejected after phone screen - 1. Verily - Interview went ok. No response. Both recruiters fired. 2. LinkedIn - LC hard. Solved. Messed up follow up questions. 3. Door dash - LC hard. Was able to solve and run the code. Needed 1 hint. 4. Shopify - Rejected after "life story" round. 5. Rippling - Perfect interview and rejected. Onsite - 6. Goat - Rejected after on-site. Simple interview. 7. Thousand eyes - rejected after on-site. 1 LC hard. 8. Indeed - Very long interview. 5 interviews. 2-3 were 1.5 hrs long. Mix of lc hard and medium 9. Amazon - banned for 2 years. 10. FB - Onsite cancelled. Phone screen was 1 med + 1 hard. 11. Uber - On-site cancelled. 12. Twilio - Onsite cancelled midway after completing 2 rounds 𤣠13. Sofi - Still waiting them to schedule onsite. Recruiter emails once every 2 weeks saying "blah" position is closed and now he is scheduling for "blah" 14. Coupang - Senior offer. 350k + 35 sign on. Declined 15. OCI - one round had Java based questions. Offer 310k + 40 sign on. Declined. Almost every company asked at least one LC hard. Prep : 30 LC in last 3-6 months. ~250 3 years back. 1 hr of LP before Amazon interview. 4-5 chapters of Alex Xu system design. Self review: Good at solving and explaining coding questions. Good at design, bad at "design Facebook" in 20-30 mins. My design becomes - I can use this but it won't work for this so I need to do this but it won't work for that and so on. Bad at behavior/LP rounds. 275k/L63 Edit - Lot of questions about Amazon ban. It is a 2 year cool down period as per the recruiter. I did bad in interview but 2 years was a shock for me. Didn't cheat or lied about anything. https://us.teamblind.com/s/QwQ4wV8V
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You can get banned from Amazon for 2 years?! Lol what did you do, try to bang the hiring manager?
He farted durring the interview
Didnât utter a single LP
Why banned for 2 years at amazon?
What did you do to get banned by Amazon for two years? Is being banned a reliable way to stop Amazon's recruiters from spamming my inbox with 10+ emails per week?
Yoe?
So what is your goal here?
Thank you for the reminder that most of us screen with dozens (or even hundreds) of companies before getting an offer. It's not the "instant success" that Blind posters give the impression of. I loved the Shopify "rejected after life story" round. That sounds like a good one to stay away from.
It is a round with the recruiter after the phone screen. Talks about your school, college and every job.
Seen it happen with PayPal too. It's ridiculous recruiter gets to decide that lol.
What is your target TC? Declining both offers because?
Why didn't you accept either of these two offers? TC is reasonably higher than current...
Both have bad wlb so need at least 400. I would have accepted G or LinkedIn for 350.
how long did it take to do all these interviews? Assuming you were working. I've been interviewing on and off since april and failed almost all onsite and didn't the only offer I had since the TC is lower
What position did you apply for Lnkd? How many questions in the phone screen round?
Amazon is just like that
wtf I have never seen 2 year ban so far Will love to know details