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Hey SWE here, recently I interviewed for L4 at Goog, Fb, snap and two sigma, and somehow was lucky enough to get offers from all. Ended up picking Google bc of comp to wlb ratio. Thought I’d give back to the community :) so AMA TC: 300k, 3yoe
How did you select leetcode problems to practice? And how many did you do?
Eh I didn’t count; but really not that many. Maybe 60-80
I got premium so I just went through most popular company-wise questions
Thats her😂
What kinds of questions did you get? How do you do on leetcode contest?
Mostly graphs and lists. Bisect based questions were super popular!!
Were Facebook questions tagged? For graph just DFS/bfs type stuff or anything tricky?
How much total time you gave for prep? Coding plus system design
I spent a month and a half prepping
All days? Hours?
Can you share offer breakdowns? Mostly curious about fb 2s and google as im expecting to be comparing the same shortly
+1 for this. I would be super interested (and grateful) if you could do a breakdown for 2s vs Google in terms of proposed TC. Thanks :)
How were the interviews different in each company? Any tips for each company? What level were you at before interviewing, previous TC and where did you work?
Any suggestion for engineers who have FB and G interviews
Do as many mock interviews as possible; try to get acclimated to feeling a little nervous/anxious (they are nothing but a form of energy). It’s hard to think creatively if you’re nervous, so try to practice as much as possible to be in a similar scenario
Also what’s the worst case? You don’t make it to G/Fb; that doesn’t mean that’s the end of your career? My point is, try to lessen the weight of how much a specific interview means to you; at the end of the day it’s just a job :)
Are you naturally gifted when it comes to LC style coding (e.g. participated in reputed coding challenges) or did you too keep solving LC until you got good at it? If latter, can you share how you approached LC problem solving?
So a part of it is pattern detection; there’s no point solving millions of LC problems if you aren’t timing and assessing yourself after. Also try to bucket every problem into a more generic form, so that you can reduce a problem (that you come across for the first time) to one of those generic types
Also again, I can’t insist enough on this; always time yourself when you’re doing leetcode; if you’re spending more than hour doing a medium, you’re approaching it incorrectly
Any things on your resume that makes you stand out?
Nothing specific really; went to a top 5 CS public school; besides that though, nothing really impressive
Lmao well that counts…
Did you use common resources for system design practice?
What are common resources?
I invested in the educative.io course (Grokking the system design). After that, I did a ton of mock interviews; they helped a lot