Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering #software #referral #hiring #jobhunt Please drop a comment so I can DM you my info. Thanks! LC 160+ Following are my COVID interview experiences so far (March - present) #Amazon- Was asked word search-2 from LC in the telephonic round, solved it, but wrote the boundary exit conditions during the DFS repetitively. He pointed that out and was changing it, when time got over. Recruiter gave a feedback that I am "strong on DS and algos but not on code-readability. Try in 6 months". #Cohesity- Went well until the final round where the interviewer gave me some miscellaneous question he didn't understand fully. He gives me alphabets (he gave me a long explanation of how they weren't "alphabets" first, and then called them "strings" and then "elements" and finally decided that it was irrelevant and proceeded with the main problem. IDK why he spent 10 mins figuring out what they are, and when I started asking questions about it, told that it was irrelevant to the problem) and their positions (Ex- 'A' comes before 'B', 'B' comes before 'C' and so on). I should print them in the right order in the end (ABC in this case). At this point he seemed totally dis-interested and wasn't even listening to what I was saying/asking (Seems like his juice totally ran out explaining the "type" of the input). I asked him how will the input be and he said "however you want it to be". I told him ill take it as an adjacency list (ex - [[A,B],[B,C]] where 1st element indicates it comes before 2nd) and he said "whatever that works in the end". I gave the solution where I store the positions of each character in a map(an adjacency matrix logically) and do a dfs on each character to print the position. I asked him if it was a satisfactory solution. He told me if "I'm satisfied, he's satisfied". I coded (and he seemed like he was working when I was coding) and after I finished, he scrolled my code in like 2 secs and told me the code would work. He later asked me what if there are duplicate positions in the input. I said the map would take care of it, he agreed that it was an invalid testcase and he said he's done with the interview. The recruiter later told me this round got me the reject and that I should "practice more leetcode". Don't know what went wrong here. #Office depot- Recruiter called me and asked why I'm changing jobs so soon (<30 days). Told him I'm on OPT and had to join somewhere for my visa status, and that I want to work as a software developer, and not as a consultant. He asked me questions on my work and said he'll set up an interview in the upcoming week. After 15mins, I got a reject mail. I called him back and asked him what went wrong, he said he doesn't recognize me and cut the call. He's not responding ever since to emails, did not try calling him again. #Ebay - I got an interview call for e-bay SDE new grad 2021 and had 4 rounds virtual onsite, 2 per day. I completed the first two interviews on the first day(1 Object oriented design- chess) and the 2nd was LRU cache with TTL. I solved both of them, and both the interviewers were satisfied with my solutions. Right on the morning of the second day before the interview, I got an email saying my interview was cancelled, no explanations. I assumed they didn't like my first round performance and respected them for not wasting their, nor my time further. However, the person who referred me followed up with the recruiter and got to know that a candidate accepted the offer right on the morning of my interview and hence stopped hiring for that particular team. Now if a manager likes my resume, I'll be picked for an interview again, but hasn't happened since a month. I'm here back to my shitty job, noting minutes of meetings with a software engineering degree. #EY- My current company, though technically is a success, is quite the anti-climax. I was interviewed for a Java developer position. They asked me 2 easy coding, had to code in lambda functions. They also asked about new Java8 features, AWS, DB design, stored procedures and functions. The interviewer did not believe any word of my answers, even though they were right and kept saying he's going to test my technical skills by scheduling more rounds. It seemed like he didn't know what I was talking about, and hence the dis-belief. I told him I'm ready for any further rounds. They hired me in the end. After I joined, the same person who interviewed me turns out, is my manager (On the business side and no technical knowledge AT ALL). He told me I'll work as a business analyst and I will note minutes of meetings for every technical interview I attend. I, to be polite, and not to point any fingers, told him that the recruiter (indirectly YOU) told me I'll be a java developer, but he told me with a sly smile that recruiters aren't really aware of anything. #Bloomberg- Just got a reject from the initial telephonic round. First 15 mins for resume walkover. Next 25 mins for coding. He gave me a lottery system to design with add(email), remove(email) and winner() functions. I used a dynamic array (vector in c++) to store and remove, random function to predict the winner. Not sure what went wrong here either. I was thinking of a better data structure and he asked me why. I told him the approach was too simple, and am thinking of a more efficient structure, especially for remove, because I've to search and delete the element(email) which is O(N) and was seeing if I could do it in O(1). I ended up using the array itself after he suggested my approach is acceptable. Does anyone have a better solution/ insight why I might have got a reject for this? (I also looked up the range of rand() function and told him I don't remember the range FYI). Last 5 mins for my questions for him. #microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #twitter #dropbox #amazon #atlassian #brex #google #instacart #square #twilio #faang #datadog #snowflake #rubrik #bloomberg #stripe #snap #lyft #uber #spotify #apple #robinhood #yelp #vmware
Dm for visa
Can I DM you as well? I am a recent grad (Aug 2020) with 3yoe.
Can I DM you as well? Recent grad with 2yoe in Java/AngularJS/SQL.
If you need to pick a winner at random, this question is same as: https://leetcode.com/problems/insert-delete-getrandom-o1/
Also, Cohesity asked Alien Dictionary on leetcode which is solved by Topological sort
Don't think it's alien dictionary, I've solved it before
Dm for Autodesk
Can I DM you as well? Recent grad with 2yoe in Java/AngularJS/SQL.
Sure
DM for eBay
Dm for Microsoft
Man it really scares me how the recruiters and managers are. Hope you find the job you like.