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I’ve been a SWE for about 2 years professionally now with a few internships as well and I’ve never had any complaints about my performance. Generally in reviews I’ve been told I’m doing a good job. Currently in a relatively new role and getting settled on my new team and haven’t had a formal review yet but from what my manager has said, it sounds like I’m doing well/meeting expectations. Basically been taking on some tasks and on and off pair programming with other people on team to get more familiar with our systems/apps. Recently however, I’ve been questioning myself and my ability. I applied for a few SWE roles at a few hedge funds a few weeks ago (Two Sigma, Citadel, etc), got through to a few second rounds and final rounds, felt like I did pretty well but didn’t get any. This was kinda expected since I know they are extremely hard to get into, on the same level or harder than FAANG. What’s making me doubt myself is that by two of the funds, I was told I wasn’t “technical enough”. Idk if that’s just a blanket response or if it’s something I really need to worry about. Potentially feeling a lot of what I hope is imposter syndrome and not being a bad SWE. Should I worry about what the hedge funds said or is it nothing to worry about, it’s just them being picky?
Leetcode != SWE
1. Work and leetcode not the same 2. You find different types of software engineers and all of them are useful to company. You only hear about the coding god and not about the others. People who can talk about their problem while breaking it down to smaller components, people who get along well with others, people who drive discussions and are customer oriented etc etc. Find your niche and become good at it.
Being worried and improving are not the same thing! Maybe you need to work on your algorithms skills and improve your knowledge of the inner workings of computers and programming languages as anyone with 2 years experience. This, however, is not a cause for worry. Improve if you want more!
You seem pretty new in the software world. I think that most experienced SWE have bombed interviews. I have had terrible, terrible interviews - one time, they explicitly changed their line of questioning from platform architecture down to “what are the seven network layers?” But, it’s fine. Everyone bombs interviews here and there. You will also find interviews that just fit! Look at the bigger picture - interview every chance you can so that you learn to do well for the ones that matter.
Hedge funds are definitely harder than fang. I never pass resume screen🤧 for internships and new grad fte🤧🤧🤧 even if I did pass all tests on OA
Robinhood told me the same thing. I happily said thank you for the opportunity and accepted my Google offer. An interview is a very small window into what you know and sometimes they look in the wrong area. Don't let it get you down.
Thank you for the reassurance, really appreciate it