I started interviewing recently in Seattle for sde roles. Went to zulily onsite but failed. Qualtrics, 2 phone screens and then failed. Flexport and smartsheet failed after ond phone screen. Feeling low and depressed. I have salesforce loop coming up and then phone interviews with apple, twitter. How do I keep going? If such small companies are rejecting me, I am feeling lost. #interviews
Qualtrics will reject you eventually after onsite if you are much more qualified Than interviwers also so better u didn't waste time with them.
You sound like you'd be fun to work with
I personally have been through a period of my life where I was constantly rejected from big tech. I know it sounds cliché, but someone will see your potential you seriously just have to keep going. If there is anything on our career page where you want a referral so I can bump you up in the process, LMK
A bit concerning that you failed qualtrics. Their interview questions are Leetcode verbatim. I succeeded in my Qualtrics interviews by literally opening the Leetcode question and repeating the answer. One interviewer became suspicious when I accidentally started reading the comments on the page. I said “So that is O(n) time and O(n) space. Wow this is so smart. Solution 2 is the best. Did anyone else use a breadth-first search?” He asked me what’s going on. I had to think of something quick. “Uh, schizophrenia. Those are just my other voices talking...” He he he. Sucker.
Well, morally i didn’t feel right to check leetcode.. but morals can be kept aside while searching a job.. But screen shared with video, no chance of looking up.. Question was straight from LC.. max frequency stack. While i solved it, he wanted a more optimal solution to get max frequency.
Everyone does it. Most of us can’t remember all those algorithms and data structures. Basically, you’re just un-handicapping yourself
Even though I got all coding questions correct in qualtrics onsite I messed up on system design storage estimation part and afraid I will get rejected. Also I assume you interviewed with these companies as you wanted to mere practice before you go for big guns.so just take all of these as a learning and continue working towards ultimate aim whatever that might be
Fair. Qualtrics, I was really interested and for others, i wanted to get to the loops and then decide based on how I like the team.. so it was disheartening.. While i do have others lined up, I am low on confidence going into those interviews.
Don't waste your time at qualitrics. I went thru the loop . All questions answered perfectly even design questions i think i was more equipped with answers than the interviwers.. they kept on thinking for 2 weeks then sent me cold email how am i doing then next day rejection. I thoght they knew i won't join.. I felt quality of engineers are too mediocre just thw package is more
I think the problem might be that you’re not interested in the company or role and it shows. Be genuine. Don’t apply if you don’t even know what they do or can’t answer “Why____?”
Actually I did study about the companies before interviewing with them and had genuine interest. I cannot be a chooser when I know that there isn’t any guarantee that next set of companies will work out. So In my mind gettin an offer is important and then can figure out which one to take.
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How were the interviews? Were you getting difficult questions from Zulily, Flexport, Smartsheet?
Can you share how was flexport coding interviews? Have phone screen coming up
How did it go? What did u get?
What was asked in Zulily phone screen? Was it leetcode?
I think it's not about small or big companies. But more about learning from each failure. I am also actively interviewing and have seen failures in in the intial round. Kind of devastating but every day is new day and something better lies ahead. Just keep on grinding and take a break to rejuvenate. A couple of days break helps in calming you down and gives boost for next prep. Can I dm u for flexport?
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