Had my worst interview in a long time with Coinbase. Started off terrible because I didn't have a good answer for "why do you want to work here" truth is I just heard good things about Coinbase and thought I would apply but my interviewer wanted some kind of answer that indicated that I wasn't there "just for the money". The entire coding process was him cutting me off to tell me he didn't like my coding choices or thinking it wouldn't work, telling me he couldn't understand my code, and how he likes python better than Java. It was miserable... Anyway, failed that and then today I found out that I failed Google as well. They asked if I was open to feedback and I said of course! Any feedback to improve would be awesome! Well the feedback was you should consider being a TPM...I know that feedback is well intentioned but it really felt like a "you can't hack it as a real dev" gut punch. I have been crushing it at my current job, I just wanted to see what's out there since the stock price dropped like crazy and management doesn't care about attrition. Anyway rant over. Edit: forgot my tax! TC:~$250k YOE:7
Point noted. Now get back to work.
Give it a week you will be back to interviewing and with more enthusiasm than ever. All you need is, apply to few other places. Good luck!
Thanks I really appreciate it. I'll get over it and come back stronger.
'You should consider being a TPM' how rude
I know, I was hoping it was something like "this was a common problem we noticed in your coding rounds...I feel like they genuinely were trying to be helpful.
TPM's a good gig
He likes python better than Java? Is he a data scientist? Get out of there fast!
Oh I just read the second part of your post and now realize it’s a troll. Google would never give feedback that you should consider being a TPM
I wish it was a troll... honestly I think he genuinely intended to be helpful.
OP check this out https://us.teamblind.com/s/3kUfNZjS
Instead of interviewing if you did your job at DocuSign, our stock would be back to ATH in no time
Dan spotted.
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What type of question did coinbase ask? Also if it was LC-style, what difficulty? Thanks
Code an in memory file system that supports mkdir, putFile, getFile. I did a treeNode structure using a hashmap to store the children and another hashmap to store the files since the user would pass in the path. I chose to use use separate maps for the files and the directories. He didn't like that and felt that it was better to have the nodes represent both. I disagree since it makes looping over just nodes or just directories harder.
Actually, he's right. You could have just represented it with one tree structure. See composite pattern. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_pattern
Thanks for sharing, it's rare to hear about the challenges others face in interviews. I feel like blind community just says it's easy, just interview and ask for $600K. Ride off into the sunset and all your problems will vanish.
Yeah, blind is insta for nerds, highlight reel posts only
Glad that it helps. At least some good has come from it.
@op the problem with java is it has lots of verbosity and does it actually run in havkkerrank?
It does, do you think it's worth it to pick up python as my interviewing language to shorten how long it takes to write code?
Yes it is definitely worth to learn python for interviewing… its not hard to learn and its a lot simpler and more readable to code your solution for ds
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Let it roll right off you. Back to leetcode
Thanks.i knocked out another 3 today in-between work.
Definitely doing god's work. Keep it up and in no time we shall meet at the top