Interestingly this is the first year I went to onsites without practicing many LC problems, for the past few years I've all allocated 2 to 3 months to practice LC before onsites. LC problems practiced last year is around 500, only got offers from Salesforce and Microsoft. LC problems practiced this year is less than 50, got offers from: Lyft Instacart Snap Coursera Chime Apple Pinterest Google Pending onsites with Facebook, Coinbase, Square, Uber I guess luck plays a big role here, didn't receive BS coding questions in any of these onsites. Also I have 5 yoe now so I think behavior round and design round definitely became more important. One learning I have is make sure to clarify what your system design interviewer wants to focus on, for smaller companies they tend to care more about API design and for larger companies they care more about scalable architecture. TC 230k Yoe 5 in backend
What are the best three offers of the top TC?
question: were your on-sites last year real on-sites or virtual on-sites? I believe the experience and outcome between these can be vastly different esp if you're allergic to physical whiteboards like me.
Also virtual last year
What do you mean API design not scalability? They just want the actual APIs you would use and how the data is laid out in DB, and like some pseudocode of how an app server would perform the business logic?
Yes like that
Actually same here! I practiced a ton in 2017 (several months) and got 2 offers. I practiced one month this time and got 6 offers
Wow...great Congratulations
I’m interviewing with chime, can you share your offer OP?
And then you decided to wake up.
Lol okay
How do you get so many interviews with so many big techs?
5 years in Azure and AWS cloud
That’s. Quite. Unbelievable. Congratulations! What do you mean by BS coding questions? Most companies you have mentioned are famous for asking LC-hards like Lyft, Snap, Pinterest, even Google. Or were you interviews for front-end or mobile?
I still cannot finish a hard LC problem under 30mins with optimal solution if I haven't seen it before, luckily the LC hard ones I got from these companies are similar to ones I have seen before, there was one I haven't seen before so I only had enough time to implement n square solution but I verbally talked about linear approach.
I interviewed for backend