I always fuck up algorithm interviews and never made it past the first round at prestigious companies. I would do anything to work at google or Facebook. But I'm not smart. I've had my iq measured and it's 126 but my PRI (abstract reasoning) is 105. Therefore novel problems are really hard for me. I've failed the interviews at google/fb twice. I'm willing to put in all the work possible to get in but only if it's possible. I'm not trolling, I genuinely want to know: is it possible to pass the algos interviews at Google as an sde with an average iq and hard work? I've failed twice before, and I want to make it in, or at least past the first round. Please no motivational lies. I want honest replies as to whether it's possible or not.
Yes, you can totally pass interviews being dumb if you practice enough
Can you solve the problems in a non interview setting? In my case, I can solve the problems, but the pressure to come up with a solution quickly is clouding my thinking. If you are a 15K marathon runner, it is very hard to win a 100m race. Interviewing in 45mins is a race. I know it is hard to recreate interview pressure, but you have to practice in the right setting. I am now doing headstands while working on leetcode hard problems.
No I can't. I'm bad at these problems. I'd like to become good though.
Watch this talk all the way through. I think it’ll help you. https://youtu.be/9k93uYhg9Xc
That doesn't help me become better at problems
If you haven’t watched it, please do so. It’s probably not what you think. As another poster mentioned you’ll get better with practice. The person giving the talk was in a very similar situation to yours, hence the recommendation!
If you don't have something to add to Goog or fb it's an automatic no-hire. Googliness similar to amazon LPs is measured in terms of you T shape being an expert in some area. Do something that will make the company want to hire you regardless of the interview. Plenty of people on here SDE3+ have claimed to do perfect interviews at those companies and still get no hire. I have 3 good friends working for G and all are outstanding have passion and have delivered results in one particular area (AI, image proc, networking). They claimed their interviews weren't particularly different from Amazon and gave average performance. Believe me Google doesn't care if you can balance a red black tree, they want your ideas. And they want you to be female.
Well for a new grad that isn't true and most hires there aren't people who coded a cure for aids
Also I'd rather be in a position where I cruise through the interviews but get rejected because I give no value vs not getting through the interviews. Can you tell me whether it's possible for someone as intelligent as me to get in?
Only practice will help. You can also check interview preparation bootcamps and have some mock interviews with people from those companies. Make sure everything is fine with behavioral part as well.
That's my question: will practice help? With my iq, and the fact I've failed twice on the first round, maybe I'm just too stupid. Will practice help?
Yes, it will. With practice you will start recognizing patterns in different provlems and improve code fluency. Mock interviews are also very helpful before actual interviews.
Judging by this thread and your other recent thread, it seems you suffer from a high fear of failure and/or lack of self-confidence that you should look into. Also, throw all that prestigious bullshit talk out the window. Ain’t nothing prestigious about working at any of these companies. Lastly, as others have told you, IQ is only one component in the equation for your success. Does it help? Sure to a point, but the people who are successful in their field are largely so because they have put in the effort to make it happen. There are no shortcuts, just identification of your weaknesses and a laser focus on doing what it takes to improve yourself in that area.
I did identify my weakness. It's that I am unable to solve these problems. I don't want this "prestige is useless" shit. I want to know an honest answer as to whether a guy with average iq can pass the algorithm interviews at google or no
It's all Cs fundamentals in Google interviews. There's no crazy estimation or anything. You can solve the problem if you can understand the Cs fundamentals. Just go through algorithm design manual then practice all problems on leetcode. You can do it. Anyone can really. Look at the hardest type of problems for you. Say it's dynamic programming. Go through all the common problems. Make up similar problems yourself and code their solutions. Do questions on leetcode and geekforgeek in that area. At some point you will expect to be able to solve the next problem in the set. Once you reach that point, move on to your next weak area. Every time you go to an interview and fail practise problems in the area that you failed until you can pass any similar problems in that area. Keep doing this and your skill builds up. Practice on top coder if it's the time pressure. Most likely you have an unrealistic expecration of how well other people do. Most people don't go from never seen this to perfect whiteboard code with no help. Get better and better and you will get over the bar. If you just say youre not smart enough and use that as an excuse to not learn then of course you will never pass the interviews. Keep practicing and practicing and remove the unrealistic expectation. See if there is a chance to do interviews yourself and then see how other people think and notice there are very few as good as you are thinking Googlers are.
Can you solve the D2F ratio?
IQ is subjective. Don't let a number determine who you are. Suck it up and continue to practice until you get it right. This is coming from a person who had a non technical major and is now in an engineer role.
This guy is a fucking troll. He wrote a very similar question on blind about his IQ and getting into Google. He is causing people to waste their time trying to "help" him.
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Well, you passed at amazon
But it's Amazon
Amazon new grad bar is really really low. From my college 60% CS grads join Amazon. Some were offered position even without going onsite.