Started interviewing again after 3 years, feeling a bit discouraged as I failed twitch and splunk first round of phone screens(haven’t heard from recruiters so I assumed so) and square wants to add an additional round of phone interview with me. I have been doing LC for a month, although I solved the questions during the interviews but I think I didn’t solve the question quick enough with twitch, square interviewer helped me during the follow up question, and didn’t get what splunk interviewer wanted during the follow up when they asked for optimization for memory allocation when I used python deque. Interviewer ended my interview after 30 mins bc we ‘ran out of time’. I have a few more interviews lined up, planning to go harder on LC, but feeling p scared for my google on-site interview end of this month. Google fast tracked me to the on-site without phone interviews. I feel even more stressed out now bc they were so nice to me. Any advice? How many interviews do you guys usually fail when you start interviewing again? How not to feel discouraged when you fail first round? Thanks!
Yes, I was facing similar issue while preparing. I would suggest take mock interviews and do timed practice. Usually easy question should take 15 minutes and medium 25 minutes
Would you suggest using an online service to do mock interviews or ask ur friends to interview you?
Join sdeskills.com
How did you get fast tracked by Google?
Recruiter found me on LinkedIn and I guess my resume looked good (?) Recruiter said google is hiring aggressively atm, they would fast track people who seem good
What level are you targeting?
Senior.. I should have applied to L4 tbh since I just got promoted to senior at a startup, oh well
Get some more LC under your belt and consider doing some mock interviews. A month isn't a super long time.
Thank u for the reply! I’m seeing a few people who have done 2 phone interviews with square. Does this happen a lot with square? I’m assuming I didn’t do too well but well enough for a redeeming chance?
I'm not involved in the interviewing process yet I'm pretty new to the company, but generally that would mean they got a weak signal or you got a neutral hire rating.