I'm in disbelief. I'm a person who is kind of dumb - got good grades in school, but it was not effortless. I'm not the strongest programmer nor the fastest one. I've made tons of mistakes, not only career wise, but in my personal life. Started the interview process in December and had SO many rejections, from smaller companies, big companies, you name it. I could never get past the first technical screen. I was learning to Leetcode, but it was not intuitive. I did not just "pick it up" again after not doing that type of programming for years. Then something clicked. My anxiety melted away when I realized that getting a new job would not magically make my life amazing. I realized that having the concept of a "dream company" is a dangerous thing. Suddenly the goal became smaller and more attainable: find a place where you'd be happier than your current job. After realizing this, I decided to switch up my interview style. I focused on learning and thus, my leetcode performance skyrocketed. I started understanding the problems rather than focusing on having a 100% perfect solution. I started treating the interviewers like friends, which caused my anxiety to drop, and naturally I started performing better in interviews. Anyways, I can't really believe this happened to me since I thought these top companies were unattainable - especially after failing interviews EVERYWHERE barely two months ago. Update: woah, crazy amount of responses. I'm nervous about getting identified so I'll just say I'm L3 Google and L61 Microsoft. Including equity, near doubling or doubling my current TC. For those looking for advice, I didn't do anything specific for prep other than the normal routes. Leetcode premium, CTCI, grokking system design, and practicing with friends were my go-tos. I found it really fun and helpful to work with friends as it forces you to get better at communicating your thought process. I completed around 150 LC. If I became stuck on a problem after 20 minutes of really trying, then I'd look at the solutions, really try to understand them, and then revisit the problem the next day and try to implement what I learned. The leetcode strategies were helpful but my mindset turned out to be the single most important thing for me. If I started feeling burned out and unmotivated to learn, I took a break from leetcoding for a few days and tried to focus on my relationships or hobbies. I noticed if I kept pushing myself, I would continue to do poorly until I gave myself a proper break. I can see how this post looks like humblebragging! I'm happy and excited because of where I came from - I grew up poor and different than other children and just generally wasn't very happy. Had low self esteem all my life and just now learning what it feels like to feel comfortable in my own skin. TC: 104k Yoe: 3 #tech #swe
great job. TC and level for the offers?
Coin is sooo butthurt 🤣
Ted talk! Listen to me
We had a meeting yesterday. You were not invited.
Congratulations
congratulations. Now pay the tax and give us the numbers
Good. What are you choosing. The downlevel to a software intern role at google or peanuts at microsoft
mad?
Salty
Congratulations! Happy for you
what did you use to prep other than lc?
interested to know as well
Word, would like to know too.
congrats!
You saying this and then having a cap makes it even the more Hilarious
You shifted your mental state, and your physical reality bent to this new state.
Tony Robins ?
Pff... Neville Goddard
Congrats! 🍻