In past couple of months, I have failed a Google onsite, Backed out from Uber onsite and failed LinkedIn technical phone screen. I have done over 200+ questions on LC ( mostly medium and hard) and I am finding it tough to navigate from here. I am getting bored at my job but workload is enough to keep me busy. Any tips on how to overcoming the rejection and prepare? I used to blame my depression and anxiety for my performance at interviews but I have realized that that is not going away ,so maybe a change of job is what should fix it. Yoe: 5 TC: 180K
Do some practice interviews with companies you don’t really want to work for. Crack those, get some confidence, get into the right frame of mind to interview and then go for the companies you really want to work for.
Please share what do you think it went wrong in the interview. Keep practicing! And keep the log of what went wrong
Toastmasters has really helped me with anxiety issues, assuming your anxiety issues are of the social anxiety variety. I’d really recommend it. Just make sure it’s a supportive, but not codling group.
Uhm... 200+ might not be enough, make sure to cover https://www.teamblind.com/article/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU . Also, the problem-solving skill might or might not be correlating with the number of problems you've solved on LC (especially if you're using a strat of looking up for a solution quickly). If it's the case - please follow the advice, otherwise, ignore. I actually switched to Easy problems on LeetCode and <900 problems on CodeForces just to force me to think about the problems more deeply, those are simple problems which in most of the cases might be solved by brute force, so it teaches you not to overthink during the interview and at least to come up with some sort of the solution, believe me this might be more useful than 500-600LC. Also, for Google, repeat parallel computing/concurrent programming for your language of choice. This is the must as in 80% of cases you'll get questions on that.
Good advice!
Thanks. This is very helpful. Although, I do not tend to see answers quickly sometime I do get into a mental block. This happened to me during phone screen where I just missed the point / trick. Also, I think I struggle with speed. I think the companies expect to have like two LC mediums done in 45 minutes which is something I struggle with. Any tips on that? I guess more and more timed practice should help. But when you don’t get a solution, timed practice is not much help
Do you know why you’re actually failing? I’m in a similar boat, pm me
Please add me to your group 😊🤗
I’m in a similar boat, getting demotivated with rejections, PM me as well may be we can do some mock interviews etc
I am in the same boat as you are. I prepared at the beginning of the year Around 200 LC mixture of easy, medium and hard but had a couple of terrible phone screens and that broke my confidence. I made a few mistakes -get some practice with companies you are not going to pursue or with other folks; -do the easy LC and spend decent amount of time before you look up solution, try to solve the problems the inefficient way first if you are stuck and then something might click. I took a break after my first attempt and now I am onto my second attempt in a more deliberate way -a spreadsheet with problem, topic and how much time I took to solve it, notewhat you missed and then returning to it after a few weeks has been helpful, so has been solving a topic related problems, I noticed I was screwing up recursion and pointers -so those are the ones I started with. Last thing, I am trying to not let a bad day at LC get me down the next day and trying to keep up a sustainable cadence. Message me if you want to do mock interviews
I see a lot of folks are preparing for interviews , I’m in a similar boat. I created this Slack channel https://join.slack.com/t/codingintervi-wmy7979/shared_invite/enQtNzU1OTAxMDM0MDg1LWYyNWRlODIxMTJiMzI5Mzk4ZGM3MTJjNTI5Y2IyNmU2NWQwNWJkZGU0NmZmY2U4NTg2MjQ2ODEyODA3ZWU2ZWY Where we can sync up daily on a topic and solve a leet code problem. Please join if you are interested.
This process is getting pretty exhausting. I think my manager has realized that I am interviewing with other companies and he is always behind my back now for updates and all. I am worried if he puts me on pip before I am able to get out of here. TC 240k.
Do you know the reason why you couldn’t make it? Is it behavioral interview/ system design or the coding ? I had failed few interviews last year as I fully relied on cracking the coding interview book and Glassdoor samples which is not enough to pass interviews these days