Companies like G, Fb and Amazon which do generic hiring are better and atleast little luck based on interviewer. Otherwise, if we apply for a single opening like backend developer, full stack engineer at a company like Apple, Stripe, Snap etc. all the rounds have to be picture perfect with no errors, not even a little step outta the line. Definitely not this crazy when I last tried 2 years back. YOE: 7 TC: 175k #engineering #interview #hiring #software
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In the same boat.. after each bar raiser I have to raise the relaxing bar on weekends
After each bar raiser I've hit the bar twice harder.
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Going through the same thing...š©
Do people think this is the new norm? or will things stabilize post pandemic
Yes, new norm
There's no post pandemic. We need to learn to live with it.
Every year more kids come in who know more about Blind and Leetcode. More people who arenāt engineers see that LC is a way to break in without having a degree or experience. Donāt know H1b impact. The standard has become ācan you pass our standardized test or not?ā which means that more people will try to game the system, which means the bars have to get higher. What else can you expect from a high paying industry where barrier to entry is based on data structure and algorithm knowledge? Not to mention thereās a pandemic, which compounds all the previous problems. Survival of the fittest. Welcome to the new normal.
^this
Agree. The funny thing is that the more experienced I become at my job solving real world problems looking at the complex codebases, the worse I become to crack any interview where only excellent algorithm skills are needed.
Had a perfect telephonic with Stripe.. ran and executed 2 parts, wrote all test cases and had a pleasant conversation with the interviewer. He said he is very happy with the program and output. Today I got a reject š¤£š¤£ what do you want me to do? sell my soul to satan?
Jeez... What was the feedback?
nothing is perfect. you mismeasured.
Yes the bar is getting higher.
Those who get good at leetcode interviews get through. Eventually, they become the interviewers, continuing the cycle.
More people can do algos now so just being a good coder won't work. You have to give right behavioral signals, be generally likeable, and be able to look someone in the eye and talk to them.
Like were a mask of brad pitt or dennis ritchie during the interview
This 100%! I've been on so many interviews hiring people over my last several positions where bad attitude lost someone the offer. I will always hire the candidate with less LC skills who has an awesome attitude and kick ass ability to learn quickly vs a LC master who thinks they know everything. You have to be aware of more than just your technical answer. Have the emotional intelligences to ensure you are selling yourself as a employee, coworker, all around team member, and not just as a coder. I've been in several interviews where candidates tell a story of technical accomplishments and its straight up cringe worthy (but there are proud of it, completely missing outside perspectives)!
I feel ya, experiencing the same. Its been disheartening.
What about fresh grad roles? Does serviceNow look for anything specific apart from LC?
Man/Woman! If youāre a new grad then you might need to look elsewhere. Try to get into a big one like MFANG or something that will push you to grow technically- faster, at least for the 1st year or two. At SNOW if youāre not in the San Diego office, you will stagnate af, and since youāre a new grad there wont be much to show on the resume. I was asked questions from the Blindās 75 question list mainly and some basic resume and experience stuff. But nonetheless if you are aiming for here, if you have the basics down, you know how to traverse a tree, do binary search, bfs, dfs and some best practices about coding, you should be good.