Laid off in January and have several company interviews lined up in the next two weeks. It's been a while since the last time I interviewed, so I’m rusty in both leetcode and system design. My work experience at Google didn't provide much help in these areas. So far, I've completed about 70 leetcode questions and briefly looked over DDIA. A friend recommended that I should take some mock interviews to help me prepare quickly. Has anyone tried mock interviews on websites like interviewing.io, pramp, or meetapro? If so, which one would you recommend?" Are there any other resources that can give me a steroid shot? Thanks! 🙏🏽 #airbnb #square #atlassian #bytedance #netflix #amazon #apple #uber #microsoft #layoff #interview
We’re you laid off from Meta?
I was not laid off. Did the interviews when I was still in OD
It does help. But not needed for coding round
Yes 💯
Go do 700 LC questions, not 70
Not true. Quality is more important than quantity. Go for curated or company tagged lists. My experience is if you are fine with basic iteration/operation on strings and lists, DS (set, incrementing maps, heap), backtrack, DP, BFS DFS, Union Find and some topological sort questions you will be comfortable in any interview. You can cover these in 50 questions. Do not go in an interview with a mindset that you would know it already. You will have to fight through and think on the spot. Curated questions and revision is all you need. If you fail a question go back to your base and see what you missed.
You need to get really good at solving these questions and very familiar with the libraries you use. 70 isn't enough, this needs to be second nature. More is always better.
Hey, if you're looking for a LC partner/mock interviewer feel free to DM me.
I have tried Interviewing.io. I took about 10 before my interviews most of them were very good and detailed. I was able to crack both M interviews. Currently in Msft.
How are you getting calls. Damn is it just faang on resume that is needed
Find friends to refer or post it on blind.
What are some of the companies you are interviewing
- pramp > it's free, so why not. a bit hit or miss but definitely some good practice - paid services > fastest way to ramp up to standards expected in an interview. use with caution since they become expensive fast. look at it this way, you're gonna find a job in the next 3-6months ideally. if you can accelerate the timeline by even a week, the paid mock services will usually have paid for themselves. and you can avoid a lot of unnecessary frustration getting rejected without understanding why. would also recommend checking out exponent and prepfully alongside the others you mentioned. prepfully for the volume (they are the most reasonably priced by far, so you can do more mocks within whatever budget you set), and exponent for the fact that you can pick your own coaches.
interviewing.io try free ones first. The platform is very realistic.
Are you still on payroll
Yes, 2 months, soon over