I joined Shopify London on August 2021. I am affected by stock crash and they pay here is 🥜 I decided to start leetcoding last month and I am preparing intensively, connected with Meta recuiter and scheduled E5 screening for next month. I have some of the questions, I believe this thread can be used for other engineers who are in similar situation. all this question since I am trying to enter a high paying company once in for all. Forgive me if some of my questions are stupid or boring. 1. I already solved Blind75 and now I am solving only FB tagged(tagged for last 6months) problems in leetcode. They are totally 442 problems, do you think it make sense to solve them all before onsite or cover top 50%? Basically considering my timeline, should I give too much importance for numbers or just quality of problems and intuition? 2. Intensive leetcoding is exhausting considering that I work 40 hours a week and I have a kid. Do you suggest me keep doing this or follow slow and steady approach and attend after 4 or 5 months? What are the pros and cons of joining early or later in Meta especially? 3. I never used to Leetcode intensively, So I am learning my weakness and strengths. Whats your advise on best strategy to prepare to cover/find your weakness(Example: I recently doing leetcode online assessment for FB and they are clearly showing what you lack.)? 4. If I want to feel more confident and request postponing the screening by a month, will that leave a bad impression? 5. I solved 45 medium problem in last 15 days, most of them with deeper understanding and some of them with less. When I can say that I am good enough for FB onsite(I know luck involved, but can I say I am good if I solve 80% medium problems in within 20 mins)? 6. I want to attend Top companies in London FB, Google, Snap - Feel free to suggest more or let me know if you can refer me. 7. Where is the best place to attend mocks? I am not sure about pramp quality and interviewing.io is 120$ per interview is bit too much I guess. If any FAANGers people here offer me interiew and feedback I will happily pay them. Please let me know. 8. I feel I am comfortable when solving problems on my own but felling the pressure during interview, how can I tackle this ? 9. Do you suggest any companies where I can attend interview which will be like a practice to my actual interview in FAANG? If I get no FAANGs I can go their as well. Feel free to suggest any advice or inputs. Last but not least : TC: Base : 100k£ Stocks before crash 175k$/3 years now worth paltry 65k$ YOE: 8 years Thank you 🙏 #apple #meta #facebook #faang #google #london #preparation #snap
Based on what work for me, if I fail/succeed, I will share detailed report for the blind community.
Are you L6 in shopify?
L7.
Dm for 2s, top pay in london
Can I dm you for data scientist roles?
1. It wouldn't make sense to solve all of the problems available. The number is 442 now, what do you think makes sense when that number is 1500. Yes, take these problems as reference, learn variety of algorithmic patterns and develop your problem solving skills. 2. Yes, slow and steady approach. You don't wanna rush and lose the opportunity. It definitely would take sometime to be fully ready at Leet Code, varies from person to person, it took my close to 3 months to be interview ready. I'm not aware of pros and cons but I don't see any cons with joining a company late. 4. Definitely not. Let them know you have got some official commitments on the deadline and that you would get less time to prep and that you don't wanna miss this opportunity with low preparation. 5. Sounds like yes to me. If this is a yes, what I said in 2 is probably not applicable. 8. Practice and practice and get comfortable giving interviews. Remember that the interviewers are devs just like you and me, so you don't need to be nervous. 9. Startups
Thank you so much.
1) Go through all! No need to code all, just think of the approach and validate the soln. If you feel something is missing, then go ahead and code. If you are unable to solve a majority => you are not ready 3) Topic wise easy/medium and then go through the hard ones 4) Nah! Feel free to delay 5) I would say a good metric is when you can solve 3 in the contest in 45 mins. Alternatively, if you can solve LC discussion for target company easily 8) MOCKS 9) Amazon
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