Vote if you have experience with these companies. Which company had the hardest ONSITE interviews?
Anyone can get into amazon. It’s the trash can of rejects.
wow this guy doesnt seem bitter at all
Almost everyone I know who applied got in. Some of them could not land a single offer anywhere else.
Why is Amazon even on the list,lmao 😂
Jane Street > Google
Google is insanely hard for data science. They are a world class statistics department and if you don’t speak their language you will bomb. Half of them will translate while the other half will turn off if you don’t know the lingo. I have no idea how non-statisticians get in. I got close, made it to on-site but no cigar.
This varies a lot deepending on the role. For instance I hear Airbnb or Dropbox are hands down among the hardest for general SWE. but for frontend they are about average difficulty
I didn't think Dropbox was that hard. Mostly LC mediums. The weirdest bit was they asked about parallel programming paradigms but the recruiter coaches you on that expectation.
Airbnb and LinkedIn are really hard
Another example of my other comment. SWE in general might be hard but LinkedIn's UI eng interview is hands down one of the easiest interviews I ever did. So this is all very role dependent
I didn’t find Palantir’s difficult. Seems like they really care about “culture” fit as well. Technically it seemed quite easy but very enjoyable
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Google is hard mostly because they ask DP. If all other companies start asking DP, only a few will qualify for the role.
What’s DP?
Dynamic Programming (also double penetration).
Someone took a lot of time.... Palantir is the hard but Google is even harder.
I thought Palantir was most difficult?
Palantir might have been back in the day when their valuation was doubling every round and the top Stanford graduates were stepping on each other to get in.