We know the hiring process is broken. Everyone knows this. To retain a job, you just have to do what's required. But to get a job you need to slog, grind and get Lucky. 5 of my friends from my master's at UT Dallas (yeah it's the run of the mill visa university) got into Amazon by cheating on the interviews. Everyone knows Amazon new grad interviews are based on cheating. I was like sure within 2 years all of them will get pipped. Guess what all of them are now SDE 2 in Seattle and with the recent pay bumps they are sitting pretty at 250-270k 😞😞😞 Another friend of mine cheated on interviews with Salesforce(she had a second laptop open and googled the question). and she is now SMTS in 2 years. Not sure about her exact income but it has to be 230k at least. ☹️☹️☹️☹️ What a clownshow the interviews have become. Seriously we need to get rid of such virtual interviews and fly candidates out to onsites else my fellow friends will keep cheating.😡😡😡😡 EDIT - For those wondering how she could cheat with a second laptop. Main laptop on which interview is held was behind the first one. And this second one was connected with a keyboard. First laptop screen is bent in order to ensure second laptop right screen is immediately visible. Neck movement is strictly avoided. Only eye movement is done to look at both the screen. Then as the question is prompted, start typing it out on the second laptop. 50% of the times it will be already a common LC question. The Salesforce girl had all the questions on her phone screen plus onsite that were asked from LC top 100. Just typing the keywords of the question on Google will give you the correct lC QUESTION link. Then you just read the solution quickly in 5-10 minutes (usually top voted ones as they are short and crisp). Then spit it out. For those that are wondering how can someone read a solution in 5 minutes and understand it ? Oh well she isn't dumb. She did solve 75-100 problems during the course of her master's degree of 2 years. She just can't solve any question on her own but if a solution is prompted to her then she can grasp it (unless it's a hard LC question category). I am not making this up, she actually did this and showed us how she did it.
Have you thought of sharing this feedback with your "fellow friends"??
What feedback. They are my friends. I don't want to offend them and lose my friendship
OP what do you mean by your friends "cheated" in the interview? Like they practiced all the LC questions and "cracked" them during the interviews? Or they had multiple tabs open and copy-pasted answers in? Or someone was giving them answers over a hidden earpiece? What does cheating mean in this case?
They're doing well. Why does it matter?
Probably because some people are struggling as a result of being ethical or unwilling to step over toes to get successful.
The interviews themselves aren't ethical. Stupid song and dance
I think it says more about the company's promotion culture than about the interview process. They probably did things similar to cheating in order to get promoted, and it worked. I don't know anyone who has even thought about cheating in an interview. You should get new friends
Everyone I know from my friend circle has not just thought about cheating but also actually cheated. Some were successful in cheating as they got previously seen questions and looked them up on a different laptop while some didn't. Now you will judge what culture I am from ? You guessed it right.
This boils down to principles and ethics. Do you think you will be ok to sleep peacefully after having cheated in an interview? If not it's not worth it. Maybe your friends are. Now are you ok with your friends cheating? If not, time to look for new friends. Or call them out if you really care. Because cheating is infectious until that one last time when it destroys you.
Clearly interviews are not a good metric of intellect.
Oh, yeah I thought this was well known? In my leetcode grind I've come across a few groups that share leetcode/sysdesign questions and their answers from a shitload of companies. They even have the online assessment questions. It's like standardized testing at this point
Interviewing and engineering are two different skills. Stop the 🧂.
Unfortunately a lot of things in life are like this. So you have no choice but to learn to cope.
Maybe you should just cheat too?
Don't be jealous. Cracking interviews doesn't mean you will not do well on the job. Infact doing well on the job is everything.
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And here I am at 170k with 3 YOE by doing interviews with integrity. 😓 Virtual interviews are flexible and can do interviews at a lot of places in a week as compared to flying out to various locations. I hope it stays virtual though.
😂 unless you grind full time for 4 months then there is no way you can switch.
Not necessarily, depends on Microsoft’s LC and system design skill. I know friends that LC’d for 2-3 weeks and were able to land FAANG offers