I got about 4 rejects from top tier fanng companies recently. All the interview questions are answered as well as follow up questions but still got reject. Btw I have solved around 400lc, and can solve most lc medium in 10 minutes. Few lessons: 1. Maybe the competion is too fierce, in order to secure the onsite you need to solve 2 lc questions in 30 minutes bug free plus optimal time optimal space. Too crazy hard. 2. The question itself is too simple, everyone solved it, then its a game of luck. Like give you a list remove an element inside it. Whats the fuck of this kind of questions.... 3. Female interviewer intentionally setup a lot of traps and very tough in general....
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AC lc is not enough, AC plus beat 90% time beat%90 space is good.
Whats AC ?
Accepted
I got very few passed but thats minimal conparing to the failures
Me thinks poor communication skills. Female judger?
Truly mean this as a compliment: look at yourself in the mirror and realize you work at Microsoft, I'd love to be in your shoes. I know maybe someone will tell me the same about IBM and I'll strongly disagree, but my point is, you have more than most and it's ok to take a step back, be grateful and try again tomorrow. Good luck with interviews, the key is consistency and perseverance.
Maybe I should just step back and stay at Microsoft..
Don't settle, but use every failed opportunity to get better and closer to the next career move.. Use every interview you had as a learning ground. If you're strong on your technical skills, research about your soft skills which are just as important.
You leetcoders have made it hard for yourself, everyone prepares, bar of questions rises and more and more questions become known. I personally never prepared for interviews and never will. If a company is asking Leetcode questions which has nothing to do with the job, then it's a bad company to work for anyway because it's interviewing is broken.
I had similar experience as well. Also Asian ppl tend to hire Asian is also what I have seen
Not everyone cracks all the interviews in 1 go. It is a combination of lot of factors some which even you can't control. Don't give up and keep trying
Dude there are only 5 companies in FAANG. What do you mean by top teir FAANG company?
At these top companies, they can afford to have a very high bar because of their comp tier. Once you get to the on-site, what you say or don’t say, the kinds of questions you ask, your description about your work experience, how you communicate with your interviewers and how you react under stress are all discussed during the debrief when all the interviewers get into a meeting room to make the hiring decision. Solving the coding problem only checks off one item from the list. You will be compared not only to past candidates but also current employees in the same tier. You will be evaluated on your ability to catch up and thrive in the company/team work culture. So, sometimes even if you gave the best solution to a coding problem, you may still be rejected due to one or more of the other items in the checklist.
Na ah. If all the items will check off 10 out of 10 and coding only, say 5 - good luck with your jobsearch
Not necessarily. As I said, the bar is very high with top tech companies because they have a very competitive pool of candidates to pick from. If you cannot solve a problem that 70% of the previous candidates solved easily and efficiently at first try, then you will be deemed to be less competent. If the question is too hard and cannot be solved by most candidates, then it needs to be revised or thrown out. There are always outliers but most sane teams and hiring managers will do the right thing - set the bar to match the team fit.
Maybe the sexism doesn’t help?
This 100%. I love the ladies.
Weird thing is I’ve failed 100% of interviews where a woman was in a position to decide my fate. Yet I’ve gotten the job 100% of the time when a high ranking woman (VP or above) in the company referred me. I took a legitimate online test that they use to find implicit biases. The only test that I passed was the one that detects biases with regards to sex and gender. I did better than virtually all women too.