+1
A L6 friend from S3 interviewd with them. Smashed design of distributed file system out of the park. This was with their TL who also happens to be ex-GFS and Colossus TL.
Got rejected for not knowing Topological Sort.
A company that could afford to reject someone with a very strong domain fit on the basis of some mystical algorithm that probably won't ever be used, can't ever be cool practically.
To be fair toposort does have real yse cases like in build systems, but ya companies care a lot about leetcode, so it's leetcode or GTFO unfortunately...
I never understood how they even became a cool place to work
+1 A L6 friend from S3 interviewd with them. Smashed design of distributed file system out of the park. This was with their TL who also happens to be ex-GFS and Colossus TL. Got rejected for not knowing Topological Sort. A company that could afford to reject someone with a very strong domain fit on the basis of some mystical algorithm that probably won't ever be used, can't ever be cool practically.
To be fair toposort does have real yse cases like in build systems, but ya companies care a lot about leetcode, so it's leetcode or GTFO unfortunately...