I have been actively giving interviews for last 1 month but fucking up telephonic (70percent) round even after solving and revising 200+ LC questions. But not losing confidence at all. Am I underprepared for Google/Netflix/Apple/ Facebook. My deadline for switching is October end. Below is my fucked up story in chronological order: Houzz: lc medium, wrote buggy code. Zume: 2 questions, lc easy(completed) and then lc hard extension(partial) both in 40 mins. Nutanix: leetcode simple, screwed because of interviewer inexperience. went into different directions to solve problem. All test case passed which was given in original question. He introduced 2 more test cases that also passed the. He gave 2 more which broke and 40 mins passed. Oracle: 1 hr telephonic , how to sort a file which 10 times larger than memory. Non -coding. I gave semi-cooked explanation using merge sort. Amazon: find size of a given folder in a computer directory structure: coded in sloppy way using n array tree. Worked fine. Asked for optimization, I applied dp which was not necessary i think. C3iot:used a generic concept when asked for a bst specific question. The time complexity was same for both approach. why the interviewer was so much into bst way. He could have told me earlier that he only want the bst way. VMware: did not have very firm grasp at mutithreading when interviewed. First company grill on all things like web api/db/ssl/http than algo. I have some onsite though in small companies. Let see what happens. Yeo: 5 yrs in total(1.5 yeo post MS) Current Tc==base== 130k Target:170k base /200K tc location : bay area
From what I have observed startups have a high bar.
I agree. And it makes sense. They do have high bar for pH screen as they r running low on cash. While fang can afford to invite almost every one for onsite.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees this. Got so many friends that are like, "why did a shit startup like Zulily reject me when Facebook wants me?" It's because at a startup you need to be the whole package: good culture fit good experience good technical interviews and good system design to hit the ground running and be worth their limited funds. At big tech companies you just have to be good at DS&A and maybe system design and any autist can get an offer.
Did you try interviewing.io or pramp? Seems like you need practice interviews
From personal experience phone screens are a breeze compared to full loop onsite. So if you fail there it might be an appearance/communication issue you can work on.
Can you elaborate on what the amazon question asked for specifically? size of a folder in a file structure What questions did VMware ask regarding those topics?
While I'm not in your shoes, my suspicion is that you may not have enough experience writing/designing code or are not comfortable putting your ideas into code. When I was at my peak I didn't even write code and only thought of how to solve a problem because I was confident that when I had a solution in mind I can translate it into working code.
Why/how would you apply DP for finding folder size?
From what I read the only one in which u actually solved the problem was zume?
U mean 100 percent satisfactory. Not even zume. It was c3iot.
No. Don't mean 100% satisfactory. I mean where u solved it as in ran the program and it gave correct results.