Than you Blind community for your advice and motivation. Just writing the post to give back and hope it helps Interview Prep: LC Top Interview Questions LC Blind Curated 75 Company tagged - LinkedIn, Doordash, FB (top 50) Grokking the System Design (Educative.io) Youtube videos for sys design (random) Timeline: Started studying May Start Started interviewing June Mid Most interviews : July and Mid August Interviewed with Square, Splunk, LinkedIn, ByteDance, Doordash, Dropbox, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, Instacart, Uber, Amazon and Facebook. Did not proceed after getting call: Robinhood (got the call very late) Rejected after Phone screen Instacart, Google, Twitter, Uber, Amazon Onsites: Square, Splunk, LinkedIn, Bytedance, Dropbox, Doordash, Facebook Offers: Square : Downlevelled to L4, TC : 250K + 15K sign on Splunk : Downlevelled to IC3, TC : 270 K LinkedIn : Sr Swe, TC : 280K + 50 SignOn Bytedance : 2-1, TC : average 320K including sign on for 4 years. Reject after Onsite: Doordash, Dropbox Waiting: Still waiting results from Dropbox and FB but I have already made up my mind for joining LI (Reason at last). Pinterest said feedback after phone was good and they do team match before onsite, so that’s the situation. For Onsites, level of difficulty Dropbox > Square > Facebook > Splunk > LinkedIn > Doordash > Bytedance I was mostly downlevelled due to system design interviews. DM me if you have questions regarding interview processes OR I will write a new post about experiences. Heading to LinkedIn. Reason : 1.) Better WLB 2.) MSFT stock 3.) Liked the team 4.) Flexibility to work from and move to India, I am planning to move after 2-3 years, so I can keep my unvested RSUs. 5.) Good Benefits Current TC : 220K YOE : 4
Congratulations OP! Looks like a lot of work went in.
2-3 hours per day. Went on 3 short vacations in between
How long was this entire interview process?
See my timeline. 3.5 months since the start
Ah, thanks I missed that entirely
this 🔥
Thank you for the post OP! Could you share your Dropbox and FB updates once you receive them?
I’ll update the post. I’ve interviewed with them after getting LI offer, so didn’t give my 100%. Also, Dropbox interviewed me for L3 and FB said E4/E5 based on performance. Will update the post once I hear back
Thanks!
Totally understand. I think Salesforce is very considerate about working from India and move to India I talked to friends as well and they told me they are flexible to work from India for a month. Regarding permanent move, I just wanted a company to have presence. My timeline is not very strict, even if they take 3 years instead of 2, I can stay. But you are right that WLB can be very team specific and manager dependent. All my managers in team match and recruiters were selling wlb and LI’s culture. I can do nothing if something fucks up.
Congratulations OP..
Thanks 😀
Were your FB onsite interviews questions straight from LC?
Some were, some were variants. But yeah, is you are comfortable with their list, it should be easy
Thank you, well done on the offers
did you negotiate at all?
Negotiated with Bytedance and LI. Just rejected Splunk and Square without any negotiations.
how did it go?
Congratulations! Thank you for sharing
Got offer from DoorDash?
Nope. Reject. Honestly, I think they look for perfection
They look for perfection even in phone screen?