1. What is the best way to prepare for L5-L6 swe interview at square? Especially since they are not leetcode-like 2. Would you recommend take-home over algos?#software #swe #interview 3. What do interviewers look for to differentiate L4 vs L5 vs L6?
They are very leetcode like. Had one for L6 level and problems were straight outa leetcode. Both were mediums, but very long and super annoying ones that will take entire round each.
I heard they are not like usual leetcode but more practical
Both mine were usual leetcode problems. You can select square tag on leetcode and see what comes up.
They are all LC like, usually also hard from what I’ve heard.
LC hard
I was asked one medium DP and everything else was practical, non-LC style questions (e.g. writing and extending a class, string interpolation, etc) Later learned that LC questions are highly discouraged. This is the Cash org though.
This is in line with what I've heard. How did you prep for the practical questions? A lot of people have said to just rely on past experience but im looking for how to tailor my prep time. Also, did you get the q&a interview on past technical experience? How did you go about talking about tech projects that may be proprietary?
Honestly I was targeting FAANG's so I didn't really prep for them 😂 I would have crashed and burned hard in FAANG interviews though, I know it. It's tough to say, it's basically general coding literacy... Not sure how I would prepare for that, other than maybe writing some command line applications? Stripe and Shopify do similar interviews if you happen to do the screens there. I did get a Q&A on past experience. Navigating NDA's is tough, just speak in general terms about what you did with a focus on problems encountered and choices made, rather than the business domain you were solving. I feel like if you followed all NDA's to the letter you wouldn't get to talk at all, so 🤷♀️ I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts on that too
How is the interview process for Sr. frontend engineer? Do they give you option to do take home code assignment?
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