Am I a big failure?

Grab / R&D
curetoxic

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curetoxic
Feb 2, 2020 11 Comments

I have been interviewing for roles in Amazon, Google, Facebook for a while now. Some more than once (Some of those companies allow you to reattempt after like 6 months or so). And so far there is no luck at all. I feel like a cheat, a fraud and an idiot. Sure, some of those times I did not prepared well, but then, much more likely is that I'm just inferior. I have a good role now and certainly not in any desperation to move to FAANG. I did okay performance-wise in my current company. That's to say I tend to get meets or high meets during performance review session. Am I hopeless?

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  • Google
    ByoJ48

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    ByoJ48
    I truly believe that getting into these companies is at least 50% luck. This 50% includes which interviewers you get, how many openings are there while you are applying etc.

    So don't get sad. Interviews don't determine your worth.
    Feb 2, 2020 2
  • Google
    0400

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    0400
    It’s okay to fail. The problem is if you’re not critically assessing why you’re failing and trying to improve on it.

    Have you tried interviewing elsewhere?
    You gotta first understand that there’s a little bit of luck factor involved in these interviews (10%), and the rest is prep. If you’re not breezing through the questions in the interviews, I’d say there’s more room for prep.

    Don’t correlate interview performance with job performance. And don’t let your ability as an engineer define you as a person.
    Feb 2, 2020 0
  • Amazon
    readme.q

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    readme.q
    If you know you didn’t prepare well ... why aren’t you fixing this?
    Feb 2, 2020 2
    • Grab / R&D
      curetoxic

      Go to company page Grab R&D

      curetoxic
      OP
      Another problem that I needed to fix I guess; stop procrastination and motivate myself to do some LC exercises
      Feb 2, 2020
    • Amazon
      readme.q

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      readme.q
      Start with cracking the coding interview
      There really is no point in jumping into leetcode before you know the theory and basic problems and algorithms / data structures in and out
      Feb 2, 2020
  • Oracle
    Lunchmeat

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    Lunchmeat
    I am stunningly attractive, well endowed, charming, smart and not in FAANG.

    You can't have it all
    Feb 2, 2020 2
  • Symantec / Eng
    vtWY77

    Go to company page Symantec Eng

    vtWY77
    Your not a failure! Hiring is highly random and heavily weighted towards false positives. Took me 9 months to get couple good offers.
    Feb 2, 2020 0