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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So don't get sad. Interviews don't determine your worth.
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.
There really is no point in jumping into leetcode before you know the theory and basic problems and algorithms / data structures in and out
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