To people who post these "Chances of HC / offer?" threads...
I don't care how detailed you think your recollection of your onsite experience is, starting a thread asking what your chances are is STUPID because: 1. It is entirely based on how well you performed each round relative to other candidates' performance. You could write clean code with optimal solution and test cases for all I care, but if you took 30 minutes while most candidates could do it in 20, it doesn't mean diddly squat. Most of you guys don't even have the balls to violate NDA and post the questions you received, so you tell us it's "roughly LC medium graph traversal problem" and expect us to figure it out? Come on bruh. 2. Your perception is one-sided and you have no idea what you don't know or what you missed from the interviewer's point of view. Maybe the interviewer had a follow-up question ready but because your ass took so long to solve the warm-up, you wonder why you failed even though you solved the question perfectly. Maybe the interviewer is just having a bad day and can't control his emotions or unconscious bias very well because you're wearing a MAGA hat during your onsite. Maybe you nailed the wrong problem because you recollected a leetcode problem you solved the night before that sounded 99% like the question you just got, but it wasn't the same problem and all you did was expose yourself as a leetcode monkey, good job kiddo. 3. Let's say you had a spycam and illegally posted a video of your onsite and we can go full Minority Report on the interviewers and know what they were thinking during your loop. Even then, how can we determine what your chances are? Obviously it won't be a number, at best realistically it will probably be something vague like "pretty good" or "unlikely you passed" or "meh". So all you'd even get are vague answers that, let's be honest here, are not useful at all. So stop posting these threads, just CHILL and wait for the recruiter to reach back to you.
This is the "Quora" symptom that overruns otherwise useful communities for information sharing. We all needed to wait patiently, not massively engage in personal attention-seeking by posting about it online.
Honestly, why not just wait for a while instead of asking strangers to guess feedback? And why so spineless to post the question on an anonymous forum!
Honoring an agreement you made freely, even though there are no consequences for breaking it is not spineless. The opposite is.
You can post modified versions of the questions to not break the NDA in theory. And it takes more balls to break the NDA than not post it because you’re afraid it will come back to bite you. The only time it takes more courage to not post it is if you don’t want to post it purely to honor your word, and not because you’re afraid of the consequences
Also it is easy to guess your performance—just look up the question on leetcode and see if there’s a more optimal solution than what you came up With duh!!
This should be pinned to the front page
This, and there are so many factors outside your control and awareness that you can't account for. The budget could be cut, your position could have been traded away, some other candidate did better than you, the people who interviewed you suddenly got reorged and no longer give a shit and give you average feedback. You posting that you did the best interview of your life and all the other candidates sucked and you somehow saw all of their resumes and you want to hear reaffirmation from random internet strangers who could care less. Grow the fuck up.
Imagine having an interview process centered around leetcode questions then using the term leetcode monkey as an insult 🤣 Overall I agree with the general premise though, there are too many factors out of your control and no one can help you figure out what will happen.
I think the people posting those questions are not looking for an actual answer but rather reassurance. Someone to pad them on their back and say “Just be patient. Everything will be fine.”
Yeah. Even though we know that nobody can give a meaningful reply, just someone else saying “all the best bud” or “all is well” is nerve calming.
lol why is it nerve calming when you know it’s meaningless??!!! Unless you’re an emotional thinker as opposed to logical
Re breaking the NDA: I don’t know about others, but the Amazon NDA specifically mentions that only what they tell you about Amazon IP is under NDA, so it should be fine to say “it was this specific question” as long as it was not in a “btw, this is exactly how we did this in $Amazon_Product” context (IANAL). After reading the NDA I was quite amused about everyone being like “OMG, I signed an NDA, I am not allowed to talk about the interview _at all_!!!”. Also, they told me to bring the signed copy to the on-site, which I did and then they forgot to ask me for it 🤷🏼♂️.
Why is Facebook guy so bitter and salty ? He makes some valid points, but the way he's conveying his message, as if working at Facebook is living the dream lol
Show some Empathy. Only takes three words "All the best".
It's a terrible feeling waiting for feedback after so much prep
Dude it’s just another swe job. Being a swe at google or Facebook is not some big accomplishment! It’s not like you’re interviewing to be the POTUS or at least the CEO of Google.