Top 10 hardest SWE interviews

https://www.businessinsider.com/hardest-software-engineering-interviews-ranked-2023-12 Some blowhard wrote this list for Business Insider: 10. Palantir 9. Airtable 8. Google 7. Meta 6. Uber 5. Cruise 4. Checkr 3. Zoox 2. Stripe 1. Airbnb Agreed?

A software engineer ranks his top 10 hardest interviews after landing 18 offers from tech companies like Apple, Palantir, and Meta
A software engineer ranks his top 10 hardest interviews after landing 18 offers from tech companies like Apple, Palantir, and Meta
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Block butt-coin OP Jan 4

I'm not reading the whole wall of text but the guy seems like an angry 10x-er that cried about behavioral questions and getting real-world problems instead of memorizable algorithm problems

Tableau test443 Jan 4

Wtf are some of those companies

Block butt-coin OP Jan 4

You've never heard of MAGASUCCZP?

Tableau test443 Jan 4

😂 👑

Amazon Ætray Jan 4

Meta is the easiest SWE interview of all tier-1 companies

Pure Storage nkotbsb Jan 4

That would be amazon

Amazon Ætray Jan 4

Did I say anything about Amazon? Pure Storage should start conducting aptitude tests

Google 🏄‍♂️ coasting Jan 4

Lmfao airbnb is the easiest if you arent interviewing for a generalist. Their question bank is as small as your pp

Pure Storage nkotbsb Jan 4

Any Chinese dominated org tends to ask predictable (ie from a known bank) but hard questions

Google 🏄‍♂️ coasting Jan 4

Same with indians. They compensate for their small pps by asking unnecessarily complex question with broken english

Amazon fbdndjd Jan 7

lol stripe is not hardest at all

Zoox DeXj54 Jan 11

"I had a headache, so checkr was hard. #4". What a joke