What are my chances in landing a job at Amazon/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/etc... -I work for a small finance company - Director of Systems Development. I manage a development team in India from the US. -I have a BAS in SWE. -Most of my experience is in managing developers, but I’m an experienced coder. -In my spare time I run an iOS app which I solely created and which has just under 100k downloads (a third are active users). -I don’t think I can solve leetcode on the spot in an interview unless I do some heavy studying. I can surely come up with solutions if I wasn’t on the spot having to whiteboard code, but I mean does anybody see those problems and see the solution almost immediately??? TC 115k
Low
Why?
I would never have respect to someone that can't solve easy leetcode problems on the spot. Go practice leetcode. It does say much about your skills.
100%
Are you being sarcastic?
Very very low. Based on what you write above you can only find employment is small companies. Probably in India.
I live in the US, not India. Is it the leetcode comment that makes you think I have a low chance?
I think he is being a jerk. Don't consider him seriously
If you interview as is, I'd say low. For these FANG interviews, people will put in multiple weeks to months studying algorithms, data structures, and problems on leetcode. And yes, those who study will be able to see a problem and recognize the archetype or pattern that it follows. After doing 100s of practice problems, it would be hard not to. Put it in the work studying and I'd say your chances are pretty good.
Thx
Not bad. So I only need 2 or 3 tries and I’m in.
The guy works in HPE ... don’t take career advice from him about FANG. I heard that several FANG companies have a permanent ban on HPE because they are worse than a government job
I’ll stay away from HPE offers then.
You can go in HPE. Based on what you described above it will be a good fit for you.
Yeah you'd have no chance as either a dev manager or an IC. You're best bet is to study problems on leetcode etc and try to get in as an ic.
First you have to tell us what type of job you are interested in: engr mgr or individual dev? Or something else?
Firstly, wherever the money is better, but personally I think I would like to be an individual dev.
Leetcode hard and give it a try. You won't know if you don't try. Don't expect anonymous strangers to assess your chances.