Does Stripe/Datadog/Pinterest have higher hiring bars than Meta?
^ especially for early career roles. DD/Pinterest seem to pay less than Meta but their hiring bar seems to be higher.
Doubt it
It's all relative. Stripe cares a lot about behavioral aspects. Pinterest is huge on the diversity checkboxes. Meta cares a lot about "correctness" in the technical results of the interview. Depending on where you are best, different companies will be easier or harder
Great info!! If I’m good in behavioral, could you suggest more companies that rely heavily on behavioral like Stripe?
Amazon probably. Their behavioral is utter BS but easy enough if you look at the LPs and have charisma. Also companies with team specific interviews rather than pooled hiring always care more about things like culture fit
Datadog does not require speed running memorization like Meta
Meta's expectation is 2 mediums in 35 minutes. I'm finding it harder to prepare for Datadog due to it being so abstract. Do you have any insight into how the interviews are and what kind of questions they ask?
Some of our questions are just to implement a small feature on the product. Like autocomplete search, filter list by tag, query stream of logs, etc
Stripe literally asks you to parse an api response for on site Debug catches people off guard if they aren’t used to hopping into a random codebase but it isn’t hard Meanwhile meta is asking some algorithm that was discovered last month like you’re supposed to already know it
did you do the stripe onsite? How did you find the debug and coding (non-LC) rounds?
I did. Debugging was a piece of cake. If you are comfortable with pulling an open source repo and debugging it’ll be fine. Coding was tough they expect you to do a lot in an extremely short period of time. You need to be fast in your language of choice
Why stripe? It’s paper money right?
Stripe’s interview is designed to filter out LC-only 🐒
Probably, idk about Pinterest and Stripe. But DD interviews are closer to real eng problems and people are still interested in you experience / culture
Can you share more about what kind of questions DD asks?
There is still a DSA core , but it’s more around real DD features. Sometimes there are snippets of function and class definitions, so you also have to read existing code and work your solution into it. As the result there is a larger conversational part about how would you scale or reimplement your core for a real life microservice (tradeoffs, concurrency and etc)
The bar for these companies in early career is basically just getting the interview, which boils down to either being from a top school or being a URM. The actual interviews are easier than Meta imo, though pins interview is slightly on the harder end relative to other tech companies. Meta basically just cares about execution - which is basically a binary "yes, you got it right" or "no, you didn't get it right within the allotted time." Stripe is more "practical" so for some people it might be easier.
Yeah I heard pins has 4 coding rounds in the onsite, which seems excessive for new grads. Do you have experience interviewing with any of these companies?
Interviewed and got an offer with Stripe for early career some time ago. Could never get an interview with Pins, Ddog, Meta but have had multiple friends who did. For reference I went to a meh school. This is based on what my friends have told me (who have interned/got offers there). Stripe is pretty easy if you've done any practical projects outside of school. Meta ng is basically rattling off 6 leetcode mediums. Pins iirc is also p leetcodey, on the harder end. DDog is more "practical flavored" coding questions, still pretty leetcodey though.
Pins doesn’t pay less than meta . Unless it changed recently
Stripe has the lowest bar. There's only 3 questions that they ask and they've been asking the same questions for years.
Wait really? Is it the one tagged on LC? What are the others?
They don't ask leetcode. There's practical coding and bug fixing rounds. But they never change the questions. And I know some stripe employees who shared the questions with their friends who easily got offers.