Cleared multiple staff equivalent roles. Got rejected in multiple too. AMA

I have got good help from the community. It is the time to give it back to the community. I have tried different companies at staff and equivalent levels . Cleared some of them. Failed some of them. I could be considered either as lucky to clear them or unfortunate to not clear the others(leaving that unanswered). Alright, so here's the Summary Cleared: Meta (E6). TC split for 4 years (without considering refreshers) : 730/635/635/635. base 240K. sign on 95K for first year. Annual bonus considered at 20%. rest all is equity. Microsoft (L66). TC split for 4 years (without considering refreshers) : 635/635/495/495. Base 225K. sign on bonus of 140K for 2 years. Annual bonus considered at 20%. rest all is equity. Uber(staff, L5b back then). TC split for 4 years (without considering refreshers) : 663/609/501/446. Base 241K, annual bonus : 43K, rest all is equity in 35%->30%->20%->15% for 4 years. Note : I have not yet decided where i want to go. Will post that as soon as i make a decision. I rejected these Google : HC decision was to offer me L5 instead of L6. Databricks: Same. They offered L5. Docusign: Could not offer enough TC. Snap: They were not clear and wanted to have 1 more sys design round. Told them to stop the process. got rejected in these Coinbase : honestly was not in a mood as i already got above offers. But as a feedback, i did not do well in reverse system design round. Stripe : I needed a bigger scope, they could not offer me. Thus rejected in HM round. Twitter : performed bad in system design round. Types of questions: Coding: Overall they all were in LC easy to Med range. did not get any that i felt was Hard. I would say get your coding speed improved, you need to write a lot of code in very small time. Practice practice and practice. System design : got a variety of questions. I believe we cannot crack these just the way we do coding. We actually need a good knowledge, practice and experience for these. Behavioral : Get ready to show the impact and scope at these level in almost every questions. Mentoring skill is a big thing to show for this level. Preparation: Did LC for 2-3 months. solved around 250 problems. Easy/Med/Hard in 25%/65%/rest. System design : grokking and designing data intensive systems are a good read. Bunch of youtube videos I went through in my free time. Current status: L6 at Amazon. been L6 for 3 years. YOE 9. TC : 450 odd Update: I have decided to go with Microsoft. The primary reason for my selection was WLB. I have a 2 month old baby which i would like to spend more time with. So even if i get 1-2 hours extra with him everyday due to better WLB, it is worth it for me. This of course is a personal choice and many of you might disagree. I am ok with that :) #engineering #software #swe