is 6 onsites with top tier companies in two weeks too much?
Doing six onsites, one every other day in the span of two weeks. Im hoping I will get more offers interviewing at the end of the year from managers trying to hire with their leftover budget. I need a Christmas miracle to get a top tier offer lol. Shameless plug: there are still companies such as Snap and Twitter that havent gotten back to me. I applied online and my application went to the deepest abyss in Mount Doom. I knew I should have sent my resume in the new version of word that uses optimal dp based instead of greedy text justification. Looking for referrals to Pinterest, Snap, Slack, Microsoft, and Twitter.
Doable. But I would set up like 3 in the first week, 2 in the following week and the following Mon or Tue for the last one. It also depends on how prepared you are. If you have done a few interviews before and solved many leetcode questions, each interview day may be easier as you would spend less energy.
I second this. My schedule was week 1 onsites: Monday, Tuesday, Friday. Week two: Tuesday, Wednesday. Week 3: Monday. I canceled my Friday onsite from the first week to prepare for later onsites. My Monday interview gave an offer before Friday so it was easier to cancel. By the time I had my last one I was SO DONE. I actually debated on canceling the last one. Most of the big tech companies asked for multiple days so scheduling it exactly every other day is going to be tough anyway. Thatโs why I had ones right after each other. Having 6 span 3 weeks is fine and they were all willing to wait for each other (since it takes a while to get the real offer anyway since it goes through numerous committees). Iโd try to schedule google first just because their hiring committee moved a lot slower for me than others. I thought I got better after each onsite since I could learn from my mistakes in how I spoke (especially behavioral questions). My best offer was my first though and that was the one I ended up choosing (after plenty of negotiation).
Iโm only missing one company to get them scheduled every other day, but now Iโm thinking I should move the sixth interview to the third week to get some extra rest and study time. I am doing Google on a Monday to be completely fresh.
You still have 4 additional days excluding the weekends. You have room for more. Get on it and fill up those 4 days!
If only Twitter, Snap, etc would get back to me.
Keep 2-3 days between interviews to reflect upon where you could improve. If you are traveling for onsite, add more time to recover
As long as you keep a day in between and arenโt doing a lot of flying between all of them should be fine. Itโs good to line them all up like that
And I thought I was savage. :)
Amazon interviews are very tiring, especially all the behavioral questions.
Amazon interviews (behavioral) are the best kind of technique to assess how much experience someone has and how successful they will be in the role. Unlike most other companies (like Microsoft) who would rather have you rattle off definitions from textbooks and force whiteboarding during an interview.