Collection of failures and lessons learned

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Jun 11, 2021 14 Comments

I'm just venting. Because I have to. End of last year I decided to change jobs so I decided to start replying to recruiters on LinkedIn. I did little to no LC in preparation so I know this is all on me. Still, it takes a toll. I still feel like I'm an impostor and a failure sometimes.

Anyway, I decided to make a list of my failures just because.

Didn't get past the recruiter conversation:
- Slack*
- Github*
- SurveyMonkey

Failed at the Online Assessment:
- Amazon

Failed at the Phone Screen:
- Facebook
- Square*
- Salesforce* (interviewed with 2 teams: the first one decide to go with an internal candidate and the second decided the role couldn't be remote anymore. No other team was interested after that)
- Netflix
- Pandora (phone screen)

Failed at the Onsite:
- Amazon
- Glassdoor*
- Microsoft*
- eBay
- Jitterbit

I had one offer:
- BlackRock (declined)

* Positions I applied for.

Lesson learned: grind LC. A lot. All questions I got were LC easy and medium. If I had prepared better this post could have been different. Also, make sure you prepare yourself mentally for the interviews so you can remain calm. My phone screen with Netflix was ridiculously easy but I still managed to a catastrophic screw up because I got into the call nervous and expecting to fail because of maybe an LC hard; I did fail, likely as a consequence of that. And failing because you got an easy problem wrong does mess you up mentally.

So, there you go. 13 failures between October/2020 and June/2021. Now I'll take it serious and grind freaking LC. F*&! this Sh#!.

I am starting to regret declining the BlackRock offer.

TC: 137.5K (no bonus, no RSU)

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  • NVIDIA
    (@:@)

    Go to company page NVIDIA

    (@:@)
    You canโ€™t appreciate victory without losses. Stay focused and once you get that fuck-you-money offer it will feel ten times better.
    Jun 11, 2021 0
  • New
    kuwtk

    New

    kuwtk
    Impressive you got all those interviews and got so far with minimal prep! Youโ€™re close. Keep it up and it will happen!
    Jun 11, 2021 0
  • Cisco / IT
    WordLife!

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    Seagate Technology
    WordLife!
    Donโ€™t worry !! Prepare like this is your last chance and give your shot!! Itโ€™s very positive and good to see that you realized now. Failures happens, no one can get though the best phase without failures ! So you will be getting into good job in coming days !! All the very next !! Rock !! Just prepare hard and give your Shot !! ๐Ÿป
    Jun 11, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    piptrain

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    piptrain
    Same man, and I know what behavioral Iโ€™m doing horribly and keep wording stuff differently but itโ€™s not working :(
    Jun 11, 2021 3
    • Amazon
      piptrain

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      piptrain
      This sound like a nice tip thank you very much , just FYI Iโ€™ve failed Twitter,MS,Airbnb, DoorDash , Lyft and salesforce
      Jun 11, 2021
    • ADP
      NoBonusfuu

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      NoBonusfuu
      OP
      It did help me. Before I did that I was doing improv in every interview. LOL.

      I applied at Lyft but they didnโ€™t even reply to my application.
      Jun 11, 2021
  • New
    ASIVCOME

    New

    ASIVCOME
    BlackRock offer TC?
    Jun 11, 2021 3