Rejects in Onsite? Need advice.

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EUOJ58
Sep 23, 2020 51 Comments

Hi Good Wise Folks of Blind,

I need your advice.
I have been interviewing for the past 4-5 months and though I feel I have gotten better in terms of cracking phone screens.(success rate: about 80%) Getting rejected at onsite rounds consistently (My speculation, coding speed, design). I have been scheduling these onsite interviews within a 5 days of each other. Can you please advice on what strategies helped you to get that first YES :)?
LC: 207 (53 Easy, 122 Medium, Hard 32)
YOE: 7 years

Design: Grokking + youtube+ medium blogs
Any advice would help. :) Am feeling a bit low and dejected. :(

Phonescreen Reject:
Dropbox
Netflix
Doordash :

Onsite Reject:
Grail (F/b : standard better candidates at the moment)
Nextdoor (F/b: Coding speed for one of the coding interview costed me)
Pinterest (F/b: Technically solid and great communications but red flag on not being able to follow along hints)
Pandora (F/b: Lacking skillset for the role)
Twilio (F/b: Better candidates..)

Pending onsite
Twitter
Lyft (Revoked my application as I was dejected by other onsite performance :( )
Google
Atlassian (They cancelled onsite as position was on hold)

#engineering #faang #interview #leetcode #advice #software #swe

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