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Normally I don't ever post shit but this interview was lowkey hilarious and annoying simultaneously. Enjoy the popcorn. Hopefully, someone will beat the interview process with this. Call: 1. they brie

https://preview.redd.it/zq0x9qx77oug1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=230cbda71958daad3c5b8ac559fe96b2720edb21 Stats/Context: T50 Public for CS, mid GPA, ALL cold applications, citiz

Sorry for the long detailed post but it drives me a bit crazy. I had a google phone screen interview for early career. The technical part of the interview itself i would say went decent. I started by

I have recently accepted new grad(L3) offer from Google as SWE and my start date is in like 3 weeks. However, I also recently got invited to interview at Scale AI. Should I even take this interview? I

I worked at Google for some time before joining Meta as an IC5 SWE working on a product infra team, I left within 6 months from what I saw. However, there is a glaring red flag about Meta in retrospec

so i posted here a while back about my job search being rough. career switcher, bootcamp grad, 3 yoe backend. wasn't getting callbacks for weeks then started getting phone screens and... promptly bomb

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Consistency > Grind turned out to be true. I was so frustrated with getting dunked on every technical interview during my new grad recruitment. I tried getting a good internship for the past 2 year

I have a degree in Communication & Computer Engineering (GPA 3.66) and experience as a full-stack developer. I've most recently been a technical content writer focusing on AI/ML (especially on RAG

im fortunate enough to be working at a relatively safe job (a bank) as a junior frontend with 1YOE and although im not doing peak software engineering im still gaining a lot of skills and learning a l

Been applying for many jobs like most people here and wanted to warn everyone about a scam I was almost a victim of. I received an email about a potential job offer from Buckeye Mountain, a railroad h

Solving more problems or learning more patterns or talking in from a camera are not bad, but I’ve done all of this before and bombed. I bombed Stripe, I bombed Google, bombed Bloomberg what’s to say I

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/s/JpJaQ3EHju Status: Just heard back from the recruiter—I passed the HC/interview bar! Moving to team matching now. I’d love some quick advice on: • Ti

Hey everyone, looking for some advice. I’ve been invited for an onsite interview at Google for an L5 Infra role (Kubernetes + Go). The recruiter mentioned there will be two coding rounds and one syste

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Hi all, Just wanted some advice. I have a CS degree, did some google interviews in college and a year after first job, but failed -mostly due to nerves and not doing mock interviews. I love DS & A

The tagged questions for specific companies like Google contain some hards but vast majority are mediums. Are these hards reported by people from ind-ia(Since it’s a lot harder there)? How much do we

Hello everyone, I just got moved to team matching round in google. Please help me to understand what happens next? What is team matching round? Also, what about compensation discussion for l3 level wi

I recently completed my interviews for Google L4 SWE and my recruiter said I’m moving forward (likely team matching / HC stage). On our initial call before the onsite he asked if I know anyone at Goog

I recently had a coding interview where I was given a fairly decent hard problem. I couldn't think of the optimal approach during the first few minutes and then panic set in and I went on coding the b

I have done 200+ leetcode problems . I started off with neetcode 150, did it twice,and I am keeping up with leetcode 1-2 problems everyday. I am an MS CS grad student at T20 CS school and have landed

This was for early career campus role Interview went as such Interviewer came in Asked some variation on shortest path to destination graph question. I initially said something like DFS but he said I

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