2025 Interview Journey - Sr SWE (3 offers out of 10)

Time to give back. This channel and the journeys posted here were extremely inspiring to me. Started my prep around October 2024 and I was consistent with the planning, efforts, applying, studying. It

Time to give back. This channel and the journeys posted here were extremely inspiring to me. Started my prep around October 2024 and I was consistent with the planning, efforts, applying, studying. It was painful but sweet. Applied mostly to backend/full stack roles in USA. Resources - Leetcode, Leetcode discuss section company specific, Leetcode explore and study plans, Alex Xu, System design school, Hello Interview, Interviewing.io, prepfully, excalidraw Offers - Meta E5, Salesforce SMTS, Bloomberg Sr SWE Onsites (Rejected) - LinkedIn (Sr SWE), Splunk (Sr SWE), Hashicorp (Mid level), Sourcegraph (Mid Level) Phone Screen (Rejected) - Apple (ICT4), Uber (Sr. SWE), Rippling (Sr SWE) Coding Assessment / OA (Rejected) - Citadel, Pure Storage Position on HOLD after recruiter call - Roblox, Amplitude, I didn't pursue onsites further as I finalized another offer - Amazon (L5) , Paypal (Sr SWE) , Intuit (Sr SWE), Nvidia (Sr SWE), Checkr (Mid-Level) Got calls from a bunch of startups and mid level companies. Responded and attended a few but either got rejected/ was not interested to pursue as it was a warm up for me. Some of them I remember are Revin, Hubspot, Stytch, Parafin, Evolv AI, Resonate AI, Flex, Sigma Computing, Verkada, Equinix, Oscilar, Augment, Crusoe Finally joining Meta E5. MS + YOE 6 Thanks to God, my wife, parents and in-laws for all the prayers and positivity. Onwards and upwards :)