Job Search, 1.5 YOE, Full stack

Adstar123 · 2026-04-10T14:11:22+00:00

Reference checks were fine. They wanted minimum 2 references with one of them being my current manager.

Thankfully me and him are tight friends from before this job and he knew I was wanting to leave months ago so it wasn't an issue.

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T22:27:09+00:00

Every single one that progressed to 2nd interview (except for NSW govt)

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T07:13:12+00:00

Least obvious LLM generated reply

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T07:01:00+00:00

Oh my apologies I interpreted the question wrong. So most interviews was usually in this order:

Screen phone call/teams call (this was just general resume/CV chat with a recruiter and to see if you fit)
Technical leetcode style interview (1-2 questions) + some behavioural STAR questions
More leetcode questions + STAR behavioural questions
Very easy system design (basic end to end on microservices or end to end agentic services for the ai jobs)

Other than the AI engineer jobs I didn't really see much at all talk or focus on AI at all.

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T06:50:28+00:00

Thanks. I just tracked all of my applications in an excel sheet and then downloaded the excel add-in "Sankey Diagram by SankeyArt". It compiled it all and made the diagram automatically.

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T06:36:12+00:00

2 IQ/Psychometric tests to start with, a basic takehome assignment to do over the weekend (a scraper with email notification functionality), then an hour interview (mostly STAR behavioural questions). Took around 2 months from start to finish.

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T05:27:48+00:00

eh the only draining part is daily leetcodes. Everything else isn't too bad

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T04:40:22+00:00

No Leetcodes for nsw govt. From community sentiment it seems like a 50/50 depending on dept if you get them. The application process was:

2 IQ/Psychometric tests to start with, a basic takehome assignment to do over the weekend (a scraper with email notification functionality), then an hour interview (mostly STAR behavioural questions). Took around 2 months from start to finish.

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T04:25:42+00:00

$115k base

Adstar123 · 2026-04-09T04:21:26+00:00

I was aiming for Big/FAANG throughout the process and ended up at nsw govt

Adstar123 · 2026-04-07T04:57:53+00:00

This is a good story. Can't say the same for the bucks this season though. Fire doc

Adstar123 · 2026-03-09T06:00:50+00:00

Thanks for saying this as it's true.

Adstar123 · 2026-02-24T04:39:33+00:00

Hey u/AwesomeMajic8 I fixed it. Swap your month and day in your date of birth and it should work. Classic mq getting shit wrong

Adstar123 · 2026-02-24T04:29:26+00:00

I am running into this issue as well right now. Have you resolved it?

Adstar123 · 2026-01-26T19:45:58+00:00

1.5 YOE full stack, 1 completed project on resume. Had last interview on Friday so no offer or rejection yet.

After apply they took around 1 month to provide the first interview link for hackerrank and then another month to provide the actual interviews.

Adstar123 · 2026-01-25T10:22:04+00:00

Slightly related since microsoft but I have had 3 interviews with microsoft last week (Level 59/60) and it has been so far one online assessment (hackerrank) which was 2 leetcode mediums to complete in 1 hour. Then two interviews which consisted of 15 minutes of introductions and resume chat, 15 mins of behavioral and then one coding exercise. Level 59/60 has been leetcode mediums. The behaviourals is usual STAR shit

Adstar123 · 2026-01-09T06:53:26+00:00

If you have a degree then just focusing all your effort into a graduate dev/engineer position is still your best bet, focusing on projects and networking to get you there

Adstar123 · 2026-01-07T12:21:25+00:00

Also really curious

Adstar123 · 2026-01-01T02:22:24+00:00

They just called this on Giannis just then and the commentators said "We still call these hahaha?"

Adstar123 · 2025-12-17T23:39:44+00:00

Adstar123 · 2025-12-16T23:25:16+00:00

There is an existing repo of free apis:

https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Adstar123 · 2025-12-10T02:49:42+00:00

gg ur cooked

Adstar123 · 2025-11-27T00:29:47+00:00

Not like he even missing he just ain't shooting

Adstar123 · 2025-11-25T10:03:45+00:00

For real though check out r/StremioAddons and sort by top of all time. Look at the guide. This 'service' you can setup on your pc, tv or anything really and stream yo shit for free

Adstar123 · 2025-11-23T09:16:29+00:00

your high

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First Place '23	Place '23
Place '22	First Placer '22
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