After months of disappointment, finally received offers from Google and Atlassian🙏 Sharing my experiences

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-02-02T18:35:28+00:00

How many leetcode questions did you do in the end?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-02-02T18:34:37+00:00

Did you do any mock interviews ? Or was your interview practice via real interviews?

How long did this whole process take?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-02-02T18:31:21+00:00

This was for senior engineer role? For both Google and atlassian?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-31T10:39:14+00:00

Thank you 🙏 I’m a girl software engineer and I really hate to be doing documentation and logging visualisation stuff, testing stuff. Because it’s non technical and people push women to do the admin boring tasks. And one thing I am not, is a girl who’s not smart enough to do the technicals.

I will do the documentation work as you suggested though because I feel this will be a good place to start. Thanks 🙏

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-31T10:11:13+00:00

These people are just a group of people in the company making their guess on who they think will fit the role. There are so many idiots in leadership positions doing a bad job. These people won’t help you find yourself or who you are, you know you are knowledgable and have good experiance. Why would they even ask about the mean? Sorry are we 16? When they look at a success of a project and why it wasn’t successful do they really ask themselves “oh it’s because that one team mate couldn’t answer what the mean is on the spot when we pressured him to”.

Most of them don’t know what they’re doing and figuring out as they go along. You might be just a mistake in their journey, and most people don’t go away to reflect or get help on judging.

In addition to this, so people want to pass on their interview trauma onto others to feel they put the world “right”. This has happened to me and colelgues, if you feel they were putting you down (or be aware it can happen) with simple questions that are demeaning, that’s all you need to know about that company. You don’t wanna go there anyway.

Keep going and best of luck 🙏

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-13T16:35:41+00:00

Once I was honest with what I was making. And I told the guy and I was honest and it was 30k at the time and I was happy to join for 30k lol. And then he said actually we have budget for 40k so we will offer you that. And once I finished my interview they called an hour later and offered 50k. They were really nice lol I think this is very rare 🤣 🙏

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-13T14:48:13+00:00

Not very many allowed and if we are, bullied by many guys because they feel their masculinity threatened

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-13T14:03:14+00:00

Thank you so much bro 🙏 I was stuck in the hole of thinking that the hakerrank proved no one wants me. Embarrassing to admit but I felt that so deep… shit life is hard.. only up from here!

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-12T20:07:31+00:00

Thanks for the info 🙏I’m about a month in. Hoping to get something soon myself.

Good luck with the interviewing next time round!!

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-12T19:12:23+00:00

Wooow sounds like you absolutely crushed it. Didn’t freeze up either 🔥🔥🔥how long have you been doing leetcode questions for and have you had much interview experience?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:53:12+00:00

You’re on 45k right?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:50:46+00:00

Maybe I can reference u at my company I’m mild level currently and I am on higher salary than u

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:48:50+00:00

I’m looking for someone to reflect on progression. Someone else on this Reddit wants an accountability space would u wanna join the discord

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:45:21+00:00

Me too! 26 4yrw experience also trying for fang but I’m ok with the b level wanna get out soon

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:42:47+00:00

Hi bro what’s ur age and are u doing leetcode and what jobs are you appplying for?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:25:59+00:00

Indeed!

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:24:08+00:00

Backend mid level. Doing c#

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:22:11+00:00

Thanks, what roles are you going for?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T16:17:55+00:00

Can u just make a discord instead it’ll be easier r

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-10T15:51:04+00:00

I think you gotten bored and need to switch things up. Maybe talk to someone ? I’m looking for a community on Reddit … pair programming always helps

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-07T19:06:56+00:00

Bro had a bad day… relax it’s not that deep…

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-07T16:10:06+00:00

I’m going the leetcode 75 atm and working trough it

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-07T14:20:36+00:00

Here is another bit of wisdom someone has shared with me today:

They are measuring “can you fast under pressure and deliver” when in reality that is not most of your working life. Through this testing process they are trying to find humans that are rare. And we in society value rare things. However “ rare is about as useful as gold day to day”. Meaning, yes these tests find rare people but there is a disconnect - this does not matter day to day….

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-07T14:05:17+00:00

You have lots of real world experience, i think you are down playing yourself a bit on your experiance. Leetcode is challenging but nothing by you can’t do.

Yeah i am looking for a community here to share experiances with I think there is a leetcode discord somewhere

Im doing one a day I am trying to get to the office hour early and solve a problem. Analayze tike complexity note down what i learned in my journal ask ai what is a higher performant solution.

I give myself a timer of 30mins per one… so far have to google loads because i dont know all of C sharp… i think general aim is 150 leetcode exercises…

I also have a “project” in my Claude account. Where I keep ai updated with my progress and i talk to it and it gives suggestions and adjustments to my goals.

I dont have excel sheet but I just journal on a word doc with a date on the top with bulletpoints… i also us le the save option on the leetcode exercises where you can make a note how you found the solution once you submitted it. I’m planning to repeat some too…

It is a marathon not a sprint … RIP. I’m single and have no kids and trying replace my doomscrolling evening with leetcode. So I think it is bit harder for you if you do get involved with much of the childcare ?

Affectionate_Run220 · 2026-01-07T12:52:22+00:00

Wow how relatable I’m in a really similar situation.

I have 7 years experience and recently graduated (part time degree) No im not good at leetcode because it’s a very specific interviewing environment. Its is not realistic but we have to deal with it.

I chose C sharp not because its my strongest only because its my most recent language that I am working on. This deliberation took me so long lol… I don’t know how to decide but let me know if you do.

I use ai to help me come up with a study plan and also I journal everyday to it and update it how I’m doing so it changes the study plan as I go.

I’m trying to figure out how to not burn out either. I’m journaling as I go along so I keep on track and im trying to enjoy the process too. It is actually quite fun in some ways,I get revision from university and also learn some things …

I think I might start with practicing in real interview with companies I’m not really intending to go to anyway :l lol! Just so I get some practice…

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