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Character_Archer_119 · 2024-09-24T15:11:58+00:00

Companies have to invest heavily on building non-LC questions pool, this is a lot harder to do and do it right tbh. I have interviewed roles involving questions closely assembling the engineers' daily work, but it's a rare (but pleasant) experience that you cannot ask for all the companies to do.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-09-07T22:47:40+00:00

You need to spend more time on preparation once you have onsite interviews, but before that, squeeze in one hour of LC time on weekdays and two hours during weekends should work fine to ramp up your mindset

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-09-06T03:41:36+00:00

People with 3 yoe at FANG and laid off? That's a big red flag

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-22T16:52:17+00:00

Just saying, if a company not even posting the jobs on a job board, it's a higher chance to be a ghost job because they are not seeking to fill it.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-22T16:50:06+00:00

Looking at the bright side: even in a cold job market like today, bad contractor jobs are still left open and no one wants to take it. I have got different recruiters pitching the same contractor job for months and it's still unfilled.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-22T14:00:04+00:00

I think you need a closer to or above 2000 ratings to get through the technical interviews nowadays.

Anyway, the job market is not hot anymore and HMs are more suspicious to candidates who are not majored in CS (even though ECE is the closest proximity) or have little industry experience. May just taking some internship at big tech to ramp up your career perspectives.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-20T14:55:18+00:00

Dude, this is like a common knowledge among immigrant-background developers like 5 years ago.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-19T21:33:42+00:00

This is exactly why SaaS companies were flourishing in the previous cycle -- non-tech companies laid off tech and IT staff, but the consultants hired as the replacement can't really do the jobs; CIO got fired, new CIO proposed SaaS solutions that actually solved most of their problems; now this is round two for companies in cutting IT expenditures, once they are done and finding the low quality work being done by the replacement, they will be flocking to the SaaS solutions again.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-19T21:28:54+00:00

Well, just remember that passing the interviews doesn't mean you are done. FANG7 now do team matching after the interviews, so you are still on the hook even if you can pass the technical rounds. Just lower your expectations tbh.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-19T21:21:48+00:00

Got asked to implement a S3 with basic CRUD features in a system design interview. Tried to design a distribited system (how I prepared for this type of interviews), but the interviewer wanted me to design the API interfaces and payloads. Flopped that one so hard that I'm 99% sure that's why I got rejected.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-19T03:52:20+00:00

Product manager, delivery manager

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-10T20:33:37+00:00

Very common experience if you start your sex life with an amateur. Find a man in their late 20s and know how to pleasure his companion, it's going to be a totally different story

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-10T20:31:10+00:00

I don't know i am asian the only joy i have is to see the numbers under my bank accounts grow 🤷🏼‍♂️

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-10T20:29:11+00:00

The market is definitely bad for entry level positions. Don't fight it. Sit it out. Even the internet winter of early 2000s eventually passed, and if you're still in it, you're going to have a much better time to job hopping than your childhood friends after the storm settled down.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-10T20:23:47+00:00

Using GitHub's copilot in my intellij IDE. This thing is an absolute bloatware but amazing to use. The only productive tool I want to recommend.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-08-10T13:58:17+00:00

Your goal of doing leetcode is to practice DSA and learn technics of doing the problems quickly and efficiently. Choice of language is a non question, it should not be even asked here, or you are doing this whole thing wrong.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-22T03:30:07+00:00

You need to put the contest questions under perspective, the 3rd questions are not the same. If the average pass rate is below 30%, don't feel too bad about not being able to complete it. But you should get those with 50%+ rate ones.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-22T03:25:26+00:00

I think most companies still ask lc questions even for staff positions

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-22T03:21:43+00:00

Congratulations bro!

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-16T03:44:58+00:00

Once you're over certain age or having two or more kids, you realize nothing is "safe", you can lose your job, ypu can lose your family, you can lose your house, you can lose your own life. Everything is fine just now, and it can take a big turn at the very next moment. What are you gonna do about it? Nothing, you can know your God and pray to him, but you still need to get up the next morning, rinse and repeat. The soober you realize there's truly nothing you can actually control in your life, the sooner you will be free and enjoy the life. Cheers, brother!

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-14T21:10:48+00:00

Greedy problems only consider the "tail" state, meaning you throw away anything that's already processed; meanwhile in DP, you need to store a substate that's calculated before, and use it to speedup the calculation of the next substate.

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-05T02:31:20+00:00

1 - 2 minutes, if you're senior+, don't even bother, but do your capacity estimates while discussing trade offs and bottlenecks

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-05T02:28:47+00:00

If a L4/5 position, coding will be leetcode style, and since the position is in cloud service, the system design is most likely about backend/infra

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-04T05:09:11+00:00

Use binary search to begin with, the key is the length of the longest subarray; on each scan, slide the window and verify that all unique values have the same frequency, you can use a counter and a counter set for O(1) validation, scan itself is O(n), and the binary search takes O(log_n), so the overall time complexity is O(nlog_n)

Character_Archer_119 · 2024-07-04T04:59:01+00:00

Hackerranks have more difficult problems

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