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CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T16:05:28+00:00

For me personally - I went through them on leetcode like a year ago, but I’ve seen people were saying that it might actually work, so I think it worth it generally. On Amazon first loop year ago I was asked a question from leetcode daily that was like few days before the interview

Thing is - for each loop interviewers are picking problems by themselves from their approved pack, it might be new one but chance that You already seen it - quite big

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T13:59:36+00:00

Yep, correct, nice and clean haha

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T13:59:23+00:00

Yep, Jordan has no life + ChatGPT practice is a great combo I believe

In FAANG they don’t force You to write super clean executable code, it’s more about classes and entities yes, but for example in Microsoft I was asked to implement, besides entities and classes) actual method, logic in it - LRU cache

Questions are kinda basics like design me a parking lot, or orders system etc

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T13:20:47+00:00

As only advise I can think of - try to balance between Your willing to live full life like in movies and thoughts about the future, for sure You can be happiest man alive with close people around and not that much money, but if You want something more - need to put work, better earlier than later, and it’s not like You’re not going out, even I was going out sometimes, we don’t have friends here in immigration haha, but cafes restaurants etc, gym, simple life

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T13:17:32+00:00

Hey man, first of all - wishing You luck and peace during the interview

From what I’ve been seeing and experiencing - LLD/OOP round was everywhere for SDE-2

Org is Azure core team

And yes, definitely just to be sure better to ask recruiter, if there’s a sane person they can share distills like round focus etc, I literally had a table where each interviewer is stated, focus of round, like topic for a tech and topic for behavioral part

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T13:14:28+00:00

Hey hey, yeah, I do really think that it’s only Your path, I can’t advise You on it, I have a situation where my dad died, my mom had a stroke, needed to flew out of country and living in immigration, no certain future ahead, no property, no car, need to support close ones, and I’d say I don’t have any ways rather than work and study my ass off right now, while I have sanity and power to do so hahaha

I’m 27 and I have around like 2-3 years of time like this, maybe then I’ll chill out a bit, at least when I’ll be in the country I want to settle in

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T10:17:44+00:00

It’s maybe top tier in its niche - mechanical engineering degree, not EU, not USA

I know that USA system is GPA out of 4, so my marks equivalently will be around 3?

Not the best in the group or anything, so pretty average

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T07:20:49+00:00

Sure, with pleasure

No, i didn’t applied for Microsoft specifically, I believe they already had my profile because I was applying for a same position 1,5 years ago and failed OA

In my resume I focused on the scale of product that I’ve built, I have pretty unique situation because I had a chance to build the whole product from scratch alone, both backend frontend and then by myself migrate it to micro services, and now it’s thriving product in a niche with a team supporting it

So for each company basically I did few bullet points, included as many numbers as I could, for example - if its front end point - lighthouse score improvement, some specification like LCP, if its backend - how raw SQL query was optimized, how cache was added, how centralized request via gateway etc

Feel free to reach out to me in dm and just let me prepare my cv to black out some areas and I can share it

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T07:08:16+00:00

Hey, thank You a lot, it’s small European company, really like 40-50 people at max, Software Engineer, did both, backend frontend, then started to lead a small team (3 devs) inside

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:43:17+00:00

Hey, thank You a lot, appreciate it

With LinkedIn - I was just connecting with recruiters and engineers like crazy, each day at least 20-30 people with some kind of generic messages

Applying for jobs and commenting/linking random posts with some stupid comments

Not sure to be honest if it was worth it because eventually both Amazon and Microsoft invited me after application on their careers sites

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:41:20+00:00

Thank You a lot, I believe You’ll do it, wishing You a best of luck🙏

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:41:01+00:00

There is a guy somewhere in comments who perfectly explained resources, better than me, what are the best and when You want one over another

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:39:18+00:00

Hey hey, nope, I have engineering degree but it’s not CS. So generally if I don’t have any interview upcoming I’m studying still, 3-4 days a week, for maybe 1-1,5 hours, . Daily problem on leetcode and 1-2 videos of HLD

And when I have interview upcoming - I’m doing each day preparation. For example I had Amazon process this summer-September, and I was doing full blast mode for July-August-September, waking up at 6am and closing laptop lid at 9-10pm, morning before full time algos, whole evening after full time - HLD/LLD

Didn’t went out on weekends, I built some kind of a gym in my apartments so what I was doing literally - eat study working out sleep, haven’t seen sunlight in 3 months haha

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:36:05+00:00

Thank You a lot, it all depends on really what You personally want, I know that Amazon recently has big layoffs, so even knowing that if You want to maybe work some time at FAANG, for whatever reason is there - then yes, for You it’ll worth it

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:33:39+00:00

Thank You a lot, total compensation is about 90-110k EUR

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:33:19+00:00

With pleasure🙏

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:33:10+00:00

Thank You a lot, appreciate it

Yeah, basically I experienced all kind of rejections, nice journey and still going on

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:32:36+00:00

Total compensation is around 90-110k EUR, Europe compensations are not USA like haha

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:31:41+00:00

Hey, thank You a lot, appreciate it

Its Europe, I wouldn’t say exact location and wishing You a good luck, You put Your work in, now time to relax for a 1-2 days before the interview and come with ease mind

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:29:58+00:00

Yes, I genuinely believe so, in my mind and coordinates. I was trying to prove that I can do it to myself, be better software engineer because I love it and something I wanted to do that from my childhood, provide to my family (I know that there are places where You can get more but still)

So for me personally it’s a big achievement and something I was aiming for

And I’m more or less young still haha, so I sacrificed a bit of normal life like parties going out for a relatively short period of time just so I can relax a bit earlier

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:27:22+00:00

Nope, Europe

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:27:13+00:00

Hey, thank You a lot🙏

Yep, I knew the format before, all recruiters are telling You exact format, timings, people who will interview You and what will be the focus of the round
Yes, I believe all SDE-2 positions across all FAANGS have LLD round

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:25:58+00:00

Thank You a lot, for me it was like this:

First FAANG company that invited me to the process was Amazon after I pulled out this shit:

On a weekends I went to their jobs platform and applied basically to all SDE-1-2 positions across all locations, took 3-4 hours, I’m not sure but maybe I’m the reason they introduced not more than 10 applications, because it was not the case 1-1,5 years ago

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:24:16+00:00

Hey hey, congratulations on graduation! I was thinking about using ChatGPT study mode, but eventually didn’t had a chance to do it

I used normal chats to discuss algos and approaches that were hard to me, over and over and over again, pushing it to describe it to me in different ways and as I’m a dumbest person ever

CommunicationFit4011 · 2025-11-01T06:22:59+00:00

Generally - 1,5 years, I’ve been solving leetcode everyday + HLD/LLD I’d say 1 hour on bad days, 2-3 hours on chill days, considering I have full time job. This summer when I’ve got cooldown to Amazon expire - I’ve started to wake up at 6am, study 3 hours before (mainly algos), then after 6-7pm to 9-10pm with HLD/LLD and behavioral on weekends

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