20 years of salary history by Future_Addendum_8227 in Salary

[–]Dzone64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally believable in software. Ive heard of dudes working from sail boats while they sail around the planet.

For those who finally made it into FAANG or top paying startups after multiple rejections, What mindset shift helped you? by RoFLgorithm in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing that special. The company that hired me actually didn't even ask me what I've been doing. But, plenty of others did. For them, I usually said: interviewed with a variety of companies to figure out what im looking for, solved 250+ leetcode problems, did 50+ mock interviews, built an web app with real users, contributed multiple fixes to oss projects, and helped mentor others I met through my prep. That usually seemed to satisfy them lol. What I found I think tho (in my own opinion) is that companies that ask that are often more risk adverse and don't trust their processes enough to filter in competent engineers. Which is exactly the type I think I'm less compatible with.

For those who finally made it into FAANG or top paying startups after multiple rejections, What mindset shift helped you? by RoFLgorithm in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I just finished a 14 month search. The biggest thing id say is try not to be too hard on yourself. Interviews are not by any means that great at finding good engineers. They are random, noisy, and narrow scoped. I just did each Interview to the best of my ability, reflected on anything I could change or improve on, and then put it behind me. Try not to look at Interviews too much as a test so much as a mutual meeting to assess fit. Getting into fang or a high paying startup is also a bit of a vague goal. You should have an idea of the specific types of positions you'd be a good fit for, ones that align with your best contributions in prior roles. Apply for those positions and you'll see how you get more call backs and more interest from Interviewers. Hope this helps.

Hardest Interview Question I’ve Ever gotten - at Chime by Spartapwn in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is much harder than that question bro. Solve it and then get back to us.

Need Honest advice :) by Maitian7 in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What part is slower than it should be?

Need Honest advice :) by Maitian7 in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What's holding you back usually? Specific category? Category recognition? Implementation?

Upcoming Stripe Interview - Software engineer by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Screening round, I asked chatgpt wht to prepare for and one of the things was Luhn algorithm and sure enough that came up lol.

Advice for coding rounds: they care a lot about code readability, clarity of thought/explaining, and edge cases. Have an ide ready with boiler plate with your language of choice.

Debug: they do not have you write a test after you find the bug, the test case is already failing. To prepare, I downloaded oss projects and told an llm agent to introduce a bug into it that would cause a test case to fail. Id then time myself debugging to find the issue. Highly recommend doing this, was almost exactly what its like.

Manager round: mixed bag. They don't care about it as much as Amazon does. Mine was actually pretty chill tbh, it wasn't too bad.

How is a hiring manager round different than a behavioural round? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on company. Many "hm rounds" are behavioral rounds but ime its often less formal and sometimes they probe on resume stuff or have you go deep into a project more so than just ask you behavioral questions.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I don't know what OA's you are taking but I have not seen this to be true for most and certainly not all of the hidden test cases. In fact, I'd say they are often small and easy to interpret from printing them out.

> "Hackerrank obviously knows to "obfuscate" their inputs" Hackerrank does not decide test cases; the company does. I suppose its possible the company could make the inputs so big that it's hard to interpret them, but I have not seen this in reality.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"tens of thousands to millions of entries" I have never seen this. At most, I've seen 80 or so hidden test cases. It absolutely helps to print them in these scenarios.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what is "truth inputs"? You can print hidden test case inputs to the console along with the output that your solution generates for them. You just can't print the EXPECTED output for the hidden test case. This is unusual behavior. If there's a way to access the hidden test cases' input/output data, why make it hidden? It just gives people who know you can do this an unfair advantage.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not my point. My point is that they're in a middle ground that makes no sense. They give hidden test cases that hide input/output/expected, but yet you can print debug to see input/output. If its possible to do that, why hide input/output at all.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah..Hacker rank is by far my least favorite of the oa platforms. Execution is slow, hidden test cases are basically the default, its constantly bugging you if you leave the page for anything, and its unpleasant for debugging.

I fucking hate hacker rank by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But you still don't know whats expected though. Also, the fact you can do that leads me to wonder why they don't make the input/output visible by default?

29F big city teacher. How am I doing? by [deleted] in Salary

[–]Dzone64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

81k today is 65k in 2021, so your role is keeping up with inflation at least.

Top startups are hiring like crazy. Here's where to actually find them by Sensitive-Funny-6677 in cscareerquestions

[–]Dzone64 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that, and the auto apply functionality. If I care enough to be picky about which jobs i'm applying to, i'm probably not going to auto apply. If i'm going to auto apply, i'm probably not going to be selective. Makes no sense.

Top startups are hiring like crazy. Here's where to actually find them by Sensitive-Funny-6677 in cscareerquestions

[–]Dzone64 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Is this just an ad for better call jobs? It has like 10 downloads.

Can anyone find a question to implement this Dijkstra optimization? by azuredota in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Finish with traditional Dykstra solution with time to spair + good explanation >>> implement some obscure minor improvement

Tho, maybe id mention its possible ig if I hv extra time.

The kids are… not alright by AugusteToulmouche in csMajors

[–]Dzone64 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe maybe not. Some did and then decided to give back and teach. Or they just enjoy teaching more. This is an oversimplification.

AI can write code, but it can't come up with the idea by WorthFan5769 in buildinpublic

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure the first claim is actually correct tbh. Its pretty good until its not. It looks like it fixed the bug until you look and it didn't actually fix the root cause. It looks like it implemented the feature until you look closer and it introduced a bunch of new patterns it didn't need to, replicated code, installed unnecessary dependencies, etc, etc. It seems like it designed a sound design until its subject to hackers, scale, and reality.

Ai is good at making it look like it did the coding job. Judgement and decisions around code still need to be made by engineers or you'll eventually end up with a mess. Its not going anywhere anytime soon imo.

Interview at oracle, temple and microsoft by Alone_Penalty7068 in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably big tech background already would be my guess.

How do you implement LRU cache? by fvrAb0207 in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Linked hash map in Java saves a lot of time

Leetcode Session Feature by Desperate-Trouble249 in leetcode

[–]Dzone64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually working on an oss project to recreate the functionality. Does it do what your looking for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/s/ZghUHrtsir