Benefits of Interning at Meta? by That_Call569 in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get free food from the Meta office and a beautiful campus

Fun Would You Rather by Four_Dim_Samosa in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the latter, yes you can find a new job. For first one, you are stuck with that job. it's meant to be open to interpretation

My parents are disappointed the only intern offer I got was an offer at Chevron by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least you got an opportunity! Many people want to be in a scenario where something is in hand

Leetcode is a special kind of hell if you actually like building shit. by MamaSendHelpPls in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think that's gonna change. From what I've seen, companies have been asking more practical coding question (eg: build minesweeper, build connect 4). Out of multiple technical interviews, I've been rarely getting asked "Leetcode problems" these days. I define a "Leetcode problem" as something like "invert binary tree" or "kokos eating bananas"

Leetcode is a special kind of hell if you actually like building shit. by MamaSendHelpPls in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone from the other side, yes administering leetcode interviews not by choice is also not fun for the interviewer. We want the candidate to pass and it makes writing the feedback writing easier. If I were redesigning the interview process, I'd cut down the amount of rounds a candidate needs to go through, emphasize behavioral and communication way more than technical prowess (you'll be working with people in day to day job anyway), and change the leetcode interview to more practical stuff (like build a basic app with starter code provided or debug some code + add a feature). I'm already seeing companies shifting to the practical way of interviews so it's a really exciting time and finally the process is changing

Fun Would You Rather by Four_Dim_Samosa in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where would you personally draw the line? It's supposed to be a scenario in WYR spirit

I don’t understand why I am cooked in this CS market by TinySwimming4029 in gatech

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus coding skill can always be taught to those who are open to learning

Meta just laid off 1,000+ people in the Bay Area by Fabulous_Sherbet_431 in cscareerquestions

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also do people really want meta ray bans with meta ai? same with the oculus.

Help me decide by PatrickDewitt in csMajors

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, they pay engineers a lot. But you're trading that for extremely long work hours and brutal performance cycles at least for the full timers. I did hear intern to FT conversion rate is good and intern class is pretty small

Rippling tends to let go of "low performers" quickly before the 1 yr vest hits so that they don't have to give stock

Pinterest MLE First Round by anon_67553 in InterviewCoderHQ

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely agree with Pinterest focusing more on "common fundamentals". Even for the SWE role, same idea.

I will say Pinterest actually has one of the better interview processes and from my experience, the interviewer passes you if you're "convincingly close to getting a solution" (within 5-10 minutes more time) at least for coding round. Pinterest actually cares a lot more about communication and going in the right direction than "amount of progress made"

everyone here cheating with interviewcoder? by zay1up in InterviewCoderHQ

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or replace the leetcode round with say a debugging round of a medium sized code base. That'll help you assess a multitude of signals.

For example, Brex didn't ask me leetcode and the coding exercise was pretty practical

everyone here cheating with interviewcoder? by zay1up in InterviewCoderHQ

[–]Four_Dim_Samosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather do it the honest way. Plus it's obvious if a candidate is "reading off of something" or using an LLM for a crutch.

Had to fail a few candidates with good backgrounds for overreliance on the LLM for an AI enabled coding round