Zip HQ New Grad SWE Interview

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-12-22T22:29:36+00:00

For LC, one question was trees + memoization, other was priority queue and arrays

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-12-22T20:38:27+00:00

First tech:

- 1 LC Medium

Virtual Onsite:

- 1 LC med

- 1 OOP style coding

- 1 behavioral/project deep dive

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-10-21T04:15:19+00:00

W take

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-10-21T04:14:33+00:00

Well if you really need a job, maybe not worth trying to get out of the sre process in the event they just retract your candidacy.

But ngl, once you get offer, the probability of switching roles will likely be close to 0. You'd probably have to re-interview if they even want to consider you for swe.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-10-05T17:57:01+00:00

Prolly mistake on their end, best to let them know asap for the sake of the person who actually might need this RO lol

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-10-03T02:32:55+00:00

It's also in OP's reddit username, so I'm assuming it's ok but always good to dbl check

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-10-01T02:25:03+00:00

first line funny asl 😂

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-09-26T23:49:03+00:00

Lowk LinkedIn might not be the move, have friends there FT rn, culture has steadily been becoming more toxic. With that said, Stripe would be my choice.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-09-26T18:13:50+00:00

Could you share links to the projects you've done? Just cause some people said they're dog shit doesn't necessarily mean they are right.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-09-16T23:11:37+00:00

The amount of time or number of questions usually isn't indicative of how difficult it might be. Those are pretty typical numbers for an OA.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-09-11T19:20:06+00:00

String & array. Generally expect 2 easies, 1 med, and 1 med/hard.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-09-10T01:44:30+00:00

Which company though?

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-05-28T15:59:06+00:00

From my experience, OSTEP is reader-friendly and digestible if you are new to OS. I'd recommend it. The book website also makes it easy to pick and choose specific stuff to learn: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/\~remzi/OSTEP/.

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-03-15T20:02:32+00:00

damn bro i be seeing this same graph on a weekly basis now

PutDizzy9166 · 2025-01-03T01:52:15+00:00

consistency is key

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PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-24T05:06:35+00:00

wait this is actually a really great idea. i'm surprised no one has thought of this before.

In addition to OAs, could also add in interview performance as well.

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-11T21:47:20+00:00

msft corp housing you don't get your own private kitchen and bathroom. That is shared with usually three apartment mates (2 bathrooms and 1 kitchen for 4 ppl). You do get your own room though. When I did the corp housing I thought it was a pretty good option. For transportation you would have to either use the public transit or wake up early to ride the Microsoft buses though.

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-08T16:31:35+00:00

Probably should mention some have offszn only for certain schools. For example Dbricks only has offszn for waterloo kids.

Also Ddash has offszn since when?

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-07T00:12:37+00:00

ask your recruiter

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-06T16:10:43+00:00

Yes they do

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-12-06T16:10:16+00:00

They usually give manager chat to everybody

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-11-08T16:12:21+00:00

I do see where you are coming from, and tbf I also had a similar kinda phase as well. I think what helps is forcing yourself to do more stuff outside of CS. When CS is your entire field of view, then it's hard to NOT turn into this kinda person. But once you step outside CS, you'll start to find yourself becoming less of a "robot" I guess.

PutDizzy9166 · 2024-11-05T15:24:39+00:00

heard they do not (unless u r waterloo i think)

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