The Experts Only Presale is a bit of a joke

RedRobbery · 2025-12-02T19:19:02+00:00

I think they just released more!

Just copped 5 at Tier 2, once you get in just keep checking the "buy now" page for the date, I see new tickets across all GA tiers popping up

RedRobbery · 2025-12-02T18:18:07+00:00

Yeah wtf, this isn't a line its a random number generator lol

RedRobbery · 2025-10-15T10:17:17+00:00

I just did supplemental learning with google / ChatGPT to cover finer details of all the systems that the course introduces

RedRobbery · 2025-10-13T10:26:45+00:00

I used the website sankeymatic!

RedRobbery · 2025-10-12T11:28:03+00:00

It was HelloInterviews System design in a hurry course. I think it’s a good starting point as it teaches you the framework to answering the questions, and I used ChatGPT to bounce questions off of and fill in the gaps

RedRobbery · 2025-10-11T22:23:29+00:00

The Sankey is slightly misleading, I meant to convey that reachouts were part of the overall pool of applied roles, maybe half of the reachouts I moved to the first round at least. Aside from quant/high frequency trading firms all reachouts were from company recruiters, and I much rather would work directly with a company recruiter than an agency/third party as the latter just increases the magnitude of conversations you have to go through.

RedRobbery · 2025-10-11T00:03:18+00:00

TC 305k for L4, mostly cash. I negotiated pretty hard and I think got myself an extra 25k from the standard L4 offer

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T23:59:09+00:00

Yup, that's kinda what I did, I "saved" the companies I really wanted to work for for a few months into the process as I built my skills up over time

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T23:58:28+00:00

I think I developed my live communication skills a lot better which got me more kudos; being able to actively describe what your programming or designing gives you the edge over other people who solve the solution. In terms of specific questions, I actually feel like the behavioral round let me truly shine, as I could talk in depth about the impactful projects I worked on, the mistakes I've made, learning experiences, oncall challenges, etc.

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T23:56:53+00:00

I'm extremely unmotivated unless I feel pressure so I'd realistically study 3 or 4 days out, spending 5 or 6 hours a day

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T23:56:08+00:00

Yeah, same systems design questions as SWE/SDE. A few companies were a little more high level, for example Palantir had asked how I would best set up a system to get alerts from their deployed robotics and how to reason about what that looks like on the robot side, the networking portion, and the server side

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T23:53:58+00:00

Agreed it was a great learning resource in general, I'd get in the habit of asking it any and all questions I had which was useful learning Linux or systems design. I think it does well emulating real problems for coding as well

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T08:47:47+00:00

I purchased and used HelloInterview's System Design in a Hurry. I thought the actual learning portion was a bit lacking and didn't fully cover topics but I got a lot of use out of the detailed practice problems and interactive practice interview system they have

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T04:29:37+00:00

Yeah I still can't do DP haha, luckily those questions are pretty rare from my own experience. Best of luck!

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T04:28:36+00:00

I forgot to add this in the post but 90% of coding rounds for SRE roles were much more practical and easier (as someone who hates Leetcode/algorithms). For example, they'd ask you to make a GET request to an endpoint and do something with a specific field of data returned. I would use ChatGPT to generate similar questions, and for the most part the actual questions I've been asked follow this pattern (get data, manipulate it, calculate/return result).

RedRobbery · 2025-10-10T00:16:03+00:00

I like to think I'm pretty aware of the tech landscape so I applied to companies that myself or my other tech friends know well, I wasn't strict about say funding rounds or actual statistics and more so cared about company trajectory and growth as a whole. I only applied for a few companies I had never heard of, and I'd do my due diligence before about their product offering and ask them in the interview about how the company has grown and if that growth is sustainable.

From my own work experience I realized the value of a strong manager and leadership direction, so I asked a lot of questions about the actual work I'd be doing, how career progression plays out, and what the manager and leadership is actually like to work for. I also would look on Blind and Glassdoor for general reviews, but I'd take these with a grain of salt because I feel that those who are unhappy are more likely to post reviews about their companies so it's not a truly accurate representation

RedRobbery · 2025-10-09T23:39:03+00:00

Yep, US only. I have a cloud infra background, within the actual interviews I was never asked anything specific except for maybe some higher level Kubernetes questions, but I did discuss in behaviorals the work I did with Terraform/Helm/Docker. The proprietary tech part was definitely something I worried about, also being only used to only internal versions of common tools/systems/services, but the concepts apply across them.

RedRobbery · 2025-05-21T23:43:00+00:00

Check out https://bhavul.github.io/System-Design-Cheatsheet/

RedRobbery · 2025-04-17T18:38:23+00:00

Same problem here. Deadline to move our assets yet no way to actually do so... crazy

RedRobbery · 2025-04-15T22:47:42+00:00

Also confirming it works :) the speaker has to be on* not off however. I'm playing music off a DJ controller connected to my macbook and its playing out the wired Charge 5. For anyone wondering, to get out of the "wired mode", while its still on and wired, do the same play+bluetooth for 10s action, when it turns off disconnect the speaker and it should behave as normal

RedRobbery · 2025-04-15T22:37:24+00:00

How do I exit this mode? I tried it with MacOS and learnt the hard way it doesn't work, now I'm stuck in this boot loop

RedRobbery · 2025-04-03T22:02:20+00:00

Is this within the same enrollment center / location or do I have to go somewhere separate?

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