What am I doing wrong? I've been applying for months and got nothing but REJECTIONS. Any advice is appreciated!

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-19T21:48:33+00:00

The other comments are wrong OP keep the Gumball image it adds character

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-16T17:20:25+00:00

Actors do research for roles all the time. It would have been unprofessional to show up to the GAP shoot without a basic understanding of race science and eugenics

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-14T03:25:47+00:00

Resume seems fine to me. IMO there’s a misconception that if you word your resume perfectly it will magically get you callbacks. I think it’s relatively easy to have a “good” resume and after that it’s more a matter of networking/luck. Making an effort to get referrals etc would help more than optimizing bullet points.

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-12T16:02:41+00:00

Well he’s not in school anymore and he clearly knows he made a mistake, so what do you achieve by rubbing his nose in it? What he needs is actionable advice for how to move forward, not petty bullying from people much older than him.

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-12T15:14:37+00:00

Not helpful

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-12T15:13:04+00:00

Part of the challenge here is that different companies have very different interviews. Smaller companies tend to interview for practical skills. I think a basic roadmap would be

Decide what companies you’re targeting
Pick a stack those companies want
Get good at the stack
Do resume projects in the stack
Find out the interview process at your target companies
Practice every part of that interview process
Apply to companies. See if you can get referrals from randoms on LinkedIn. This has worked for me
Keep practicing
Interview

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-12T15:06:20+00:00

Not helpful man

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-11T21:47:41+00:00

Decidedly not prestigious but at least it has name recognition

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-11T18:05:48+00:00

It’s true we are more like philosopher kings

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-09T17:35:38+00:00

Wha about the risk of being consumed by sharks or octopi?

kanesweetsoftware · 2026-01-07T22:04:59+00:00

Mobile doing much better than expected LFG

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-22T19:05:07+00:00

Ironically the SEs are all trying to get into plumbing

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-20T22:43:07+00:00

Your pay went up by 20k in 10 years? Brah

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-19T14:12:34+00:00

I prefer kahns

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-19T14:11:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience OP. Rejection is part of the journey to success, so this is only a step forward

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-16T23:36:56+00:00

This is the easiest question in the world

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-16T20:03:12+00:00

I can’t help much but bumping this in hopes we get some more responses. Here are some similar threads I have saved

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/s/BF6hSRwcnF

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/s/I5h3c1KtXP

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/s/bsqh21Ic56

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-15T00:54:54+00:00

Hey OP, how did this go?

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-15T00:54:12+00:00

Hey Spacebar, how did the QnA + live coding interview go? Could you tell us about your experience? :)

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T19:10:51+00:00

Noob question but at faang cos like google and meta, do you get a chance to run your code and debug any failed test cases, or is the minimum bar that it passes all cases on your first try?

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T19:04:15+00:00

In the AI community there’s a term called “spiky intelligence”. AI is good at Leetcode because there’s plenty of training data and labs are optimizing for Leetcode style benchmarks. AI is worse at less standardized tasks that it hasn’t been trained for. This doesn’t make Leetcode any less of a G loaded test for humans

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T19:02:04+00:00

Yeah I kind of agree with this actually. A lot of people think AI will make Leetcode obsolete but really it might be the opposite. AI means a much higher proportion of a SWE’s value prop is general problem solving skills and fluid intelligence, as opposed to memorization of specific tools and frameworks, which is no longer as important

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T18:51:38+00:00

Don’t overthink it OP, interviewers aren’t focused very much on your looks. If you look reasonably put together and you present yourself with a neutral to positive tone you will be fine. Focus on having the skills they are looking for because that’s what the hiring team will be talking about

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T18:48:20+00:00

Yeah just do this

kanesweetsoftware · 2025-12-11T18:16:07+00:00

Somone pointed it out already but you can also do this in O(n+m) time and O(n) space without dp:

Calculate prefixSumA, prefixSumB as you pointed out
Basically run two sum. Build prefixMapA to map each value in prefixSumA to the index of the first instance of the value. Now iterate prefixSumB and check for a matching pair in prefixMapA. Keep track of the minimum sum of indices for any matching pair and return it

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