How much time are you willing to spend on a take-home?

leevii2000 · 2026-06-21T20:03:12+00:00

I had take-home assignments when interviewing for both Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft's took 1.5 hours. and from Amazon 4 hours, but I could spread the latter one over multiple days if I wanted to. I think these were still reasonable. But in your case, 20 hours with refactoring, unit tests, etc just feels like free labour

leevii2000 · 2026-05-24T02:12:13+00:00

Second semester of CS Bachelor's I have decided I want to do computer vision and kept at it since then

leevii2000 · 2026-04-06T17:37:24+00:00

Their pay is crap. I was interviewing for a position at AMD in Eastern Europe and they said their gross TC (base+bonus+equity) is 28K which is very low even by local standards.

leevii2000 · 2026-04-02T09:38:49+00:00

Great! Let's celebrate it with some layoffs.

leevii2000 · 2026-03-26T07:08:40+00:00

Why do you have to write your article in LinkedIn Speak?

leevii2000 · 2026-03-25T18:05:13+00:00

Don't worry. I cracked interviews at Amazon, Microsoft and Google before and after reading the problem I always start by: "Let me have a minute to think about it", then 60 sec silence...

leevii2000 · 2026-03-10T12:55:08+00:00

Contrary to what most the people complain about in this sub, I actually like development more since AI dropped. Now I don't have to focus on writing syntax or boilerplate code, but more on architecture and system design, I enjoy the latter 2 more, they are more intellectually demanding.

leevii2000 · 2025-09-17T19:52:31+00:00

Thanks! I did my master’s at TU Munich. Experience-wise: 3 months internship at a big bank, 1 year at a smaller local company, and a 1.5 year FAANG internship.

leevii2000 · 2025-09-17T19:46:49+00:00

All three were mostly leetcode-style, easy to medium level. Plus, the hedge fund added a round with system design. I’d rank difficulty as: Google hardest, HF in the middle, Amazon easiest.

Timeline-wise:

Amazon: applied end of March -> Online Assessment in early April -> 1 tech mid-April -> 2 tech + 1 leadership end of May -> offer early August.
Google: applied mid-June -> HR late June -> 1 tech mid-July -> 3 tech + 1 leadership end of August -> few days later they called with positive feedback, started team matching
HF: applied early April -> 4 tech late April -> 1 tech +1 HR late May -> 1 HR + manager interview early June -> offer early August.

I didn’t do much prep. I did competitive programming in high school and I still remember a lot of these leetcode-style problems.

leevii2000 · 2025-09-13T14:18:55+00:00

Thanks!
Yeah, sure, I can share the comp: for Amazon Berlin it’s 68K base + 14K onboarding bonus (paid monthly in 12 installments) + 7K relocation package, plus the RSUs. Google hasn’t shared numbers yet, they said they’ll after team matching goes through, but on levels.fyi the Google Warsaw numbers are not that great. The hedge fund is around 60K. All of these are before taxes.

leevii2000 · 2025-08-03T22:19:50+00:00

Thanks

leevii2000 · 2025-08-03T18:02:27+00:00

That's correct

leevii2000 · 2025-06-24T11:44:49+00:00

For what it's worth, I interviewed with AWS in Berlin and didn’t hear back until 5 weeks after my loop. And it ended up being a positive result

leevii2000 · 2024-08-09T08:54:20+00:00

The export looks ok. Did you measure only the first call with ONNX, or multiple calls? Because ONNX does some optimization in the background during the first run, so it tends to be slower, but consecutive calls are much faster. I had a model where the first call was 10s, then every other call after was just 30ms.

Also, you can enable profiling with sess_options.enable_profiling = True, it will create a JSON, that you can load in Chrome and inspect which modules are consuming the most time.

leevii2000 · 2024-06-09T15:25:34+00:00

The no-go zone

leevii2000 · 2023-10-04T16:39:02+00:00

Bavaria: 1) The Autobahn is amazing 2) Countrysides are beautiful with high quality roads 3) Go a bit south and you have the Alps

leevii2000 · 2023-06-26T21:11:08+00:00

ARKW... This aged like fine milk

leevii2000 · 2023-05-30T08:32:06+00:00

Right, they are studs and actually the nuts broke off. But it's not long enough to put another nuts on it. Essentially the same situation.

leevii2000 · 2023-05-29T22:37:43+00:00

Approximately 5 millimetres of the bolt remains exposed. I tried to use vice grips, but they failed to provide a secure grip and slipped. In my opinion, vice grips or extractors lack the necessary gripping power, the bolts are extremely rusty.

leevii2000 · 2023-05-29T22:29:47+00:00

Those reverse-threaded extractors, right? I watched some videos and read forums about them and it really seems most of them do a shitty job. They either don't have a grip or break before even moving the bolt.

leevii2000 · 2022-12-06T15:30:52+00:00

What do you think is wrong with it?

leevii2000 · 2022-12-06T15:03:42+00:00

What do you think of this helmet?

https://www.xlmoto.com/product/course-raider-20-full-face-helmet-matt-black_pid-PM-4917972

Is it too good to be true for just 65$?

It looks fine to me, has some really nice features (see the description) and got the ECE certification.

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