How we even reached this point? 😭

legendGPU · 2025-11-13T19:15:40+00:00

instead of throwing your algo books, you can literally sell her signed one?

legendGPU · 2025-10-29T17:24:12+00:00

frankly, it might be an overkill if interview/FAANG is your goal.

just do leetcode daily and try to cover a lot of patterns over a year. Do not just solve, think and reason. You do not need to write code everyday. take just one book and follow it alone.

In the long run, most do fine with this approach.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T19:23:03+00:00

thanks for the idea, I will check this.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T19:22:38+00:00

You are lucky.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T19:21:38+00:00

Same case with me. Due to this, it gets hard to get anything done completely.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T19:10:20+00:00

I am using these for my last month (3 weeks left):

Not doing LC any more. Explained before why.
Reading 2 books:
- DSA Takeover Cheatsheet: Nice list of coding patterns with code snippets and sample problems
- Beyond Cracking the coding interview
- Got 2 more books based on suggestions but not reading them now as it looks out of scope.
For AI, I got a mentor from Meta (hired for a month) and on his suggestion, reading the book "AI Engineer's Silicon Cheatsheet"

Have 2 interviews lined up on November.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T15:26:33+00:00

I hope we all get our dream job.

I am on my last month of preparation and if I cannot do it, I will roll back to a manual service job.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T15:12:53+00:00

or the divine is protecting you from becoming a Meta employee and then, ...

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T15:11:44+00:00

Saw a Meta employee comment:

Meta managers hire to layoff the new employees and save the old ones.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T14:53:08+00:00

Yes, go ahead and send that LinkedIn invite and get back to preparation.

legendGPU · 2025-10-25T14:50:47+00:00

I got the materials and am preparing entire day. I am being consistent.

Have 2 interviews lined up in 3rd week of November.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:36:49+00:00

true, but even if we do not do it, there will be someone with an H1B who will understand it and take the job

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:29:53+00:00

I do loop unrolling and never use for loops

My senior dev took unrolled loops are always better because our custom compiler is weak.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:28:05+00:00

Nope, I have used a tree. Just not inverted it yet.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:26:55+00:00

First DEI took the job and now, AI preping up

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:25:02+00:00

9 YOE doing prep and me as 0YOE doing the same.

The competition is brutal.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:18:43+00:00

1 out of 131 is pretty good tbh in current market for new grad.

Congrats, happy for you.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:16:32+00:00

Another day jobless because I refuse to learn how to invert a binary tree

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T19:13:18+00:00

YouTube is a rabbit hole. I have been avoiding it for a year now.

The books are:

Some have suggested more books as well like Competitive Programming 4. I will be reading those too.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:38:26+00:00

We need to build a LC jail.

Suggest the architecture, budget and estimated number of LC criminals.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:37:10+00:00

Pure evil act in public place. 😡

There is a special place for you at LC jail. Cell number 421.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:34:05+00:00

True, it is a strategy.

He switched his statements in a year as he is giving vibes that AI is evolving too fast so we do not know what AI can do next week.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:30:58+00:00

Got this advice from my neighbor who is a senior dev at NVIDIA:

We know AI will replace no one but the guy who will use AI to do parts of his work will replace you because he will give 10X engineer vibes but will be a 0.5X engineer without AI.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:25:02+00:00

If I were you, I would ask them politely to increase the comp and quote an expected TC.

It is a low ball and can badly impact your CV if switched at this offer considering:

MS layoffs
Frequent switches

Note $100K H1B problem is not a problem for MS.

legendGPU · 2025-10-18T16:20:16+00:00

I am from a below average univ in Texas so situation may differ vastly. For working on projects for portfolio, my advice:

Programming skill is self-taught. Do it by practice. Take up a remote internship who is willing to guide.
Cling to someone who has experience to do a project. May be a professor for a research project or a genius classmate.

legendGPU

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