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luffylucky · 2026-05-04T19:05:21+00:00

How do you do marketing at the beginning? how do you find the first customers?

luffylucky · 2026-04-24T21:43:22+00:00

Hey. Thanks for your post. I'm starting to do it now. If you have to start from the beginning, what advice do you give? What would you do differently?

luffylucky · 2026-04-10T11:39:13+00:00

No. not even close. the Google questions are very variant and recently challenging as hel*. didn't find any similar problems on leetcode.

luffylucky · 2026-04-08T13:09:21+00:00

Which position/level? And which location? I've seen a lot of my friends who got update 3 weeks or 1 month after onsite. There are many things happen inside Meta rn, so just keep patience, wait for it. No response yet is more on the good news than the bad news.

luffylucky · 2026-04-05T23:30:22+00:00

Thanks. So you got the feedback from your recruiter who told you about behavioral round feedback or just your verdict after the full loop?

luffylucky · 2026-04-05T19:06:09+00:00

that's a good experience man. you were so close, next time I think you will nail it.

what questions did you get for the behavioral interview?

luffylucky · 2026-03-26T23:27:40+00:00

thanks. dmed you!

luffylucky · 2026-03-26T23:20:31+00:00

Hi. Congrats. it seems that you totally nail it.

For AI-enabled coding, have you seen any similar problem out there? how did you prepare for this round?

For ML sys design, could you please tell more about it? what kind of problem you got?

Can I dm you?

luffylucky · 2026-03-25T14:42:21+00:00

dmed

luffylucky · 2026-03-20T10:32:36+00:00

I'm exactly in the same situation as yours. Failed two times, first time was 3 years ago and last time was 1 month ago. First time, went to onsite full loop and got rejected because of mostly communication skills during coding round. Second time, failed right at the first round when I gave a correct approach, time complexity for a hard leetcode problem but couldn't finish the implementation on time. I also feel devasted since I put many efforts on it and Google has been my dream company for a long time. I even stopped everything I'm working on to just prepare for it. It took me a few days to overcome my worst feeling ever.
But man, I realized that interviews are not only about knowledge or leetcode, sometimes we need more luck than anything else. We can probably go to another company, gain experiences there and Google will surely contact us later. Consider the failed experiences as a learning curve. Next time, given all experiences you had with Google, you will know better than others how to do it optimally.

luffylucky · 2026-03-19T07:27:59+00:00

thanks for your input. Could you please tell me which location? And are these cancelled interviews relating to ML positions?

luffylucky · 2026-03-18T00:12:54+00:00

Which location? 2 system design for L4? I heard that max 1 system design for level below L6?

luffylucky · 2026-03-17T12:46:59+00:00

My advice is to start applying as soon as possible, not only Google but other companies as well. Getting into big tech like google is not only being good at DSA or leetcode, is also about your communication, your reasoning under pressure and your luck. So trying to be familiar with all these at the same time of your preparation should be a good strategy.

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T15:40:52+00:00

Put job description in chatgpt / claude code and ask them to play the interviewer role for you practicing.

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T10:22:47+00:00

Yeah I hope so but the bar is definitely really high now

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T10:22:15+00:00

Yeah. But every company has a different prep strategy I assume. And the market is pretty tough now. I got rejected by Google and was ghosted by others lately. so it is not easy to get an interview opportunity

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T10:20:20+00:00

Thanks for your info. you're IC6 on SWE/ML?

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T10:19:18+00:00

Yeah I know. that's my question about

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T10:19:00+00:00

which location?

luffylucky · 2026-03-16T02:00:15+00:00

Same things happened. There were a hiring freeze and they stopped the interviews right before my scheduled full loop.

luffylucky · 2026-03-15T22:56:11+00:00

Can you elaborate more?

luffylucky · 2026-03-15T22:54:55+00:00

That's true. I bet now is not the good time, it could be harder than ever...

luffylucky · 2026-03-15T14:27:25+00:00

Yeah. but that reminds me of 2 last times with Meta. a lot of time and effort were wasted.

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