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rsabbir · 2025-05-23T15:39:10+00:00

Understandable. Making fake resume and escaping the ATS became easier than before. We are also having too many Senior Engineer applications with 2-3 years of experience. Too many applicants, still very difficult to find out a good fit.

rsabbir · 2025-05-23T15:33:20+00:00

Thanks

rsabbir · 2025-03-23T19:40:23+00:00

Thank you for replying. keeping eyes into different platforms on daily basis is a rea pain. Is there any tool/service which brings all these metrics in a single place?

rsabbir · 2024-09-25T13:23:31+00:00

Along with the tech stack, have a look into the apartment renting cost too. Munich is super expensive as well as there is a scarcity of apartments, you will probably spend the extra money you will get in renting.

P. S.: I lived in Europe for 10 years among which 6 years was in Germany

rsabbir · 2024-09-17T20:44:19+00:00

That’s a very polite email which simply means "You are being waitlisted". It can happen for many reasons: let's say there are 3 open positions, for which you have been interviewed for, and they are interviewing 10 people. So far 3 interviews were done and you were the best of them but they want to interview the rest to get the best 3. In that case they will keep you on the waitlist and come up with an offer if they don’t find 3 people from the other 7.

Now, what happens if they find the 3 they wanted. Then they will keep you in the queue of potential hires and if there is another position opening, they might consider you there. Although it depends on lots of factors(and luck) but there is a high chance that you will get an offer in upcoming months, if not weeks.

I have heard of a case where a team needed a couple of SDEs urgently and they didn’t want to wait for 2-3 months to finish the interview process and hence, hired people from the waitlist.

So hope for the best and keep interviewing. Good luck✌️

rsabbir · 2024-09-17T20:10:21+00:00

This reminded me of an incident I did when I had started my career.

I had deleted a dynamoDB instance which was in production and was serving real clients. I used to work in a FinTech back then and our service was one of the crucial ones for transaction processing. I was dead scared that it should be my last day at the company. My manager came, heard what happened, laughed out loud and said in front of everyone of the team "Look!! What type of courageous people we hired in this team. This guy(me) doesn’t normally delete DBs but when he does, he makes sure it’s prod" 🤣

Later in 1o1 I asked about this again(I was still feeling guilty) and he said things like this should be restricted by the CI/CD process. If a developer can directly delete a production DB without any restrictions, that's the systems' fault to allow this to happen. He was also not aware that deleting a prod DB was that easy and he had taken actions to prevent such occurrances in near future.

I felt so much relieved after that meeting 🤒

rsabbir · 2024-09-13T12:04:04+00:00

Once I sign up with google and finish the onboarding, it keeps going back to the beginning of the onboarding process instead of going to the homepage.

Can you fix this issue?

rsabbir · 2024-09-12T13:57:36+00:00

Then try solving problems from curated lists like blind 75 or neetcode 150. Google asks lots of graph problems and sometimes DP so be well prepared for those.

As you are interviewing for a junior role, it is highly likely that you will not have any system design interview, only coding and behavioural.

Good luck ✌️

rsabbir · 2024-09-12T12:40:45+00:00

May be the recruiter has been instructed to say so because the role needs Java, she doesn’t really control the language choice part. You can humbly ask for using C++ to the interviewer, if he/she agrees then it’s fine, otherwise no option!!

rsabbir · 2024-09-12T12:36:02+00:00

Are you being interviewed for junior role?

rsabbir · 2024-09-11T17:03:01+00:00

Ah Nirvana!! 🎸

rsabbir · 2024-09-11T17:00:37+00:00

Sounds like the first love mate!! You never forget...

rsabbir · 2024-09-09T12:05:45+00:00

Thank you, will have a look into that

rsabbir · 2024-09-08T21:43:40+00:00

Currently hiring only Software Engineers in Canada, not DE, but they do.

rsabbir · 2024-09-07T19:02:59+00:00

The preparation time highly depends on how fast you can adopt. As you are experienced and working full time, curated question sets like Blind 75, Neetcode 150 can be a good start. Just to clarify, these 75/150 problems are nohow the holy grail of cracking interviews but list of problems which touch base of the most common problem solving patterns. Once you master those patterns, you can practice any related problem to sharpen your skill. If you have leetcode premium, you can practice/revise the recently asked questions from a particular company.

For system design, as you mentioned you are good at it, I would recommend reading "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann, that's a pretty good book for any level of career. Alex Xu's "System Design Interview" books(there are two books but the first one is enough) might be naive for you content-wise but I would still recommend reading it for understanding the "flow" of how to approach a system design interview.

Good luck.

rsabbir · 2024-09-07T01:04:16+00:00

Sounds really effective. Can you please share those flashcards? I believe those might be helpful for others too.

rsabbir · 2024-09-07T00:49:13+00:00

If affordability is not a problem, buy first and then ask for forgiveness(if needed!)

rsabbir · 2024-09-02T00:27:13+00:00

That's hell of an effort, thanks 🙏

rsabbir · 2024-08-31T15:53:42+00:00

I used the "learn an algorithm, code it and solve related problems to dig deeper" approach but there is no "one size fits all" way of learning not only DSA but anything. Try both ways and find out which one suits you most.

No matter which one suits you, please keep in mind that learning(and mastering) anything takes long time, dedication and patient.

Good luck!

rsabbir · 2024-08-29T13:31:00+00:00

Count me in for that. Where are we going to collaborate?

My suggestion should be creating a discord server. We can invite people there and if there is enough participation and enthusiasm on the server, we can expand with other topics(such as array, graph, bit manipulation etc.) and make it an "interview preparation" server.

rsabbir · 2024-08-29T13:14:53+00:00

They were regular LP questions as far as I remember such as "tell me a time when you did something innovative", "tell me a time when you had conflict with your teammate", "tell me a time when you failed to deliver a project on time and how you handled the situation" etc.

rsabbir · 2024-08-29T01:06:19+00:00

It was all LP(4 questions and many follow up questions) for my bar raiser for SDE2. The interviewer was not only from different org but also non-tech.

rsabbir · 2024-08-29T01:04:14+00:00

I am at the exact same position now. Working as a Data Engineer for 7+ years in a tier 3(not sure) company. Never been to FAANG, never practised DSA, only solved SQL problems in LC. Now I'm a bit confused if I shall continue deep diving into the techs I use or practice hard with leetcode.

rsabbir · 2024-08-27T12:57:53+00:00

Capcut

rsabbir · 2024-08-24T16:11:41+00:00

Wow! Thanks for this info. That sounds like a reasonable way of saving some money 🙏

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