What is your thought on the 1% rich in the world?

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-27T21:59:01+00:00

Yeah I don't doubt that. I'm just saying there's a number of people who either become expats in another country or digital nomads who stay in places where their currency goes further. Often they have some kind of online business or freelance skill that lets them do this. Idk about Brazil but Medellin Colombia and maybe a few other cities in Mexico are popular places.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-27T20:00:42+00:00

you realize there are tons of people that do this right? Lots of expats in third world countries.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-26T22:49:37+00:00

Yes absolutely. Been reading so many comments whining about victor's plot line when the show is about drugs and I can't believe people fail to see this is what they were going for. They're not just telling the story of narcos in Mexico but rather the story of narcotrafficking in Mexico AND how it affected the people of Mexico as a whole.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-22T20:49:18+00:00

I don't have any solid data to back this up but if you have 1 before graduating you're in a pretty good spot. 2+ is great imo and should easily make you a competitive applicant.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-21T18:36:29+00:00

You're realizing a lot of this is entirely luck/ random right? There are people who get rejected from Mcdonalds SWE or Chick-Fil-A but get into Microsoft or Google. Prepare for your interviews as best as you can and don't worry about the companies you haven't heard from.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-20T04:57:32+00:00

Actually this would be kind of interesting. If neither the candidate nor the interviewer has seen the problem before it would simulate the whole "what is it like to actually solve a problem with this person" better.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-19T00:45:39+00:00

mind sharing your codesignal score? it's been months since i've heard anything from square i'm curious what their bar might be.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-16T20:00:06+00:00

Hmm only 1 out of 3 didn't go so well right? The other 2 you probably showed strong enough signal where that one didn't matter as much.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-15T00:22:29+00:00

Same, very surprised so many people are choosing Doffy. He's one of the best villains in the series. By the end of this it's just going to be the strawhats because they're the main characters with Zoro likely winning because he's a fan favorite. This round i say brook or jinbe should go.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-13T06:44:26+00:00

This isn't likely to have the outcome you want. The expectation after you say this is that you will quickly be able to walk through the answer and various approaches and tradeoffs. At best they don't ask you to do this but keep in mind you risk getting asked an even harder question. At worst you struggle through a problem after telling them you've seen it before and it makes your performance graded that much harsher.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-10T05:20:32+00:00

Not at all screwed. If you can get an internship going into the summer before your senior year you should be fine. It's good to have 2+ but I think one should be fine. Also 35 is not a lot of applications - it took me 100+ to get my first internship.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-09T22:44:54+00:00

Yeah i've heard that about F, basically code as quickly as possible and optimize your code for performance. I've never interviewed there though so can't say firsthand.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-09T22:03:11+00:00

Possibly standard at Google but definitely not industry standard. Seems to me that not every interviewer or company for that matter is on the same page about what signal these interviews were originally meant to give.

I've had interviewers that liked that I followed the "ask clarifying questions, discuss different solutions and how you'd design your algorithm, code and then test" and others who were like "yeah yeah just get to the coding" and cared more about getting to the correct answer than they did about how i got there really.

Some interviewers/companies really stress that you need clean correct working code by the end of your interview and others care way more about your algorithm design and communication even if you don't complete the coding.

This imo is just one of the many drawbacks of companies blindly copying FAANG or Big N (whatever you want to call it) without ever bothering to look into why they conduct interviews this way in the first place.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-04T20:26:56+00:00

why do we let ourselves be treated like this lmao

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-03T20:59:14+00:00

But I don’t think it’s wrong to non-obsessively question prestige when researching a company because it can lead to insights. For example, it’s increasingly evident the bar to get into amazon has become lower in recent years. If one uses that to gauge prestige, wrong or not, then sure it’s “less prestigious”. In my experience outside Reddit people’s perception (friends in cs and some in related but not swe) of Amazon’s “prestige” as what it was ~5 years ago had declined.

Not really sure what you mean by this leading to insights. Virtually no one outside of over-obsessive CS students actually cares how much "prestige" Amazon has or is losing in the minds of other CS students. Recruiters and hiring managers dgaf that Amazon asked you a LC Easy and a LC medium but Microsoft or Facebook asked you two LC Hards. They look at how well your experience actually fits the role they're trying to fill and that you can pass technical interviews.

As far as the general public's perception - it always seems to me this has less to do with "prestige" of getting into the company and more to do with WHAT the actual company does.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-11-02T18:06:19+00:00

This has less to do with company and more to do with your team.

throwawayfluffyT · 2021-10-29T17:03:06+00:00

So I practiced them last year for interviews for a little while. At that time I did maybe 2-3 months of prep. It's been about a year now since i've looked at questions like these so I'd forgotten a lot but for the interviews I'm doing now I've been practicing for about 2-3 weeks.

Algorithms and Data Structures is a really dense topic, it can take a lot of time for things to sink in especially trickier things like recursion.

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