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IBM OA that showed up 10 minutes after I applied Applied on a Sunday night, HackerRank link was in my inbox before I closed the tab. Two questions, both easy. First was the VM stock one where you keep selling from whatever type has the most stock left and add that to revenue, max heap and done. Second was counting the...
Amazon phone screen was suspiciously easy 🤨 Got Connect Points in 2D Matrix, BFS over same row/col points. Finished early, two LP questions after. Rejected next day. Cool.
Squarepoint OA, one missed edge case and you're done Wasted my Saturday on Squarepoint's OA and got tanked over one edge case, no phone screen, nothing. Whole thing is you must get every question fully correct or you're out, no partial credit whatsoever, and that's exactly what happened to me. Stats portion up front wa...
Reddit MLE phone screen was just one question that kept growing For some background, I'm an MLE with about 4 YOE, mostly research-adjacent work before shifting into something more product-facing last year, so I've been rusty on the system-design-flavored coding stuff. Had my Reddit phone screen recently and the whole s...
Point72 phone screens felt like almost the same interview twice Went through the general SDE loop for Point72 recently, 3 rounds total, still waiting to hear back so figured I'd share while it's fresh. OA was Simulate a Deterministic Finite Automaton, a straightforward string simulation prob...
Zero feedback after rejection needs to be illegal at this point Had my Roblox VO last month. Both interviewers seemed genuinely happy the whole call, one even said nice job before we wrapped. Reject email hit nine hours later. No breakdown, no reasoning, just the generic template. Not even a Roblox thing tbh, half thes...
ByteDance phone screen recap, mostly project deep dive Had my ByteDance phone screen last week, sharing while I wait to hear back in case it helps someone prepping. Interviewer spent a good 30 minutes on my resume, mostly digging into why I chose a specific schema for one of my projects and how it'd hold up under more...
Anyone interviewed recently with LinkedIn? Have my onsite on 10/2.
Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 1 Interview Questions & Experience Online Coding Assessment [problem 1 of 2] Count how many ways you can reach a total weight using items whose weights are integers from 1 to k, with unlimited copies of each weight allowed. Order doesn't matter, so [1, 2] and [2, 1] count as the same w...
xAI interview was one of the stranger processes I've been through Got a LinkedIn message from an xAI recruiter back in July, technically for a role listed under SpaceX but she clarified on the call it was actually xAI infra. I'm about 6 YOE, currently at a mid size fintech, so the pay bump alone was enough to keep me i...
Squarepoint OA nearly broke me Applied to Squarepoint about a month ago through a straightforward LinkedIn apply, wasn't expecting much back that fast. Got the OA invite within a week, 75 minutes total which sounded generous until I actually opened it. First part was stats and probability, stuff like t-test vs z-test a...
Perplexity process was rougher than I expected, wrapped up last week Had been casually applying to more AI native companies since my current place feels pretty stagnant, and Perplexity reached out through a recruiter DM in August. First call was with HR, and I wasn't prepared for how technical it got, she actually aske...
3 years at L4 and I still don't see a path to L5 Two reorgs in the last year alone wiped out most of what I'd been building scope around, and now I'm on a new team again trying to figure out what actually matters to this manager. Feedback's always been solid, never a bad review, but I guess solid isn't the same as prom...
Bloomberg's screen format still doesn't feel like a real tech interview to me Did the HackerRank screen last week, an hour total. Ten minutes was resume chat, standard stuff about a recent project and how it handles scale, then straight into two coding problems back to back. Two. In under 50 minutes. First one was [Equ...
Roblox rejected me after VO, coding round was a fake shuffle detection problem Just got rejected by Roblox after the VO, 4 rounds total. Phone screen coding was actually pretty interesting, they framed it as a music app problem. You get the full song library plus a chunk of what someone actually listened to, and you ne...