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HRT phone screen, straight C++ trivia instead of LC Just got rejected from HRT after the phone screen. Expected LC, got hit with straight C++ systems trivia instead, inline vs overloading, hashmap internals, kinda caught me off guard. Bummed because I actually like their trading stuff. Anyone else get pure C++ trivia f...
Affirm offer, but the loan hierarchy problem read like a novel Just wrapped up my Affirm loop, 5 rounds total counting the phone screen, and ended up with an offer. Phone screen was a single problem, transaction log processing with a rolling 24 hour window, bucketing a CSV of timestamps and amounts into hours ago inste...
coinbase down 5% after missing q2 numbers, does that change hiring at all? saw coinbase stock dropped like 5% after missing revenue estimates this quarter, even though trading volume market share was apparently at record highs again, third quarter in a row. not applying there or anything, just wondering if anyone's not...
Instacart OA then ghosted Instacart update. OA on CodeSignal, task management system question, scored around 480/600, felt shaky on the last part. Recruiter reached out for phone screen a week later, one coding round, decode password variant. Went fine I think, finished with time to spare. Then nothing. No update in 3...
Full DoorDash loop breakdown, offer at the end, sharing what I got asked Just finished the DoorDash loop and got an offer, figured I'd write up what I went through since the process details online are pretty scattered. Phone screen was Dasher Pay. You get a list of order events with timestamps and pay rates and need to...
Bloomberg screen crammed two problems into one hour and I couldn't complete the second Went into my Bloomberg screen expecting a normal one problem format like literally everywhere else and got blindsided by two separate coding problems plus a project chat, all in the same hour. Sliding window active users type problem...
Got rejected by Waymo after the data fluency round wrecked me I've been chasing an offer from Waymo for a while since autonomous vehicles are actually the space I want to be in long term, so this one stung more than usual. Phone screen was fine, got a graph question, shortest path on a grid with a couple follow ups abo...
Perplexity rejected me after the ToDo list problem, HR should've warned me harder Been trying to break into more AI native companies since my current gig feels stagnant, so I was excited when Perplexity's recruiter reached out. The HR call itself threw me off though, she asked about positional encoding in transformers...
Can anyone share what the current technical interview loop is like at Toast for senior roles? When I interviewed a couple of years ago for a mid-level, it was a tech screen + VO (pair programming, code review, 2 behavioral rounds)
RTO at these trading adjacent shops is getting ridiculous Robinhood wants 3 days a week in office for what is fundamentally moving numbers around a database. Not knocking the pay, from what I've heard it lines up fine with market rate, but the framing that collaboration requires butts in seats for a fintech that's been...
Got an offer from Databricks after System Programming nearly wrecked me Just wrapped up my Databricks loop, 4 rounds total, and landed an offer. Phone screen was Optimal Commute, the 2D matrix one with four transport modes where you minimize time then break ties on cost. Naive way is four separate BFS passes but they p...
Bloomberg phone screen, two coding problems in one hour, didn't expect that pace Had my Bloomberg screen yesterday and went in thinking it'd be one standard problem like most other places, that assumption cost me some time. They squeeze two coding problems into the hour plus a quick project chat, and want you narrating...
Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 2 Interview Questions & Experience Did the snapshot question and the chess SD round, felt good about each, but still no results after 2 weeks.
Verkada virtual onsite breakdown, ran out of time on LFU Got cold messaged on LinkedIn for a Verkada SWE role, did the phone screen a couple weeks back, then moved on to the virtual onsite in San Mateo. 4 rounds, ended up rejected after. Figured I'd share the questions for anyone else going through their loop. First ro...
Got the 2-part Cross-Day User Trust Scoring phone screen. Got tripped up with the long fintech-phrased problem that it was challenging to distill what the actual problem was. I'd focus on taking time to read through full requirements first. There's the starter code, but you don't really need it to so...