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oracle cutting again in seattle and bay area Saw the WARN filings, around 800 people across WA and CA, effective this week. That's on top of the spring and september rounds. Meanwhile their careers page is still full of OCI and AI infra reqs lol. Anyone actually interviewing there right now know if those reqs are real...

Result: On Hold (Hiring Freeze) Number of Rounds: 2 completed Interview Questions & Experience Round 1 – Coding: Query Log Matching Asked to implement a system that dynamically registers queries and matches incoming logs against them, returning matching query IDs. Follow-ups included handling concurrent updates from mu...

Meta onsite, 4 rounds, rejected E4, 3 YOE. Got the no on Thursday. Screen: Valid Palindrome II + a merge intervals variant. Easy enough, moved on in a week. Onsite: Coding 1: Minimal Board Length for Holes, binary search on the answer. Got it but burned time on the check function. Second q w...

Capital One power day, the virtual card case ate me alive Did my Capital One power day this week, 4 rounds split over two days. 6 YOE backend at a fintech so I figured this was my home turf. lol. Day one was the case and behavioral. The case was the virtual card number one. Pros and cons first, fine. Then they gave me...

Amazon Software Engineer Interview Experience Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 5 (1 Initial Screening + 4 Onsite) Interview Questions & Experience Initial Screening – Rate Limiter (Coding + Concurrency) Asked to implement a rate limiter. Follow-ups involved supporting concurrent requests, multiple threads, thread safe...

MAI phone screen was beam search, VO had the CSV one Did my Microsoft AI phone screen and VO over the last 3 weeks, Copilot org. Still pending, recruiter said I'd hear back "early next week" and that was last week, so who knows. Phone screen was 45 min. Interviewer spent maybe 10 min on my resume and how I use AI tools...

Ramp onsite, the "project deep dive" turned into system design Finished my Ramp virtual onsite Tuesday, 4 rounds after the phone screen, still waiting to hear back. Phone screen was the URL traversal one. You hit a seed URL and keep following whatever comes back until it tells you you're done. I wasted like 8 min assum...

Instacart VO, two coding rounds (expression eval + shopping cart) Did the Instacart virtual onsite for a backend role last week. Two 60 min coding rounds on CodeSignal, no AI allowed in either, SD is scheduled for next week. First round was the expression calculation one. You get equations as strings and evaluate them,...

Waymo L4 offer, worth pushing? Waymo L4, Mountain View, 3 YOE Base 190k, 15% bonus, 480k RSU/4yr, 40k sign-on Other offer is fully remote, ~40k less TC WLB & remote >> TC & prestige at this point of my career tbh. Any room to negotiate?

Two Sigma OA, bombed the tree one Took the Two Sigma SWE OA on Sunday, 2 questions. I'm pretty sure I'm out, so writing this down while it's still fresh. First one was fine. Second was Pythagorean Triples, and I'd never seen it before. You get a tree as two edge arrays, plus three distinct nodes x, y, z. For every node...

Squarepoint onsite, rejected Third round was Chunk a List of Lists, finished it but froze on the streaming follow up. Recruiter emailed two days later, no feedback. Kinda gutted, this was the one I wanted.

google buyouts going international now Saw the report that Google's been offering voluntary exit packages in Europe and Japan too, Switzerland included. Apparently it started back in June and they only just confirmed it. I have a Google onsite in 2 weeks for a Zurich role and now I'm wondering if headcount there is abo...

Snowflake IC2 offer, San Mateo. 3 YOE 185k base 280k RSU / 4 yrs, 1 yr cliff then quarterly 20k sign on Yr 1 TC ~275k with the sign on Currently ~210k. Is IC2 a lowball for 3 YOE or should I push for IC3?

eBay MTS1 offer, San Jose. 6 YOE 195k base 200k RSU / 4 yrs, quarterly 10% target bonus 15k sign on ~280k yr 1 w/ sign on Currently SE3 at a payments startup, ~230k on paper but half of that is options I'll probably never see. eBay is 3 days in office, recruiter says base is pretty much fixed. Worth pushing on RSU or j...