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Confluent onsite, system design got me Just got rejected from Confluent after 3 rounds. Phone screen was the tail -n problem, felt okay walking out of it. Coding round on the onsite was search word with a phrase followup, went smooth. Then system design was the temporary email service thing, scale to 100M users, and th...

Affirm loop, rejected after 6 rounds over pace Just wrapped up the Affirm loop, 6 rounds total, phone screen plus 5 onsite, ended up getting rejected. Phone screen was the trust score problem, two days of logs with userid, ordertype, and amount. First part was finding users active both days with 2+ unique order types,...

Squarepoint finally got back to me, rejected after 5 rounds Waited way longer than the promised week for this one, but the email came through today. Rejected, 5 rounds total counting the OA. For some background, I'm about 4 YOE mostly backend, applied through a referral back in early June. The OA was rough, stats and p...

Microsoft MAI Copilot offer, the rate limiter round stood out Just wrapped up my MAI Copilot loop at Microsoft, phone screen plus 4 onsite rounds, ended up with an offer so figured I'd share the breakdown since the process isn't documented much anywhere. Phone screen was the usual BQ heavy format, about 25 minutes on a...

Google rejection, kinda saw it coming Just got rejected by Google after R2. Kinda saw it coming tbh, back to grinding I guess. Amazon noahturner91 2d damn sorry to hear that, was it the coding round or system design that got you? Google rahuliyer0501 OP 2d think it was more the coding round, didn't feel amazing walking...

Databricks backend loop, rejected after System Programming round Just wrapped up the backend SWE loop at Databricks, five rounds total including the phone screen, and got rejected after the final round. Phone screen was Optimal Commute, minimizing time then breaking ties on cost across four transport modes. Naive appro...

Waymo data fluency round wrecked me Just got the rejection email from Waymo after 5 rounds total, phone screen plus four onsite. Kind of numb about it tbh, this one stung more than most. For some background, I'm about 6 YOE, mostly backend and infra work, and I really wanted this one since I've always been into the AV...

Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 4 Interview Questions & Experience Coding 1: LC Course Schedule 2 Coding 2: Design Rubix Cube - this was a bit tougher than expected - This was a class based question and the tough function to code was rotate() Coding 3: LC Meeting Room 3 Design: Design Rate Limiter - Spent a lot of t...

Netflix onsite, still no word Finished my Netflix onsite last week, 5 rounds total. Recruiter said end of week, that came and went. Haven't heard anything since, so who knows at this point tbh.

Databricks offer, finally Just got the offer from Databricks after 5 rounds. System Programming was brutal, everything else was fine. Relieved this is over tbh.

Confluent offer, random queue and RSS feed system design Just wrapped up my Confluent loop, 4 rounds total, and got the offer. Figured I'd share since not a ton of people post about this company. Phone screen was the random queue problem, implement a queue that returns elements at random on dequeue. Straightforward wit...

Vague interview prompts aren't 'signal,' they're lazy interview design Ramp interviews love vague prompts and call it "signal." It's not signal, it's laziness. If nobody on the loop can even tell you what they're measuring, nobody actually designed the interview process, they just winged it. Stop dressing up sloppy pre...

uber pinning the slowdown on brazil now Stock dipped again after earnings. Apparently the new excuse is Didi and Meituan chewing into Brazil bookings. Guidance still landed in line with estimates though, nothing that screams crisis. They blame a different region every quarter at this point. Wouldn't read too much into...

Microsoft MAI rejection MAI, 4 rounds, rejected. Phone screen: BQ heavy then Top K coding, stores by score and distance. Went fine. VO: HM round was just project deep dive, no coding. Second round was another Top K variant with follow ups, felt rushed. SD was the chatbot memory system, discussion felt shallow honestly....

Expedia rejection, but that OA problem was kind of fun Just wrapped up the full Expedia loop. Five rounds counting the OA, and I got the rejection email earlier today. Kinda bummed, but honestly the OA question is what I keep thinking about. Weird thing to say about a rejection. It was framed around a trading card comp...