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Airbnb phone screen, the 2D iterator with remove Had my Airbnb phone screen Tuesday. One question, 45 min, interviewer pasted the prompt and we started coding pretty much right away. You get a list of lists of ints and build an iterator over it with hasNext, next and remove. remove deletes whatever the last next() retu...

Netflix Ads phone screen, the TTL cache question Netflix phone screen Tuesday, Ads org, one problem. Print a value but skip it if it was already printed in the last 10 seconds. Had a map of value to last printed time working in like 15 min. Rest of the hour was follow ups. Like what if the server crashes and you lose t...

Screenshot (1788).png Hey everyone 👋 A couple of months ago i was in a sticky situation. I am a fullstack dev with 4 YOE at amazon. I recently figured out that my communication during interviews sucked despite having solved over 500 leetcode problems. Finding solid mock interview partners at odd hours was a hassle, an...

Meta onsite with the new AI rounds, waiting and losing my mind I've been at the same company almost 6 years so this was my first real loop in forever. Phone screen was one easy and one medium, Valid Palindrome II and then subarray sum equals target. Honestly went better than I expected and I got the onsite invite a few...

Datadog phone screen, query/log matching Got the query/log stream one. Map words to query ids, count matches per log. Finished w/ time to spare tbh, recruiter says onsite next. Anyone done the AI coding round yet?

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Is ByteDance US still worth it if you're not trying to grind? Got a recruiter ping for a backend role at ByteDance in San Jose. Numbers they floated are legit, noticeably above what I make now at a mid size company. But pretty much everyone I know who went there says the same thing: late night meetings with Beijing, fa...

Time at Company: less than a year Your Take on the Culture WLB is not good, but you might learn and grow a lot Tips & Key Takeaways very metrics driven company, more engagement + revenue the better

Hearing more cases where a strong OA score seemingly counted for nothing in the final decision. Is the OA just a screen filter now, or do some companies actually weight it?

eBay phone screen, product recs question + scale follow up Had my eBay phone screen Tuesday for a backend SWE role. One coding question plus a scale discussion, about 60 min total. Still waiting to hear back. Coding was the product recommendation one. You get a bunch of user browsing sessions, each session is a list of...

Datadog onsite, the AI coding round got away from me I've been at a mid size SaaS company for 4 years, mostly backend, and this was my first loop since 2022. Honestly I was more nervous about the AI coding part than anything else because I had no idea how they grade it. Phone screen was the query and log matching quest...

Square phone screen, rejected Incremental CoderPad thing, each part unlocks after tests pass. Got through two parts, didn't finish the third before time ran out. Rejection email next morning lol. back to grinding I guess

did openai really halve gpt-6 pricing already saw two new gpt-6 models dropped last week at like half the price, only a month after the first one. does that actually change anything if you're building on it?

Affirm phone screen, fraud detector debug + build Had my Affirm phone screen Tuesday, 60 min on CoderPad with starter code already there. Got the Live Fraud Detector question. First part was debugging a counter that tracks distinct PII values across underwriting events. Found two bugs, one was it wasn't filtering event...