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So I just got off the phone with the recruiter and it's a no. Kinda gutted tbh because I genuinely thought I did well. Some background: 3 YOE, currently at a mid-size fintech doing backend work. Had been low-key preparing for a few months and Snowflake felt like a solid step up. Applied through a referral from a friend...

Ramp onsite - Rejected and still don't know what signal they were looking for Got the rejection email 3 days after onsite. No feedback, obviously. Posting this because I'm genuinely baffled and a little pissed. Background: 4 YOE, was actively recruiting and Ramp was near the top of my list. Fintech with real traction,...

Expedia VO - Rejected after 3 weeks of silence Had my VO at Expedia last month for a mid-level SDE role. Phone screen was a sliding window problem, honestly suspiciously easy 🤨. Onsite was 3 rounds: house robber DP variant, natural disaster notification system design, and a BQ with the "tell me a time you didn't trust...

Got an offer from DBX last week and I've been going back and forth on it. 6 YOE, currently at a large FAANG adjacent company. Wanted to put my thinking somewhere and see if anyone has been in a similar spot. The base is solid and TC is competitive, but the equity piece is where it gets complicated. DBX is still private...

Squarepoint onsite done, waiting to hear back (Pending) OA: stats section was suspiciously easy 🤨, got through it fast. Second coding problem was some DP thing I barely scraped together. Phone screens (3 rounds): Round 1: decorators, context managers, live KV store implementation Round 2: generators + JSON stats proce...

should I even bother targeting HRT next cycle heard from someone at my school that HRT basically wrapped their whole summer intern pipeline already, and they're not doing another push til fall. kinda rough timing if you're counting on that path. anyone know if they're still doing new grad direct hires or is that also f...

Just finished the HRT Algo Dev phone screen. Wanted to share for anyone prepping. They gave me a simulation problem: 1D array, N players moving right at 1 unit/time, watcher starts at some position and reverses direction at given timestamps. Goal was to count how many players reach position L by end time T. Problem was...

Cleared coding and SD no problem, then bombed the culture round. Gave what I thought was a genuine answer about AI safety and it wasn't specific enough apparently. Back to grinding I guess.

Airbnb phone screen - Rejected, sharing the question for prep Had my Airbnb phone screen a few weeks ago, didn't advance but want to share the problem in case it helps others. The question was a number guessing game. You're given access to a server method that takes a string guess and tells you how many digits are corr...

Snap VO done, rejected 4 days later 4 YOE, been targeting Snap for a while because honestly the pay is insane and I wanted to see if I could make it through. Phone screen was fine, got a sliding window variant to find max unique users in a time window. Solved it clean, interviewer gave me a follow-up. Thought I did wel...

MAI Copilot phone screen, Pending, sliding window problem + BQ Sharing my phone screen experience for MAI Copilot since I couldn't find much out there. Still waiting on results so this might end in a 挂经, who knows. Recruiter reached out cold on LinkedIn, no referral. Scheduled the screen about a week later. The intervi...

Got through the phone screen (bank/account system, felt fine tbh) and the full VO. Did the booking/split stay DFS problem, chat system design with full schema. Thought I actually had a solid shot. HR called 10 days later to say HC decided I "didn't meet the bar for the role." No specifics. Just vibes. 4 rounds, 6 hours...

Waymo phone screen - Rejected, sharing the coding q Sharing this for anyone prepping for Waymo. Did the phone screen a few weeks back, got rejected shortly after, so figured I'd write it up. The coding problem was about tracking car occupancy in a parking garage across n discrete timestamps. Each entry/exit ticket give...

Had my Snowflake process finish up last week. Rejected after 3 coding rounds total. Tbh I'm still a bit confused about how it all went. Started with two separate phone screens. First one was a 2D grid problem, find the minimum distance from each person to the nearest cake. Classic BFS, I got through it fine, talked thr...

Phone screen: SD + coding. SD was KV store, coding was GPU Credits. Solved both. Got the rejection 4 days later. No feedback. 5 YOE, TC: 280k