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Lyft phone screen, got the job scheduler problem Just finished my Lyft phone screen, one coding round, about 60 minutes. Got the classic scheduler problem, jobs with a start time and duration, assign them to the fewest workers so nothing overlaps for one worker. Went with a heap based greedy approach and had it working...

Meta - Company Culture - E5 SWE, Ads Infra Time at Company: 8 months Left Meta after 8 months as E5 on Ads infra. Favoritism is at its best there, not even hiding it anymore. My project got handed to someone else two months in, no explanation, just "reprioritization." I'm 0/3 on paths to level appropriate impact and I'...

Expedia rejected me, shocking absolutely nobody Just got the reject email from Expedia after 4 rounds, exactly what I expected honestly. Phone screen was Maximize Hole in Prison Gate, some greedy problem about removing bars from a grid, felt manageable but the interviewer barely said two wor...

DoorDash onsite done, no idea how it went For some background, I'm about 6 YOE, coming from a mid size fintech company, been on the market for a couple months now. Had my DoorDash phone screen a few weeks back, they gave me the Dasher Pay problem, calculate payout from a list of order events and timestamps, straightfor...

ByteDance phone screen felt like a thesis defense Had my ByteDance phone screen this week, 3 YOE, mostly backend work. Interviewer spent like 30 minutes just going deep on my last project, schema choices, why we picked that indexing strategy, felt like I was defending a thesis lol. Only had maybe 15 minutes left for th...

Squarepoint final round was over a week ago and still no word Doing this from memory since it's been a stressful few weeks. I'm at a smaller quant adjacent shop right now, decided to test the market since WLB there has been kinda average lately. The OA was rougher than expected. Stats and probability questions upfront,...

Has anyone recently received an CodeSignal OA assessment immediately after applying and can share more info? How well do you need to do to get a recrutier call after?

Point72 HFT onsite, one round, one interviewer, and I walked out knowing it wasn't going anywhere well before it even ended Got the SmartString design question, got the expandable array template follow up too, answered every systems basics question they threw at me along the way, mmap, atomic, TLB, all fine honestly. R...

DoorDash phone screen, coding round only Had my DoorDash phone screen last week, single coding round, about 45 minutes. Got Find Eligible Order Sequence, a heap based simulation problem where you keep pulling the smallest eligible order out of the array based on its neighbors. Took a bit to...

Capital One OA was way more time pressure than I expected Been actively job searching for a couple months now, mostly quiet on responses so this OA felt like a big deal. 70 minutes, 4 questions on CodeSignal, camera and full screen sharing required the whole time which added its own stress before I even started coding....

Applied to Squarepoint, got through the OA and one phone screen, then radio silence for two weeks. Figured that's a no. Back to grinding I guess.

I recently got a recruiter reach-out from Bridge, which caught my attention given that Stripe acquired Bridge for ~$1.1B. Bridge builds stablecoin infrastructure for global payments, so the space definitely seems interesting. I already have a Microsoft offer in hand, but based on what I’ve heard, Bridge’s comp could be...

Compensation Breakdown Base Salary: 210k Stock/RSU: 297k vest over 5 years Annual Bonus: 0 Sign-on Bonus: 10k Other: Your Experience I recently got an offer from Rover for a Principal Software Engineer role. In the end, considering Rover’s size and the compensation, I decided to turn it down. Hope this data helps if yo...

Just wrapped up my Snap loop, five rounds total. Still waiting to hear back so nothing to report on the outcome yet. Phone screen was a duplicate finder that forced you to write your own directory traversal instead of using anything built in. Threw me off at first but I got through it. The onsite coding round was the o...

Time at Company: 8 months The AI safety talk is real, people actually argue about it in standup. Bar's brutal though, half my cohort didn't make it past probation.