2021_summer

[unborn coral]

Yeah I love Russ but I’m god he isn’t with rockets

Glad

Terrible shot selection

And out of control at times

They should be

I hope Wall Gordon and Boogie come back soon

We need to win these game those other guys are out, can’t start 0-2/3

Should won in Portland

CJ just decided to go off

Watch him be ass his next game

All star is def a possibility but He’s winning most improved for sure

I hope wall plays similar to how CP3 played back in 2017/2018

Like run the offense similar to CP did

[thorn leaf]

SAME

it hurts

[small fossil]

You can only use this command in #2021_grad_process or #2021_intern_process

[formal finch]

how long did it take to hear back from Amazon for final round after doing OA 3?

[lunar burrow]

codesignal is fried. got an 847. refreshed the page. became 848

????

[umbral heart]

Probably gave an extra point for a test case they messed up on

[lunar burrow]

nah I full solved, the test cases were fine. idk what happened

doesn't really matter, just thought it was weird

[sonic badger]

it says in the email after u do oa3

id say avg was about 10 days

[formal finch]

Thanks

[worn scarab]

anyone with Gusto know how long it takes after a technical phone for them to give a yae/nae?

or does the fact that they didn't give me an "expect to hear back from us in x days" mean I'm yeeted?

[worn scarab]

I reached out to my recruiter but they're out until the 4th (autoreply)

[narrow patrol]

^dmed

[sonic badger]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEJXowNB4kPzByLnnFYNSCoqtFz0VKLk5

@abstract wagon

[narrow patrol]

any advice on how to decline summer while simultaneously asking about offszn?

[thick ridge]

ask offszn first then decline

no need to do all at once

[sonic badger]

@formal finch Sorry it says it somewhere in one of the emails

i believe its 12 business days

but im just saying it seems like the avg is 10

maybe its the email about oa3

or the email about the oa process

idk

lol

[formal finch]

no worries! Im praying that I hear back for final round. OA 3 went really well for me, but OA 2 was whole L 😦

[worn scarab]

oa3 day in the life?

[formal finch]

yep

[icy juniper]

oa3 is the one that counts for the most part, so I wouldn't stress

i did 1/2 and 7/13 for the second one on oa2

and got the final

[formal finch]

I got 6/12 and 0/16 on OA 2

While getting 4/7 on OA 1

[worn scarab]

lol I did 23/23 for the first and like 0/idk on the second - all for OA2

[icy juniper]

interesting, but you still got oa3 so there's hope

[worn scarab]

I did not get 0a3

[formal finch]

I thought OA 3 was auto?

[worn scarab]

i got the boot 👢

[icy juniper]

my friend got roughly the same as me on oa2 and he got rejected before getting oa3

nah it's not auto

[formal finch]

oh for real? Wtf how did I pass onto OA 3 lol

[icy juniper]

no idea, i've been seeing really inconsistent date tbh

[worn scarab]

i wonder how they determine then

my OA1 was garbage - how was yours @icy juniper ?

[icy juniper]

i got 7/7 on oa1

[worn scarab]

and @formal finch

[icy juniper]

I think the small survey we do after oa2 about personality stuff matters more than people think

[formal finch]

4/7 for OA 1

I don’t think they care bout coding part tho since they gonna do it again in final

[narrow patrol]

rip today is the deadline

[thick ridge]

what company?

[narrow patrol]

dmed

[sonic badger]

idk how true that is

i mean

think about it

if it wasnt important

they wouldnt give it to u lol

[formal finch]

true but how did ppl get final when they failed both questions

[sonic badger]

because there are still other factors

what if they have a really impressive resume, did extremely well on the little quiz after

did well on oa1 and 3

maybe theyre referred

[vital pewter]

I guess we are not gonna hear back till next year 😅

[worn scarab]

yep

[abstract wagon]

 Review the following materials, and practice the ability to apply them: 
● Understand the time and space requirement of the program, algorithm and data structures you use to solve the problem. Explain the time-memory trade-offs of different approaches. 
● Practice coding with Arrays and iterating over Arrays with indices. Understand algorithms such as Binary Search and their benefits, practice applying such algorithms. 
● Practice coding using data structures like Sets, Lists, Maps. Understand when to use each and why. 

so i dont need to know dfs or dynamic programming?
some people on glassdoor and reddit are saying for security internship with facebook
i dont need more than basic data structures? is this true

[icy juniper]

I thought facebook banned dp questions?

[simple saffron]

^

might need to know graphs and search but otherwise no DP at fb

[somber saddle]

wait they don'

t

do dp at facebook

seriously?

[abstract wagon]

Lol why that?

[pallid spade]

yee fb no dp

[abstract wagon]

Imagine having a Facebook interview

[pallid spade]

think its discouraged company wide but ymmv individual interviewers

[abstract wagon]

I would still study dp if i get one

Better safe than sorry

[somber saddle]

honestly not having dp would make me feel way better about the interview. If I had one LMAO

[flat vine]

facebook suddenly seems so much closer but yet so far at the same time

[abstract wagon]

Dynamic programming is my favourite tbh

[lethal ore]

I suck at dp

[abstract wagon]

I got asked a really easy question at a trading firm: eliminate duplicates from a sorted array.

[worn scarab]

Nice

[abstract wagon]

The follow up was: Without using extra memory

So I said that it will mean I will have to shift elements

[worn scarab]

Ooh

[abstract wagon]

But the interviewer keep saying that there was a solution

It was only with C++ (didn't know beforehand)

So I said that if we don't want to shift, we can add unique elements at the end of the array. But it wasn't okay because resizing memory was too expensive.

His solution was: overwrite every duplicates with the next unique value and then shrink the array.

This is how I failed my "easy" interview at a trading firm

[dark junco]

Ohhh that's smart

[abstract wagon]

I think this is what you do with linked list when you just change the pointer towards the next unique value. But I wasn't comfortable with C++ so I arrived to the solution but got stuck on code implementation

[abstract wagon]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Facebook-interview-dp-questions-3M3sdOaG

idk i guess I'll practice it

Is it ok to just use memoization?

?

[humble saddle]

I had a dp question my final round

I think they stopped doing that, but my interviewer didn’t know

[obsidian pecan]

Lol the DP hatred is big

[abstract wagon]

memoization makes more sense imo but i will study dp anyways
although this is a security position and only 1 of the 3 rounds is coding

[obsidian pecan]

imma call bait

[humble saddle]

Once you memoize it, doesn’t it become pretty intuitive for a top down approach

[soft hound]

bruh if the oa requires webcam and i use external monitor what do i do

[worn scarab]

buy webcam

[soft hound]

no i mean i have a laptop

but itll show me looking at not that screen

[obsidian pecan]

OA as in automated assessment?

[soft hound]

online but yeah

[obsidian pecan]

you say "miss me with that" lol

[soft hound]

bruh lol

[worn scarab]

hm, are they taking a picture before or monitoring you during?

[soft hound]

during

i think

[worn scarab]

oh geez

[soft hound]

ima just use the external monitor w/e

theyre also recording screen so it shouldnt be a big deal

[worn scarab]

yeah seems like nothing an email to recruiter/tech wouldn't sort out

i only had to get a photo snapped before the assessment, so I just went ahead head and used my laptop cam

[restive falcon]

LOL

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/kltf85/is_facebook_swe_sexist/

[flat vine]

god i hope being asian counts as URM 🙏

[pallid spade]

URM = minorities except asian

[low epoch]

https://youtu.be/0lzqRVuRqN0

[junior elk]

I think URM is African-American/Black, Latino/ Hispanic, and Native American/Native Hawaiians

[pale coyote]

ok i dont want to start shit but the first comment about umich is highkey true

[restive falcon]

umich is a big school

[pale coyote]

but its probably just my imagination

[restive falcon]

i honestly don't believe it

[pallid spade]

i like this definition (from UCSF) but doesnt seem consistent among all companies/schools

[restive falcon]

in fact I know one asian guy who got an interview this season at umich

[pale coyote]

yea just imagination then

friends with stripe and uber internships got resume rejected tho

[flat vine]

rip born the wrong type of asian

[pale coyote]

their recruiting is just wack this season for us then lol

[finite snow]

Fuck can’t believe I got the minority card but not the right type 🥲

[restive falcon]

i mean a shit ton of people with experience were getting resume rejected from fb earlier in the season with referral

[spice mango]

I kind of believe it

Ik plenty of people here as well

[flat vine]

i can't believe i got the minority card but at the same time i didn't get a minority card

[restive falcon]

how big is the cs major at mich

[finite snow]

5-6 feet tall prob

[pale coyote]

1000 people per year lol

[restive falcon]

thats a lot

[spice mango]

The LinkedIn search is pretty damning though

[cursive tangle]

In our main cs course that everyone has to take, we have around 800 people a semester

[restive falcon]

idk i feel like its hard to generalize with anecdotal evidence

my linkedin search ran out

[flat vine]

https://recruitmentgeek.com/tools/linkedin enjoy

[low epoch]

Imagine living in a world with 100’s of top tier companies and a HANDFUL maybe might possibly sorta kinda (anecdotally) give ORM’s and white people a harder time...
FAANG is not end all be all, the world is your oyster

[spice mango]

If true, its pretty bad to not give interviews to an entire group at a University

[pale coyote]

its annoying but whatever

[spice mango]

I support diversity too

[flat vine]

we'll get em next year

[spice mango]

But this isn't right if true

[pale coyote]

I mean its facebook

they probably have the capacity to do it

[spice mango]

Yea true

[keen birch]

yea i agree @low epoch it’s just one company, but it’s definitely a thing this season and it’s understandable why people are frustrated

[pale coyote]

theres hella companies im more interested in anyways

@abstract wagon 😦

honestly not as bad as ppl say but still a disappointment

[keen birch]

it’s some mid bro

[pale coyote]

when will we get an official release of kid cudi

thats all i want tbh

yea

[keen birch]

hopefully the deluxe version lol

[pale coyote]

there seems to be a trend of rappers not releasing albums for a while only to come out with disappointments lol

[thorn leaf]

eternal atake

it was decent

but overhyped

[pale coyote]

nah ea was trash

[thorn leaf]

i liked a few tracks

[keen birch]

ea just mid not terrible

[pale coyote]

but lil uzi vs the world 2 was alr

[thorn leaf]

the rest was eh

oh ya

lol i hate carti with a passion but i tried listening to wlr

hated that shit

[keen birch]

damn

[thorn leaf]

only part i liked was cudi humming

[keen birch]

don’t even like die lit?

[thorn leaf]

nah tbh i get so annoyed with his baby voice

[pale coyote]

but yea no Q, rocky, uzi, chance and now carti all took their sweet ass time with albums

[thorn leaf]

dont evne get me started on chance

smh

[pale coyote]

only to come out with disappointments

[thorn leaf]

i loved coloring book

and acid rap

now he jus raps about his wife

[pale coyote]

same bro @thorn leaf

[thorn leaf]

colouring book was like amazing

too many features

but nonetheless

amazing

that was good too

[pale coyote]

i liked it but i understand why some people dont

acid rap was peak imo

one of the first rap albums i listened to

[thorn leaf]

cocoa butter kisses

my fav song off that

[pale coyote]

@thorn leaf dude YES

[thorn leaf]

yeah 😦

his new album (the new day or whatever the fuck it was called) made me cringe so much

holy shit

[pale coyote]

the christmas special song he just released was actually decent tho

[thorn leaf]

my fav chance verse was on Ultralight beam

love that song sm

facts

[pale coyote]

motm3 tho??

[jade rock]

hot damn hot water how shower

[pale coyote]

literally been playing it nonstop

[thorn leaf]

LOL

trash recognizes trash

this year for me consisted of bryson tiller, the weeknd and tory lanez

music wise

love those 3 artists sm

[simple saffron]

y’all are trashing new hip hop as if carti didn’t just drop AOTY smfh

[thorn leaf]

IKR

FACTS

dude r&b tory >>>>>>>

bryson tiller too bro holy shit

[pale coyote]

for me alfredo after hours and motm3 were the best this yr

[simple saffron]

dom fike betta

[thorn leaf]

man idk i didnt like his new project

it was all his hard rap shit

i love r&b tory

chixtape tory

yeahh

i used to love his hard bars shit in highschool

now i like his rnb shit

[pale coyote]

isnt tory lanez the dude who shit meg

and is short af

Lol never listened to him

but that whole scenario was whack

[thorn leaf]

AHH thats a good one

dude u hear Tory's remix of Ed sheeran's remix of Tory's Say It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFai9wwHdp4

DUDE THATS GOOD TOO

fr rl grime

or whoever

[thorn leaf]

this is sooooo nice

holy shit

tory the only artist who remixed a remix of his own song

thats a classic

yessirrrrr

killed drake on his own joint

wild thoughts remix

like i dont understand how ppl like drake

when there are artists like tory or byson

FACTS

that was his prime

besides that album i dont like him that much

[pale coyote]

ifyrtitl was pretty good too

[keen birch]

nah 2015 drake was something else

[thorn leaf]

thats a banger too holy

my fav tory lanez song has to be SwInG, or Thoughts ft lil wayne, or Things I should have Said

[unborn coral]

Man Travis needs to drop a new album soon

It’s been like 2+ years since Astro

[karmic fog]

that still feels like yesterday

[keen birch]

faxx

i mean he dropped jackboys this year but that was pretty short

[karmic fog]

when the new zay dropping 😦

[pale coyote]

travis hasnt dropped anything good since astro

and tbh astroworld wasnt even amazing either

[thorn leaf]

astroworld was overrated af

birds in the trap sing mcknight and rodeo were much better

astroworld was hyped too much

[pale coyote]

Rodeo was peak travis

One of the best trap albums ever made

[dapper shard]

astroworld was really some dog ass tbh

[thorn leaf]

definitely. lol there were like a few really good songs, but most of them got really overplayed and mainstream

like sicko mode

[abstract wagon]

Trueeeee

[thorn leaf]

lol half the reason was cuz i think around that time or a year before he started dating kylie jenner

so all the non-travis fans immediately jumped on his dick

"oh whos that travis scott dude haha lets bump his music at the country club while we play golf, yoinkers!"

i just want a birds in the trap pt 2

[abstract wagon]

LMAO

[finite snow]

I fked with rodeo birds and Astro world tbh

[abstract wagon]

I am not a big Travis fan tbh but astro world is way overhyped

[thorn leaf]

right?

to the point where i remember in 2018 june or something, there were 11 year old fortnite players saying some shit about the album dropping when twisted towers was gonna get hit by some asteroid or something

or tilted towers idk

[finite snow]

I rlly enjoyed astroworld pretty heavy atually, who what, can’t say, nC 17, 5% tint, the one w nav

[thorn leaf]

cant say was my fav

[finite snow]

All slaps too me

[thorn leaf]

the one with nav chilling in the parking lot of the recording studio and yelling his verse thru a microphone right

[finite snow]

Ya can’t say will be a memorable one for sure cuz of the production in the beginning

Yosemite has gunna doin what he does best too

[thorn leaf]

yeaa thats the track

fuckin nav and his whispering ass

[finite snow]

I can see if it’s not people’s favorite out of the three but to call the album bad must be some diff world to me 😭 I thought so many of the songs hit

[thorn leaf]

man, half the reason for me was cuz the weeknd collabs on that album were so weak

and each travis scott album i always look for those weeknd collabs

[abstract wagon]

No the album is fine the fans are not lol

[thorn leaf]

ye the album was eh. it just ddint live up to the hype

out of all the albums, the weeknd features on astro were pretty meh. the feature on rodeo and birds were amazing

wonderful>pray for love >>>>>>>>>> skeletons/wake up

[pale coyote]

yea its annoying how all the people who jumped on the trav hypetrain in 2018 treat astro as the holy bible of trap when its a 7/10 album at best

[thorn leaf]

^^^^^

ask them if they heard rodeo

or days before rodeo

"huuuuh"

[pale coyote]

pray for love > wonderful imo

also skeletons was pretty good lol

[thorn leaf]

"OHH U MEAN anecdote"

"YEAH THAT WAS FIRE HAHA i basically listened to rodeo too"

[thorn leaf]

yeah i accept this as well

those 2 were interchangable for me

but skeletons or wake up, imo werent even close to pray 4 love or wonderful

[pale coyote]

the number of people who claim to be travis fans but havent heard 90210 is disgusting

[thorn leaf]

YO

thats fucking fire

Drugs You Should Try is one of my favs as well

so fucking mellow

[pale coyote]

YOOOO

one of his best for sure

[thorn leaf]

FACTSS

i also like the one with him and young thug

on days before rodeo i think

uhhhh

Sky Fall

[pale coyote]

dbr needs to be on spotify 😦

[thorn leaf]

sooo many bangers on rodeo holy shit

you got chief keef on Night Crawler

[pale coyote]

rodeo is on another level

such an amazing album

[thorn leaf]

who rhymed korean spicy garlic with projects

insanity

[finite snow]

Oh no, you guys are exactly who the memes make fun of 🤦‍♂️

[thorn leaf]

who even is 2 pac

[thorn leaf]

?

[unborn coral]

Yeah Yeah Travis Scott x Young Thug is fire too

It’s on SoundCloud

[formal finch]

anyone did an interview with Smartsheet?

[muted apex]

tiktok oa got me fucked up

[wooden sierra]

i heard some people got an easier oa

[muted apex]

i got f'd up

easy, med, hard, hard

lol

[wooden sierra]

i wonder if the version oa they send is based off something or if it’s purely random

[muted apex]

i got ads team if that matters for anything

🤷‍♂️

[drowsy quarry]

were your questions log parsing, tiktok livestreaming, and coded message

[muted apex]

@drowsy quarry yep

not lag parsing

log *

but the last 2 yes

[silk ridge]

log parsing question was written really poorly

[drowsy quarry]

yea it was more annoying than difficult..

[wooden sierra]

wait isn’t tiktok livestream and coded message meds

coded message is a dp q

[south gorge]

Didnt need dp for coded message

Simple brute force solution pass all test cases

[astral folio]

wtf

[cyan valley]

@wooden sierra I had

the livestream

and coded message

@south gorge fax

I had mine today

[south gorge]

livestream is classic greedy

[cyan valley]

Yeah

classic greedy

[south gorge]

i just didnt get the log

[cyan valley]

Did u have the

Number one

where u just had to + 1

and do "to string"

[south gorge]

plus one is ez

[cyan valley]

or "stoi"

[astral folio]

wtf is log parsing?

[cyan valley]

Yeah that one is a joke

Uh

[astral folio]

i got all of the other 3

[drowsy quarry]

i used some regex to solve the log parsing one

[south gorge]

ye I cant get the log parsing somehow

[cyan valley]

I didnt have that one

log parsing

Idk what that is

[south gorge]

keeps getting wrong answer

[astral folio]

wait ur taking it rn?

[south gorge]

alr done like 4 hours ago

[astral folio]

ok it sounded like u were taking it rn lmao

[cyan valley]

I took it

2 hrs ago

[astral folio]

i tried to read docs and hackerrank told me to not switch tabs

[cyan valley]

^

Yeah

Also it records u

So like

dont pull out ur phone 💀

[astral folio]

dude my alarm went off

but i think its p obv i went to get it and turn it off

[drowsy quarry]

wait, I left to go to the washroom and checked my phone for 2 seconds

is it doomed..?

[cyan valley]

Uh

LMFAO

If u got up off the screen of the camera

[wooden sierra]

💀💀💀💀💀💀

that’s what annoyed tf out of me when I was doing it

couldn’t look at documentation, couldn’t even stand up and stretch

[cyan valley]

^

I forgot the "to string" function

for the first one

and wiffed

LMFAO

[astral folio]

bruh same

[terse torrent]

log parsing is dum qn

dont @ me

why cant u just give the data in a nicer way

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[terse torrent]

would u classify q3-4 as hard or med?

i did it alr but just wondering

[drowsy quarry]

med

[terse torrent]

ok

[obsidian pecan]

What company were you interviewing for? And what platform did they use?

[fleet cairn]

bro log parsing was stupid as fuck

arguably harder than q3 and q4

[terse torrent]

lmao yes

try doing it in cpp too

[fleet cairn]

yep

i was using cpp

[terse torrent]

did u do it in py

o

yea

me2

:((

[fleet cairn]

yea i never use py

for OAs

[terse torrent]

im thiking of using python

im not fluent in py

[fleet cairn]

yea same

[terse torrent]

but its faster

[fleet cairn]

im not rly that comfortable using python

even tho like

[terse torrent]

i feel like im not really fluent in any lang

[fleet cairn]

my past 4 work terms have been in python completely

[terse torrent]

theres so many features i dont know

yeah same but w js

[fleet cairn]

:/

[gray quarry]

which one was the log parsing one

i already forgot

[terse torrent]

the dumb one

[gray quarry]

what was the input

[silk ridge]

is_safe:1 question

[gray quarry]

was log parsing about parentheses

i think i may have gotten a dif one

[teal flower]

What's a better "name" for adding an internship to your resume

Nasa or caci

Maybe nasa but not to sure

[viral fable]

NASA!!!!!

[teal flower]

👍 aight thanks guys

[unborn coral]

Yeah def NASA

[teal flower]

Actually what if I'm looking for software engineering internship roles

And caci happens to have that

While the nasa one is where u apply programming

[viral fable]

i have friends working FT at CACI and rn its reputation is that the talent is leaving since their compensation is low if that matters to u

[teal flower]

Hmm

[turbid wagon]

Hi, does anyone know if I should put something in resume indicate I will pursue master after internship. Because I’m graduating in spring. And most summer internship companies want students who will go back to school after internship.

[patent sluice]

you don't have to disclose it

[turbid wagon]

They won’t reject me because of school year?

Ok, thank you!

[patent sluice]

they might

there are ways of getting around it

you can do an extra semester, or just say you plan on doing an extra semester

not everyone asks for transcripts

if you plan on doing a masters for i.e. 2 years you don't have to disclose it either. you can just tell them what i just said

[river sable]

are y'all focusing more on applications rn or projects/lc?

[abstract wagon]

how can you focus on applications rn

everyone's on break

right now?

toiling hard huh

[river sable]

I've just been applying to every new posting but they're haven't been too many so I think I'll focus on something else for now

[terse torrent]

Has anyone done elements of programming interviews ? If so what do u think of it compared to blind 75, ctci? Worth the extra work or no?

[thick shore]

dont use ctci

its dated

the explanations in epi were hard for me to understand

would do lc/bsearch/epi/algoexpert

figure out which u like most

[lethal ore]

Both

[terse torrent]

@thick shore how do u find questions to do on lc

It's hard to find good structure i feel

[simple saffron]

bruh i see people on linkedin announcing their summer, fall, and winter internships in one post

let the others eat 😭😭

[vivid lintel]

the blind 75 list is great

[simple saffron]

@vivid lintel did you do the bit manipulation portion

[vivid lintel]

oh I didn't do the whole list myself 😛

including the bit manipulation part

never been asked a bit manipulation question in an interview or OA tbh

[silk ridge]

dont think bit manipulation is worth your time unless youre confident in the other commonly asked methods

[vivid lintel]

yea the ROI on studying bit manipulation is very bad compared to any other topic

[simple saffron]

yeah that’s why i was sort of skeptical of the blind list

the other sections are great though

[vivid lintel]

nah but the rest of the sections were good

like I did the DP section in order of difficulty

and it really helped me in understanding DP conceptually

[simple saffron]

oh nice

it’s weird because there’s a section for DP but there’s also DP scattered among the other sections

[vivid lintel]

yea I guess the organization of the list could be better, but regardless the set of questions is good imo

because most of them aren't like a gotcha question, and they give you some pattern to look for in other questions

[dark junco]

Oof bought it like 2 weeks ago

[simple saffron]

don’t listen to him ctci is good

just don’t make it your only resource

[dark junco]

Fair enough 👍

[real nacelle]

I liked it for mainly the DSA review but didn’t go through every single problem /page

[silk ridge]

the data structures part is good idk how useful some of the other sections are

behavioral part is good too i think

[simple saffron]

it helped me solidify where to use which data structure

[real nacelle]

yeah i think CTCI for a general review

[simple saffron]

and actually properly taught me hash maps because i didn’t learn it properly in DS

[real nacelle]

and then blind 75 for specific practice

[simple saffron]

yep

[tulip jay]

for ppl announcing facebook and lyft etc for fall 2021, are they just return offers, arranged thru recruiters, or are the postings available somewhere?

[silk ridge]

2sum medium

[simple saffron]

i think usually it’s people who got a summer offer and were able to move it

[thick shore]

the year is 2014, the only interview prep material u need to look at is ctci, much simpler times

[simple saffron]

google asks you why a manhole has a rounded cover

life is good

[thick shore]

🤗🤗🤗

[thorn leaf]

lol this is really bad but i think im subconsciously memorizing the solutions to those problems

[terse torrent]

As in ctci is obsolete?

[thorn leaf]

cuz ive just been repeating those problems for a while now

[simple saffron]

i feel like that's not terrible

[hollow hawk]

i think thats fine tho cuz a lot of techniques in those 75

[simple saffron]

if you know why solutions look a certain way

[thorn leaf]

the problem is, the second they change up something in one of the questions which i subconsciouly memorized, boom i struggle

[simple saffron]

also odds of actually running into one of those problems is high

[thorn leaf]

i see

[simple saffron]

hm yeah thats not good

[thorn leaf]

like i understand what each line of code is for

but like subconsciously memorizing

issa rip

[terse torrent]

Non overlapping intervals for example can have somevariants

Hmm

[simple saffron]

yeah like unique graph

[terse torrent]

Non overlapping intervals is a good qn that came up 2ce and I didn't get either time 😭

Variants of it ^

[simple saffron]

rip

[thorn leaf]

😦

[simple saffron]

it's a greedy q right?

[terse torrent]

I mean I learned that non overlapping intervals was a leetcode question after seeing that qn a second time so

Yea

[simple saffron]

I think those were the types of questions that I really didnt understand until I took a formal algorithms course

[terse torrent]

I take formal algos in a year or two

Rip

[thick shore]

u dont need to take a class

u have the internet :}

[dark junco]

I take it next semester

[simple saffron]

yeah online resources are super helpful but I think taking the academic approach is what finally motivated me to fully grok the problems

jsut me tho cuz im a lazy sack of shit

[terse torrent]

I took an online intro to algos course and it didn't touch greedy

But it did dp

[tropic jungle]

What's the recommended way to learn DP other than like schools algo class? Just doing a shit ton of problems?

[terse torrent]

I still don't really good at sp

Dp*

Yea i heard dp is just practice

[vivid lintel]

Yea definitely make sure to try different questions once in a while lol

[simple saffron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5jsbhAv_M

[vivid lintel]

Something I've been doing is just practicing random questions Facebook asks through the leetcode bot on this server

A lot of them take me a while, but at least it gives me practice seeing the patterns applied to diff problems

[thick shore]

vouch for bot

[lethal ore]

Does algo make leetcode easier?

[vivid lintel]

The bot is great, thanks for your work joey :)

[strange wraith]

For some questions like DP and Greedy, yes, because I think it always helps to have a concrete understanding of why your algorithm works

but also you can just learn that stuff online tbh

for most other questions, I think its mostly just DS so not that much

[sinful tinsel]

anyone down to do a mock interview for me today?

[soft hound]

seems like this tiktok oa was easier because theyre focusing on frontend devs now

last time was backend

[dapper shard]

Dude want that old thing back

[thick ridge]

bro texts his recruiter but doesn't wanna update his linkedin 🤔

[loud hollow]

LOOOL how do you have the recruiters nunber

[shrewd karma]

They give to you

[dapper shard]

@abstract wagon isn't that the same recruiter i had?

if so he is literally the best recruiter ive had out of any company no cap

[loud hollow]

@abstract wagon where you going 👀

[unborn coral]

That’s a pretty cool recruiter, I tried texting a recruiter once and she just responded “let’s please keep communication strictly through email”

Which is weird b/c we when we spoke over the phone I do remember her saying you can contact me through this number anytime lol

[thick ridge]

has anyone taken a sys design interview in python

I have the option of c++ and python and not sure what would be easier in terms of language trivia

I'm pretty comfortable with both but I feel like I could get asked obscure questions abt c++

[weak dragon]

i have not but i've been thinking of switching over from interviewing with java to python

i haven't used python in a while but does anyone think this is a worthwhile idea?

[unborn coral]

Definitely, for me Python is my first language so I always went with it

And compared to Java it’s easier to read and requires fewer lines of code in my opinion

[silk ridge]

i got c++ trivia last yr, questions were like pointer vs. reference, class vs. struct, DLL vs. static, move constructors, pure virtual, virtual memory. mostly just stuff that you can find online when you look up c++ interview questions

no idea what python questions they would ask

[weak dragon]

anyone here go through the MIT DS&A course

i've been thinking about going through the DP part of it cuz my course never went through it

but now im thinking of just going through the entire thing

[unborn coral]

Same

[astral folio]

learn some dp theory

its very math-y actually

i didnt understand dp at first trying to learn it practically

but stepping back and knowing why and how it works from a high level helps a lot

[weak dragon]

this is the main reason i wanted to go through it cuz i can never figure out when to apply it

[loud hollow]

maybe

[vivid lintel]

Definitely worthwhile, python is just more terse, which is almost always a good thing for interviews

The less time you can spend writing code, the more time you can spend debugging it or walking through your thought process

[humble saddle]

builtin data structures like heapq are game changers

[pale coyote]

list and dict comprehensions are nice too

if you already know some python, you might as well start using it for interviews

[humble saddle]

lol had that in one of my interviews so i gave the one liner; i was told to do it without that function

[weak dragon]

it'll depend on your relationship and connections you make at company A

if you know people like that at the end of your internship and company A has openings in 23 you're more likely to be able to skip some of the interview process

unless this is a big ass company

[vivid lintel]

[weak dragon]

in that case, whoever could vouch for you might not even be there in 2 yrs

true, like i can only tell you what might happen

i cant give you a guarantee

[vivid lintel]

They probably wouldn't give you an offer at A right away, but they might expedite the interview process for you

[lethal ore]

Looks like fbu Ls are rolling out

I just got one

[terse torrent]

[abstract wagon]

did everyone who got rejected get this?

[dark junco]

Yes

I misread what you said actually, I got it, not sure if everyone did but probably

[fresh blaze]

Anyone know what the flex port OA is on? Like what kind of questions are the MC like?

[split fractal]

I did not get the rejection from FBU yet

[broken prairie]

anyone know what the amazon start dates are for this summer?

[soft ocean]

i heard earliest was like may 3 lol

[frozen palm]

wow just got amazon OA after applying in fucking september

[spark valley]

Even I got it today.

[sage nexus]

FUCK i got it too

lowkey didnt want it so i wouldnt have to grind leetcode anymore lolzzzz

is that a shitty thing to say thats prob a shitty thing to say

[lone orbit]

Nah i feel you

[mossy swan]

anyone still ghosted after oa3

[abstract wagon]

are all FAANG equal on resume?

i.e. would having x FAANG company look better than y company

[tulip jay]

mb ik this is annoying, but did anyone do their final round w Amazon anytime recently, just had a specific question if you dont mind PMing?

[brave spindle]

lol I would say Google looks better than Amazon but tbh idk how resume screening works

[abstract wagon]

would any FAANG look better than Amazon?

[twin obsidian]

Yes

[abstract wagon]

you trolling or serious

[twin obsidian]

I’d say google looks best on resume

Then fb

Imo

[abstract wagon]

then apple
then amazon?

[brave spindle]

lowkey yeah Amazon the worst/easiest out of all of them

and google best/hardest

[patent sluice]

its just the most common

amazon interviews and hires interns like a mf

[loud hollow]

i think facebook is harder

[brave spindle]

but honestly any of these companies are enough to get past resume screening

you'll be set

[loud hollow]

2 lc med/hard in 45min kinda cracked

[twin obsidian]

You’re average recruiter going to be more impressed by Google

[abstract wagon]

why is amazon even in FAANG

or fb?

[tulip jay]

how is netflix not ur first question lol

[brave spindle]

FAANG is an acronym made by some guy named Cramer to represent companies whose stocks were dominating

its honestly a financial term and just so happens to translate kinda well to tech

[twin obsidian]

Yeah it’s just an acronym

[abstract wagon]

doesnt netflix not take interns?

[brave spindle]

yeah lol Netflix doesn't even hire interns or new grads

only senior engineers

[twin obsidian]

They have a security undergrad internship open atm

[simple jay]

hi rad

[abstract wagon]

so other big N > FAANG

[tulip jay]

what does big N stand for btw? Id assume thats companies like MS, Uber, Tesla, etc?

[sonic badger]

Ngl y'all always shitting on Amazon

But if I get an offer

Imma shit my pants from excitement

[tulip jay]

on god im posting on linkedin like i just got drafted into the NBA

[brave spindle]

no your right bruh Amazon to someone who hasn't had anything on that level is like a dream come true

[pale coyote]

@tulip jay did you steal that from SAT lol

I just saw that meme this morning

or was it a diff fb group

[sonic badger]

I'm coming from a shit school with a shit GPA

[tulip jay]

guilty

[abstract wagon]

for some reason amazon really likes my college
but other companies dont as much even though most alumni go to google, fb, or microsoft

[pale coyote]

amazon likes every college

[patent sluice]

big name i.e. robinhood

[pale coyote]

they hire 3000 sde interns a year

[edgy dagger]

My school is decent but my GPA is shit too.

[sonic badger]

I'm just hoping if I get Amazon, that'll help me with the nonstop resume rejects

[brave spindle]

yeah although I would just say to replace Netflix with Microsoft to make it FAAMG, more accurate for recruiting

[patent sluice]

FATASSMAN

[pale coyote]

still cant get interview at either

[abstract wagon]

does amazon really make a difference on getting interviews?

[sonic badger]

I mean it's a major tech company

Can't hurt wtf

[brave spindle]

bruh I legit saw FAANGMULASS (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Stripe, Square)

people goin wild

[karmic fog]

faangmulASS

[brave spindle]

you can't push back to fall, I tried

[tulip jay]

im ngl this is my first yr taking recruiting srs, how does fall recruitment work without a return offer? Is applying just a shot in the dark again 😂

[lethal ore]

Why would not Amazon make a difference?

[abstract wagon]

i applied to facebook for fall and put amazon on resume for summer
but the recruiter said the position is for summer
would it look bad if i renege?

[pale coyote]

isnt fb fall full

[vivid lintel]

does FB require you to apply for summer then move offer to fall if you get it?

cuz in that case I feel putting down any incoming summer offer is kinda silly

[abstract wagon]

i really want a return offer
i hate leetcode interviews

[pale coyote]

don't you have amazon?

[abstract wagon]

or i'll just do cybersecurity b/c their interviews aren't bs

[pale coyote]

they give returns to everyone

[karmic fog]

0 chance i get return ofer

oof

dont wanna interview agina

[abstract wagon]

Ochad jane street return offer flex

[brave spindle]

actually what is the rate for return offer for Amazon

[karmic fog]

dont rvrn known her

[thick shore]

amazon return rate is 2

[pale coyote]

ive heard its >90%

[karmic fog]

2/200

[thick shore]

hope this helped

[brave spindle]

very helpful

[thick shore]

google is 1

bro everyone asks weird questions

that no one has a definitive answer to

“when we gonna be back in office”

omg

teaaaaa

same at uber

💀

[patent sluice]

if you don't get a return at amazon bezos will literally send a firing squad to your house (in under two days if your a prime member)

[pale coyote]

im just sayin what i hear. idk how much truth there is to it

everyone ik who interned there got a return

and they say most get a return

[brave spindle]

well uber might make more sense considering they probably don't really want any new grads rn

amazon is hiring a shit ton

[thick shore]

that had 0 influence

[tulip jay]

how hard was the amazon final round? everyone is giving mixed opinions so just curious what you guys think (1 45min btw)

[thick shore]

they didn’t meet the bar

[brave spindle]

well that'll do it

[thick shore]

tbh if u just tell ur mentor that ur shit and establish a culture of constant feedback

ur in a way better place

avoid the weird awkward convos

focus on improve

[abstract wagon]

i REALLY REALLY WEELY want to pass fb interview
i know it wont happen but i can dream

[brave spindle]

bruh Amazon actually feels full RNG, people don't get final interview with perfect OAs, people beast the final interview and don't get an offer, then you get randomly placed on a team which can get you PIPed if its a bad manager

it never ends

[twin obsidian]

candidates are more than OA scores

[thick shore]

someone should make a company that has the slogan of going beyond a score or something

go against what codesignal does

[dapper shard]

80-85% according to recruiter

[thick shore]

byteboard has potential

but it isn’t scalable

cuz someone has to manually review

[brave spindle]

LMAO they give those numbers??

[dapper shard]

when i talked to amazon recruiter about AFL yes that was the numbers he gave

he said "according to our SDE internship here at amazon, most of our interns end up getting return offers at about 80-85% depending on the strength of the intern class

[pale coyote]

do companies use codesignal for new grad recruiting

[abstract wagon]

no return offer for AFL?

[dapper shard]

no idea

it is the first year of AFL

[thick shore]

ya

[dapper shard]

so we will know after this upcoming summer intern class goes through it

[pale coyote]

fuk

[thick shore]

i never took one this year

[pale coyote]

how long do scores last?

[thick shore]

i just reused my score hehe

[abstract wagon]

what is amazon security intern interview like?

[thick shore]

forever

[abstract wagon]

cant find anything on it
same with fb
only see info about full time role interviews

[pale coyote]

oh thank god

[thick shore]

yea i wasn’t that good at oas this year

duno if i coulda scored higher

no prep

[abstract wagon]

pog

[thick shore]

failing is pog

oas are legit harder than interviews

[fallow shuttle]

true tbh

[abstract wagon]

im half half on that

[somber saddle]

I made a strawpoll a few days ago about the Amazon final interview difficulty if anyone was curious about the numbers

[karmic fog]

100%

DOGOO

DOGGO

im you

[pale coyote]

doesnt matter cuz people cheat on oas anyways

[abstract wagon]

what

[karmic fog]

me = you

[thick shore]

yea i think it’s to account for cheating

[somber saddle]

Some 45% of the final interview questions for Amazon were Medium

[vivid lintel]

what was the sample size

[abstract wagon]

my tiktok interviews were all lc med/hard

[somber saddle]

N=19

[thick shore]

how was the oa

[somber saddle]

Not much

[thick shore]

for u

[abstract wagon]

not too bad

they were all lc med imo

except that one optimization

[thick shore]

u have like human biases

and less test coverage usually

[somber saddle]

https://www.strawpoll.me/42340929/r

[thick shore]

what’s the point of ur poll

how is knowing the results gonna better prepare u for the interview

[abstract wagon]

true

[somber saddle]

If people were curious

[karmic fog]

i used to be caleld dogog

[somber saddle]

I sent it out a while back

[thick shore]

gotcha

[dapper shard]

i hate hackerranks

[abstract wagon]

we should all change our names to doggo

[karmic fog]

fax

[thick shore]

u need a dog picture @karmic fog

[karmic fog]

it iused to be a cat actually

cat balls lol

[simple saffron]

doggone

[thick shore]

yea they isn’t s dog

a dog

that

[karmic fog]

i got in trouble for that one

[simple saffron]

dog

[thick shore]

my picture is from amazon actually

i kinda stole it

[karmic fog]

dogpoo

[simple saffron]

😦

ur dogpoo

[abstract wagon]

poggo

[simple saffron]

[abstract wagon]

[simple saffron]

well thats accurate because amazon kills people

so if you worked for them you'd literally kill a man

[somber saddle]

The question was specific to LC questions

[abstract wagon]

why do people like amazon so much

[somber saddle]

Which have difficulties assigned

[thick shore]

it’s cool

[tulip jay]

tbh if you're down bad like me its gold

[abstract wagon]

ah

[thick shore]

yea boba ur comment gives elitist vibes

👁👄👁

[fallow shuttle]

I can't even get amzn oa

[fallow shuttle]

out of my league

[karmic fog]

pog

[abstract wagon]

its not like amazons bad i just think people obsess over them so much and i dont get it

[simple saffron]

is it better to work for a nonprofit or work for amazon and donate your TC to charity

like ethically

[brave spindle]

I liked Amazon a lot, until I found Blind 😰

[fallow shuttle]

people obsess over any big company

[karmic fog]

ethics are subsjective

[patent sluice]

ppl dont but most ppl will get an amazon oa

[fallow shuttle]

you just see more amzn because they hire more

[patent sluice]

so they just care ab it

[abstract wagon]

i see

[simple saffron]

i feel like microsoft recruits just as harrd

but people dont have as strong opinions abt it

[thick shore]

i like their leadership things

[patent sluice]

where do you go

[thick shore]

what’s wrong with that boba

[patent sluice]

cause i been ghosted by msft for 2 years now

[simple saffron]

hbu

[abstract wagon]

everything

[patent sluice]

umd

[abstract wagon]

it's just a job

[simple saffron]

tbf microsoft is like one of the only companies that recruits hard here

its like msft redhat and some ETL company in boston

[thick shore]

name a company that feels like a cult

[abstract wagon]

tesla

[karmic fog]

google

[thick shore]

stripe

[fallow shuttle]

oh

[simple saffron]

datadog

[abstract wagon]

doggo company

[fallow shuttle]

all of them

[karmic fog]

datadoggo

[patent sluice]

go watch soul

[simple saffron]

datapog

[thick shore]

i mean i love the idea of datadog being a cult

[patent sluice]

im down to join a cult tbh

[simple saffron]

i heard airbnb is kinda culty

[patent sluice]

depends on what kind of cult but im down

[thick shore]

imagine everyone on slack just has a dog pic

[abstract wagon]

whats wrong with that

[karmic fog]

@restive prairie

[dark junco]

Epic

[abstract wagon]

reddit and friends

[simple saffron]

oh yeah definitely epic

[fallow shuttle]

hmm I swear there's more negativity lol

[simple saffron]

any tech firms in non-tech areas

audible

[abstract wagon]

why do people do that

get offers and complain

it's real annoying

[fallow shuttle]

entitlement?

[abstract wagon]

just dont take the offfer ykwim

[simple saffron]

because they have no other joys in life

[thick shore]

mood

[dark junco]

Lol

[thick shore]

imagine caring this much

[fallow shuttle]

lol that's from the other server right

[thick shore]

ya

[simple saffron]

lmfao

its obviously a joke

prety funny

[thick shore]

dude idk

can’t tell with these people

[dark junco]

I just want to make enough money to live in nyc lmao

[simple saffron]

v fair

[abstract wagon]

people need to stop obsessing

[simple saffron]

reminds me of the college rat race

[abstract wagon]

we should all pet doggos and live life

[thick shore]

u have to stop simping for companies

[patent sluice]

i think he was very much joking

[dark junco]

Glad I was never a part of the college rat race

Skipped out on that at least

[simple saffron]

bro when my friend whos an URM got into an ivy everyone showed their true colors

was a dark time

[cobalt raven]

@thick shore stripe doe

[abstract wagon]

LOL

[abstract wagon]

coolors.co

[patent sluice]

imagine bein executed by amazon-walmart in 2035 for screwing up a pull request and the bullet used to kill you is billed to your gift card

[simple saffron]

ppl high key racist bro

[patent sluice]

wym

[cobalt raven]

imma pull up the msg where joey said he wanted to work for stripe

simping for stripe is a cult

[simple saffron]

everyone was salty because they thought he got in bc he was black

even tho hes hella smart and accomplished

[abstract wagon]

smh my head

[patent sluice]

damn

[dark junco]

I'd simp for js to make bank, that's about it

[thick shore]

i’d say it again too mo

[dark junco]

Yeah that's sad people suck

[cobalt raven]

.

[simple saffron]

stripe can have my babies

[abstract wagon]

whats so good about stripe

besides pay

[fallow shuttle]

idk

the tc

[thick shore]

idk people are cringe about prestige

[simple saffron]

the clout

[thick shore]

i just like what’s driving them

[shrewd karma]

a lot of the engineers are ex unicorn or G

[thick shore]

i would like to work for square

something that empowers small businesses

:)

[abstract wagon]

i dont want to work anywhere

[simple saffron]

i think working at a unicorn is actually really special because of the people you work with

[abstract wagon]

i want to start my own company

[fallow shuttle]

I wish I could not work

[thick shore]

subtle brag

[fallow shuttle]

and live comfortably

[cobalt raven]

i have no reason except the fact that the alums that i respect went to stripe and that's my reason for choosing other companies too

[patent sluice]

i have a lot of respect who choose to do things bc they're passionate about it instead of doing it to prove they're better than everyone else

[simple saffron]

id gladly take a TC cut to work with talented and passionate ppl

[abstract wagon]

isnt that boring

[restive prairie]

they're correlated

[fallow shuttle]

not working?

[cobalt raven]

i want to call myself a stripper too

[abstract wagon]

yeah like wouldnt you get bored

[thick shore]

r u an entrepreneur @abstract wagon

[fallow shuttle]

I only work for money tbh

[abstract wagon]

yes

[thick shore]

😳

[fallow shuttle]

nah I'd do other things

[thick shore]

wow

[abstract wagon]

ive won pitching contest before

[cobalt raven]

@fallow shuttle new irene pic? 😄

[fallow shuttle]

ye gotta keep rotating

[simple saffron]

i'm an entrepreneur. let me help you level up ⬆️ your career. interns should be paid. agree? follow my linkedin

[abstract wagon]

everytime irene winks i gain an extra life

[fallow shuttle]

you'll be living a long time then

[cobalt raven]

in the beginning i liked irene the most but these days i rly like yeri lul

her ig is poppin

[abstract wagon]

i dont like yeri at all

[cobalt raven]

y

[abstract wagon]

ugly

[fallow shuttle]

bruh

no chill

[abstract wagon]

just my opinion

[fallow shuttle]

I like all of them tbh

[abstract wagon]

i only like seulgi and irene

[simple saffron]

kweebs

[cobalt raven]

?????

?????!?!??!

[abstract wagon]

better than companyweebs tbh

[simple saffron]

tru that

[abstract wagon]

??!??

[cobalt raven]

u wack bruh

she so pretty

[abstract wagon]

im not seeing it