2023_grads

[rustic vessel]

Their rsu vesting structure sucks too

[simple elk]

stripe

[glacial pine]

is stripe hiring

[teal jackal]

ah, is stripe not listed yet

or something

[rustic vessel]

No

[simple elk]

not when the company loses half of its value in 1 year

[rustic vessel]

They don’t give a set amount

It’s a set $value every year

So your upside is minimized and your downside is also minimized

[glad stirrup]

but if you join google or msft in 2012, now your stock should be 10x

[simple elk]

But if you join facebook in 2021 ...

[glad stirrup]

which very likely makes you a millionaire

[glad stirrup]

yeah, that's true, so it is hard to say

[simple elk]

or Oracle in 2000

[simple elk]

Just hit a boom cycle lol

[glad stirrup]

oracle now are climbing back, haha

[candid hollow]

joining google in 2012 was actually hard

[chilly burrow]

didnt they cut their valuation recently

by like 30bil

[rustic vessel]

We’re in a down cycle, that means we get upside right

[candid hollow]

in 5 years yea

exactly

but we cant decide to NOT get a job

so we’re forced to buy in rn

[teal jackal]

whats upside

[rustic vessel]

We get da dip

[marble bronze]

Buy the dip

[forest hatch]

Did anyone else interview for amazon on Tuesday August 23?

[eternal hatch]

Have you heard back?

[radiant belfry]

What were you asked?

[night magnet]

has anyone heard back from JPM?

I got both questions on the OA but I haven't heard anything

[winter loom]

did you hear back?

[eternal hatch]

Iirc, portal update usually happens on Mon and Wed

[surreal shuttle]

Bro this DRW OA is so hard 😭😭

[delicate moon]

What kind of Qs you got

[modern socket]

citadel OA was roughhhhh

[surreal shuttle]

Two graph and one string question

[delicate moon]

Yea I heard DRW gives Union Find OA Qs

Mine was just greedy and bitmask

[wispy ember]

amazon recruiter can send oa after sending resume?

[eternal hatch]

Yes

[forest hatch]

Nah

Hbu

[wary pollen]

slack new grad posting went away?

[tardy geode]

what? really?!

[eternal hatch]

That's if the recruiter believe you are OA worthy

[dusky plover]

aint that the one for prev salesforce interns anyways

[wary pollen]

https://salesforce.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Slack/job/California---San-Francisco/Associate-Software-Engineer--New-Grad----Slack_JR158724

[wary pollen]

So I couldnt apply anw?

It looked open

[dusky plover]

page is gone

rip

[wary pollen]

whatd you hear about it

[night magnet]

Only for former interns

[forest ice]

for amazon new grad 2023, can we request another location from what is assigned?

[dusty basin]

U can. Most likely they won’t care

But worth a shot

[surreal shuttle]

USA USA USA USA

[formal fable]

Math OA?

Oh, you had coding

[slim agate]

bs?

i'm in

are you creating a room?

[buoyant herald]

Did stripe open their applications?

[calm shale]

Yuh

[buoyant herald]

I can't find it, can I get a link?

[candid hollow]

i looked at the OMC OA and just closed the tab

even im not that desperate

[fallen hornet]

kind of an asshole question, but what companies pay more than 130k a year? got my return at midlevel for 130, but manager lowkey told me for midlevel the range is 130-180 and told me to get competing offers

yeah i realize im not being super grateful but even 30k more would rly help me kill my student loans much faster

[latent sun]

If you're talking about base salary - Palantir comes to mind

Netflix too

[fallen hornet]

gotcha

ill probably stick w/ this company, but would like as high of a return as possinle

[rustic vessel]

I mean whens your deadline bc if it’s soon it’s highly doubtful to get a competing offer quickly

[fallen hornet]

mid october

[rustic vessel]

Definitely should be doable

[latent sun]

yeah you're chilling

[fallen hornet]

yeeee, just tryna see which companies to prioritize or even target

w/ the economic situation

[latent sun]

I second Netflix btw

[rustic vessel]

I mean most of the ones on the github pay that much or more rn

[fallen hornet]

on that note, willing to do referrals (would appreciate a tradeback, but not needed)

gotcha

yeah my return has like no equity for some reason

75/4

which is kinda ??? for a public company

[split plaza]

?

[peak ferry]

is midlevel a company? just curious

[fallen hornet]

oh no

midlevel role

[dusty basin]

Oh

[fallen hornet]

eg p0 new grad

p1 1-2 year experience

i got p2

[dusty basin]

Yeah then 250k ez

[peak ferry]

huh ok wack

[rustic vessel]

Wait so are you a new grad or nah

[fallen hornet]

yeah

[dusty basin]

If u have exp

And aren’t ng

[fallen hornet]

funny story

i tried to extend my internship

and my manager was on board

finance wasnt

[peak ferry]

sounds like ur a ng but ur company upleveled u or smth? masters?

[fallen hornet]

so he told finance either give him extend and p1, or give him p2

no

legit undergrad

[peak ferry]

ok so ng

[fallen hornet]

yeeee

im kinda confused too

but i guess it worked out?

[rustic vessel]

Location?

[peak ferry]

it's a bit wack but ig some companies do it

[fallen hornet]

remote

[latent sun]

I'm confused by what you mean tc just be considerate

[fallen hornet]

its cloudflare

[peak ferry]

wait cloudflare pays <130 tc for ng? wtf?

[rustic vessel]

130k remote is pretty good

[fallen hornet]

p0 is 110-130

p1 is 120-140

p2 is 130-180

ur p0 for just a year

[peak ferry]

I mean ig depends on location and such I come from a HCOL reference lol

[fallen hornet]

not tc

base

[latent sun]

Yeah TC can be considered. But I'm not sure if they're talking about base salary or TC bc TC is a different story

[fallen hornet]

base

only base

cant negotiate stock

[rustic vessel]

I mean what’s the tc tho

[fallen hornet]

130 salary

75/4 stock

thats it

[latent sun]

Meta base salary for return interns is 138 rn

[peak ferry]

so like 150tc

[latent sun]

idk about new grad but should be the same

[fallen hornet]

can push base to 180 w/ competing offers

[peak ferry]

is this in MCOL or smth?

[fallen hornet]

remote

[peak ferry]

ic

[fallen hornet]

yeah

no relo

cus full remote

[peak ferry]

tbh idk many ng places that do >140 base minus like quants

[fallen hornet]

no sign on for less than senior engineer roles

yeah

thats what im seeing

its the stock thats rly low

[peak ferry]

I mean you could try to get a high TC offer elsewhere and use that to leverage base, but otherwise idk what their nego policy is

[fallen hornet]

yeah thats what i was thinking of doing

got a spacex offer too

but thats 110 and 50 stock

[peak ferry]

tf? I've def heard much higher spacex offers

[fallen hornet]

for new grad?!

yeah thats what i got

i did pretty shit during my internship

and i hated working there anyways

[peak ferry]

yea amzn is like 210 or smth ng

[fallen hornet]

so i wouldnt take it

[fallen hornet]

bet time to find a referral

[peak ferry]

HCOL to be clear, which u may or may not get because amzn has a habit of yeeting people somewhere random (usually seattle)

[fallen hornet]

seattle isnt hcol?

[peak ferry]

no

[fallen hornet]

bruh

[peak ferry]

it's objectively much lower COL than bay or nyc

no like 8% effective state income tax and cheaper housing

[knotty folio]

in general, I think seattle is pretty hcol

[fallen hornet]

thats what i thought too

but i also live in a very HCOL area

[peak ferry]

ok whatever it doesn't get HCOL pay at basically any tech company that does COL adjustments

[fallen hornet]

gotcha

[wheat seal]

Seattle is more like mcol

I don’t think it’s as expensive as SF or NYC

[knotty folio]

def not as expensive as southern Cal or NY

I just think across the whole US, Seattle would be on the upper end

[wheat seal]

I mean there are places like Virginia Arlington which is more expensive than Seattle and has income tax

Lots of places that are just as expensive or a bit more expensive than Seattle

[simple elk]

The play is amazon in a smaller city

Everything cheaper than Seattle gets seattle band except for nashville

[livid yew]

very true. tech people always thing that only like 5 cities exist lmao, gotta remember about the midwest, stupid cheap COL here

[lucid otter]

does anyone know if roblox has headcount for new grads

[green bronze]

They sending out OAs like they do

[onyx axle]

Is the roblox oa proctored?

[slate bobcat]

no

[weak latch]

oa is auto

[green bronze]

Yea I know, I just think its dickhead moment to be sending out OAs when u have no space

[fossil jewel]

what’s the datadog new grad process like?

[sour night]

for those that applied to amazon fall were u able to apply to amazon new grad?

[floral plank]

Anyone did scale ai oa?

[smoky lodge]

dead chat

[brazen coral]

For those who did Amazon 2x60, did anyone get ood questions? Kinda curious as it seems most got lc questions

[smoky lodge]

how long did it take for you guys to get the amazon OA after applying (I applied yesterday)

also, im new here, when you guys write !process in the grad process what does this do

gotcha

does it make sense to add info for proccesses if I already got through

like i got the capital one TDP offer last week

[floral plank]

Applied a week ago and still haven't gotten it

[smoky lodge]

any idea/theory why it's delayed sometimes?

i thought the amazon OA was automatic but ig not

[floral plank]

It is not

Their whole process is random

[unborn grove]

i did it. it was 1 lc medium-hard

[blissful sonnet]

Some people applied 1-2 months ago and still no response

Pretty RNG process

[devout plume]

damn i'm late to applying if you guys are already at it

is it gg if i wait until later in the semester

lets start with faang

and october at the earliest

[peak ferry]

yea G and F are doomed this season unless the economy does a 180

[past cave]

How accurate are the questions in the leetcode-bot? The most frequent google questions are not even in the list

[smoky lodge]

Why did the economy have to go to shit when I’m graduating

[manic spear]

fwiw i didn’t really start applying until december last season and got multiple offers also had my G interview way out in may. still hella early in the season you’ll make it out fine

[smoky lodge]

[peak ferry]

timing isn’t usually awful just happens to be bad economy rn lol

[devout plume]

bless this is the anecdote i needed

[peak ferry]

I’m applying after I graduated and got offers but still can feel bad economy vibes (rescinded verbal offer)

[past cave]

How was the OA?

[marble bronze]

You mean M?

[peak ferry]

no?

oh wait

[past cave]

Like lc easy or they are just easy for you lol

[marble bronze]

Meta M

[peak ferry]

I refuse to acknowledge that

[marble bronze]

Not MSFT m

[peak ferry]

Makes acronyms confusing and meta verse is a meme

[smoky lodge]

OAs at HFTs are so stupidly hard that I’ve just mentally accepted I’m going to take an L with all of them

[peak ferry]

MANGA

[peak ferry]

A lot do auto OA and then filter u after lol

Netflix is open but lol doubt they’re hiring many people

[smoky lodge]

Wait I thought Google was doing well

[peak ferry]

tbh OAs good practice but best to not assume you’ll hear back even if u ace it

[peak ferry]

They opened NG for like a week and had a freeze before that

business wise they may be OK but they’re not hiring like normal

[smoky lodge]

I know I got my app in in time but I didn’t know they were in a bad place like Meta/FB and Netflix

[peak ferry]

business isn’t doomed but for ng offer volume it’s probably an L

[smoky lodge]

Oof

[peak ferry]

Only reason they’d have such a small window is to limit apps

[smoky lodge]

Startups are also kind of in the gutter right now because they typically finance stuff by issuing equity/stock but now that markets are crashing that’s not sustainable

So really the only things hiring normally now are AMA, banks, and HFTs

[peak ferry]

mid sized tech aggressively tried recruiting me lol

pay is sub faang tho which is sad

Mid sized tech companies that are still growing are out there and hiring yuh

[floral plank]

What is AMA?

[smoky lodge]

Amazon, Microsoft, and apple

[floral plank]

Has apple opened?

[smoky lodge]

The only GAMMA/FAANG places that don’t seem to be freezing/limiting hiring

[floral plank]

This season is definitely tough

[peak ferry]

ok yea they may have a pretty high hiring bar, so time to grind LC lads

meh if u pass resume and OA they don’t care about ur other stuff if u preform well in interviews

yea fair just the ones I nabbed were sub faang

[lucid otter]

tell to google, doing entire interview process and then telling applicant after final round sorry no space

[red heath]

my sister team is on hiring freeze until decv

alot of teams don't know headcount until dec

which is scary for alot of interns at the moment

[normal palm]

wait databricks pays more than FAANG :🙀

ah ok

[smoky lodge]

damn, that makes me databrick up

[pallid vine]

do you guys know for how long you can reuse your codesignal score?

14 days?

yup I think it's 14 in case anyone else wonders about it too

[split plaza]

no

how long codesignal retains proctoring data and how long you can reuse your existing scores are two different things

[ocean belfry]

i was able to re-use my last september's proctored score

Does anyone know anything about databricks onsite?

[hasty birch]

Blackrock OA was aids

Most of my time spent wasn't even on coding the algorithm

[smoky lodge]

Can I do well on Citadel’s OA while drunk? Let’s find out

[smoky lodge]

update: i could not

[buoyant herald]

Triangles got you spooked huh

[uncut umbra]

did you end up taking it?

[wild pewter]

Yeah lmao it was behavioral bs

[uncut umbra]

yeah I took it as well, I had glare on my glasses the whole time but it was unavoidable lol

[weak latch]

Boy what the hell is this Old Mission OA

[simple elk]

Is hard?

[weak latch]

Yes

The multiple choice is 😳

30 questions lol

[uncut umbra]

old mission terrifies me lol

[weak latch]

Dude there’s so much MATH

I guessed on half of the Mc ngl

[knotty folio]

I opened it up, saw how long it was, and noped out of there lmao

[uncut umbra]

wait the old mission codility?

[weak latch]

The Mc is “high impact” too so it’s an L

[uncut umbra]

or is there an mc

[weak latch]

Yes

It has a MC section

[uncut umbra]

oh is the codility just math or is there a coding component too? haven't looked too much into it

oh fuck

time to waste 3 hours

[weak latch]

It’s such an L lmao

[uncut umbra]

is it like calc or some shit

[weak latch]

Oh no it’s like discrete math

[uncut umbra]

...wut

[knotty folio]

your friend is goated

[weak latch]

Recurrence relations, combinatorics/permutations, sets, Boolean math, etc etc

A buncha shit

[uncut umbra]

oh that's not terrible then

I like discrete math

[weak latch]

I feel like there’s a lot of c++ on here too

God damn it why did I put C/C++ on my resume

[uncut umbra]

I just put C lmao

I have no knowledge of C++ and will die

[weak latch]

I learned C for class like 1.5 years ago 😂😂

Output of c++ code kill me

[bronze estuary]

Did Bloomberg stop accepting applications?

Seems like they rejecting everything now

[knotty folio]

old mission uses codility

[uncut umbra]

I applied a couple of days ago and got an interview for the end of september

[bronze estuary]

Yeah their interviews are super late too

But u heard someone on here got rejected with faang on resume screen

[uncut umbra]

damn

[weak latch]

okay done

[weak latch]

i got resume rejected with faang lol

😔

[wintry frost]

they prob value faang differently based on the hiring bar

[weak latch]

me lol

Idk what they're looking for on the resume screen, maybe school? My school is only T75

it could also be my grad date since i graduate in August 2023 instead of May/June

[bronze estuary]

I def don’t go to T50 school

[weak latch]

tell me how for the Old Mission oa, the first coding question was rly annoying and peculiar but the second question was like LC extra ez, and the extra ez is higher impact 😂 😂

[bronze estuary]

Or maybe it is up there but not T25 fs

[weak latch]

yeah that was so ez lol

the & one was hell

i didn't even bother finishing it lol

i just converted the int to a list and just checked if list[i] == list[i-1]

for each value (N, max)

im soooooo bad at anything to do with bitwise, like im a complete noob at it

i didn't bother with edge cases tbh, i knew i failed the oa already so i just submitted. And yeah I brute forced it lol fuck it

for the & one i just generated all possible sublists that are >= 2 length, &-ed all of them and put the sizes in a heap if it was > 0

and just popped the max at the return

but it didn't rly work and i gave up lmao

it wasn't in the problem

listen bro i haven't done an OA in 4-5 months 😂

allow it

[pulsar mural]

No I run yahkunazon

Don’t get it twisted

[calm shale]

can i get job

[surreal shuttle]

I desperately need a job

[marble bronze]

700+ apps incoming?

[weak latch]

I believe you will get zon you got this @surreal shuttle

Have you been tracking how many OAs, interviews, etc?

I’m actually super curious to see the stats on that

[golden aspen]

Can i have job

[pallid kernel]

aaaaaaa

now comes the anxiety waiting for amazon portal to update

[marble bronze]

Final down?

[pallid kernel]

yeah i did the final and it went extremely well

[marble bronze]

Nice nice

[pallid kernel]

but idk theres always a chance they could fail me on something

[marble bronze]

Please give me your good vibes

[pallid kernel]

and now my brain is convinced that theyre gonna fail me on something stupid

you got this

i am literally the stupidest person i know and it was doable for even me

[slate bobcat]

Don’t get it twisted

[winter loom]

When did you interview ?

[pallid kernel]

friday

so it hasnt even been 1 business day yet

yet im still worrying lmao

[winter loom]

Same took it Friday too also waiting

Hopefully we hear back tmr

Or at least get a portal update 🔥

[pallid kernel]

[surreal shuttle]

No bro i remember what all interviews i got tho

[lapis cove]

whats ur resume

[pallid kernel]

i track my applications in notion

[surreal shuttle]

Rentec,
Headlands,
Facebook,
Tiktok,
Nvidia,
Esri,
Nio,
SystemMD.

[pallid kernel]

the one good thing to come out of that amazon final was that i wrote out answers to 60 different behavioural questions so i will be prepared for any company's behavioural questions now lmao

[surreal shuttle]

Do they ask behavioural in amazon 1x30?

[pallid kernel]

not sure, i had 2x60 unfortunately

i def got asked 3 questions in that one

[lapis cove]

haha u wanna share the set u prepped for

got behavioral tmrw for the blox

[dire yarrow]

Rentec

[errant gorge]

Wtf was that old mission capital OA

Easily the hardest oa I have ever done

[pallid kernel]

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/437082/Amazon-Behavioral-questions-or-Leadership-Principles-or-LP

[surreal shuttle]

Rejected in first round with head of rentec though

He grilled me

[pallid kernel]

IFKR

dude

that was so brutal

even the multiple choice part was so hard 😭

[surreal shuttle]

Was there deep C++ questions?

[pallid kernel]

there were C++ multiple choice questions that i thought were pretty hard

but tbh i havent touched C++ in a few years so maybe thats on me

[errant gorge]

A lot of them are not trivial at all

[pallid kernel]

lmao

going into the OA i for some reason thought Old Mission was a taco company

so i was like "why tf is this OA so hard when theyre just a taco company"

afterwards i googled and realized theyre a quant company

[inner prawn]

On cpp trivia?

[weak latch]

yeah old mission oa hard asf

[weak latch]

and now the nickname starts.... 😂

[silk cape]

Has anyone done the Palantir karat recently? How was it?

[floral plank]

Anyone going to do neeva oa?

Looks like a lot to do. Also is it auto?

[surreal shuttle]

Yeah

Like how things work internally in cpp

[azure zephyr]

what questions did you get asked?

[surreal shuttle]

Did anyone get asked anything other than OA review questions for amazon?

[surreal shuttle]

For 1x30?

[pallid kernel]

an easy linked list one and one that required you to figure out to use two data structures to do access/insert/delete easier

[azure zephyr]

ayy hype!

good luck!!

[novel nimbus]

Which company gives automated Codesignal

Want to pump up my score🫡

[north yacht]

how's capital one OA

[sinful tendon]

it’s legit called a student verification interview. their only goal is to verify you wrote your oa code and understand it

[sour night]

What kind of questions do they ask for the recruiter call for SpaceX?

[north yacht]

Yeah

[nocturne oriole]

👍

[hasty birch]

Amazon 1x30: Is the candidate a living, breathing human?

[nocturne oriole]

👍

[weak latch]

does cap1 codesignal have webcam

my webcam broke so idk if i need to take it on my laptop or what

[knotty folio]

it's the CodeSignal GCA so they proctor it yea

[hasty birch]

I thought I read here that Cap1 didn't require proctoring?

Actually NVM, they do

[weak latch]

1x30 is legit like 95% guaranteed offer

[hasty birch]

This, unless you act sus you're getting an offer

[weak latch]

like unless you cheated on your oa and have no idea how you did it or you're not human

its an offer

Codesignal is saying my cpaital one oa is associated with a different email

i clicked the link in my email and created a whole new account with that email

I even tried using the email i used when i first did an OA with cap 1 in the spring

It doesn't show up in my test center

[slate bobcat]

Taco Bell is goated

[stable wharf]

i want my god damn facebook offer

[marble bronze]

What codesignal scores did y'all get for power day or offer

[knotty folio]

830

[smoky lodge]

Is it weird if I’m aroused by Saul Goodman

anyway, carry on

[marble bronze]

Fuck

[knotty folio]

I don't know what their cutoff is

[hasty birch]

Hardest would be medium, right? With only 30 mins

[nimble tinsel]

Anyone heard back from amz since the survey to schedule final round this week?

[weak latch]

did a practice gca, answered 1 and 2 perfectly, 4 got TLE on 2/15 cases. 3 i got 1/15 cases. Finished in roughly 40 minutes total, scored 738

every time i've done a gca i get TLE on #4. This one was particularly dumb because the problem by nature was brute force 😂

it literally said find the sum of all pairs of an array concatenated

im trying to think if there's a dp way to do it but i can't figure it out

[fast sierra]

what does it mean to find the sum of all pairs concatenated?

[night magnet]

I would sort then use 2 pointer maybe?

If I understand the question

[weak latch]

so like an array [1, 2]
A) 1 + 1 = 11
B) 1 + 2 = 12
C) 2 + 1 = 21
D) 2 + 2 = 22
11 + 12 + 21 + 22 = 66

[pallid kernel]

i thought amazon was on a hiring freeze? at least i saw a reddit comment saying as much, but then again idk if u wanna trust reddit

[weak latch]

am i just dumb 😂 i don't see a way to optimize it better than n^2

[chilly burrow]

They aren't

Afaik

[weak latch]

amz was accelerating hiring last time i heard

[pallid kernel]

oh damn

why

[chilly burrow]

I kno ppl who just got an offer

[night magnet]

Same

And I know an HM at AWS who said they’re hiring

[pallid kernel]

i wonder why theyre hiring so much when everyone else is slowing down hiring due to the economy

[night magnet]

Turnover

Maybe

[chilly burrow]

Plus they're always growin

[weak latch]

i was really intrigued to find out that Azure is a bigger % of msft than AWS is of Amazon

[night magnet]

Bigger by what metric

Revenue?

[fast sierra]

would [2,2] be 22 or 44?

[night magnet]

Or headcount

[weak latch]

i need to find the linkedin post

[night magnet]

I want AWS

[weak latch]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visual-capitalist_technology-apple-microsoft-activity-6967873506558574592-i523?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

[night magnet]

Just need an OA 😫

[chilly burrow]

I want an offer

[night magnet]

Ik

[weak latch]

zon is rough

[night magnet]

But I’m cool w that for the first few yrs out

[weak latch]

but it can be fun for people who wanna challenge themselves

[chilly burrow]

They're just Bezos slave for fun 😃

[weak latch]

esp aws

[chilly burrow]

[weak latch]

that array would be
2 + 2 -> 22
2 + 4 -> 24
4 + 2 -> 42
4 + 4 -> 44
22 + 24 + 42 + 44 = 132

[fast sierra]

where the 4 come from?

[weak latch]

oh shit

i misread ur message lol

[pallid kernel]

ayy i interviewed for amazon vancouver on friday

[weak latch]

oooo maybe that's the case that's fucking me

[chilly burrow]

It would be 88, no?

[fast sierra]

can the values be greater than 9?

[weak latch]

yeah

i think so

wtf 💀

i solved 3/4 questions hello 😂

[chilly burrow]

Yeah idk a way to do it that isn't n^2 eithr

[pallid kernel]

i just want an offer so i can stop grinding leetcode forever

leetcode is fun when there isnt interview pressure and time pressure

but now i hate it

[chilly burrow]

If I didn't have to do Leetcode I would be learning Rust or Elixer

But now I gotta grind dis stupid shit 😭

[fast sierra]

I can think of a linear time solution if all elements were less than 10

[weak latch]

what would you do in that case

[smoky lodge]

If you work for Amazon you are morally evil!

[pallid kernel]

why are u doing this to urself

[chilly burrow]

R.I.P. to Amazon warehouse workers

[pallid kernel]

if i get the amazon offer im buying everyone in this server amazon prime

[tardy jetty]

any tips for getting better at gca i can never solve q4 😭

[chilly burrow]

If I got a return offer from my Canadian company I'd b happy 😃

[fast sierra]

sum([x*11*len(arr) for x in arr])

[chilly burrow]

But recession 😭

[pallid kernel]

holy shit. exact same situation here

my fiance is american so as long as i have a canadian job i cant live ther

[weak latch]

python 1 liner moment

😂

[pallid kernel]

but i really want to live with him

[weak latch]

i'll hold you to that, whens ur interview and is it 1x30 or 2x60

[pallid kernel]

it was on friday, 2x60 but went very well

[weak latch]

free amzn prime then

[pallid kernel]

😭

[weak latch]

i thought i failed their interview in the spring and i passed

💀 💀

[pallid kernel]

i just want a job so i can buy a toyota corolla

[tardy jetty]

i want job 😦

[weak latch]

same but i want a camry

damn i just looked at my old cap1 gca from the spring

same code-writing and problem-solving what 😂

why is that score so low im so confused

[marble bronze]

Dang yo

[fast sierra]

did you solve question 4?

[weak latch]

on that one no i didn't

well i got TLE

and 3 was just an L

so i guess you really need a perfect #4 to get close to 800

uhhhhh why is it saying screening complete 💀

i didn't even take the real exam i took a practice one??

[fast sierra]

best I can think of is use binning, and modified version of my proposed solution

worst case, is still n^2, but probably faster than brute-force

[pallid kernel]

whats binning

[fast sierra]

this is what I'm thinking of

unordered_map<int,int> bins;
for (int i : arr) {
  string curr = to_string(i);
  ++bins[curr.size()];
}
int total = 0;
for (int i : arr) {
  for (auto& [key, val] : bins) {
    total += i * (val * pow(10, key));
  }
total += i * arr.size();
}
return total;

[marble bronze]

🤔

[fast sierra]

fastest solution I can think of

[weak latch]

is there a capital one discord

[surreal shuttle]

C++

[fast sierra]

C++

[marble bronze]

C--

[weak latch]

bruh that roblox cognitive assessment was so weird 😂 😂

wtf was that

[marble bronze]

Deer STD

[weak latch]

Literally lmfao

I don’t think I got any of that mf I’m not a biology student

💀💀

Now I’m building robots lol

[lapis cove]

has anyone done roblox onsite?

[pallid kernel]

did it ask biology related questions

[weak latch]

No but it wanted me to investigate what factors make you a target of an infection

Anyone can do it but it’s just weird

[pallid kernel]

lmao i couldnt even do it cuz im using linux

[weak latch]

That too it’s kinda laggy even on my pc which is good

[pallid kernel]

it said windows/mac only

[surreal shuttle]

I loved the roblox game though

[elder hull]

Anyone know if DRW provides sponsorship?

[weak latch]

it keeps disconnecting me lol

[stable wharf]

this market is garbage

has anyone but amazon been hiring significantly?

[weak latch]

making me feel real bad about not getting the return

wouldb e nice if bb didn't resume reject me :)

[cyan horizon]

Anyone completed ScaleAI ML OA?

[dire yarrow]

[eternal hatch]

Does your zon portal change if it's a rejection?

[marble bronze]

Maybe "no longer under consideration"?

[winter loom]

In both cases then will there be a portal update before accept/reject email?

[eternal hatch]

Do you know what time usually?

[kindred ether]

I’m waiting too !!

[winter loom]

does anyone know how equity works for a private company

if i get shares and i leave before the company is public/acquired

do those shares mean anything

[cerulean nebula]

Any idea if how much time is Amazon taking rn to send out OA after the application? 🥲

Ahh that looks similarly random to Intern applications last year I guess

[winter loom]

when did u apply

[prime palm]

Did you already take Amazon new grad interview?

[inner prawn]

Hello my fellow 2023 new grads

Let’s keep up the good work in here

[marble bronze]

Watch me not get JPMC or C1 finals

[inner prawn]

Bruh I got 680 codesignal and still got c1 final

[jaunty snow]

JPMC finals are fairly easy to get imo, wouldn’t worry there

[cerulean nebula]

Early August

[inner prawn]

Aren’t you at citadel

Yeah ik just curious

Oh intern

You’re the OG yahkuna too that’s crazy

Ac?

Ohhh

Ok I removed you now from the quant server lol

I remeber*

Remember*

Smh

Bruh

Why’d they delete

[normal palm]

i just realized it got deleted lol

[lapis cove]

lol was doing a prerecorded interview and its like true or false + explain, fastest possible sort of an unsorted array is nlogn, and i was like true because uhhhhh thats the fastest

like idk the math for why off the top of my head mfs

i dont think it specified

just any sort of comparable

ig radix sort cld be an answer

but i didint know that was a thing until just looking it up

[prime palm]

The fuck do I write for "why do you want to work at Palantir" r u srs

[marble bronze]

$

[prime palm]

Can't do that one unfortunately

Me too ngl

[weak latch]

you're partially right. The fastest COMPARISON based sort is nlogn

but there are sorts that can do it faster technically

[low scroll]

I didn't apply cause I aint want to answer their essays

[thin elbow]

If anyone has some free time and wouldn't mind taking a sec to look at my resume that would be hella apperciated. I posted it in the resume channel but no one commented on it

[prime palm]

dm it

[sonic coral]

"i love committing war crimes"

[prime palm]

fr

Like what am I even gon say

I'm a big fan of your work??

They gon think I'm sus asf

[elder hull]

“I need a job mf"

[pallid kernel]

ive been putting off applying to palantir because of that godamn question lol

[sonic coral]

@frigid ember

why do you like working at pltr

[frigid ember]

this

[frigid ember]

if i was rewriting my essay answer though i’d probably emphasize the mission driven culture. you get to see a lot of visible impact in the work you do

[dire yarrow]

[pallid kernel]

does amazon record the interviews and play them back

going to listen to this on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_EeCkHs-e0 to manifest amazon offer

[uncut umbra]

cap1 is proctored right

codesignal

[marble bronze]

Yes

[jaunty basalt]

This works btw, can confirm

[dusky plover]

https://tenor.com/view/gleektate-joy-gif-20175730

[jaunty basalt]

Wrong server

[peak ferry]

oh shit how'd ur interviews go?

[jaunty basalt]

U gotta listen before the interview

[pallid kernel]

it went very very well, the interviewers seemed to like my answer for the LC and LP questions

but theres always a chance they can fail me for some stupid reason

[peak ferry]

pog zon offer incoming

[lament summit]

@frigid ember any tips on impressing hm?

[frigid ember]

idk just give thoughtful answers

[lament summit]

okok

[frigid ember]

HMs are pretty normal ppl, just don’t try too hard to impress

they’ll dig into your background more than other interviews

generally want to see your motivations for joining the company and how your vision of what you expect/want fits in

[lament summit]

hmm okay

r u a fdse?

[frigid ember]

i’m a dev

interview process is the same tho

[lament summit]

ah i see

i applied for fdse track then asked to be dev track

and after interviewing me they put me back on fdse track lol

[frigid ember]

hmm they probably think you have strong communication skills

[lament summit]

pog

[frigid ember]

ya if you make it to HM there’s a pretty good chance you get the offer

think it’s like 50/50

[lament summit]

ughh i hope it goes well

[frigid ember]

you got this brother

[prime palm]

what is this

fdse

what company?

[azure zephyr]

palantir

im also in the interview process with them as well for fdse

[smoky lodge]

fdse - furry d*ck smells eery

[lament summit]

Forward deployed software engineer

p much a SWE who speaks to clients

[frigid ember]

nah it’s the same

and no there’s an nyc office but you may have to travel every once in a while

depends on the team tbh

[formal fable]

Does capital one not consider applications requiring sponsorships? I get insta rejects from them in a matter of seconds

[dire yarrow]

Yea they don't sponsor for tdp

For all other positions they might. Check the app

[formal fable]

Yeah I did. If I filter for sponsored roles, it's only Senior Leads and above

[weak latch]

we should normalize providing a reason for resume rejects

[formal fable]

8+ YOE

[formal fable]

We can't do shit though. I was rejected from one firm after practically acing all rounds (including final). I still wonder if I should've emailed them about this seemingly random rejection, but I've done that before and they always don't bother with any info.

[tranquil shadow]

Did anyone hear back from Roblox?

[sinful tendon]

it’s a legal liability to provide rejection reasoning

[tranquil shadow]

Just finished their OA, it was terrible

[dire yarrow]

We should normalize reading apps properly

[lament summit]

dont fdse work more than devs?

so shouldnt the comp be slightly higher for fdse

[prime palm]

how / why

[urban gulch]

What if they accidentally say it’s because of ur race or something

Like obvi not directly like that

[prime palm]

LMFAO

holty fuck

[sinful tendon]

discrimination

[frigid ember]

the hours are the same for both but FDSEs just have tighter deadlines since they have to meet customer requirements. sometimes that means working later hours or weekends

[sinful tendon]

companies are selfish. if they give a reason at best it has no benefit, at worst they get sued

[prime palm]

gonna apply to palantir rn wish me luck

"why do you wanna work here" imma leave it blank

lMFAO

[frigid ember]

i would argue dev work is more technically challenging than delta work. deltas are under more pressure to give results in a timely manner though

FDSEs spend most of their time building out data pipelines in python/pyspark

depends on the team though, different customers have different needs

[frigid ember]

easy way to get ghosted by the recruiter

just give 3 sentences on something mission driven/impact related

[stoic belfry]

vague question but what’s a comfortable ng salary for NYC?

[solemn tinsel]

Does anyone know whether you can send companies your highest Codesignal GCA score if it's not your most recently taken one?

I took a Codesignal GCA a couple days ago in Python and did well but I might have to take it again in C++ for a specific company in a couple weeks and I'm probs gonna do worse so I wanna make sure I can still send the Python one to companies that ask later

[lament summit]

100k +

[errant karma]

Lol that's controversial your username is 200K or bust

[peak ferry]

I mean 100k is prob comfortably livable but ur not saving up much $$ or splurging on nice stuff

[lament summit]

i see

[frigid ember]

if you want to live alone probably $135k base

[lament summit]

how often do u have to travel?

or is most of it virtual now

[frigid ember]

i’m a dev so i don’t have to travel other than team colos

[errant karma]

once a year 19 days of vacation a year

[lament summit]

for fdses?

[frigid ember]

depends on the team

[lament summit]

ah

[frigid ember]

some deltas travel weekly, some never

really depends

[surreal shuttle]

Amazon interview in 2 weeks.

[lament summit]

internationally or locally?

[frigid ember]

also depends on the team

[peak ferry]

How do u like Palantir btw? I applied as a meme but ig I have a recruiter call after karat

[lament summit]

o i see

[smoky lodge]

i literally will not be satisfied until i get like 350k total comp first year

[lament summit]

gl with that

[frigid ember]

highly recommend, i love it here

[peak ferry]

good luck getting top tier quant ig

[smoky lodge]

if i got like a 200k offer from a FAANG i would just be dead inside and keep applying

like if it's not 350k+ what was the point

[smoky lodge]

[frigid ember]

exactly bro bands over everything

[surreal shuttle]

HRT, CITADEL, RENTEC, Jane Street are the only options you got

[frigid ember]

heard albertsons offers a competitive salary

[peak ferry]

Well there are smaller top tier quants but basically yes

[lament summit]

js doesnt even pay 350k

[surreal shuttle]

They pay 400+

[lament summit]

o oops

mixing up them and 2sig

[errant karma]

they were paying interns $95 per hour

[frigid ember]

only? i heard it was $125

[smoky lodge]

i've also never leet coded and am going to try relying on nothing but sheer intelligence

[frigid ember]

$95/hour is basically poverty level

[errant karma]

you will be applying for the next 10 years at this rate

[frigid ember]

such a sigma male move

[peak ferry]

Damn what is this 2sigma peasant money— with their hiring bar? Sheesh

[frigid ember]

i believe in you

[errant karma]

You have transcended poverty means something else to you

[smoky lodge]

spoken like someone not on my intelligence level

[peak ferry]

100% leetcode is just poison for the mind

[smoky lodge]

(also in case it isn't obvious I am trolling, mods please don't mute me again)

[frigid ember]

ya same ^

hope nobody takes me seriously here

[peak ferry]

They’re muting u for speaking the TRUTH

smh mods

[frigid ember]

i just like to do a little bit of trolling

[smoky lodge]

why are there multiple racoon pfps in the chat

[frigid ember]

kirb called me an instigator yesterday

[smoky lodge]

[frigid ember]

we have a raccoon cult

wanna join?

[peak ferry]

I would like to state that I have had this propic for at least 3 years at this point

[smoky lodge]

hell no

[frigid ember]

fight me

[errant karma]

I agree it is has a dopamine hit for some people

[peak ferry]

Steal gedeons lunch money lads

[smoky lodge]

i don't want rabbies

[peak ferry]

should thought about that before u talked shit

[smoky lodge]

MODS I feel uncomfortable!

[frigid ember]

ping kirb and see what happens

[peak ferry]

smh ic how it is

[ornate cliff]

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/amazon-leadership-principles.html

[errant karma]

hey we need peace and kirb is nothing close to it

[uncut umbra]

first time in my life I got above a 750 on a codesignal

jesus christ that third question was so much easier than I was thinking

[errant karma]

1,2,4 is the trick

[errant karma]

RNG gods were generous to you

[uncut umbra]

yeah ik, but I keep on running into situations where I time out

and I have not done enough leetcode to know how to get out of those

I need to work on that and DP

[peak ferry]

What companies do auto code signals? I wanna see what I can get lol

[uncut umbra]

which are kinda related, optimizing shitty algos is the name of the game

[errant karma]

Twitter, Square, Ebay on top of my head

[peak ferry]

ok sick let’s see how this goes lul

[errant karma]

you need all the luck you can get

[smoky lodge]

literally no one can convince me that this server is not just one giant shit post center

[peak ferry]

lol I'm all G, have finals lined up I'm just curious how hard it is to score well

[peak ferry]

it's only like 75% shit posts ok

[smoky lodge]

i entered this place expecting serious career stuff

and everywhere I look there are anime PFPs and mike wazowski emotes

is this what cs people are like

i've literally never regretted my career until now

[dense seal]

is quant strat at goldman any good? i wanna stay a swe and dont wanna go into quant, but ive heard quant strat @ GS == quant dev?? so swe???

[smoky lodge]

i can confirm this is the real Nicki Minaj

[dense seal]

purrr u got my heartbeat running away 😫

[late kestrel]

just think about your average cs classmate and then cherry pick the ones who care way too much. thats this server

[smoky lodge]

so the weirdos

[peak ferry]

lol oops I let my cap1 expire and apparently I can't apply again

lame

[smoky lodge]

bruh

[peak ferry]

I wanted to do a codesignal a while ago but was too lazy to actually do it whoops

live and learn

[smoky lodge]

c1 was by far the easiest place to get an offer in my experience

it is also the only place i've gotten an offer from so far so ignore me

[late kestrel]

so it was also the hardest huh

[peak ferry]

I'm chillin I just wanted to do a codesignal to see what the scores mean

somehow every place I legit interviewed at didn't do codesignal

[errant karma]

getting quant strat at GS would be super hard. A lot of interns wanted to get return offers for quant strat

[dense seal]

did you intern at GS this summer?

[errant karma]

yes

[dense seal]

cool me too!! what team?

i was in core engineering - data engineering

[errant karma]

I was in CWM apple cards

[dense seal]

oh wow thats awesome, are you thinking of accepting their offer?

[errant karma]

To be honest I will just accept it and renege if something better comes up later

[pallid kernel]

i am going to pray to jef bozo

[dense seal]

yeah that's what im thinking too, but im not too sure if quant strat or core engineering. hopefully quant strat has some dev work for me 😫

[errant karma]

Did you enjoy what your team was doing? I feel like that important

[peak ferry]

oof team is pretty important imo

[errant karma]

Damn thats tough, working with nice people is very important

[dense seal]

thanks guys that'll help me with the decision

[smoky lodge]

look at Jeff just eating a burger while we spend our lives trying to get jobs at amazon

[errant karma]

@pulsar mural how are you yahkuna

[pulsar mural]

good

[errant karma]

I hope you got a job at Roblox. playing roblox that much should pay off

[errant karma]

this is not good. if Jeff is starving then we are dead

[peak ferry]

jeffrey is just embracing frugality it will all be daijoubu

[winter loom]

has anyone gotten an amazon interview invite this past week? i'm wondering if the ng pipeline is on hold

[pallid kernel]

bro that’s scary

i hope they don’t rescind our potential offers

[winter loom]

i mean idk im just wondering if ppl have been getting interviews

[limber vale]

Yea I have an interview coming up but it’s very slow rn, I don’t think there are many slots open and a lot of people are trying to interview

[winter loom]

when did you schedule it?

[limber vale]

I gave time slots for the week of the 12th

I initially gave slots for this week

But all slots got full

So they had to reschedule me

[winter loom]

word word

[pallid kernel]

i’m so scared

[pine topaz]

@pulsar mural

[pallid kernel]

i wanna fast forward time by a week and just find out my fate rn

[limber vale]

R u ride or dying on Amazon?

[winter loom]

yeah just wondering if the ng pipeline is on a hold rn so if anyone has gotten an OA or scheduled an interview last week

[limber vale]

Lol keep ur options up

[pallid kernel]

yes

it was my only interview

and i haven’t gotten any others

[marble bronze]

MonkaS

[pallid kernel]

all companies send an OA now it feels like

and i’ve only been able to pass amazon’s

[limber vale]

Just keep applying, season is super early still

Yahkuna is the only one slacking rn

[vital meteor]

dont lose hope and keep applying/grinding b75 👍

[marble bronze]

God damn a lotta reject from Gap, is this the same Gap that makes clothes?

[vital meteor]

worst case you get no offers and become homeless and regret everything

[pallid kernel]

that’s a pretty bad worst case

good lord

pls

i thought i did really good on the amazon interview

[limber vale]

Man’s trolling, just relax you’ll be fine

[pallid kernel]

but they could stop hiring and just not give me an offer

[marble bronze]

If Amazon stops hiring this year is legit doomed

[limber vale]

Amazon hasn’t frozen yet

[sonic coral]

Ask our boi @inner prawn

[peak ferry]

lmao didn't he hate it there

[vital meteor]

tbf it could have just been a bad team

[gray dagger]

One of my friends amazon ng interviews got postponed to September 12

[limber vale]

I’ve consulted with them before, my team had nice people but they work a lot

[gray dagger]

Not sure what’s going on with Amazon

[peak ferry]

zon canceled me last minute and hasn't rescheduled

[dire yarrow]

yea finance industry has a bad rep than tech companies for swes

[limber vale]

Wait Fr lol when?

[peak ferry]

like 1-2 weeks ago

[dire yarrow]

Yea they did that a lot with me

you're fine probably.

[limber vale]

Wait wtf how did that happen

[gray dagger]

I never got an OA for Amazon evil laughs

[dire yarrow]

Straight to final?

[peak ferry]

they just told me day before my interview whoopsie canceled

[limber vale]

They just rescheduled me

Instead of canceling

[gray dagger]

Bruh 🥹

[limber vale]

Last Friday

[peak ferry]

yea that's what I'd expect lol

[limber vale]

I confused

[dire yarrow]

they cancelled me and told me to reschedule. Or maybe they just filled out

idk I don't remember.

But either way it doesn't seem so bad.

[pine topaz]

notjohn is not trolling. u will be homeless

[dire yarrow]

Oh you're giving zon interview?

[limber vale]

Why u applying bruh kek

[limber vale]

Yurr

[dire yarrow]

No this is back in march

[limber vale]

Ohhh

[lapis cove]

got my first new grad onsite tomorrow

[pallid kernel]

if amazon moves your location to another place are u allowed to request to move it back

[gray dagger]

Is there a trick to getting an Amazon OA 🥹

[pallid kernel]

i really don’t want to move

[gray dagger]

Referrals aren’t working

[limber vale]

Gl my guy

[pallid kernel]

rng?

[dire yarrow]

its not bad tho. Get anything you can. Banks are amazing places to start

[gray dagger]

For new grad, yes

[limber vale]

It’s pretty much default, not sure how u didn’t get it maybe just need to wait

[dire yarrow]

oh, also banks are probably only companies hiring rn

[pallid kernel]

i heard banks are the most chill places to work at. u only do like 3 hours of work a day

[gray dagger]

I didn’t get one for intern either

So like maybe I’m banned

[dire yarrow]

They start hiring very early in the season coz their process is like ass slow

[peak ferry]

in the US they are er bad at this

[limber vale]

Mfs at gs worked like 9 - 10 hours

[dire yarrow]

@limber vale would know since he got offer from JPMC right sid?

[peak ferry]

friend got yeeted to seattle from the bay and when he asked to be put in the bay they were just like lol no

[pallid kernel]

that’s super unfair

[limber vale]

I did get the offer but don’t know much about the culture there

I consulted for gs

[dire yarrow]

no I mean they're really slow

[limber vale]

A short period

[pallid kernel]

if u applied for place x u should get the offer for place x

[limber vale]

Ohhhh yea

[dire yarrow]

as slow as google

[limber vale]

I heard back from OA like 3-4 months later

[dire yarrow]

damn

[limber vale]

Yea idk why they’re as slow as google kek

[dire yarrow]

I never heard back from gs after OA lol

they just rejected me and didn't even send an email

[lapis cove]

has anyone done creative problem solving type interviews? if so what kinda questions are asked

thats one of the rounds for roblox onsite hoping i can just wing it lol

[dire yarrow]

idk try searching in the chat

22 grads or full timers

a lot of ppl went thru roblox

[limber vale]

@pulsar mural time to apply buddy

Look at these kids bro

[dire yarrow]

Did you get any onsites yet @pulsar mural?

[pulsar mural]

I didn’t start applying yet

need to update resume

[dire yarrow]

[pulsar mural]

[dire yarrow]

Need to add Amex

and Lockheed

[limber vale]

Tbf yak has cracked resume

[dire yarrow]

[low scroll]

am I supposed to get hirevue from jpmc or just hackerrank?

[wooden ginkgo]

Anyone got AMZON OA? few of my friends got while I have been waiting for ages

[limber vale]

Hirevue

[limber vale]

Yes it takes a while, also zon is slow rn

[low scroll]

so what do I do if I only got hackerrank?

[limber vale]

Yea take it, lol process kinda fuzzy, but I remember hirevue then final

Could’ve changed now

[low scroll]

wtf

jpmc new grad is 100k?

bruh

[limber vale]

Chicago yea

Bay is 170

[low scroll]

nyc?

[limber vale]

But don’t know if it changed

[peak ferry]

really? I thought normal banks paid meh

[limber vale]

Nyc couldve changed

[low scroll]

assuming its around 170k as well?

[limber vale]

J.P. Morgan only pays well in bay

[limber vale]

It was lower for nyc when I got offer, others told me

It was around 140ish

[low scroll]

I see

not too bad

[peak ferry]

ic-- their levels ca wages vary can't tell if old or like nego'd wages

[limber vale]

New grad didn’t have nego when I got offer

This shit changes yearly it’s kind of wild lol

[peak ferry]

hm ic well some people just got shit offers then lol

like p recent

[limber vale]

Hmm yea idk

[low scroll]

when'd you get jpmc offer?

[limber vale]

November

Last year

[errant karma]

Very team dependent. My team was so nice and very helpful. They come to the office T,W an TH the rest of time you work from home. You get assigned stuff and nobody bothers you until the end of the sprint

[last belfry]

Is 761 a good gca 😭

I was only able to get the first 3😭

😭😭😭😭😭

Ahhh so will they check my resume LOL

With this score

Ah. Got it

[main condor]

my friend did 5 internships and never got a return offer

[smoky lodge]

Your friend sounds dumb

Or lazy

Or both

L friend

[eternal mortar]

@last belfry fyi, next time do problems 1, 2, 4, then 3. If you get 1,2,4 you get 800+ but not if you get 1,2,3. 3 is usually implementation heavy and takes the longest too

[errant karma]

This should be common knowledge by now

[last belfry]

Ahhh shit

Lol yea my 3 was very long

[last belfry]

I’m too dumb

Sorry

[main condor]

lol why dumb?

[errant karma]

Last summer we pinned it at #2022_summer

[smoky lodge]

He got 5 whole chances to show off and still didn’t get a return offer

Literal bozo moment

[dire yarrow]

@limber vale what was your JPMC offer? In NYC?

[errant karma]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/839866815541805116/979475157427044512/unknown.png

[smoky lodge]

Honestly valid

[dire yarrow]

I wanna hire someone who will just apply to jobs for me.

Like, just fill apps.

[smoky lodge]

The tech bubble decided to burst right when I was graduating