2023_grads

[late kestrel]

maybe return intern with signing?

[mossy niche]

Yeah he's return intern

myb

[fervent drift]

If I get in any company I’ll hand out referrals like candy

[late kestrel]

yeah isnt it 5k-10k more in signing bonus

[mossy niche]

I think he said its like 10 more

or 12.5 or something

[late kestrel]

wow im surprised sf is that much higher base than nyc

i think i fukt up my c1 poweday so im hoping my bb em isnt a dick

yeah

[sage marsh]

what paltform is rainforest oa on?

[late kestrel]

got the hr/em inv this morning

thank you !!!

[ebon quiver]

what the fuck u doing on here

[mossy niche]

trollin

[ebon quiver]

its me ak47

[mossy niche]

LOL

Did ur other account

[ebon quiver]

xD

[mossy niche]

get banned

[sage marsh]

anybody do pwc data science intern interview process?

[ebon quiver]

yeah

[autumn ridge]

@azure zephyr how ass was the epic systems OA lol

[ebon quiver]

cuz i abused the shit outta some kid on here

[mossy niche]

ur a clown

[azure zephyr]

haven't taken it yet but not looking forward to it lmaooo

[distant rampart]

yeah so i havent done it yet

[sour night]

My bb recruiter ghosting me when I have a deadline on Monday albeit I had my em round yesterday

[azure zephyr]

what's up with bb recruiters and ghosting ppl

[celest whale]

To all the people who have been asking if TikTok OAs are auto, I just saw this in the job details page. Hadn’t seen it before. Not sure if it is true tho. Maybe TikTok is messing with us lol

[floral plank]

How long does it take to get datadog oa after recruiter call?

[autumn ridge]

dude it's so bad and long I just gave up half way through and started guessing

[uncut umbra]

just had bb phone, got a question I knew how to answer but I do shit in java and their prewritten code was using interfaces and bullshit so I had tons of errors checking whether two elements of arbitrary type T were the same

I hate everything

the interviewer couldn't help me either and she misunderstood crucial parts of my solution

[last summit]

why does tiktok have 102 open NG positions

do you actually have to apply to several

[autumn ridge]

You can only apply to two across all of byte dance

It's kind of wack bc I had to check each listing to see which my skills lined up with the most

[kind galleon]

they been rly slammed

my recruiter said he's been like traveling to like so many diff schools every week

[buoyant fable]

anything to know b4 asking for an offer deadline extension? is it a bad idea?

[teal jackal]

officially they say you only get to apply to 2

i think

[teal jackal]

fr? acrosss ALL of bytedance?

damn

[foggy perch]

should've used python smh

[ivory stratus]

Yeee

[foggy perch]

python #1 for interviews

C++ as backup for hft

[ivory stratus]

They said only 2 and whatever hackerrank score you get on the first, you have to send that in for the second too

[formal fable]

Anyone here given Pinterest's ML OA? Can you describe the format and question style?

[marble bronze]

Bro what the fuck is this

I don't want to be on a 1099 I want to be on a W2

[ivory stratus]

If it’s legit, contract work sucks

[marble bronze]

And not the nasty W2 contract shit either

[round lake]

Anyone got Paycom interview?

[ebon quiver]

if there any point

in emailing my interviewer after the interview

with a better updated solution

i dont think there is cuz like

i coulda j searched it up

[celest whale]

YO wtf. I literally havent even applied to a single Bytedance position before this

[neat shore]

How did u get this . ContrCt work is a great side job

[marble bronze]

They just keep sending me linkedin dms man idk

[prime palm]

wow i just fumbled Citadel final round 😔 https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-69-number/

[marble bronze]

>maximum 69 number

nice

[uncut umbra]

Pls end

[foggy perch]

tough being so based

[calm shale]

smh i want to move seatgeek start date up to jan, since i grad in dec

but they wont budge for some reason

[late kestrel]

enjoy your gap semester ig lol

[teal jackal]

is that actually the problem u had?

[calm shale]

this is what im thinking. does anyone know if there are repercussions?

should i tell seatgeek?

will it show up on background/reference check before start date

[teal jackal]

dont some companies verify transcripts

[calm shale]

transcript shouldnt affect anything right?

[teal jackal]

like they check for degree completion?

i know a lot dont

[calm shale]

i mean i will still graduate this year so ill have a transcript

worried about the temp job ill be doing from jan - july

[twilit wasp]

does anyone know if master students get paid more than bachelors students in companies? i heard that there is a difference in Goldman Sachs

debating whether it is worth to do a masters or not (international studying in the uk with student debt, but the pound is falling fast)

[celest whale]

I heard that its collected purely for internal data collection and analysis. Something like building stats for whether academic performance correlates with professional capabilities and all that. Atleast thats what Google says they do it for

[regal osprey]

Fidelity recruiter requested to schedule a call after final interview to share interview feedback. Is this a good sign?

[fervent drift]

Same

[teal jackal]

interesting

guess the degree really is just a sheet of paper

companies dont actually gaf

its not even paper anymore

just a pdf

[celest whale]

Yeah. Makes me wonder why tf do I care about even keeping my grades up lol

[late kestrel]

whats wrong with a temp job? the worse thing that would happen is you burning a bridge bc you left so soon

[teal jackal]

grad school probably, if you dont want to close that door

but tbh idk if grades even matter

for grad school

[celest whale]

I am in grad school

[teal jackal]

ah

u prob never wanna go to skool again

so tru

[ancient holly]

how many questions do you need to complete for palantir karat to move onto next step?

[celest whale]

Fuck no lol

[foggy perch]

only reason to care is if you apply to a super top .001% HFT or plan on doing a phd

[teal jackal]

ive heard of people pulling it off with 2/3

[foggy perch]

oh if no more school then just dc

[teal jackal]

idk how it works

[foggy perch]

i've heard 3 as the golden number for palantir karat

[ancient holly]

my interviewer didn't give me a third question 😢

[teal jackal]

yeah school prestige and connections is good for applying to companies

o

hm

[ancient holly]

[foggy perch]

don't they offer karat redos

[ancient holly]

maybe bc i had only 5 minutes left

[twilit wasp]

my interviewer didn t give me a third

[twilit wasp]

yeah they do

[celest whale]

Everyone here is talking about "karat" and "palantir" lol. Meanwhile I m sitting here without even hearing back from them

[twilit wasp]

im applying to london one so maybe dont count me in haha

[calm shale]

do i let seatgeek know before hand?

if i do:
they might ask why im doing this, and they might say i can't do it.
or they might rescind offer because from their pov, i could be a risk and NOT quit the temp job and fuck with their headcount

if i dont: it might come up in reference check and they'd be like where tf did this come from, and be seen as a breach of some trust or whatever

idk, i have no idea what these companies/recruiters are thinking lol

[ancient holly]

hi Does anyone know Palantir s interview

[nocturne oriole]

Have u tried changing pfp to a better character

Like itachi

Tobirama

Temari

Kakashi

The mizukage

Ramen shop owner

[celest whale]

Ill change it if I land a job

The quality of the character in my pfp reflects my current financial stability in life

Both shitty

[twilit wasp]

anyone from uk applying to bloomberg london? idk if i miss the grad job opening or they are not opened yet haha ripppp

[late kestrel]

well think of it this way: they just told you they cant pay you till next summer. what do they expect you to do? have 0 income for 6 months post grad?

[late kestrel]

pretty sure it was open and public before the US one was

[late kestrel]

or me where i got resume rejected and then a recruiter reached out on linkedin to start the process, only to tell me i had to wait 6 months to apply again

[twilit wasp]

wow, guess I've missed it... usually most uk companies open around end of august till nov for grad ...

big sad

[late kestrel]

could be wrong but im pretty sure i remember that being the only ng swe app open for a while

[twilit wasp]

rip, i missed their campus recruitment event 2 days ago so didn't get a chance to ask for grad application process

[wicked rivet]

@calm shale random q since i have final w seatgeek soon, but how long do they give you to accept offer after

[calm shale]

2.5 weeks for me

[wicked rivet]

hmm i see

i have bb on nov 16 and need to schedule the final

but idk if nov is too far for them

[calm shale]

sounds flexible tho in my call

[autumn ridge]

My pinterest interviewer was an ACM-ICPC world finalist am I screwed? lol

[grand glen]

fellas does DRW sponsor for newgrads

[quick wraith]

yes

dont take the OA in python

[autumn ridge]

why no python?

[grand glen]

source?

just wanted to make sure

[quick wraith]

trust me bro

asked them in the career fair

[quick wraith]

auto reject despite full score on codility

[thick shell]

Anyone know how long the interview process is for Proctor and Gamble new grad SWE is? I have a phone screen coming up after I took the OA but I don't know how many rounds after that or if this is the final.

[low scroll]

what 😭

[grand glen]

ok guess ill do it in c++ only?

[low scroll]

i think its phone -> final

[grand glen]

the email says to do a question in each language

lol

[thick shell]

Thank you very much 🙏🏾 , you know if phone and or final is leetcode or is it all behavioral?

[low scroll]

i know final is mostly behavioral, panel style

not sure about phone

[thick shell]

Bet, sounds good!

[autumn ridge]

That behavioral assessment was wild for P&G I failed lol. One of of the questions was like Paul is your top sales rep but he frequently takes sodas from the breakroom without paying. What should you do as Paul's manager.

Wtf the soda isn't free!? lol

[quick wraith]

whatever makes you sleep at night

[quick wraith]

not working at P&G then

assume reject

[thick shell]

I capped my ass of in that behavioral assessment lmaoo

[thick shell]

I heard they're very particular on the responses, not sure if it's worst than Amazon Leadership Principles

[marble bronze]

I literally got rejected because I didn't suck their dick and follow their values loll

[errant gorge]

What I did the drw oa in Python and I have a phone screen soon

Unless I misread it’s not drw you are talking about

[ancient holly]

Palantir cancelled my redo anyone know

[thick shell]

Bro it's so ass I know. One thing I learned these past couple years of recruiting is behavioral assessments can and have to be gamed just like leetcode.

[marble bronze]

Yep yep, smile and nod and recite them corporate values

[thick shell]

Facts lmaoo

[abstract storm]

Has anyone applied to alarm.com for the SWE position?

[uncut umbra]

got rejected after that mfer too

anyone know what to expect from the EY video call?

[uncut umbra]

just did lol

[abstract storm]

Oh shit glgl

I was gonna ask if you know what the hackerrank questions were lmao

I’ve never done hackerrank before

[uncut umbra]

no I have no clue lmao

I plan on flying by the seat of my pants

[abstract storm]

Aight go

Gl

I got a referral to it lol

[celest whale]

Wtf does it take to get a phone screen at IMC jesus christ

Got 100% in OA and was pretty confident after my one way interview

Got a reject today

[radiant juniper]

Has anyone found a list of codesignal questions?

[calm shale]

dont think that exist

[radiant juniper]

I found a few based on the pool of questions have been getting so far, but was j curious if anyone made one too

[knotty folio]

okay yeah definitely +1 to everyone who said Forward gives off weird vibes

[abstract storm]

Is there a better website to use than Glassdoor to find questions for a company?

[knotty folio]

just finished my phone screen with them

[ebon quiver]

j failed bb phone

shit was hard

[calm shale]

lc discuss

[distant rampart]

did u get lc hard?

[thick shell]

Sorry bout that, did they ask you two mediums/Hards? I have mine coming up in two weeks

[ebon quiver]

no

im just dum b

[calm shale]

how long did u wait before hearing back?

[ebon quiver]

i havent heard back yet

im just guessing

the interviewer was so dead breh

made it even harder

[thick shell]

Nah bruh, Bloomberg I think hires year round so apply again in April if it's a reject

[dense cloud]

does bloomberg usually reach out to u for an introductory call

[teal jackal]

Sick

Hopium tbh

[calm shale]

was he someone on equity research team

[distant rampart]

[ebon quiver]

i didnt ask what team lmao

[teal jackal]

I heard bloomberg is easier to get into late season too

[ebon quiver]

well it prolly is

[teal jackal]

Also copium

[ebon quiver]

but im dumb

wait guys how

[calm shale]

bc i had phone today too, and he was dead as well lol

[ebon quiver]

if u have ACCCDDDCD

how do u get that to become AD

[teal jackal]

My friend got a Bloomberg offer despite graduating into 2022 unemployed

[calm shale]

? why ad

[ebon quiver]

what u think it should be

[thick shell]

Anyone know how to study for REST API hackerranks? I had one on Rippling OA and Expedia I think has it too.

[distant rampart]

oh was that one of the questions u got

[thick shell]

Two Pointers?

or am I bugging

[ebon quiver]

i did that

but how do u use 2 pointers

to get

AD

and not ACD

[calm shale]

first and last letter? im confused lol

what are u trying to return

[distant rampart]

what do u mean get AD

[calm shale]

what other test cases

[distant rampart]

is this like edit distance thing

[ebon quiver]

no its not edit distance

sorry i didnt explain

its just removing consecutive chars

[distant rampart]

ohh

[ebon quiver]

but the one thing i didnt get

is how to know the order to crush

so yeah i failed thanks for hearing my ted talk

bruh

gg

[distant rampart]

well i think interview is mostly about being lucky

u will do better next time for sure

[ebon quiver]

thanks bud

@calm shale so do u know how to do it

does anyone

[calm shale]

intersting problem

[ebon quiver]

yeah its not as simple as candy crush

its very interested

i thought about maybe doing the crushing later

so u indicate u wanna crush

then u can do that to kinda ignore chars that u know are crushing

so i threw out that idea but i couldnt explain how the exact algo would work without it being ineffieicnt

[distant rampart]

ohh i get what that problem is about

that's pretty hard

[calm shale]

what about brute force

[ebon quiver]

maybe some dp in there

[distant rampart]

so is it this

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/380650/Bloomberg-or-Phone-Screen-or-Candy-Crush-1D

[ebon quiver]

yeah

but the thing is

it isnt greedy

thats what makes it hard

[calm shale]

but for ACCCDDDCD u wanna delete D first

then C

to arrive at AD at the end

[ebon quiver]

cirrect

cuz u want the lowest string after

u want to end with the shortest tring

its not just as simple as crushing left to right or crushing righ to left

its not greedy

basically its definietely done through

recursive

[uncut umbra]

this is similar to the second level remove dupes

[ebon quiver]

its recursive

[uncut umbra]

I had it just two hours ago

it was not bad at all

[ebon quiver]

its recursive dp

[uncut umbra]

I had the algo down pat and verified it

[ebon quiver]

nice one god

[blazing dune]

anyone know how hard the lucid interview is

[uncut umbra]

you can just use stacks and arraylist?

[calm shale]

explain?

[ebon quiver]

ye

bru i said that like 3 times

[uncut umbra]

same vibe as removing min duplicates

is it not?

put all chars in a stack, put associated counts in a list

[ebon quiver]

its basically

dp

its dp but recursive and brute force

[uncut umbra]

if the current el is diff than the previous el

[ebon quiver]

@calm shale u are right

[ebon quiver]

that wont give u the min

[uncut umbra]

then you remove elements as far as you need to go

[ebon quiver]

min dist tho

[uncut umbra]

wut

[ebon quiver]

min length

u need to try either choice

[uncut umbra]

wdym either choice

there's only the one choice

[ebon quiver]

correct

or maybe u can do tabular

[uncut umbra]

I don't agree, I feel like my method gives you the right answer

[ebon quiver]

maybe it does idk

[uncut umbra]

oh wait

no it doesn't

[ebon quiver]

bruh

[uncut umbra]

wait no

it will

[ebon quiver]

🥹

either way

why this dude asking me hard dp

in a bb

[distant rampart]

that question is hard for phone interview

wtf

[ebon quiver]

AND HE HAD ANOTHER ONE IN MIND

yes and he gave me another q too

this friggin dude breh

[uncut umbra]

either way we got fucked lol

had the same question

[ebon quiver]

oh fr in bb phpne

[dense cloud]

thats so unlucky

[ebon quiver]

yeah hackerrank

[uncut umbra]

and I had the whole issue with fucking java interfaces and bullshit

yeah

bb phone

had it a couple of hours ago

[ebon quiver]

bruh i think we had the same dude

was he indian

and a bitch

[uncut umbra]

I think the problem wasn't well defined then because that's not what my interviewer said

[distant rampart]

wait bb wants you to code in java?

[uncut umbra]

it was an old indian lady

so no

[ebon quiver]

oh rip

[uncut umbra]

but she was like

[tawdry snow]

this week: 2 apps -> 2 interviews

[ebon quiver]

das prolly even wrose

[uncut umbra]

lmao

[tawdry snow]

i'm feelin HUGE

[uncut umbra]

chill

[ebon quiver]

what companies

[uncut umbra]

no I just do

[uncut umbra]

I was getting the last el from an arraylist

[tawdry snow]

2 AI research companies

[uncut umbra]

and doing like size - 1 to find said index

and she was like

[tawdry snow]

STR and Shield AI

[ebon quiver]

yeah thast fine

[uncut umbra]

why are you decrementing the count this is not the solution

and I was like

I'm not doing that

[ebon quiver]

new grad?

[uncut umbra]

I'm getting the count first

to add to it

[ebon quiver]

lmao

[uncut umbra]

ffs

[ebon quiver]

bruh these bb engineers

[uncut umbra]

w/e probs got fucked

[tawdry snow]

yeah

[ebon quiver]

i had to explain him my code

cuz he didnt even get it

my second question

[tawdry snow]

but i'm MS new grad, so idk if that changes things

[ebon quiver]

was like how to demistify

complex boolean

what else can u do other than apply demorgans

tf

and he was like.

i have seen enough thank you

even there was like 7 mins left

yes

now that we are thinking about it

i coudla done it

but at the time with this dude staring my ass down

i didnt come up with the dp

gotta think from the brute force

always start from the brute froce

if u dont know how to do sm

[calm shale]

ya i think its just dp

rip

that was a tough one

[ebon quiver]

little bit yeah

but it was the second aprt

of the first qu

so maybe

j maybe

he gets me through still

prolly not tho he seemed mean

[calm shale]

[ebon quiver]

wish i can go back and tell him the soln

damn it

[calm shale]

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/380650/Bloomberg-or-Phone-or-Candy-Crush-1D/343247

i think this one solves it dp

def candyCrush1D_followup(S):
    l, segs = 0, []
    for c, seq in groupby(S):
        k = len(list(seq))
        if k >= 3:
            segs.append((l, l + k))
        l += k
    return min([
        candyCrush1D_followup(S[:l] + S[r:]) 
        for l, r in segs
    ], key=len, default=S)

[ebon quiver]

idk python like that

do you guys know how to

simplify a binary expression

like make it more readable?

how do u answer that

so basically for our dp problem, the state is one possible version of the crushed string as well as a min length?

[calm shale]

https://jgirl.ddns.net/VisualCode/live.html#code=from itertools import groupby def candyCrush1D_followup(S)%3A l, segs %3D 0, [] for c, seq in groupby(S)%3A k %3D len(list(seq)) if k >%3D 3%3A segs.append((l, l %2B k)) l %2B%3D k return min([ candyCrush1D_followup(S[%3Al] %2B S[r%3A]) for l, r in segs ], key%3Dlen, default%3DS) print(candyCrush1D_followup("ACCCDDDCD"))&curInstr=138&mode=display&origin=opt-live.js&py=3&rawInputLstJSON=[]

gives right ans

[ebon quiver]

saying from this string to the most crushed

u need this min

i think i can solve it

wait damn

that code is rlly elegant

how is it doing it @calm shale

[fervent drift]

jus said fuck it and applied to apple

[ebon quiver]

they ghost get ready

[fervent drift]

gg's

[ebon quiver]

bruh at the beginning of my bb

i was so excited that he was gon give me candy crush

[fervent drift]

im not even expecting anything back from them

[ebon quiver]

then i realized hes giving me 2d dp

[ebon quiver]

good thinking

[fervent drift]

id leave the interview fr

[foggy perch]

you got dp from bb?

what

what problem was it

[ebon quiver]

i j spent the last 30 mins discussing it with a couple of buds above

yes

[foggy perch]

is it on leetcode

[ebon quiver]

leetcode discuss

[fervent drift]

anyone here do imc OA?

[prime palm]

bloomberg?

bruh

[ebon quiver]

well it depends. is it a gca

[prime palm]

i saw on tagged there was candy crush

if anyone asked me that that's fucked

[fervent drift]

is it ike js or hrt?

[prime palm]

yeah

[ebon quiver]

there is a rubric online. its a little different. some probs r given different weights

[prime palm]

its fine

solved 1.5 / 2 and moved on

[ebon quiver]

candy crush aint even taht bad

i was ready to d that

[fervent drift]

probably gonna do it tonight

[ebon quiver]

he gave me a candy crush variant that requires 2dp

[fervent drift]

got it this morning

[ebon quiver]

and i wasnt ready for it

[foggy perch]

if it's just 1d candy crush doesn't seem too bad

[prime palm]

bloomberg phone or final?

[foggy perch]

oh 2d

[prime palm]

onsite?

[ebon quiver]

bruh the phone

the fucking phoe

man fucked me over the phone

atleast do me the curtesy of fucking me onsite

like shit

[prime palm]

jesus christ

lol

im sorry to hear fam

[ebon quiver]

its ok thanks buds

[foggy perch]

wait if it's 2d is it this problem? https://leetcode.com/problems/candy-crush/

[prime palm]

but u solved it right

because he asked you a 2nd q?

[ebon quiver]

no its 2d DP

[prime palm]

i got asked 2 questions in my bloom phone

[ebon quiver]

but its similar to that problem, little harder

[foggy perch]

huh

wack that it requires the extra dp part of it

[ebon quiver]

i solved the first problem, he asked me afollow up i couldnt answer. then we went to second cuz time running out ll

[prime palm]

was the 2nd one easier at least

[ebon quiver]

not all subarrays

[calm shale]

that code is crazy clever

[ebon quiver]

u just need to cache each possible decompression and its min length

[ebon quiver]

yeah i dont even understand it

[calm shale]

id never some up with that

walking through it rn lol

[ebon quiver]

but im sure the regular memoization will work

[prime palm]

that's actually insane

[foggy perch]

my bb phone was literally just a hashmap problem from bb tagged

[prime palm]

bloomberg tagged is like 50% design

design leaderboard

design insert random delete

design underground

[ebon quiver]

second was like -- how do u simplify boolean expression

[prime palm]

like holy fk

[ebon quiver]

bruh i wanna kil

[wild pewter]

what do they ask in the lucid hackerrank?

[prime palm]

its piss easy

[ebon quiver]

but what if u use a hashmap u do

the map would be <string crushedstring, minlength>

that way if u ever see that crushed string, u alr know the min length of what it will turn out to be

its a dictionary of crusehed string to min length from crushed string to its base case. bottom up

cool

i have no idea how that jz guy did it

python is powerful u can do some really elegantly

but still i think he did it without dp

@calm shale can u take my interviews for me

[twilit wasp]

does oracle do graduate programs?

[ebon quiver]

oracle ghost as fuck

[twilit wasp]

i can't find anything online rip, or are they closed

[ebon quiver]

never heard back from oracle in my damn life

they did have some new grad listings

[calm shale]

it first finds all the >=3 sequence of S and put it in segs in form of (start, end), then recur on the resulting string S[:start] + S[end:], so for ex: "ACCCDDDCD" u would run "ADDDCD", and "ACCCCD", return the min and continue recur ...

[ebon quiver]

oh i see

so its top down

i feel like bottom up would be easier

[calm shale]

thats more intuitive for me i think

that's along the lines of what i was thinking with brute force

[ebon quiver]

oh dang nice job ma

u woulda passed the interview

[calm shale]

that wasnt me lol

[ebon quiver]

and proceeded to get rekt in the bb onsite

[calm shale]

that was from the lc discuss

[prime palm]

is bb onsite actually hard

im scared

it's 2 rounds of the phone interview you jus took

lol

45 min for 2 lc

x2

[lament summit]

isnt this just stack

[ebon quiver]

yeah so then its fucking insane

but its al luck

u can also get asked 2sum

[prime palm]

loool

[ebon quiver]

😭

[prime palm]

there's worse out there imo....

imc final

palantir final

at least this is just lc

[ebon quiver]

u need to return the min length after crushed

[solemn tinsel]

Alr so I had a couple of recruiter calls a month ago but then my recruiter ghosted me even tho she said she would send me an email with interview details. I emailed a couple weeks back to followup but didn't get a response. Should I try calling my recruiter lol? I don't know any other way to get in contact.

[lament summit]

so stack + dp

[ebon quiver]

tbh im better

[ebon quiver]

correct

[lament summit]

doesnt seem too bad

[prime palm]

idt calling them directly is a good idea / professional

[ebon quiver]

well ur a smart guy 🙂

[prime palm]

if theyre ghosting then :skullge

[ebon quiver]

but this was bb phone. and he asked me one more after this

[lament summit]

oh

rip

nvm thats hard

if u have the whole time

[ebon quiver]

no like

its like this

[solemn tinsel]

damn ig I'll just email again then

[ebon quiver]

he asked me the stack version first

then the dp versio

THEN another one

bruh

and he ended 5 mins early

he asked me to ask him shit at 50 minute mark

what the fuck

idgaf about u buddy srry i j failed

[prime palm]

LMFAO

honeslty

my bb phone was kind of an ass

like i solved 2/2

but he gave me a lot of shit for using python and not c++

lmfaooooooo

[ebon quiver]

what fr

bru

[prime palm]

yeah

i mean i was using counter / defaultdict in python

which is just one-lining a dictionary

he was like what is the time complexity of this this is slow what is the implemenetation of a dictionary in python its not like cpp

and i said ????? boy

[dense cloud]

python is superior asf in interviews

[ebon quiver]

agreed

[quick wraith]

when was this?

[prime palm]

i know bro just salty asf he balding

on g

😠

[ivory stratus]

how is amazon oa?

[prime palm]

it's nice

a little rng

[ivory stratus]

heard it's pretty easy yeah?

[prime palm]

oa1 is rng

you could get hard questions

oa2 is like the wp simulator

which is fine

lets goooo

[ivory stratus]

sweeeeet

[prime palm]

W or L

[errant gorge]

like a few weeks back

[dense cloud]

guys did yall have an introductory call w a recruiter before any bloomberg interviews

[prime palm]

bruh im waiting to hear back about next roudn

:\

i did my phone on tuesday

[ivory stratus]

i too like phone tag

[late kestrel]

with a recruiter reach out i had a 15 min call with the recruiter-> 1h technical phone -> 2x 1h virtual on sites -> 1.5h hr/em final

[dense cloud]

is onsite also just more lc

[prime palm]

boys

we all gonna make it.

[ivory stratus]

just gotta believe fam

ManIfEsT

[late kestrel]

yup, i only got 1 lc for my first but 2 on my second

[ebon quiver]

must be nice gus

must be nice

good luck @reef kettle

[late kestrel]

you had a technical phone before the technical phone?

[autumn ridge]

got wrecked by pinterest phone

[dusky plover]

lowkey asking u to solve a lc easy and than asking u to figure out some sort of trick to optimize is way worse than just solving a lcmed

[late kestrel]

yeah thats the case. weird that you had two phones lol, havent heard of anyone having that

[compact sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-fabian-howard-hamlin-howie-better-call-saul-bcs-gif-26720577

[dusky plover]

is this for bloomberg?

thats an easy question

[foggy perch]

i'd suspect they made added two phones due to more applicants at this point int he season

[dusky plover]

got wish i BB reached out

[foggy perch]

bb lc questions were all easy for me too lmao

[dusky plover]

i got resume rejected

[foggy perch]

I got only mediums or less

probs

lmao

huh

guess it pays off to apply early in the season

yeah I applied in like june or july

before 2023 apps were even open

I just applied for tailend 2022 apps and got my offer moved to 2023

[late kestrel]

hmm interesting no idea then

[wicked rivet]

lol my onsite is scheduled for nov 16

earliest date was nov 15

[late kestrel]

3h or 1st 1h

[foggy perch]

dang that's ages from now

[wicked rivet]

3h

[foggy perch]

maybe you'll already have an offer by then

[wicked rivet]

i have to scheudle my seatgeek final but I want to make it close to bb incase they offer and deadline b4 onsite :/

[foggy perch]

where else are ya interviewing

[wicked rivet]

omc/seatgeek/verkada/bb

[foggy perch]

nice

[wicked rivet]

those r the only ones i got to phoen for at least

[foggy perch]

are you super into like systems + c++ + linux stuff

since I've heard that's what omc cares about

[wicked rivet]

yeahhhh imma have to study it hard

[foggy perch]

nice

[wicked rivet]

but first interview after recruiter screen is just lc style

[foggy perch]

I was given OMC oa like 4 months ago and haven't done it yet lmao

[wicked rivet]

if i get past that, then ill nolife study systems

[foggy perch]

how was the OMC oa

[late kestrel]

the two 1h vos are literally the exact format of the 1h phone. resume qs -> 1-2 lcs

[wicked rivet]

it was hard

[foggy perch]

oof

how'd ya pass

[wicked rivet]

probs the hardest oa of the szn

[foggy perch]

what was the main things on it

[wicked rivet]

idk it was like mcqs and lc hard

[foggy perch]

is it like hard lc + hard math questions

[wicked rivet]

rlly mentally draining

lucid's oa was also weird

i got like 10/12 cases

[foggy perch]

did you get phone or reject

[wicked rivet]

last 2 were tle

[vestal pelican]

How long did it take to hear back from verkada after the OA

[wicked rivet]

uhh

4 days

over the weekend tho

[vestal pelican]

Hopefully soon for me

[wicked rivet]

their oa was weird

i got jebaited by the codesignal, thought it was gca

[vestal pelican]

I thought this was better than the standard codesignal

[austere grove]

😔

[wicked rivet]

how long does it take to get phone after oa for pinterest

do they resume screen b4 or after oa

[austere grove]

Everything in life is a resume screen

And before

[teal jackal]

i get fucked by those mfs

resume screen is my weakness

[signal trellis]

building a good resume requires a little bit of finesse

[wicked rivet]

latex resume w overleaf >>

[hasty nexus]

Anyone who got offer from Roblox get the contract yet

[ebon quiver]

can u give me some feedback on mine

[low scroll]

has anyone done tiktok or cisco OA?

[austere grove]

I’m thinking about busking to make some spare cash

[teal jackal]

what talent do u have

i have csgo surfing

my surf utopia record time is 0:45:91

[crude saffron]

Do crypto auditing

[tired hollow]

Did you have to verbally accept before getting the offer letter?

[soft edge]

Is it too late to apply to FAANG companies?

[livid yew]

nah

well maybe

[night magnet]

I would say yeah but no harm in trying

Idek what’s open other than zon

But even they’re waiting

[foggy perch]

Maybe not too late to apply to Netflix but they resume screen hard

[neat shore]

When is zon gonna start sending out OAs again

[tired hollow]

Gotcha 👍

[sour night]

What’s the highest Bloomberg got with competing offers? I remember someone mentioning it but I can’t find it

[soft portal]

Is lc karat tagged useful for Palantir karat?

[thick shell]

Yeah i got a tagged question from there

[smoky lodge]

This looks like it’s gonna be the first year where I’m still applying post December

[austere grove]

I’ll still be applying after next December

[trim glen]

anyone attempted tiktok oa?

[placid widget]

just curious what is the deadline for the oa? is it 48 hours or longer than that?

[low scroll]

5 days

[trim glen]

they give you a start and end date. they sent me the oa yesterday, but it opens oct 3rd and closes oct 8th

[fossil jewel]

they do batches it seems

they mentioned if you dont do it within the first deadline, you'd get the link for the next batch

"If you do not complete the current online assessment you were invited to, you will only be re-invited once for the next test happening in 2 weeks.​"

[lunar badger]

Those of u who got offers from Bloomberg, did u all get invited to an event at HQ? I saw some ppl get invited, but in the offer call the recruiter didn't tell me

[tribal falcon]

They only invite you if you look cool

[thorn walrus]

it might be campus/convention only

[foggy perch]

^

[foggy perch]

i didn't hear of it either and I got an offer like 2-3 months ago lmao

[fossil jewel]

are you in nyc?

[dire yarrow]

maybe you're not special

[foggy perch]

no

ik people are getting flown over though I think?

I think it's just people whose campus they visit for recruiting tho

since the people I know who got discovery day invite so far were people who met recruiter on campus or did on-campus interviews

[fossil jewel]

ah i see

how does one know which campuses they visit

[tender grove]

Where can I check whats my score on the cisco oa?

[prime hill]

it will be revealed to you in a dream

[tender grove]

Im gon get ghosted anyways

[elder hull]

I think everyone with a offer has a Discovery day ?

[elder hull]

I didn't do on campus interviews but I also got dicovery day invite

[lunar badger]

I'll email my recruiter about it. What's the date for u?

[foggy perch]

huh wack

[dusky plover]

just finished expedia oa

[foggy perch]

isn't the only discovery day october 3rd?

[dusky plover]

bruh

[elder hull]

they have choices for 10/7 and 10/21

[foggy perch]

o

[dusky plover]

9/15 and 15/15

[foggy perch]

did they tell you about discovery day before

or after you signed offer letter

[elder hull]

literally everyone I know have been invited

before signing

[foggy perch]

huh

🤷

[elder hull]

i haven't signed

[foggy perch]

i probs could ask them about discovery day i guess

i'll do that next week

[elder hull]

yeah I think so

[foggy perch]

it'll be a bit awkward if I end up reneging tho

[elder hull]

u don't even need to sign at first

[foggy perch]

true

what do people do at discovery day

[elder hull]

not told yet I only know they cover three nights at hotel and flights lol

maybe just discover smthing about bbg office

[lunar badger]

Yeah it would be nice to just get a tour of the office

[elder hull]

yeah

[lunar badger]

Have u negotiated the offer at all?

[elder hull]

I just sent negotiation email yestrday

but bbg negotiates well I know

[foggy perch]

do you have competing offers?

since ik that's their main thing

[elder hull]

yeah i do have one

[lunar badger]

I have a final interview with another company coming up. Do u think I can negotiate by saying I'll cancel that and sign right away if they give me a sign-on?

[elder hull]

bro dont

u can say this and then take the onsite that's true

bbg usually gives only two days to sign after negotiate

[lunar badger]

That's fine. If they give me a sign-on I'll just cancel the onsite and sign right away. Do u think 10k is a safe amount to ask for without risking my offer getting rescinded?

[elder hull]

wait doesn't bbg already give a 10k signon(or called relocation)?

[foggy perch]

yes

but that's not really sign-on technically

[elder hull]

oh i see

[foggy perch]

since bb gives a separate sign-on if you nego

[lunar badger]

Yeah I got a 10k relocation but no sign-on

[elder hull]

i think 10k is bit conservative go for 20k

I don't think they'll rescind

i've seen a lot people negotiating to over 210k with bbg

[lunar badger]

The package they gave me is 155k base, 17k annual bonus and 10k relocation. Is there room for a 20k sign-on when I don't have a competing offer?

[cedar plinth]

Has anyone here done Confluent interview

any advice/tips

[lunar badger]

Right. That's with competing offers

[elder hull]

not sure either, but I don't think they'll actually rescind

[lunar badger]

R u negotiating with the recruiter that gave u the offer the call or the one that scheduled ur interviews? For me they r different

[elder hull]

former one

[topaz elk]

Wait for BBG

What's the ceiling

I also want to nego

I heard someone actually got 250k+

[foggy perch]

i don't think they'll rescind but idk if they'll say yes

since I mentioned I was interviewing w/ other places when I was given the offer but it didn't really change things

[foggy perch]

I've heard ceiling is like 200-215k range

[topaz elk]

Reallt

Like it's impossible to go above?

[lunar badger]

Right, I was thinking more along the lines of a 10k sign-on

[topaz elk]

Is that 215k every year

[elder hull]

some got near 300

a ge from meta

[foggy perch]

maybe idk

you could just try and see what they'll match with the offers you have rn

[west pagoda]

Yo real question. I had an offer from a big tech, which I chose to not take to go to another one...desperate times but is there any way to get that second big tech offer in my resume to get some responses 😭

[west pagoda]

I would actually like to do this, bc what's to lose...but idk how...in what section would i put that even lol...maybe a miscellaneous

[upbeat quartz]

Uber NG freeze Amazon NG freeze Meta no

[foggy perch]

meh linkedin never offered NG in the first place so it doesn't count

unless you were a return intern

[upbeat quartz]

Make sense! Just wanted to count all the Big tech NG hiring situation.

[night magnet]

Check levels

Filter for past month

[topaz elk]

I see 250 but I wonder if it's recurring

[lunar badger]

R these numbers from google real or no?

[floral plank]

Definitely fake

[lunar badger]

None of them included the annual bonus. Every swe at google gets an annual bonus, right?

They probably thought their job would be safer at bb cuz meta's about to lay ppl off

BB raised the tc to near 300k, which is close to what HFT firms pay a new grad

[uneven fulcrum]

Is anyone's application status "ended" on tiktok application portal?

[elder hull]

he's not going to bb just compete for fun

[slim agate]

base, stock and bonus everything is wrong

[lunar badger]

It's disappointing levels didn't even verify the offer letters

[solemn tinsel]

I got the same

Not sure. I thought I did well on OA tho

"end of October" is a bit concerning

[marble bronze]

????

That's the nickname I give to myself btw

[wild spear]

has anyone done datadog 1st round technical?

[proper dawn]

How does one even apply to datadog

[dense seal]

yeah 1 of mine shows ended the other one says written test, ended means rejected i guess

[hearty walrus]

Has anyone interviewed with Anduril?

[night magnet]

Riplematch

[azure zephyr]

I haven't taken the Rippling OA yet, how was it?

[floral plank]

It is pretty easy

[low scroll]

1 med 1 easy and 1 API question

[sinful imp]

Has Amazon freeze hiring for new grad?

[rain patio]

Anyone have information on IBM Developer Associate? From What I have been told its Tech Consulting

What are your thoughts on it as a new grad

TC is like 90-100k

[civic summit]

is ebay OA automatic?

[smoky lodge]

for people who got an Expedia OA after the strengths based assessment what were you top strengths and weakenesses

[grizzled bronze]

That I work too much and I need to work less

[smoky lodge]

literally got it as a typed that lol

My greatest strengths were innovation and curiosity and my weakest is drive (which is bullshit but I had a weird feeling they don’t want ultra competitive people when filling out the assessment)

[stable hemlock]

Any one who recently give for McKinsey new grad

[polar moat]

When did you complete your OA?

And is it for NY?

[dusty halo]

Is tiktok OA auto?

[austere grove]

Didn’t know Andrew tate was in a video game

[wild igloo]

when did you apply to get the oa?

[livid pagoda]

Yes

[dusty halo]

Who tf is andrew tate? Keep hearing this guy's name everywhere.

[prime palm]

Some Fockin loser

He not even a SWE fam.

😞😞😞

[night magnet]

Google

[smoky lodge]

bro who is running the coderquad new grad repo

[nocturne oriole]

bro

Make ur own repo

[smoky lodge]

someone just submitted a pull request containing snapchat roles that require 7 years of experience

like

wtf

[nocturne oriole]

U dont need github repos

Just follow our process channs

[nocturne oriole]

And apply to things

[elfin shuttle]

could i get a link

[smoky lodge]

"new grad"

[nocturne oriole]

Uhhh #2023_grad_process

[smoky lodge]

[elfin shuttle]

les gooooo

[uncut umbra]

new grad from junior dev

just change what you're graduating from

ez

[smoky lodge]

why hasn't amazon sent me an OA yet

[uncut umbra]

they hate you

[smoky lodge]

i applied in august

[uncut umbra]

they can tell from the resume that you won't raise the bar

[smoky lodge]

but i got the OA immediately for internship last year

and my resume is significantly better now

im gonna cry

[uncut umbra]

I feel

just bombed the bb phone today so I'm in a similar mental state

[fallen fox]

has amazon sent anyone an oa in the past few weeks?

[uncut umbra]

waitlist means low odds of OA I'd say

[dense seal]

when i saw like 3k stars on that repo in august i knew what was coming

[marble bronze]

Jesus

This cycle really is fucked

[smoky lodge]

what are the odds of randomly getting sent an Amazon OA months after you apply

please tell me it's not 0 and let me cope

[wet coral]

when i applied to amazon for intern, i got oa 5 months after i applied

and then got offer lmao

[fallen fox]

i got amazon intern oa in mid april lmao

applied in november

[primal pike]

so many tiktok grad postings which one to apply for

[compact obsidian]

you only get 2 iirc so just apply to whatever you are interested in and/or have expertise in

[primal pike]

hmmm

oh yea says only 2

anyone have referral

[dense seal]

apply to the tiktok eng its a huge team ig so better chances of OA

[primal pike]

wym

arent all dev positions eng

[dense seal]

yeah but theres one thats like backend + ios + android + frontend tiktok eng (thats the name)

and their description has like 7-8 subteams

[primal pike]

ahh

nice

thank u

i heard tiktok oa is brutal tho

[dense seal]

it is and i am scared

[prime palm]

Yooooooooo

[marble bronze]

Yo

[low scroll]

fuck

what the problems like

[terse spoke]

anyone knows if amazon checks if you are still have a semester/quarter left after interning or can i graduate early

[smoky lodge]

Apparenty like 3-4 LC hards about DP and tries

[dense seal]

did ur recruiter tell u that or fr

[smoky lodge]

fr

[primal pike]

doubt they check but id mark as 1 sem left to be safe

[elder locust]

It’s a sign

[austere grove]

Yooo

[vestal pelican]

I much rather be a delivery driver on a winning team than a software engineer on a losing team

[teal jackal]

[teal jackal]

Not 0

I'm not even trying to help you cope

You're in the running for an oa unless they reject u

[bright mountain]

how was the verkada phone?

[winter loom]

is the expedia oa just that iq test?

[timber rock]

It's situational questions like rank the responses based on what you're most likely to do

[winter loom]

gotchu gotchu

[late kestrel]

they also have a hackerrank oa after

strengths based and actual coding oa

[winter loom]

gotchu gotchu

[trim glen]

I tried the practice one… it was disgustingly awful…. For reference: i aced imc, hrt, and google oa’s 🥴

[late kestrel]

it was on wayup for a bit. not on their official site

idk if its still open

[lament summit]

lets just all do the tiktok oa together

[austere grove]

Anyone remember the late 10s when software engineers were at the top of the world

[night magnet]

Remember the late 10s when Google asked easys

[twilit wasp]

anyone did the citadel hackerrank?

[late kestrel]

only person ive seen talkin ab it was @azure zephyr

[dire yarrow]

I'm in a delusion that they still are

[teal jackal]

so sad

[faint igloo]

anyone got any idea what flexport interviews are like

[austere grove]

we're gold miners who were late to the gold rush

no we're stuck in california

[wheat seal]

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1544100/Google-or-Virtual-Interview-or-Test-Engineer

test engineers at faang still have difficult interviews

like guy was asked largest number

which is an insanely difficult greedy question

or not largest number

forgot the name of it

[teal jackal]

what companies in FAANG hire SDETs?

[wheat seal]

googloe

[teal jackal]

i thought they outright hire SDEs

[wheat seal]

google

[teal jackal]

and devs still have to make their own tests

[wheat seal]

i saw that some L5's SDET were making like 300k

[teal jackal]

thats not bad at all, damn

[wheat seal]

yea its pretty wild

and probably overall less stress too

but maybe not, doesnt know too much about SDET

[teal jackal]

SDET seems like a bad role for growth though

[wheat seal]

it does

it might just depend on company tho

but like if company can differentiate between good and amazing job + wide range of work then thats solid

[late kestrel]

first interview is a very open ended implementation of a part of a larger system. for example, code the traffic lights of a street with cars

second one is either like the first or just normal lc

[wet coral]

has anyone been able to negotiate an offer without any other competing offer?

[fervent drift]

i got an interview on thursday at 8am

30m beh and 45m tech, they b2b how can i prepare

[teal jackal]

im wary about SDET since i feel like the next job hop will be more about transitioning to SDE, not upleveling

unless company has a good internal pathway for it

[jaunty basalt]

I mean that’s ok

It’s not a speedrun but also I don’t think ur completely reset

[teal jackal]

its not that bad

id take it over nothing

[lament summit]

u could lie

lol

[teal jackal]

inb4 they verify proof of letter

[dense cloud]

does anyone know if figma sponsors?

[tacit grove]

Has anyone done TikTok's OA?

[foggy perch]

if you hide them and aren't afraid of being rejected

since idk I feel like you should probs always technically be ready to get rejected from a company if you plan on negoing with competing offer

even if it's unlikely

[lament summit]

or send the entire thing and photoshop the expiry date

🧐

[foggy perch]

"Huh why's the expiration date in arial while the letter is in times new roman"

[lament summit]

u know sometimes the formatting comes weird when copying pdfs

[foggy perch]

inb4 you accidentally type the new date in wingdings

[lament summit]

just call them

i think calling is easier

setup a time to discuss numbers

[teal jackal]

im speedrunning neetcode rn

i have karat tomorrow

[lament summit]

tmrws sunday m8

[twilit wasp]

you can schedule karat interviews any day of the week, so sunday works as well

[lament summit]

damn wtf

[marsh sand]

So uh

With all the big tech not hiring

Where y’all applying