2023_grads

[uncut umbra]

and then govertnment stuff

[crude saffron]

yes

[prime palm]

Ok guess I'm dumb

[teal jackal]

they are

[livid yew]

[teal jackal]

the hiring bar everywhere is going up

[livid yew]

Yep

[teal jackal]

we were dealt the bad hand

I would be lying if I denied that this recession has made me bitter, resentful, and jaded

[livid yew]

[low scroll]

I guess I'm have to go the cashier route

[teal jackal]

but it's given me the motivation to be more persistent in life

I've convinced myself that I deserve my goals

[karmic harness]

U have motivation atm?

[teal jackal]

and that I shouldn't let the system beat me down and force me to quit

The ultimate rebellion against the system is to conquer it

the system wants u to quit

[livid yew]

Once you have stable job, you can have stupid decorations in your apartment. Like me

[karmic harness]

What if I don’t dream of labour

[teal jackal]

true

[livid yew]

*labor

[teal jackal]

im just a nutjob lol

[livid yew]

[karmic harness]

Labour*

[livid yew]

Someone commented on my sussy neon light at stand up today

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1041742285735473154/1047966910588923994/PXL_20221201_200556684.MP.jpg

[gray dagger]

Eh the only motivation I have is “If no one wants to hire me I’m gonna employ myself and start a company”

[livid yew]

It's not that sussy

[gray dagger]

🥹

[livid yew]

Just a blue among us

no more embed

[gray dagger]

Finding funding is even harder

Guess we truly are fricked

[livid yew]

Yep economy,market all fucked

[karmic harness]

Might as well just get a masters at this point boys

Who knew I wanted to do one

Not me

[livid yew]

Just curious, have you guys tried outside FAANG/big tech

Is it bad there to?

[dusty mauve]

wait did discord change their font

[karmic harness]

Yea I have an interview at a defense company today

[teal jackal]

i mean i cant barely find any

[livid yew]

[karmic harness]

But I’m suppose to have morals

[livid yew]

[teal jackal]

I feel robbed by this recession and I won't pretend to be happy with the state of this world

But I won't give up

[livid yew]

Just work at Target, they pay like $16/hr now

[karmic harness]

Sick can I transfer to a dev role

[gray dagger]

I’m graduating with a masters degree, guess I need to go for a PhD now 😂

[karmic harness]

[livid yew]

I uhh actually had SDE offer from them a while back. Terrible pay,they wanted me to move to Minneapolis

[karmic harness]

Get another masters degree in another field

[gray dagger]

I’ve applied to maybe like 700 companies since august (that’s when I found out I’m not getting a return offer)

My Amazon interview loop was canceled after phone screen

[livid yew]

I mean I can maybe find a new grad application for the place I work

Although I think we are only hiring people with 1.5+ YOE

[gray dagger]

I’m already drowning in student loans 🥹🥹🥹

[gray dagger]

Might as well at this point 😂

What other offers do you have @livid yew

[livid yew]

I am a full time SDE2

I'm just here to help y'all out

[karmic harness]

Can u do my interview

[livid yew]

No

[dapper jasper]

Anybody done singlestore 2nd round? They said “design and implement asynchronous code in a single-threaded environment.” Don’t even know what that means.

[gray dagger]

Holy shit where ?

[compact sundial]

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[livid yew]

Nowhere you want to be

[hot snow]

has anyone interviewed at adept.ai?

[livid yew]

@gray dagger If you want a real answer. I work at Comcast in Philadelphia

[tardy geode]

does a graph contain neighbours?

like any graph

graph data structure

i had a question where it had person1->person2;person2->person3 etc

and the function had parameters like person, level

can we use a graph data structure for this?

[gray dagger]

Is it that bad?

[gray dagger]

You can consider all the vertices connected to a node as it’s neighbors?

[livid yew]

Quite the opposite

Very nice

Compared to my last job

Our org runs like a startup, so pretty modern and quick

Still like 40hr WLB

My manager super lax

[tardy geode]

the function had parameters like (person,level)

and i thought of using an adjacency matrix , is it the right thought process or am i off

john->doe ; john->norman etc

[gray dagger]

That’s the dream 🙂

[tardy geode]

in social media apps , follower following is implemented using graphs right?

or is it tree

like what ds can we use to implement something like that

i told my interviewer this

but i then thought since the function had a level parameter too i thought i am wrong

😣😣😣

[lone rapids]

What company

[livid yew]

Yep

I make about 150k/yr, live in a center city apartment for 2k/month

[fossil jewel]

[lament basin]

is bloomberg full?

[nocturne seal]

Almost 2 weeks since Atlassian final

No feedback

[prime palm]

Dw king they're just prepping your offer letter

🙏

[narrow hollow]

does anyone know if theres a doordash server?

[grizzled bronze]

Since it's been more than a week I'd follow up if you haven't already

[maiden fable]

does anyone know about the company signify

?

[grizzled bronze]

No, they're insignificant to me

[maiden fable]

loll

[livid yew]

BRO this new discord font

wtf

gross

change it back

how do I change it back

[tardy geode]

illumina

peeps told me focus on LC more than technologies , had a phone today got asked to do changes in take home assignment (they told me it would be just a review so i didn't practice react so much and fked it)

already LC has burned me out so much

i feel like crying , i would have got an offer if it had gone well

life is unfair i guess

[gloomy terrace]

it could be worse dw

i passed circle onsite but got rejected cuz they filled up as i was doing my interview, which was rescheduled because an interviewer called in sick

[daring atlas]

oh my

pinterest layoffs...

[livid yew]

ope

[daring atlas]

let us hope...

let us hope it will end there

[lament summit]

Just recruiters for now

All start dates were delayed

[modest night]

how does pinterest even profit

i feel like the only ppl who go on their site are kids and moms tryna do arts and crafts

[tardy geode]

dell has also started layoffs

[thorn walrus]

whats the point of delaying start date

[last belfry]

Anyone else having issues with c1 recruiter rn. My original powerday was oct 26th, did my behavioral and technical that day, but case got cancelled due to interviewer being out. Then it took so long to reschedule and in between recruiter ghosted me and no replies. Then finally reschedule and recruiter says will reach out 72 hrs after. Took case on nov 14th, then again no replies from recruiter, then sends email saying will have response by nov 28th and then again no response and then says will have response by dec 1st and now today says one of my interviewers called out sick and don’t know when they will be back so doesn’t know when she can get me my decision lol

This is the worst ever process I have ever gone through

Recruiter is super disrespectful and unresponsive

[modest night]

hopium: they prolly really want u or something and cant give u an offer cuz all spots are filled so they are waiting from some to reject their pending offer or reneg to have space for u

[wind drum]

i use it a bit for fashion and stuff

and so do a lot of girls

[last belfry]

Recruiter is so trash and this whole process was such a waste of time

[last belfry]

I doubt it, in the email today she said, if you have other pending offers consider those. So I am super mad and want to just withdraw but dk if it’s the right move

[late kestrel]

do you have other offers? if you do, just let whatever happen, happen on C1s side

theres noting you can really do about it

[last belfry]

I have jpm

Nyc

[marsh sand]

Did anyone get Coding for Palantir HM round?

[quartz vale]

how is karat interview going

did you take it yet?

mine is tomorrow I'm low key nervous

[wind drum]

yeah

[marsh sand]

Havent done it yet; just grinding through Qs by topic

If they ask 3 Qs they cant be like that hard

[quartz vale]

true true

[marsh sand]

It wasn't tagged or anything right? How would you say the difficulty was

[wind drum]

definitely med-hard range

was not tagged

[marsh sand]

That's really scary lmao

[wind drum]

yeah kind of a pain in 30 min

[marsh sand]

Thanks for the insight; hopefully I ace the Karat first though

[quartz vale]

yeah man gl

[marsh sand]

you too! are you based in the US?

[quartz vale]

no I'm in Canada

But interviewing for palantir US

[marsh sand]

Ahhh makes sense! Good luck 😄

I'm interviewing for London right now

[whole berry]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Im-31-and-I-just-found-out-I-have-cancer-Do-I-resign-Qceam51M

terrible...

[timber rock]

don't resign because you need the insurance is the most american thing ive ever heard

[marsh sand]

I saw this too 😦 It's blowing up on Blind

really feel sorry for the person

[whole berry]

it really is terrible

did anyone get an email from zoom ?

[last belfry]

Yea

[whole berry]

ok

also why cant i post a pic in here wtf

[fossil jewel]

blame the kpop stans

@pulsar mural

[lone rapids]

Palantir reject

[wary crest]

its been 5 weeks for me and still no update

[west egret]

I think some people have said C1 has been rescinding power day invites. Not sure how true that is and whether that’s any indication of hc or not.

[quartz vale]

Does anyone know if apple allow swe to work in different offices

like the team is based in Cupertino, but I want to work in Toronto office

is that a thing or

[pulsar mural]

yo

[fossil jewel]

[teal jackal]

i can confirm that C1 rescinded power days and is waitlisting people

[livid yew]

[crystal delta]

what were the original start dates tho

[lament summit]

everyones different

[ornate cliff]

Life is so short 😔

[proper dawn]

just saw someones amazon offer get rescinded

[sonic coral]

I’m glad that at least blind isn’t toxic to a dying man

[fervent oak]

is there a git repo for 2023 grads

[nocturne oriole]

I think apple is one of those places that generally doesnt like remote / working away from team

[quartz vale]

that's sad

[sonic coral]

Yeah wasn’t there mandatory rto and they only pulled it back because the employees almost rioted

[nocturne oriole]

I havent worked there just what I hear

Exactly

[livid yew]

I thought they went thru with RTO

when did they change mond

[sonic coral]

The backlash was immediate and massive iirc lol

https://www.fastcompany.com/90781330/apple-return-to-office-rto-tech-plans

[livid yew]

Even our RTO is pretty lax

[last belfry]

Oh god

[livid yew]

Probably about 50% of the people came back

[tardy geode]

please god give me an offer

[fossil jewel]

[karmic harness]

Please someone take a chance on me

That’s all I’m asking for

Is a chance

You can pay me peanuts at this point

I may accept

[tardy geode]

same

[nocturne oriole]

same but i will not work for peanuts, i will work for love and affection and a place to call home

[karmic harness]

Only thing I have received is depression so far

So peanuts would be a nice change of pace

[ornate cliff]

pinned

[west egret]

🥜 are calories.

[spice kestrel]

Yea I have not heard back

[spice kestrel]

Same

[teal jackal]

are u having a hard time for resume screen

same tho

[karmic harness]

no im having a hard time in general

and a ton of fucking hirevues that i dont want to do.

[jaunty basalt]

For me I had to be able to go into office

I could be remote but whenever I was “needed” I had to be there

So that switch is making it feel like RTO

[sonic coral]

So basically if you worked in Cali you had to live in Cali

[willow marsh]

T5 -> FAANG -> unemployed pipeline confirmed 🔥

[marsh stirrup]

lmfao

i feel like im in that pipeline rn

[willow marsh]

u FAANG rn?

[jaunty basalt]

Yeah which is basically in person

[marsh stirrup]

was

had amazon internship

didnt really like amazon so not getting a return offer wasnt terrible but considering the fact that we're in a recession, having an offer would be nice lol

[willow marsh]

lol yeah i feel that

hows ur job hunt going now

[marsh stirrup]

ehhh

could be better

tried gunning hard for qt since i made some final rounds the previous year but it's looking like ill only make one this year and idk how it'll go

mostly waiting for things to open up in the spring

hbu

[willow marsh]

same waiting for spring stuff to open not much luck rn

[teal jackal]

same

I'm feeling that

I'm not really a fan of amazon tbh, I didn't like the internship that much, but I learned a shit ton

Initially I wasn't too sad about not getting a return offer

[marsh stirrup]

i feel like i didnt even learn that much lol

[teal jackal]

I think the thing I really learned was defining your own goals for a project and working with the amazon deployment environment

[teal jackal]

anyways, now that I can't find a job for shit, I'm sad now

[marsh stirrup]

let me rephrase: dont feel like i learned much on the coding side

[teal jackal]

Yeah same

Me too

Also tbh, with the dev environment stuff, I don't feel like I did that much

I did some internal tool that's gonna end up relegated in intern project purgatory

aka unused

[marsh stirrup]

lol same

like 75% of my work was dealing with shitty dependency issues

bc the version sets for the tools i had to use were all massive

[teal jackal]

in my last week 95% of my work was figuring out why CDK documentation was dogshit

[marsh stirrup]

F

[teal jackal]

and deciphering what that shit meant

I thoroughly didn't really like my internship

my friends at other companies got to push to customer facing prod

even some of my amazon friends

[marsh stirrup]

were you coding in java

[fossil jewel]

interns pushing to prod???

[teal jackal]

Yeah

Java

[fossil jewel]

no way i'd trust a prod push by an intern tbh

[teal jackal]

Some companies let interns do it

[fossil jewel]

interns are likely gonna have ill coding practices

[teal jackal]

amazon usually is like, most interns do some internal tooling that won't actually be used as much as the team thinks it will

or won't be used at all

Lawl

[fossil jewel]

push to prod or not?

yeah big companies have protocols

[proper dawn]

i pushed to prod like week 2 onwards

I was also sussed out by how much trust they put in me

i mean they did code review obv

[teal jackal]

I felt like the internship at amazon felt like a 3 month CS major summer camp

[marsh stirrup]

full time ppl on my team pushed even when they were super new

[teal jackal]

I feel like full time would have been different for better, but I didn't really like the internship

[proper dawn]

well thats good

[marsh stirrup]

eh more like 3 month session of "learn how amazon does software engineering"

[fossil jewel]

idk interns having this much power is uh a bit scary

[teal jackal]

I get why companies just resume reject even with amazon on resume now

[marsh stirrup]

which dont get me wrong is helpful

[fossil jewel]

code reviews are valid

[teal jackal]

yeah

i agree with that

[proper dawn]

I didnt learn shit

[fossil jewel]

though unfortunately sometimes people skim the PR

[teal jackal]

my mentor was pretty stringent with code reviewing which i respect

[marsh stirrup]

yeah same @ mentor

also had respect for that

[fossil jewel]

bless version control

[teal jackal]

tbh i cant complain that amazon paid me $24k for a 3 month cs major summer camp

i just wish i did projects with actual impact

[fossil jewel]

which location

[teal jackal]

seattle

[fossil jewel]

oh nice how'd you like the area

[teal jackal]

as an autistic moron who has difficulty making friends i liked the social fresh start

seattle was one of the cities of all time

not sure if id want to visit again

[fossil jewel]

yeah cities can be overwhelming

though they would allow for finding more people who can share the same interests

[vast mica]

just saw this

on blind

Honestly wtf is happening ?

I mean, this shows that its not a HC issue, its something else

[fossil jewel]

wait

i wanna see the post

[vast mica]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Love-when-egotistical-CS-kiddies-get-rejected-0i4KPDGP

[fossil jewel]

thanks

cant wait till i get a work email and just use it

i could use personal ig

[Blind] Check out this post! Love when egotistical CS kiddies get rejected (Tech Industry)

[timber rock]

blinders are the most cringe people ever i hate everything

tc: 6094k

[livid yew]

The people on blind make me question society

[fossil jewel]

TC: 0k

[livid yew]

I don't know my TC anymore

[timber rock]

hm i may just go and live out the rest of my life in a forest and build my own little tree people civilization if this is what my coworkers are gonna be like

[fossil jewel]

at least the comments are sane

[livid yew]

I mean OP has a pointn

Fuck the Bay Area brainwashed Google or Bust people

[timber rock]

i havent even read the post i just saw the word blind

[livid yew]

It's a band mindset

But you get my point

[fossil jewel]

oh 100%

too much FAANG or bust

[timber rock]

i do not see instructions on how to build my tree people civilization in here

[fossil jewel]

at this point big tech just doesnt look very lucrative

[livid yew]

These people are a group of SWEs I can never get behind

I started with F500 and will probably stay here

Maybe later in life,move to big tech or FAANG

Probably in like 6-7 years

[fossil jewel]

quant just seems like a lot more luck

and having been to the right t10 school

[livid yew]

Hopefully market is better in 2026

[nocturne seal]

Does palantir ghost

[timber rock]

$350 hes just like me fr

[fossil jewel]

The culture here is totally different than when I joined.

Things I’m seeing now:

• Reddit tier thinking about interviews (ban leetcode lol)
• TC not being posted
• Emotional arguments
• Lack of simple CS fundamentals
• NO HUSTLE
• 10 HachiYukis

This place has turned into /r/cscareerquestions 2.0 overnight. Kinda sucks, miss the hyper competitive cutthroat ball busting banter we used to have here.

TC: 350

[small mountain]

hachiyuki where are you accepting then? i havent been active here much lately idk

[crude saffron]

is the TC at the end of blind posts an auto footer or do people manually put that in

oh...

[frank wedge]

Auto post removal without TC

[livid yew]

I did like 3 LC questions for my current job

That's all

[small mountain]

you get like 12 HFT offers while being at cmu yet are here with us all day long how do you manage your time

[timber rock]

the post is 4 years old and im still not over that person on cscq who killed the founder's dog during their interview

[small mountain]

ong

[frank wedge]

Link

[timber rock]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/

[small mountain]

give give give

[nocturne oriole]

[livid yew]

Desi?

[whole roost]

Top tier shit post

[livid yew]

What is Desi

[whole roost]

Indian

[frank wedge]

Hopefully he got the offer as FTE replacement office dog

[livid yew]

Oh

[whole roost]

source: I am Punjabi

[livid yew]

Weird

Why say Desi instead of Indian

I'm confused

[small mountain]

desi is in their language

[livid yew]

Oh

[small mountain]

'indian' is english

[livid yew]

I assumed Hindi

Oh

Oh

I see

Lmao

I'm a very uncultured American

We got uhh and 🏈

[small mountain]

its ok bb

[livid yew]

[whole roost]

'murica

[livid yew]

Yeah there are so many Indians in CS

It's crazy y'all coming over here

This place sucks

[whole roost]

I mean

[small mountain]

indians on youtube carrying me thru my degree though bless you guys on god

[whole roost]

India is a shitshow, insanely competitive due to the pool of available applicants

[livid yew]

I can't usually understand those dudes

[small mountain]

[whole roost]

Easier getting into big tech for them in the States

I'm born and raised in Canada tho

[small mountain]

abdul bari is a GOAT and hes easy to understand in comparison

[livid yew]

Bet

Abdul is a name I can pronunce

I've never traveled outside the US

I swear first time I do, I'm gonna be so confused

Huh

I've never been anywhere

And have no plans to go anywhere/friends to go with

[timber rock]

the outside world is cool

[livid yew]

bruh

[timber rock]

that is a good idea, especially if you're a solo female with no gps and 1 bottle of water

[livid yew]

oof

I am just your typical Midwestern white dude

yep

well once I figure out how my PTO/Vacation time is supposed to work, ill look into it

but something like that, I would want to plan ahead like several months

[timber rock]

how much pto do you guys get

[livid yew]

tbh I dont really know

[timber rock]

cause i always hear u guys get like 10 days

which is just wild

[livid yew]

terrible

I get like 25 total days

but I have taken like 6 off already, but nobody actually checks it

like I am supposed to report it somewhere, manager does not know how it works either

yeah our org VP is pretty chill dude

was at lunch with him on Tuesday

[small mountain]

you'll pay the tourist-tax and get charged like 8x for things but you wont care because they'll still be pennies in comparison to what you pay for them at home

[livid yew]

lmao I live in a very MCOL city, and spend like $45/week on grocery if that much

I live a very very basic lifestyle

was also in a meeting with a higher up, like 5 levels above me, 3 below CEO, was very stressed

[frank wedge]

How tf. We live in the same city. I spend like $100/wk

[livid yew]

Well

[frank wedge]

And I don’t even cook

[livid yew]

Trader Joe's is cheap

[frank wedge]

Oh yeah. That’s too far from me

[livid yew]

Bruh you live like 5min walk to TJ

Tf

Ok if I don't get any groceries,my weekly Dinnerly subscription cost me $48

That includes 3 meals/6 servings

@frank wedge

[frank wedge]

Wtf is a Donnelly subscription

[livid yew]

Like Hello fresh,if you know that

Requires you to cook

[frank wedge]

[livid yew]

I lied $48.33

[foggy perch]

dang grad processes are a ghost town now huh

[livid yew]

Yeah you would fuck it up

I might order Door dash for dinner tomorrow

[frank wedge]

I realized I can’t post my dd order sheet here. Tis very bad

[livid yew]

Post on other server

[teal jackal]

i bought clothes today

i bought this baggy tshirt from uniqlo

im gonna buy more shirts like this

its actually hella comfortable

[whole berry]

uniqlo shirts are goated

[livid yew]

yep

gotta get a bunch at once

cause I an so intrigured by their checkout machines

[teal jackal]

I've been adapting my approach to studying leetcode into my gaming strategy too
For the paragon reboot, I've started a document that serves as my play style diary where I analyze common things I do
and I seek to understand my playstyle and make the most out of my strengths

I am a certified autistic nolife

[livid yew]

I haven't done leetcode in like 7 months

[jaunty storm]

I’m tired man. I’ve been pushing myself to aim for perfection and I can’t seem to do it.

I’m just trying for anything at this point.

[trim onyx]

when do dec grads start applying for ng roles?

[chilly burrow]

Don't feel down on yrslf

Tbh luck is always a factor

Esp this yr with recession

[jaunty storm]

My last career ended with COVID.

[chilly burrow]

I know ppl with multiplr FAANG struggling for offers

[jaunty storm]

Luck feels like something I don’t have any of.

Only pure skill and talent can bridge the gap.

[chilly burrow]

Have you been cold emailing?

[jaunty storm]

Everything under the sun.

[chilly burrow]

Have you sent your resume to #1019675142248468601 ?

[jaunty storm]

I didn’t know about that channel.

I’ll do with with an anonymous version letter.

Thanks for letting me know.

[chilly burrow]

Np

Hopefully you can improve your resume

Feel free to ping me in the channel and I'll give my 2cents as well

[chilly burrow]

2023 December?

I think it varies

I think you can apply for most 2023 new grad roles

[trim onyx]

yea

will applying in may - aug 2023 be too late if i were to start in 2024 jan/feb

[proper dawn]

The best way to have an offer for Jan 2024 is to have an internship this summer and get a return offer

Otherwise dicey

[trim onyx]

hm noted

but when do dec grads generally start applying for NG jobs (if start date doesnt matter)

[primal pike]

do u guys use yubikeys

[nocturne oriole]

Everything goes by academic year so u are grouped into same people who grad the May after you. Thus if u grad Dec 2024 then u should start applying around mid Aug 2024

[trim onyx]

Gotcha ty

[plush lily]

Has anyone gone through Palantir's decomposition and learning interview?

[sage sluice]

im graduating this month and i started applying in august

i wouldve started a bit earlier but i was expecting a return offer

[marsh sand]

So bloomberg is stack ranking

Do y’all reckon palantir is stack ranking as well

[modest night]

stack rankin candidates?

do you mean engineer reviews are stack ranked

[carmine kestrel]

I think this means that even if you pass your onsite, you're put into a pool of other engineers that passed and ranked amongst them

So only the top out of that pool receive offers, in contrast to before where passing an onsite = getting an offer

Bit shit

[modest night]

how da heck do you stack rank ppl based on interviews

[carmine kestrel]

Because its not as discrete as you may think, you could pass all the interviews but if your written feedback shows errors or things the interviewer didn't like then they can use that in their ranking

Just like when you progress on an interview despite making mistakes, the interviewer probably noted it but holistically you did well enough to move on

[modest night]

why not just make their interview process harder instead of bs stack ranking which im pretty sure wont be accurate given the variability in an interview

[dense blaze]

EL PERRO

[carmine kestrel]

True. Idk whats going on there but it is bizarre how they're progressing candidates only to reject them at the end, seems like its a complete waste of time and money

I guess after a certain point making the interview harder its provides diminishing returns

TLDR - Leetcode is wank

[modest night]

certainly not the case look at trading firms lmao. They only have geniuses pass their leetcode rounds

but ye agree LC is wank

[sage sluice]

i think companies like bloomberg and palantir just didnt anticipate this many applicants

this many good ones too

and this many accepting offers

they got boatloads of faang refugees this season

[carmine kestrel]

yeah but they're looking to only hire those who can contribute new ideas and maintain a platform that only serves their trading desk for example. That does not require 10,000 engineers to do so.

[modest night]

their a company that works in financial industry ur tellin me they aint see the oncoming recession and a buttload ppl getting laid off and interns not getting return offers at big tech companies???

[carmine kestrel]

In contrast, BB Terminal is huge so needs loads of engineers to maintain and scale

By making it harder you lose the ability to actually get enough engineers to scale

anyway that's just me theorising

[modest night]

agreed but im saying after they saw a rise in offers accepted the interview process shouldve been made more difficult instead of givinf candidates a false sense and they would also save time on their end cuz that would mean less interviews to conduct

[modest night]

Meta Refugees to be specific

[sage sluice]

we out here

[carmine kestrel]

yeah fair

I think it would be really interesting to hear some sort of talk about tech recruiting, there has to be some

[sonic coral]

You forgot amazon layoffs

[quartz vale]

woke up to see so many zon layoffs

[dense blaze]

EL GATO

@slate bobcat

[trim onyx]

Are the start dates flexible? Anytime between Jan - July 2023?

[carmine kestrel]

what does everyone thing of grokking, both the coding interview and system design?

As an aside, what would you do if you had a month to prepare for the bb onsite?

[jaunty storm]

I studied hundreds of LeetCode questions grinding nonstop. It wasn’t until the last few questions that showed up for the on-site.

[uncut umbra]

do all my work in 3 weeks and then spend the last week grinding bb lc

that's basically what I did for the phone

[carmine kestrel]

Last questions in the tagged list?

[jaunty storm]

It was in the middle.

[carmine kestrel]

You mean uni work? Or DSA study

[uncut umbra]

uni work

get all of that done and dedicate a week to grinding

[carmine kestrel]

Okay, it seems really random tbh so was thinking actually getting a course to fully understand the dsa. I already do to an extent but still struggle when seeing a problem I haven't seen before or one that requires multiple

[carmine kestrel]

I graduated last year, thank god

[jaunty storm]

It’s is quite random.

[brave kraken]

anyone been able to neg flexport?

[teal jackal]

A game I've been looking forward to for a long time finally came out.

Now I have no reason to post here anymore

No offer but I have a kickass game I enjoy

[tardy geode]

which one?

this new discord font is ass

[dry fossil]

Anybody received duolingo OA for intern instead of NG?

[teal jackal]

Predecessor the game

[late kestrel]

no thats ok do it again

[strange ore]

that’s the paragon remake yea?

[teal jackal]

hell yeah bro

[strange ore]

that’s awesome i’m def downloading

[teal jackal]

It feels so good to be gaming now and talking in a gaming discord, rather in cscd

did u buy it?

early access costs money atm

[strange ore]

it’s not free ????!

[teal jackal]

sadly

I understand why the dev team needs to charge money for it, but it's unfortunate since it's missing out on a large player base as a result.
The devs gotta pay the bills somehow which I understand

[strange ore]

fair enough

I hope it gets released free tho. it’d be a shame to see it die again I remember having a lot of fun with paragon

[teal jackal]

Paragon was pay to play when it first came out. I missed out on it until it went f2p because I was a 15 year old with no money lol

[strange ore]

oh weird had no idea

[teal jackal]

I definitely wish it was f2p right now

[strange ore]

potentially

[teal jackal]

hm

depends

if u can juggle both responsibilities youll be fine

i feel like juggling interviews and big deadlines isnt that bad

[strange ore]

if it’s behavioral def don’t worry abt it

[teal jackal]

In this economy I'd get the interviews done ASAP

they could run out of headcount if u stall

is the deadline/exam that bad?

tbh skill issue on your part for falling behind in that class

but id put career first

[strange ore]

LMAO

[teal jackal]

you still need to try to do acceptably in that class tho

like B

or B- at worst

[strange ore]

gpa doesn’t matter at this stage, get whatever grade you need for it to count towards your degree

^my take

ur chilling

grind for interview

[quartz vale]

For palantir karat

I did 2.5/3 questions

should I request for a redo or

[strange ore]

you can but they’ll reject ur request

[quartz vale]

When was that? (Congrats btw

[strange ore]

you move forward with 2/3

[quartz vale]

oh realllllllly

is that a statistic you found somewhere

got it man ty

[strange ore]

#2023_grad_process every single thread on palantir process

[quartz vale]

let me check

[sage sluice]

depends on companies

[strange ore]

regardless if you schedule redo they look at both to get a more holistic view. so if you got 3/3 your score would barely change, and if you got less your score would be lowered

[sage sluice]

this year its particularly weird cuz of the economy

but i was able to find companies with start dates close to my grad date like jan-march

@trim onyx

[quartz vale]

ok sounds good

did anyone didn't pass to the next round with 2.5/3 for palantir karat? Asking just to be cautious

[trim onyx]

Sounds good. Ty!

[deep wasp]

Hey guys

Is yahoo basically a fanng company?

Asking for a friend

[prime palm]

basically is

cause google and yahoo are the same product

faang == faany

[buoyant herald]

faany

[grizzled bronze]

Not at all, but it shouldn't matter just take what you can get

https://tenor.com/view/homer-yahoo-gif-13250990

[tardy geode]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1004741311175327824/1047370395818410044/maxwell-1.gif

[livid yew]

rare

[nocturne seal]

What is the palantir 2 hour interview

[prime palm]

ik this man is talking about bloomberg

damn after everything i done for you too

god dammit

[west egret]

What makes atlassian worse? I thought the TC and WLB were pretty good.

ppl on this server shit on companies all the time

Yeah I searched “atlassian wlb” and it seems pretty positive

Pay seems about the same as BB too

[leaden aspen]

https://shitlassian.com

Take it with a grain of salt but this is all I’ve seen about Atlassian lol

[fossil jewel]

IF NOT FAANG AND ABOVE 200K YOU"RE BROKE AND HAVE SKILL ISSUE

[west egret]

Never saw that before

[livid yew]

[west egret]

I’m a failure. Only 185 and they don’t even give me free meals.

[fossil jewel]

SMH

YOU'RE GONNA BE HOMELESS

[west egret]

People on the train are going to laugh at me when they see me bringing my lunch to work

[livid yew]

bruh I bring my lunch to work cause why not

[leaden aspen]

Tech workers are scared of cooking

[livid yew]

also sometimes the food at work is mid

[leaden aspen]

I’m tech workers btw

[livid yew]

its true, and very very sad

[fossil jewel]

your lunch break should be had at a 5 star Michelin restaurant

[livid yew]

my mom basically made me cook dinner at home for the family, imagine cooking for 5 people. at age 11

[fossil jewel]

how else will you flex the wealth

[west egret]

Honestly for daily lunch I don’t care that much. I’ll eat chicken, rice and some vegetable everyday if I have to.

[fossil jewel]

i do know the area by bloomberg

[livid yew]

just get DoorDash every day like @pulsar mural

[fossil jewel]

some good foods but some are expensive

you might find the halal trucks

[west egret]

Yeah but free food that you don’t have to prepare > food you have to prep yourself

[livid yew]

Well I enjoy the cooking part tbh

relaxing and fun, plus sometimes you learn something, or burn the food

[west egret]

If the nutrition is there and it’s palatable, it doesn’t matter to me that much

[livid yew]

fair

went to a halal truck the other day for the 1st time, bro I am so un-cultured

I had no idea

this is what growing up in the midwest does to you

[west egret]

I didn’t want to risk the halal stands when I was in NYC 2 weeks ago

Since I was only there for a few days

[fossil jewel]

in nyc the halal trucks are a local staple

[west egret]

Getting sick while being in an airport sounded like a bad idea

[livid yew]

me with 160K TC, but still shopping at Dollar Tree, FRUGAL

[west egret]

And my flight ended up getting delayed by 6 h lmao

[livid yew]

oof

I drove home from relatives house on Sunday

[west egret]

Where you at?

[livid yew]

the traffic in NYC was insane

[fossil jewel]

driving in the city big oof

[livid yew]

yep, I drive around Philly a bit, so I know most of this city

but bruh

I was so lost in NYC

[west egret]

Yeah no way I’m bringing a car to NYC

[fossil jewel]

i only went to philly once

[leaden aspen]

NYC is not much of a car city

[fossil jewel]

and i got a philly cheesesteak

from uh ginos

[livid yew]

everyone drives insane here

[livid yew]

terrible

[fossil jewel]

yeah it was okay

i had better from the local deli

a block away from me

[livid yew]

yeah no reason to go to the "tourist" areas

[fossil jewel]

yeah we werent there for long

just a quick stop

issue is that these places ONLY take cash

[cold kernel]

ok bozo

[livid yew]

lmao

you dont carry cash?

[fossil jewel]

gino and the other one in front of it

[livid yew]

[fossil jewel]

not always

[west egret]

Laughs in Chinese

[fossil jewel]

we had cash luckily

[fossil jewel]

oh those i expect

100%

[livid yew]

I have learned to always keep like $100 on me

[fossil jewel]

but gino's is an overhyped place

[livid yew]

never know when cash is needed, or better

cause tips and stuff

[prime palm]

Me when I rob you at the same place and time every week

[livid yew]

but I am rarely at the same place

[prime palm]

I'll be outside your house

Waiting

[west egret]

I keep cash on me in case I get robbed

[prime palm]

Yesss lfg

[livid yew]

well I will just tell the security guard to look for you

[west egret]

If you get robbed the last thing you wanna do is piss off the person possibly with a weapon by saying you don’t have cash

[livid yew]

I use cash mostly for tips

cause its just better

no cc fee or whatever

[livid yew]

take you a bit to find me tbh

I live in a 24 story high-rise

[west egret]

I’m too used to using mobile payments now

[livid yew]

I barely use Google Pay, it never works

[prime palm]

are you in nyc

[leaden aspen]

Wdym by this

[livid yew]

I just insert my card

[west egret]

Transaction fees

[livid yew]

yep

[prime palm]

nyc or bust

[livid yew]

nope

[west egret]

I’m guessing the tip can still be charged transaction fees

[livid yew]

I never want to live in NYC tbh

too crowded

[west egret]

So the server would get less tip than if they had done a cash tip instead

[leaden aspen]

Makes sense

[livid yew]

I wrote a check the other day for something

this is boomer

[leaden aspen]

I just usually feel like I’m more generous when I can just write the number instead of fishing out nasty ass bills lol

Though I guess that’s kinda the whole point of ccs

[west egret]

I’ve literally never thought to myself “I should bring my checkbook with me”

[livid yew]

for context, the online portal was broken, so check was the next option

[livid yew]

this was util bills

so sorta makes sense iguess

[livid yew]

why are your bills nasty

[leaden aspen]

All bills are nasty

[west egret]

Cash in general is nasty

[leaden aspen]

Paper cash is some of the dirtiest material anybody interacts with

[livid yew]

nah you gotta get the crisp ones from the bank

[west egret]

Think about how many ppl it’s come in contact with before getting to you

If you ever work retail, nasty af when ppl pull cash out of their bras or w/e

[leaden aspen]

Or I can use my credit card and get 3% back so I can tip 2% more to cover the transaction fee and everyone gets more money

[livid yew]

I worked in retail for 5 years

[west egret]

So you agree that it can get kind of nasty then lol

[livid yew]

was kinda fun to put the $100s in the machine

one time someone tried a fake bill

lmao

[late kestrel]

shut up brennan we both know IMC isnt gonna ever even give me a chance

[livid yew]

I was at a Dollar Tree this morning, which I mean the crowd there all uses cash

[late kestrel]

get outta my inbox

[leaden aspen]

Probably because many dollar tree shoppers have ruined credit lol

No reason not to use a credit card if you’re responsible

[livid yew]

I used my other card, cause I dont trust dollar tree reader not to scam my chase card

[fossil jewel]

brennan wants to give me a $5 zon gift card

[livid yew]

I have 4 credit cards

[fossil jewel]

autopay just takes care of things

[leaden aspen]

Yeah, the bigger concern is the people who have no idea how ccs work and spend way more then they have

[fossil jewel]

[leaden aspen]

Then they get to learn what 25%apr means loool

[fossil jewel]

thats how you end up messing up your score

[hasty birch]

Just treat it like a debit card and you're good lol

[leaden aspen]

Correct

[livid yew]

lmao imagine having a 25% apr

[fossil jewel]

apple card was very useful when i was in paris

[livid yew]

I think mine is like 17%

[fossil jewel]

no international fee

just paid the conversion rate

[leaden aspen]

Apr doesn’t matter to most responsible users, rewards are the more relevant calculation

[livid yew]

my credit score is also 785, so I guess I am a good credit user

[hasty birch]

Imagine caring about apr

[leaden aspen]

I’ve used my plat to get me like 6000$ in free flights

[fossil jewel]

mine is 749 but i hadnt had my cc for 2 years yet

oldest cc account is 1 yr and 7 months

[livid yew]

my oldest is 6yr,2mo

I think I need to update my account with new TC

[fossil jewel]

oh gonna up that limit

which cc you got?

[livid yew]

cause most still think i make 75k/yr instead of 160k/yr

[livid yew]

Discover, Bank of America, Chase Sapphire Preferred, Amazon Store Card

[leaden aspen]

that’s a nice setup

[fossil jewel]

you can get good travel stuff on the Sapphire card

[livid yew]

discover is nice for cash back, bank of america is idk why

amazon is for obv reason

[fossil jewel]

yeah i just currently have discover and apple card

might apply to the chase ones once i start working

[livid yew]

If I ever get a iPhone I might get a apple card

CSP is pretty equal to a Amex Gold I think

[leaden aspen]

Nah not exactly

Kinda different purposes

Amex gold is 4x dining 4x grocery, 250af

[fossil jewel]

i like it

[leaden aspen]

It’s a high cost daily spend card

[livid yew]

I think I get 3x, 3x

so a bit less

[fossil jewel]

if you buy apple products you get like 3% cash back

and u can finance

[livid yew]

but I also wanted a visa, and that was my top choice at the time

[hasty birch]

There are better cards

But it's fine

[fossil jewel]

and again, no international fees so you just pay the rate in USD

[livid yew]

amex or chase prob

[vital meteor]

Amex for flights

[leaden aspen]

This depends on your spend

[livid yew]

bro you people are traveling? covid still a thing

[leaden aspen]

But usually things like cap1 savor one or csp

[hasty birch]

PayPal Cashback card is 3% on purchases through PayPal and 2% everything but it's PayPal lol. I've got a rotation of cards depending on category

[livid yew]

everything I do goes thru paypal lol

like all my online purchases go thru pp

[leaden aspen]

I think savor1 is really solid rn, they have a promotion for 10% off Uber eats in addition to 3x dining, 3x grocery, 0 annual fee

[livid yew]

is that time of year

[leaden aspen]

Super good deal

[livid yew]

I get 5x points on lyft with csp

which is pretty good

[leaden aspen]

Oh nice lol

[livid yew]

and 3x points on groccery, 3x points on subs, 3x on food

but I dont eat out very often

so

[leaden aspen]

Csp is not 3x grocery

[livid yew]

maybe its not, let me check

[hasty birch]

Citi custom cash is 5% on one category you choose (grocery, gas, or food biggest ones)

[livid yew]

3 pts/$1 earned on online groceries

[west egret]

I did for summer internship and to visit BB office but that’s it

Over the past 3 years

[livid yew]

so I use a food delivery service, which counts as online grocery

oh yeah only 3x on food

[hasty birch]

There's so many good travel cards

[livid yew]

as a United simp, I will prob eventually get a united card

[fossil jewel]

not as bad as before tbh

[livid yew]

45,058 PTS Current points total (equal to $450.58) huh I have more points than I thought

[fossil jewel]

paris is my first experience with europe

[late kestrel]

my grocery card

[livid yew]

yeah I shop at ALDI and Trader Joe's so my grocery cost pretty low

[grizzled bronze]

You saving up for travel?

[livid yew]

prob looking to travel somewhere next year

but nah just storing them for idk

maybe I buy a Rift headset or something

[grizzled bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/vr-gaming-hump-suggestive-gif-16546536

[grizzled bronze]

No wonder GIFs are disabled

[fossil jewel]

any places in mind

[livid yew]

None at all

[livid yew]

Sir this is a professional server

[fossil jewel]

europe has some really nice places

[vital meteor]

Japan

[late kestrel]

thats not in europe silly

[teal jackal]

I might not be able to destroy the hazing ritual that is the recruiting system
but the least I will do is work hard to prove that the system can't break me

daily schizo post - ✅

[late kestrel]

so if its a daily post, that means youre 476 years old

no wonder you got so many offers. you have like 455 years on the rest of us of exp

smh

ill keep that in mind

[gleaming fable]

I got my amex plat just cause I'll be flying so much

4 flights a year for work plus at least 2 to visit family back home, then probably add another 2 for vacations

for my other cards I got a costco citi for gas (4%) + dining (3%) + costco (2%), and then an amazon prime chase for 5% back on zon purchases which also applies to amazon fresh deliveryu

So I got all the core areas covered in a decent way: travel, gas, grocery, and dining. I wanna get an amex gold at some point to broaden my grocery selection tho

[livid yew]

but the work flights are paid for no?

also damn that is a lot of family/vacation you gonna blow thru PTO

[gleaming fable]

yep but the way its done is you pay for the flight and they reimburse you

so you get to double dip and get points

[gleaming fable]

when I go back home its gonna be more like a workcation

[livid yew]

Lol

[gleaming fable]

besides the holidays

[proper dawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizi_2paMGM

[livid yew]

Holiday DN

[nocturne oriole]

Very happy for u. I also got a travel card with some flights in mind. Btw dont count on work trips, everybody cutting cost

[gleaming fable]

I had that same suspicion but then my org said fuck it, we got money currently planning a team trip to austin

[grizzled bronze]

Boomer ass company, who do they think they are, FAANG? They should just give us FizzBuzz and be done with it

[livid yew]

like how in-depth is this system

lmao

get used to it, move on

yep, I just accepted fate, and gave in to BS

[hearty walrus]

Does anyone have any advice for the Palantir HM? I'm a bit confused on how to prepare and what it looks like

[marsh sand]

If you have a coding round, you need to just make sure you brush up on leetcode (individual topics if u can find a list)

I heard someone had to use 3 hash maps and 2 lists to get to a working solution and even that was not optimal

apparently someone else had a Q where the solution for that Q was to use some weird spanning tree (competitive programming level data structures) BUT they allowed them to use simpler data structures and less optimal way to solve the Q

[nocturne seal]

Is HM the one after the recruiter call?

[marsh sand]

So I think it's like really about decomposing the question down to make a codeable brute force solution since what they REALLY care about according to the person who referred me is your thought process and communication

Nope HM is after the onsite

so the process is Karat -> Recruiter Phone -> Onsite -> HM

[nocturne seal]

Oh okay, any advice in the on-site

[marsh sand]

Yup! Make sure you know how to get yourself unblocked if you get blocked while coding

i.e. you're making a new iPhone app and you don't know how to fix a bug; how do you effectively unblock yourself to make sure you can fix the bug

whai 😦

Oh

that's your strategy

[uncut umbra]

joanna is smart enough that she never deals with bugs

the egg is being boiled by the brain working so hard

[marsh sand]

For Decomp, brush up on breaking down problems. i.e. design tinder

[marsh sand]

almost fried

[uncut umbra]

I thought that was the joke lmao

I don't use your weird edgy 4chan emojis

[livid yew]

[uncut umbra]

egg fan

[marsh sand]

I was watching some youtube videos and apparently a good way to practice SysDesign is to just randomly walk into a shop and try to come up with a SysDesign out of that shop

[livid yew]

nice

[uncut umbra]

walks into trump university ah fuck

[livid yew]

my setup suddenly too big, don't have 2 27" monitors

takes up so much space

and prob gonna kill my poor 3070ti

[nocturne seal]

Is there any LC during the on-site? @marsh sand

[marsh sand]

From what I heard, nope

My recruiter specifically told me I'll have only Decomp/Learning

[livid yew]

[marsh sand]

Asking your recruiter might be best though

[nocturne oriole]

How come i gotta design tinder when i dont need it

That’s what im saying in interview

[fossil jewel]

cs majors design tinder without knowing what a date is

[marsh sand]

i.e. you are designed to make a Pizza Shop; you need to make sure you have multiple chefs (horizontal scaling) to make sure you are not doomed if one chef is sick. You also might need multiple restaurants so that you can still make revenue if one branch closes for selling alcohol to a kid. Finally, you need a load balancer to make sure each pizza shop (if there is delivery) handles the order by nearest address so that one branch isn't like bombarded with all orders

[marsh sand]

LMAO this is chad move

esp in this job cycle

[uncut umbra]

r u serious

[fossil jewel]

wait i wanna see it

[livid yew]

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

[marsh sand]

Can we not send images in this discord

[fossil jewel]

👀

[livid yew]

nope

we lost perms last week @nocturne oriole

[nocturne seal]

@marsh sand thank you so much!!

[marsh sand]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Gudetama_from_Sanrio.jpg

I found you @queen valve

[marsh sand]

All the best!

Gudetama is king

king of all eggs

[livid yew]

plush DN

[marsh sand]

reminds me of Joma and his shiba collection

can you refer me to HRT in like 8 months LMAO I'll start preparing now

also who sells the best wings

hahaha it won't get rescinded or anything dwdw

[livid yew]

depends on your options

[marsh sand]

buffalo wings 😄

[livid yew]

your bf works at JavaScript

[marsh sand]

HAHAHA are they really competitors doe

I still don't get the different between HFT and Prop Trading

actually jk they are competitors

Issok if HRT kicks you out you can make $$$$$$ with Gudetama NFTs

[livid yew]

NFTs

dont be that guy

I will have to block you on discord

[marsh sand]

HAHAHHA issok I don't even do stocks

random thought of the day: imagine a world without leetcode where the only resource to practice is CTCI book

My resume would be empty

[fossil jewel]

how would it be empty

do you have the number of leetcodes and their complexities in your resume or smth

[livid yew]

I have never used a CTCI book

[marsh sand]

As in I wouldn't have landed any offers I've landed in the past LMAO

[livid yew]

is that the one everyone talks about

[marsh sand]

same I just have a copy I received from like Google coming to our uni

[fossil jewel]

its a good book but i never did the problems

just read

[marsh sand]

they gave it to ppl who solved their Qs in their job fair presentation

[livid yew]

oh fucking reading a book about software

[fossil jewel]

i should've just attempted some q's

[marsh sand]

thought it was sigma move

[livid yew]

that is assbackwards

I aint reading a book, about a digital thing

nope

[fossil jewel]

eh its only a resource

i do have some distributed books that seem cool

[marsh sand]

I think Clean Code is still a really good book

[livid yew]

I have maybe 1 programming book from like 2017

[marsh sand]

still relevant

[strange ore]

book is super helpful for brushing up on topics and algs but imo LC is a more convenient resource for practice problems

only thing about ctci that has LC beat is the hints are so key

[livid yew]

my algo knowledge so bad

[marsh sand]

Imagine reading CLRS when you're like 12

[strange ore]

it's super short, like 5 pages per chapter max and there's only like 8 chapters that u need

[livid yew]

but I plan to never really go for FAANG/big tech

[livid yew]

bruh

how do you plan your life that far in advance

lol

[marsh sand]

forced by asian parents lmao imagine...

perfectly reasonable for Koreans I think

kids nowadays are taught calculus in their after school classes

[fossil jewel]

i couldnt even do CLRS when 21

[marsh sand]

I still cant do CLRS

[fossil jewel]

i think now that i have more math

[livid yew]

my path was more like
I love technology (age 3-18)
software is cool (19-21)
oh SDE also pays decent? good side-benefit

[marsh sand]

I have a bucket list in CS:

• Read "The Art Of Programming"
• Read "Clean Code"
• Read "Introduction to Algorithms"