#2023_summer
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how was the qt oa
what does expression of interest do then
do we know anyone currently @ Lyft? would love to dm
me
US doesnt sponsor canadians
Can I dm?
they auto reject if you need sponsor
yea u can dm
gokugate should become the icon of this server

hey ma people
Quick question
Do you guys think grind 169 do a good job of covering all possible interview questions?
inb4 mans get rejected cuz of workstyle assessment
at big tech? 350-400k
LMFAOO i knew it
overwork urself
dont ask for help
be positive
learn from mistakes
dont be lazy
A picture of Jeff bezos shows up and you’re supposed to bark like a dog
yes
like do everything on ur own
dont ask for someone else to do ur shit for u
yes ur here as a freshman so ur sweaty enough
@sinful locust stream amazon oa
if ur here as a freshman and ur not at big tech or better for new grad id be suprised
who?
I wish had been here as a freshman, instead joined as rising junior 
I do not think abt options I do not have 
Just speaking optimistically?
i started this yr too 😭😭
Hmm, how do you mean?
probs google
google usually has a good wlb im not sure abt snap tho
google stock is better tho
yeah
snap >
which is why google wins out in the end imo
snap stock is 🤢
did snap even open yet tho? did u have a recruiter contact beforehand?
howd u get offer
Being optimistic lol
..
Ah
idc abt quant, but akuna probs
amd vs amazon? If we're talking abt finals
my friend interned for imc this summer, they take REALLY good care of their interns and try rly hard to get a 100% conversion rate
Can I dm you?
oooo this is good
LMAO
Thanks thanks
ggs
u got 4 hrs homie
ggs frfr

I don’t know any fucking c++ lmao

I wanted to show off how long i take to do one easy-medium problem, which take like 40 minutes
💀
Im ass
thanks! i would like to narrow the questions to 8-16 due to time constraints. could you help me list 16 ?!
got amazon final, tips on how to prepare?
pray
flash the interviewer
anyone know what to expect from amazon final round
hell
i alr know mans skinnyfat
Hey sorry for the ping, but if you face a DP problem in the interview would you implement the top-down solution then bottom up or would you go straight to bottom-up solution?
Oh top-down means recursive with a data structures to memorize solved answers and bottom-up means using a n-dimensional array to record solved answers in lieu of a recursive stack.
But would you go straight to that or you go top-down first then convert it to bottom up
Did you do that in an interview setting as well, esp. for quant firms.
?
?
?
?
use binet’s formula 
on today's episode of this or that company
meraki vs nasa
meraki vs bitgo
thoughts? 
summer?
nasa > bitgo resume val tho imo
yessir
if nasa paid more id go nasa but nasa probably is slower in development
i bet they're full for fall 22' but sending out a yolo message
to see if they can move my winter to fall
u doin part time?
especially cause meraki comp so fat
i'd do part time school if i got meraki fall
das fine
part time halves it, meraki quadruples it

lol
thats when u know a true chad
fax
screw the memo
once u type @lrucache in the interview they send the offer before even saying goodbye
whats merkai comp
fantastic
Anyone gave Cisco SWE 2 intern OA and got the word letter matching problem? Seems like LC Hard to me 🥲🥲
remote 50/hr + 10k sign on --> 68/hr
whats the problem
damn wtf better than amazon
sounds like edit distance
ima apply
yeah i might take Meraki over Amazon winter if i dont get G
Similar to LC word search, with tweak that you have to search multiple words.
2 months less work for only 4k less money
Poorly defined problem
@harsh jackal I got that too but only got 9/13 for some reason
ur greedy
hi
ball
im taking amazon winter but ilp apply to merkai
Same 🥲🥲😑
thats good bruh
is amazon remote?
u think it was glitched? @harsh jackal bc im p sure i got it right
if u know tries its easy hard
but implementation is tricky af
i spent like 2 hours on it cause i was using trienodes before giving up and switching to hashmaps
issue with pruning
drose pfp some 201X vibes
facts bro
remote kinda i can work most remote but hwve to come to office sometimes
miss those days
office is 3hrs away from me though
early 2010s were some of the best days of my life

Feels the same to me!! constraints missing 😡
a week
thanks
did drw oa aug 5 got phone invite yesterday
My friend gave the test in the morning. Got 3 LC Easy. Do you think they check the difficulty of the question while selection?
no clue, its probably automated
do you think they care about code quality / optimal complexity? besides running the edge hidden cases
whats freddie mac comp i got first round but idk if its worth it to do it if i have c1
i think i had decent code quality
How are the technical interview questions for Two Sigma internship (sophomore)?
LC extreme 
he says this but still prolly got an offer 😂
Isn’t this expo time complexity? Dp would be linear
look up what lru_cache is
👍🏽
I need to do this too lol
lru cache makes dp piss easy
just do recursion
and throw @lru_cache on top of the function
I got a 5 on AP Lit
A lotta haters saying shit
Pipe down a bit fore you get hit
Gonna call up your manager and get you PIPped
Yah didn’t see the lru cache that’s pretty cool tho
i just found out that i cant interview with amazon on linux...
amazon chime doesnt support linux
i have to borrow a laptop from my friend for the interview...
i see. my school network blocked amazon chime server ip range for some reason...
i can connect to it using my phone hotspot
should be fine? also if you’re contemplating taking it now it’ll be too late if you keep worrying about it being late 😂 you’re fine dw
just take it as soon as you can i guess
or just ask @plain egret 
oh really who told you
stop impersonating nokker
by changing your username

840 with good resume?
doesnt it say you can take it anytime
FBU vs C1 TIP vs AMZ (I am incoming 2nd yr)
Amzn
Over FBU
Or fbu for meta return offer
fbu id say is better than amz
If ur confident u can get meta junior year
u can get better than meta after amazon internship
Without fbu I think amzn not bad either
Does FBU lead to junior return offer
also amzn will have best quality work during internship
yeah most of the time meta uni -> meta swe is common
same with step - > swe
id take step over amazon tho
Fs anything google tbh
yeah exactly
FBU interview looks stupid easy tho
yeah i heard theres no technical
just bahvioral after oa
Exactly
but its also onyl 8 weeks
That too
if i do amazon im confident for meta the next eyar
ideally for me i want amazon spring then google step summer
I also wouldn’t wanna just do FBU then FB SWE for remaining internships only
yeah id wanna try out diff companies
i think fbu is really good if u wanna work at facebook
but fbu in itself is kinda mid
its mobile dev also
like a mobile dev bootcamp
i solved both lc optimally and interviewer messaged me onlinkedin that he loved speakign with me and was "excited to see where i go" so i am hoepful
ez
Do they do leadership + 2 lc in 1 hour
yeah in 45 mins
at the end of karat interview are you supposed to ask the interviewer questions
Both meds or 1 med 1 easy
they dont work for the company ur interviewing for so prob doesnt matter
i think u can apply to both
anyone know when meta opens?
when does fbu open
tagged
were you asked tagged
its not codesignal
oh wait it was easy for you?
840 should be fine for everywhere
after that its resume
i dont think 840 vs 845 warrants reject
yeah, did u take it?
oh nice
lc med?
wtf
hard easy lmao
nice nice
imma take it monday
gonna do amazon first for practice
ive been doing 2 oas a day past two days rip
i did 3 today if you count pymetrics

🤷
yeah
Custom amazon one for me
yo
custom questions are cringe
they aren’t like real leetcode
@plain egret you have an imposter
they make it confusing for no reason
I had a variable mixed up and it took me 15 min to fix
can you stop
seriously
check dm

Fr they had like 400 words for a dict problem for my q1
i dont?
i change my pfp a decent amount
ok yesterday it was cuthbert

i feel like thats a quote from some book
it’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation
stop imitating me 
mr MIT
BALLER stop
more like
Mr SFU
best university in canada
san francisco university
dinosaur nuggets university?
denver nuggets got ring next season
..
stop

they are
nuggets = good
gold
stop
no
If anyone's done Akuna 201 course, how was it?
Simon Fraser university it's in BC
Diamonds lasered faced adversity now top of the sea
Climbin social ladders might just Obama in DC
I'm on Rick and Morty shit my hundreds blue like Meeseeks
Breadth first search on a hoe, yuh
Breadth first search on a hoe
Bread thirst lurch on a hoe, yuh
Bread thirst lurch on a hoe
Bed skills killing at worst like Durst yo
Med pills got me immersed she max flow
Fed shills tryna incarcerate bro
Dead bills on me like black and blue hunnids though
yo archsys
whats good
lmao im in it next monday
I think 1999 is pretty good
what about it
Pennyroyal
Idk I don't worm for the cia
Gonna pull up to giannis house and ask what's good
be like a monk, train your mind and you can do anything
train your mind to believe you can float in the air and you can do it
What if I jumped off of him to dunk
that would work
when u guys are mass applying to summer internships, do u take the time to write a new cover letter for each app? im new to this so just wondering
i have never written a cover letter 🤣
Does jp morgan reject most ppl even if their OA scores r competitive?
probaby
Very good how about you
And you’re going to create your own drink
Tell me da secret formuler
Vodka
yo
demon hours 😈
n3 can impress women with his bartending charm, drink making skills, and leetcode ability
Would interviewer take that in an interview tho
Maybe as long as u mention memoization?
hi
good mornign
its adecorator
decorators are cool
lru cache is a function
that takes in a functoin
and returns a nested function
which applies that parameterized function
with a memo
under the hood
there
thats it
good night
fair
yea default args are defined at function definition right
so it just keeps appending
yes
yea thats non trivial with decorators
as a function variable
like
def function(blah):
def inner(blah):
blah
inner.memo = {}
blah blah
like that
i think that will do it
if i remember correctly but i could be wrong, too tired
what
oh ok
idk ocaml
Js language
😩
@sinful locust so this is how realpython articulates it
i think the @functools.wraps(func) is some logging thing? not sure but its irrelevant
why, two different function overheads?
oh you mean the last line
yea
save as var
why does that work
hmm
judaahh
whats up
i should be sleeping 😦
pog
future G intern 👀 ?
pogg
lowballing bad
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I joined the server back to look at the amazon questions 😭
GO DO JAEN STREET OR SOMETHING
DON'T TAKE MY SPOT
😭
YOU'RE IN HRT RN
do i get amazon OA2 automatically if I pass all the test cases for both questions for OA1?
we shall duel to the death
why
bruh im actually so pissed im on vacation this week and it’s 5 hours behind est
Those 1 pm classes turned into 7 am classes real quickly
Fml
sde3 🐶
no.
i took their oa 2 weeks ago and it didnt have python as an option
so
THEY JUST
STARTED ADDING PYTHON

is uber oa the gca codesignal?
Anyone who applied on or after 25th July got OA from Amazon?
I applied like the 21st and have not been getting anything…
meta is giving return offers ?
WTF
rip
to rockstar interns
everyone else is on a freeze
@honest aspen 
anyone know if jump sponsor visa for swe?
anyone jpmc codevue interview for 2023?
which companies are requesting proctored codesignal?
Where you find that at? Just curious
I think a meta intern in the process channel was talking ab it
keep applying and practicing interviewing, try not to worry about things not under your control

Have u got any fancy companies on ur resume ?
I frankly didnt start the whole process yet
As I'm busy currently with other stuff
Nice! I have got some fancy comps too this year so hopefully get some interviews this year as well
☝️u got this!
100%
same with me
i also applied 2024 kinda late last year (technically im 2025)
now im getting responses pretty regularly
Exactly bro
Hmmm I'll try that
It says I have to use Chrome

I guess Roblox is just not meant to be


Crazy how I rejected by so many companies even with FAANG on my resume 🫠
jpmc oa was ez
Doing Amazon OA #1 tomorrow any tips?
theres only 1 oa
i think
what did they ask?
oh if its easier than SIG
I'll apply then , why not
^^ you’re probably also aiming for companies that are competitive
If we survived this round of duolingo rejections are we shortlisted 😵💫👀
The sky
😵💫😵💫
I got rejected from Amazon in March after OA and they said you’re eligible to apply for an SDE role again after six months. Has anyone applied again within six months?
Tryna get on this early
Someone referred me told me that Duolingo cares more about target school
Duolingo made us write essays?
Ohh I remember LOL
I said “thanks for ur app u carried me through ap Spanish”
Has anyone heard back from Ericcson after the text interview
nop
you’ll be rejected you have to wait 6 months
Anyone know wtf JS looks for in their resume screen. Got insta rejected past two years so wondering if I need to tweak something before submitting this year
What’s this
Job summaryAt Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our interns write real software and collaborate with a select group of experienced software d...
its a job posting
apprently i already applied to this and forgor 
does amazon ever ask hards in final interviews?
bruh when does asana reply
its definitely possible
for winter or smth idk
i just want the option
Yup
I just want to secure smth so that I can have a life
thas true
honestly even a housing stipend aint enough im not tryna look for a lease which is so stressful just gimme smth
I was hoping google nyc has housing bc meta does but gotta find my own shit now 
u could give me a prison cell and i would be kinda cool with it
Where do y’all find housing if none of your friends are doing off-season
Like for spring I don’t think I’ll know anyone
So do I just find other interns or what
Ransoms
Randoms
i assume u just go on the company discord servers and theyre all looking for housing so u just go with them
Graduate technical intern or Graphic software engineer intern at intel! Anyone know about the role req? Or heard from intel regarding an interview?
For this summer a family friend pulled thru and found a place for me
But before that I just looked on fb marketplace etc for sublets
idek if i wanna do the jane street process
what do they even fken ask
low level sht i barely know any of dat sht
fk coding bro
idk is there some good resource for preparing for that stuff tho?
like idk where to start at all

anyone taken akuna oa?
yo
im lowkey
panicking for my interview tom
i dont feel ready
if i fail amazon
what am i gonna do w my life
its either amazon or rope
💀
There's WITCH companies, more prestigious than FAANG
no
u dont even get their oas?
i got rejected by optiver after doing their oa

im pre sure its cuz we dont go to a target skool
:doubt:
whats the name of ur skool lol
based
if we're going by that count my school is t4 for cs in canada 
well actually t6
but UBC, LOO, UOFT are all ranked # 1
which is weird

2 weeks?
fr quant firms are fast with it
how long after app did you guys get amazon oa
cool thanks
w
it's in the making 😈
Did Snap open?
its either bitches and bottles or rope
Thought I saw someone on profess channel apply
Also heard their app is only open for 4 days
So hopefully I didn’t miss it
Process*
write a script that checks their career page every hour
😭😭😭
if "intern" in job.title:
ping u
Might be the move
bruh stop it

ok i know this is kind of a meme but i wanna ask seriously
does anyone ever actually use the lru_cache decorator in an interview
is it a bad idea
i feel like its no harder or easier than making a dict/array for dp, its just cleaner
would interviewers frown upon it
yes
i throw it on every function
regardless
Skill issue
Does duolingo only take 2024 and before grads 👀
Pittsburg there since office? Haha

8/8
9th for me as well
Some got lc hard some got 2sum
bro 💀
amazon sde is rng
what is karat
just do Amazon tagged and pray
I have so much hate for karat interviews
i have so much hate for tech interviews in general
anybody able to give like 1 or 2 of the c1 behavioral questions?
what is Duolingo doing, I got to final round last year but resume reject with more experience this time around? 
@wraith ice @quaint bolt looks like we’re still making the duolingo cut for now
damn duolingo
I hope no karat interview this season
I just got my reject rn - august 9th so you're not in the clear yet haha
💀
yo who made the Duolingo recruiter upset
Fr they on a kill streak
💀
At least it’s not like servicenow. Where they rejected people < 1 day
I think that was a fake application ngl
I wonder what the criteria is 

Don’t know a single person who head back from service now
It was servicenow apps haven't officially opened
If ur intl
That’s fked
Service now or capital one
internship starts tmorrow help
Top Gs don’t need help
just do it
Are referrals needed to get interview with fintech companies like optiver, janestreet, hrt, etc
What are they considered 😭
Trading firms I guess
Anyone who applied on or July 25 for Amazon SWE Intern got their OA?
yeah, that's dumb as shit if true lmao what's the point of getting more experience if not to get better at programming?
I know someone who applied on Jul 20 got their OA on 8th.
u won't get oa if u fail resume screen
but amazon gives oa in batches, so u gotta wait for the next batch to see if u passed resume screen
tf
krissy, did u get amazon oa
All the possible behavioral questions you could be asked for C1 are in their GlassDoor interview pages 
dam that was sentry OA was pretty rough
anyone who got the soln tell me how they went abt it?
sentry oa was easy
Hard if u don’t know regex
I didn't use regex lol
I manually traversed
cuz I didn't know how regex worked
regex would've made my life easier
does anyone know the ez companies that have minimal technical stuff in their interview
wanna shotgun for thsoe first
the reviews on glassdoor are kinda sus
wont that be like n^3 tho
Not the reviews but the interviews, it literally has all the behavioral questions
true
Jane Street, Citadel, Yahkunazon
id say ur relatively safe
im not gonna celebrate until I get the portal change though
I dont wanna get excited then turns out theyre just slow rn lol
yeah
yeah delay celebration
jack Harlow I'm sure u got it

u r the jack harlow
why do u want amazon
i think im done with leetcoding until next week
lol
im like at the point where i cant think anymore
even tho amazon interview is in 2 days
:( amazon is my reach 🖐️
pip go brrr
actually imma take notes for lp questions
like write down anecdotes
somewhere deep in my memories probably
yeah u need stories
i sort of have one
3 stories, then change the situation based on question
these behavioruals r so dumb
something relating to me gathering my team last minute to grind our project bc my team wouldnt do much
i only have club and proj
im only in backend team of my club
so not really
im not the lead but theres like 6
ahh gotcha so lie abt it 😈
not rlly
it hold hackathons
ngl i cant lie too well
but time for me to write these goddamn stories
fine ill lie that my proj got first place in our club hackathon
and then ill bs some stuff abt it
i mean our club does have some big name sponsors
god i hate portraying myself like that
this kinda my last opportunity for amz internship
cuz next yr ill be snr
Bro we’re gonna get that portal change lfgggg
Noodles u have c1 and amzn coming up?
Damnnn gl man
Honestly I think for behavioral they’re looking for u to not be a dick or an antisocial tbh
Just speak comfortably and ull be fine
Oh yeah ofc
At least for c1 just speak and ur chilling
Yeah for sure for amzn
Yeah like they’re all objectively good attributes
ur right 100% of time, always for customer
did anyone who got the duolingo OA already complete it?
Time to finally learn Japanese 
nani
In before they send out apology emails enmasse bc it was a mistake 
not harsh ik people w/ no prev exp and just projects that have gotten it. Just a lot of rng
praying for amazon OA 
i also want that amazon OA too 😩
goku got amazon oa anyone can
can you apply to all 3 officies at HRT or just one?
is code for good virtual or in person
juan sr 
amazon oa was a dub
yea frosh gotta be at good school i think
did you add anything to this when applying to jane street?
no
why would u
they probably dont care
nah jump trading gotta be hte best
you dont do the disability and veterans and gender and race and stuff
alright ill leave it blank then
duccduccduccducc goose
I got an OA with 26 grad date so not completely false
It clearly mentioned SWE in the email
But they'll probably only consider for Propel
The thing is you can't separately apply for Propel
So it's rng where you get placed
propel is less selective
I'm using 26 grad date for those underclassmen program
For the rest I'm using 25
Wanted to do 24 but that'd be overkill
They do tho
Unless they changed it within the past year or 2
Ouch
No name LAC
No name Liberal arts college
unknown liberal arts college
yeah but like
As in its not known
Nescac
I doubt
Got resume rejected by Two Sigma so
dox dox dox
This
dox dox doxxxxx
tell usss
oahiwhendho3
jk
you're good
i mean my school has been called noname by some but i got amazon final
so like idk
and im also frosh
so like
i dont think it matters
yeah maybe
idt my school is that noname
some ppl think
it
is
What school
🟤

But there are few schools with the name of colors
Bruh
most RECRUITERS?
Doubt that recruiters don't know about Brown
well fuck ppl
i sitll don't get why dartmouth is prestigious apart from being in the ivy league lmao
at least all the other ivies have some reason other than ivy status
but ig das kinda toxic vibe, it's a good school either way
nah i was referring to myself
im being kinda toxic
i still don't get why college admissions made getting into an ivy league seem so important when it barely helps for internships/jobs tho 
ig STEM then
U have sm more resources than state school
it's not just swe
lawyers and shit go stupid for ivys
fair
UC Berk, UCLA, UMich, GT etc malding rn 

berk is gonna keep on going more and more down the drain
while UCLA and UCI keeps going up
that's kinda the vibe i got when i was comparing it with GT. It was way more expensive and seemed way more cutthroat lol
cuz to get like research projects or join clubs, u had to apply so much to get in
But Pearson Hardman only hires from Harvard
pearson, u mean like my textbooks 
whats that
The place where Harvey works
yeah cuz if u get into a good lab at berk, u auto admit into top PhD
right but they mentor u to get pubs real easy
cuz like the main thing with pubs is figuring out how ur pub fits the larger narrative
if it pushes the larger narrative forward
ull probably get published
and u need to convince the reviewer of that
well anyway, why do u research when u can get good salary with normal swe, only reason i do research cuz it lowkey kinda fun
It was a show reference
https://youtu.be/ImEnWAVRLU0
Timestamp 5:05
Harvey Specter has been promoted as Senior Partner by Jessica Pearson. And as part of the agreement, the company policy requires that Harvey has to hire a Harvard Law School graduate as his associate attorney. Without having it planned, Mike runs into Harvey's interviews to escape from the police.
Stream full seasons on Peacock: https://pck.tv/...
maybe i should apply for law, have high gpa that's literally useless cuz internships only care > 3.5 
yah but idc abt working at HFT
plus lowkey not smart enough anyway
lol
i know where i stand
oh pog
It definitely helps a non insignificant amount
ig i should clarify, once ur in the T30/40 range, it doesn't seem to make a meaningful diff mean to me
or even T50

if u a prefrosh u dont even have the right to talk
🤣
doesnt matter where u go
@hearty river
*as long as u go to T50 or are a grinder at noname 
tbf tho, at least this industry gives lots of ppl at nonames chances -- as long as u can show u have the skills
yeah schools like SJSU or some of the non T50 UCs are cracked
i go to SJSU 
some companies at our career fair have basically given free internships to those who applied through the career fair
and ik theres a lot of grinders here
yah cuz SJSU location + grinders make it very cracked even if usnews says otherwise
ya location rly helped me getting my internship
and amzn gave oa to people at career fair i think
whats wrong with ucr
LOL
the shit thing was
career fair is in
feb-march
so its later
i applied cold to amzn last year no exp got oa
Ucr is T5
this year i gotta wait til mid sept to apply
University of California beRkeley
wait which ones care besides d.e shaw and citadel?
even the smaller ones / js?
and are you talking about internships or ft
because im pretty sure some of the smaller ones have no degree requirement too
theres like 8 smaller firms that i interviewed with that said i could proceed even if I dropped out
I work there rn and I don't go to a target






