2023_summer

[real sedge]

even at my current internship im using dynamo

[ocean relic]

god is here

[sinful locust]

mongodb op

[real sedge]

i only use mongo cuz its free fr

[sinful locust]

lol it’s good thoigh for projects

atlas

[real sedge]

i've heard its actually bad on scale

i kno of a few companies that had issues and moved away from it

yeah

i mean massive scale

i kno my company had to mov from mongo to dynamo

cuz mongo wasnt cutting it

wat do u tink abt cassandra

wen and y woud u use it?

arent those sql tho?

cassandra is a nosql

wide col db

yeah me too

but sys design is different

i got my first sys design 2moro

and im nervous

[crystal agate]

praying 4 u

[rustic topaz]

pray 4 me too

[fickle ivy]

i pray

for all

[hallow scroll]

do I gotta study sys des for new grad

[soft basin]

prolly yeah

[ivory ocean]

Sys design for who’s new grad

If you get return offer from AMZ do you have to interview again

[harsh jackal]

Hi guys! I am giving my Amazon OA in few days. Any specific topics which I should emphasise more? Any suggestions?

[mighty ember]

Anyone get Amazon Bay Area offer?

[ivory ocean]

Asking cuz I know Palantir, for example, you go through the normal interview process even with a return offer

And if you fail ur fucked

[grand bane]

i know some people are getting regex questions

that is what i said

i'm taking a couple days to study for it as well

pretty nervous

that's what i've been told

[jade star]

I used regex for an OA and interview

I wasn't tested on how to specifically find a word, but it was just a shortcut

oh no, I don't know about amazon, this was for a mid-tier tech company in north east

[grand bane]

the regex question on the practice was like "create regex that matches a string in which the first and last character are the same"

it's

rng

[uneven sand]

wait how do you do that 💀

[grand bane]

i hope i get a regex question lol

that was the one from the study session yep

[uneven sand]

would you capture the first and last character and check if they’re the same?

[grand bane]

capture first see if it's at the last pos with optional .+ in between i think

[uneven sand]

dw you won’t get that shit on the OA

[grand bane]

according to recruiters you can use anything that doesn't require sign in

[uneven sand]

amazon OA is usually array and string problems

anyone have a 1p3a account I can borrow

[grand bane]

i mean they track browser activity as well as screen record so wouldn't advise that

[soft basin]

is base level macbook air good enough for swe?

[coarse marten]

No

Max for pleb*

Like us

[hallow scroll]

boggg

hello mr bog

[coarse marten]

Mr juster

[hallow scroll]

[uneven sand]

I have an 850

[rustic topaz]

im sick and tired of griding and still bein asss 😭

[rustic topaz]

HOW

[coarse marten]

Show ur evidence

[uneven sand]

inspect element

[rustic topaz]

💀

[hallow scroll]

its ok it happens

I studied leetcode for 8 months just to fluke my amazon final

[uneven sand]

@near swallow where Kirby role

[rustic topaz]

wym?

around august 30

i put it as such

but dk

final

you?

[hallow scroll]

I studied a shit ton and still messed up my interview problem

just gotta keep grinding and pray

[rustic topaz]

what was the question?

[hallow scroll]

[rustic topaz]

😐

bro

how did you study for 8 months???

😭

[hallow scroll]

they hit the wrong button on accident

[coarse marten]

He has been pressured by Joey

[rustic topaz]

Didn't you get amgonz

[hallow scroll]

[soft basin]

i studied a shit ton and ended up getting such an easy problem

amazon = rng

[hallow scroll]

facts

[uneven sand]

yea they were supposed to hit the “hire for sde2” button

[coarse marten]

Interviews are rng

[hallow scroll]

👀

[uneven sand]

word search 2

[coarse marten]

That's mad ez

[uneven sand]

Alien dictionary is a fairly standard problem

[soft basin]

implement merge accounts

[coarse marten]

I would love to get this q fur my amz phone

[hallow scroll]

true that

[soft basin]

just updated my linkedin title 🤩

[rustic topaz]

  Create a new account with another email address (e.g. "[e-mail]")
  
  Take the codesignal with your newly created account
  # https://app.codesignal.com/get-certified?invite=TGy6wcugpm4LMFEQX
  
  if your score is > 800:
    link your principal email (the email u applied with) with the created account (https://app.codesignal.com/account/emails)
    make your principal email primary (click the green arrow moving upward)

Stay logged in
Click on the test invite link you have received from the company
Submit your 800+

UPDATED CODESIGNAL LINK HERE: https://app.codesignal.com/get-certified?invite=TGy6wcugpm4LMFEQX

TRICK to getting good score:
Do questions 1,2,4, don't even open Q3 for 800+ 
Do every question if you're cracked for 840+, but most companies don't care about this high of a score. 

# Credit: Bog :)
# Edits : Omarito :)
# Revised August/19/2022: SSI```

Nah

that was all me

[sinful locust]

(short) story time?

[coarse marten]

Can u just post the codesignal link

[hallow scroll]

[sinful locust]

no way

he failed?

[spark hearth]

lol just do codesignal normally and retake everytime u apply

[hallow scroll]

nah I passed by luck

no 🧢

^

[sinful locust]

brother i already have amazon OA

[rustic topaz]

I might fail

[sinful locust]

and i already passed it and got interview

[rustic topaz]

😦

When is it

🤨

[sinful locust]

and i already passed interview

[rustic topaz]

😐

are you serious

[sinful locust]

bro i am manifesting rn

[rustic topaz]

💀

[muted summit]

anyone else have no idea what lru_cache does

[coarse marten]

What is the company? @woven quest

[muted summit]

i watched n3 streams and every method he was putting lru_cache 😭

[rustic topaz]

I would like to know too

mf used lru cache and wrote a dp solution in 5 seconds

😐

[hallow scroll]

boggg ive been asking people this but thoughts on amazon vs slack? amazon might not let me move to winter so I might have to pick between the two

im leaning towards amazon

[sinful locust]

i would say amazon too

[rustic topaz]

do amagonz, it's faaaaaaaaaaaaaanaaag

flex faang

[hallow scroll]

uh I think its like 10-20k less then amazon

[coarse marten]

Pick both

Waz

[soft basin]

what do u think is worht more overall?

[hallow scroll]

im not sure what I want ft

[coarse marten]

Try to get amz remote

[sinful locust]

rly good wlb apparanetly

^

[hallow scroll]

I dont think amazon is doing remote this year

[rustic topaz]

aint it prestiegous?

[coarse marten]

They do

[sinful locust]

yo if u dont rent can u still take amazon housing stipend?

[soft basin]

@hallow scroll when did u get survey after accepting offer for amz

[rustic topaz]

rlly?

I thought salesforce was prestegious

do amazon

[hallow scroll]

a day after I think

[soft basin]

kk sounds good

this shit happened so fast

[sinful locust]

could slack be doing layoffs?

[soft basin]

literally got accepted the day after jesus

[rustic topaz]

damn

jack didn't you wait like 5 days or something

💀

[hallow scroll]

I feel like amazon has more name value and I plan on job hopping/not sure if I would return to either full time

[sinful locust]

plus side about amazon is that they will still be actively hiring on resurrection day

but also pip

[soft basin]

timeline: interview aug 16th -> portal changed aug 17th -> offer letter aug 18th

definitely

[sinful locust]

oh shit congrats, i have amazon offer too

[hallow scroll]

yeah true

[soft basin]

why ur name amazon oa?

[rustic topaz]

what did you get on your OA?

[soft basin]

30/30 lol

i got an easy oa

and an easy final

im like an outlier

[rustic topaz]

holy

[soft basin]

dont evaluate based on my data

[hallow scroll]

hard choiceeee hopefully amazon just lets me do winter and I dont have to think abt this

[rustic topaz]

🙏

[soft basin]

one of my friends got return offer for amazon

[sinful locust]

amazon pays well for canada ng thats why i have the offer

[rustic topaz]

wym?

isn't that good?

???

[sinful locust]

not prestigious then lol

bro their hiring bar can go to shit as long as they pay well

[steady crow]

i think its stripe and snap

or square

[grand bane]

salesforce is really big

[hallow scroll]

[steady crow]

i think anyone would take airbnb/uber/lyft over amazon

[hushed crystal]

Aye bet ok thanks man

[hardy patrol]

hasnt lyft been on a decline

[rustic topaz]

wym

I need one internship on my resume

[pseudo orbit]

gn

[rustic topaz]

🤷‍♀️

[hardy patrol]

i said the same thing but shit is still as hard

i think maybe my expectations are just higher this time

rat race with no finish line

honestly if i can make 50/hr ill consider it the end of my internship journey

i got hobbies im not like a lc goblin or anything

but thats true

[steady crow]

who doesnt know this though

[hardy patrol]

its a good reminder

yea

i literally can not juice cuz even creatine fucks my hairline

and im not gonna wear a ballcap like every other lifter

[steady crow]

lol

[hardy patrol]

cya

[sinful locust]

hit bench pr td

👍

[hardy patrol]

god bless

running one of john meadows programs and its been insane

arms 4x a week as weakpoint training

i did jim wendels 5/3/1 when i started its pretty smooth

[rustic topaz]

John Meadows 🤨

bro died 😭

[hardy patrol]

tragic

[rustic topaz]

hopefully i don't die from not gettting amazon offer

😭

[hardy patrol]

going to juice to the gills and eventually rupture my prostate killing anyone nearby

[fickle ivy]

HUH

[hardy patrol]

nsuns is great i ran it for 12 weeks

[fickle ivy]

delete that message

[rustic topaz]

you got amazon?

poker

[sinful locust]

i did

[fickle ivy]

still under review bro its midnight lmao

[rustic topaz]

are you menafesting or ?

[sinful locust]

im sorrt man

[fickle ivy]

hopefully update tmrw

[soft basin]

the secret to getting amazon is to say fuck you to the customers

[sinful locust]

ik its getting boring

[hardy patrol]

nsuns for 2 years you must look like a d1 athlete after that

nice

[jaunty cove]

how long after applying to amazon did u guys get oa

i am in limbo

[soft basin]

alr alr my fifth time sending this but application time and oa are rng

[wooden shard]

is instabase oa auto?

[hardy patrol]

isnt amazon auto oa

[soft basin]

the timeline is gonna vary hella between ppl

[jaunty cove]

no its been a week for me

everyone says ah they send it to everyone

i dont rly understand how an internship that pays $9000 a month is handing out 17k internship offers

[steady crow]

the 17k could be all offices

not only US

And could be non software roles

too

[jaunty cove]

damn

ok well all i need is the oa the resume is the problem for me

hope i get it

[umbral edge]

amazon got unlimited money

[steady crow]

someone said amz sends out OAs every monday

[sinful locust]

a good junior engineer makes a company of amazons caliber millions of dollars per year

[steady crow]

is this true?

Yeah but mostly amz warehouse

[jaunty cove]

wdym

[sinful locust]

heard ppl say wednesday lol

[steady crow]

oh

[jaunty cove]

i thought interns work on a trivial project for the summer

at most places

and it was moer about the prestige

[rustic topaz]

im tryna make amzzon money, but they might fail me

[sinful locust]

ya but if you're a good intern its a good indicator of you being a good full time employee

[rustic topaz]

he cappalot

[steady crow]

oh rip

[jaunty cove]

ok

[rustic topaz]

n3

i asked him to teach me dp

mf said lol

and didn't say anything else

[jaunty cove]

is a "good intern" at these big companies someone who comes up with innovative ideas or someone who falls in line

[rustic topaz]

💀

[sinful locust]

i will let you know when i have completed my internship at amazon inshallah

[jaunty cove]

inshallah

[hardy patrol]

do you have a previous internship colin

[rustic topaz]

are you fr interning at amazon or still manifesting?

[sinful locust]

my brother in christ

i am manfisting

[rustic topaz]

???

💀

[jaunty cove]

no i have nothing

[rustic topaz]

manifest it for me too

[jaunty cove]

except a bunch of projects and good leetcode skills

[rustic topaz]

what year?

[jaunty cove]

3

[rustic topaz]

damn

upcoming?

[jaunty cove]

on my resume i am graduating december 2023

[sinful locust]

try dropbox launch

[jaunty cove]

lol

in reality i can graduate this spring and go to grad school

but i wont pass resume screens if i say im graduating b4 internshpis start

[sinful locust]

amazon hires every single masters student on earth

[jaunty cove]

Ok

i will look it up

[jaunty cove]

i want the internship but i dont want to work at amazon ft

i just want the money

[rustic topaz]

I pray i get amaong

[jaunty cove]

but i dont thinki would be happy there

[hardy patrol]

you guys got me actually thinking i could pull off amazon/c1 with how often yall call it easy

cheese as in like easy to study for or

[rustic topaz]

apparently, c1 asks leetcode, building a system, behavioral and case

😐

[sinful locust]

then study

what’re you doing here

[jaunty cove]

did u have a recruiter email you and ask questions after your OA

[hardy patrol]

cheese in this context dont make sense to me

[jaunty cove]

for c1

[rustic topaz]

i feel burned out, lmao

[soft basin]

not everyone gets system design for c1 but i got system design

[rustic topaz]

You aint get LC?

[jaunty cove]

im fked

[soft basin]

i got system design for case

[hardy patrol]

i heard microsoft oa is like on par with amz

[jaunty cove]

all i know is math tricks and leetcode

Lol

[rustic topaz]

rly?

[hardy patrol]

but once again its rng

[rustic topaz]

is microsoft better than amazon?

[jaunty cove]

they have better wlb apparentlty?

worse pay

[steady crow]

everyone seems to love microsoft wlb

[rustic topaz]

is it as prestigous?

[hardy patrol]

having better wlb than amazon is like a low bar

[grand bane]

MS definitely better than amazon

[jaunty cove]

plus u have to work with windows and write in C#

[steady crow]

i think microsoft slightly better than amz prestige

idk

[hardy patrol]

bro if you have microsoft on your resume your resume will never be tossed into the bin

[uneven sand]

cap

[jaunty cove]

idk

sounds like super selective places toss 99% of resumes in the bin regardless of whats on it

[rustic topaz]

now it's hard?

[steady crow]

No i mean everyone says microsoft wlb is like elite, not just comparing to amz

[hardy patrol]

oh word

thank god

[rustic topaz]

wym backed up to october?

[hardy patrol]

gives me more time to study

[steady crow]

how many intersn does microsoft hire ?

[jaunty cove]

this reminds me of when i was applying to college and always checking my portals for updates

[soft basin]

not enough

[rustic topaz]

OH. mine is on august 30

lol

Does this mean I have low chance of getting it?

oh

[steady crow]

4k in 2020

[soft basin]

amz hired 15k last yr

[hardy patrol]

im going to apply to amz in like 2 months just so i can study lc from the ground up

[rustic topaz]

I thought it was 10k?

[sinful locust]

stop worrying

fucks sake

[rustic topaz]

I wish it was that easy

💀

[sinful locust]

just take ur time and do problems

[jaunty cove]

have u done the OA

and did u push ur grad date forwad

[hardy patrol]

rip like 75% of the cs students who dont even know what internships are no 🧢

[soft basin]

i always apply when shit opens up

[jaunty cove]

low key everywhere i see discussion of c1 everyone who got above a non-crap score on codesignal got contacted by a recruiter

[steady crow]

Tbh lots of cs students end up graduating not even knowing how inheritance or objects work lol

[sinful locust]

or people who think u need 20 YoE to make 6 figures

[jaunty cove]

i dont know you irl but you seem very motivated i think you will do well @honest spire

[rustic topaz]

Y'all think Union Find is important for amazon?

[sinful locust]

no

just do tagged bro

lol

[uneven sand]

very few problems require union find

[jaunty cove]

is that kruskals algorithm stuff

[uneven sand]

usually you can just dfs

[sinful locust]

should i study cyclic sort?

floyds cycle yes

[jaunty cove]

most lc problems ive seen that use union find have a cleaner solution using an easier algorithm

[steady crow]

ive never encountered a problem that requires you to use union find

[sinful locust]

cyclic in general is useful

[rustic topaz]

cyclic sort isn't floyd cycle

[sinful locust]

i know

i never said it was

[rustic topaz]

💀

[sinful locust]

[uneven sand]

union find is useful if you want to count connected components

[hardy patrol]

whats intel prestige lookin like btw

[uneven sand]

i find it way easier to set up union find than floodfill dfs

[jaunty cove]

intel is intel

[rustic topaz]

Where did you learn it?

[sinful locust]

"most of us wont make 100k in our careers" head ass

[rustic topaz]

I have hard time understanding Union find

😭

[uneven sand]

https://cp-algorithms.com/data_structures/disjoint_set_union.html

[sinful locust]

yeah thay shjt is cringe

[jaunty cove]

damn goku all u have to do is

find the union

[steady crow]

bruh most of us will make 100k prorated through internships itself

[true glade]

william fiset has very nice youtube videos! @rustic topaz

for graphs

[sinful locust]

when they shit on companies to cole

cope

[uneven sand]

union find is just a data structure

[hardy patrol]

who said this bruh

[jaunty cove]

have u guys ever had to know quick select for an interview

[uneven sand]

no

[sinful locust]

every person on r/csmajors

[hardy patrol]

you only need like 50/hr to make 100k and so many internships offer that off the bat

[uneven sand]

the only sorting algorithm i've needed to know is array.sort()

[jaunty cove]

<TriggerWarning> What are some harsh truths that r/csMajors needs to hear? </TriggerWarning>
I'll start.

The vast majority of us will not get into a FAANG company

You will forget 95% of the things you learned during your degree, as they are not used in the industry.

A good chunk of us will never be able to get good at leetcode

Amazon is the easiest FAANG to get into

The vast majority will never make more than $200k salary in their entire careers unless they live in an extremely high cost of living place

[steady crow]

bruh engineering students like mechE are mega when asked about CS pay

[rustic topaz]

is it hard to get 100k job? I've always wanted to get a unpaid internship asap

[hardy patrol]

A good chunk of us will never be able to get good at leetcode

he got me he got me

[rustic topaz]

that's me

[jaunty cove]

ppl have so much self pity about leetcode

[uneven sand]

tbh a good chunk of cs majors don't really care about cs

[jaunty cove]

all u ve to do is spam the problems for a few weeks and itmakes sense

[steady crow]

theres no other field where you get to prep for a few months and make 200k/yr

[sinful locust]

bro i have seen the thickest of skulls get good at leetcode

[rustic topaz]

200k???

?????

[jaunty cove]

you dont have to be good will hunting headass u just need to recognize patterns man

[uneven sand]

a lot of faang-tier companies pay around 200k for new grads

[rustic topaz]

Woah

[steady crow]

wat? U got amazon, amazon pays like nearly 200k alr

[rustic topaz]

I don't got amazon?

wtf

💀

[uneven sand]

which is insane considering leetcode isn't that difficult

[rustic topaz]

mfs always cappin on my name

😭

[sinful locust]

yeah just grind

[sinful locust]

please tell me youre being sarcastic

lol

[rustic topaz]

How am I being sarcastic

[sinful locust]

goku is the epitome of cringe

bruh

[steady crow]

LOL

[rustic topaz]

I thought majority earned less than 100k

[jaunty cove]

dont bio-something engineering majors make more

[steady crow]

No

[sinful locust]

bruh

[uneven sand]

also a lot of these companies ask mediums which aren't too hard after taking a dsa class

[hardy patrol]

if you in this server the harsh truth is that your better at lc than most + have a vitamin D deficiency

[rustic topaz]

did you just react your own message 😭

[sinful locust]

no

[steady crow]

all i hear about bioengineering / biomedical E is how they find out they need a masters/PhD to do well in their field

[sinful locust]

where

[rustic topaz]

mf deleted

😭

[jaunty cove]

ok well u can say that about other high paying industries like law and med

[uneven sand]

yea pretty much every major outside engineering requires grad school to do anything

[sinful locust]

i think lots of bias here in this server. a vast majority of cs students dont study leetcode and do internships

[jaunty cove]

the attractive thing about cs is that you can get into it just by being good at it. not as much bureaucracy with grad school and exams

[rustic topaz]

I meant its true, most cs dudes don't make more than 100k right?

[uneven sand]

also it's not like finance where you need to go to an ivy to even have a shot

[hardy patrol]

im just glad we dont have to focus on school as much as other fields while still pulling insane cash

[steady crow]

why compare urself to the absolute average tho

[jaunty cove]

Software Developers made a median salary of $110,140 in 2020

[rustic topaz]

cause I am average??

[jaunty cove]

and this probably includes front end shit

[rustic topaz]

💀

[steady crow]

no u got amazon

wtf

Bro

[rustic topaz]

BRO

[jaunty cove]

average > median

[rustic topaz]

I DON'T

[sinful locust]

ur only average if u think ur average

[hardy patrol]

wym front end shit

[uneven sand]

keep in mind that the big bucks are usually made in tech hubs and not everyone wants to work in these cities

[hardy patrol]

do they make less

[rustic topaz]

well i am average than

[steady crow]

well youre going to

[jaunty cove]

i think they usually do

[sinful locust]

ok,

[jaunty cove]

but thats a huge generalizatio

[hardy patrol]

bruh im full stack

[steady crow]

No hes so ready that he got it already

[rustic topaz]

🤨

[steady crow]

theres 0% chance for @rustic topaz to not land amz cuz he's VERY WELL PREPARED

[jaunty cove]

full stack != someone who did a bootcamp cause they heard cs is cool and knows some html css and js

[hardy patrol]

hope fs dont have shit pay

[rustic topaz]

I mean there is

I legit haven't taken DSA and started LC a month ago

[jaunty cove]

believe in urself

[steady crow]

yes believe

[prime lily]

all i have to say is yo nice boards of canada pfp

[jaunty cove]

you are so much more passionate than so many candidates

[uneven sand]

goku when amazon final

[jaunty cove]

thanks are those the island boys

[prime lily]

yessir

[rustic topaz]

in a week or two. it's not scheduled

[jaunty cove]

fire

[uneven sand]

also for anyone taking amazon final soon, prep behavioral stories for their LPs bc amazon really cares about that

[rustic topaz]

I am going to

[jaunty cove]

Boards of canada x island boys collab when

[prime lily]

just be patient one day we'll get it 🤞

[rustic topaz]

Any recommendation how I should do it? @uneven sand

I would start rn

[jaunty cove]

preparing for these kinda interviews make me cringe but its funny to come up with buzzowrds and see them get excited when you mention them

[uneven sand]

lol

yea it's so fake but do what you gotta do

[sinful locust]

i am preaching LPs at my local mosque for practice

[hardy patrol]

god the amount of corporate dick sucking ill do during the amz behavioural

[past comet]

[rustic topaz]

Customer Obsession 🙄

[hardy patrol]

going to print out a pic of bezos and pin it on the wall behind me

[rustic topaz]

Frugality

[past comet]

many ? or atleast a few tho

[jaunty cove]

if i get an internship offer and still ahve interviews after it im going to troll

[rustic topaz]

Most people on this server aren't getting rejected. I'll be the first

[past comet]

no

[uneven sand]

yea amazon return offer isn't easy peasy

[jaunty cove]

goku they arent going to like all the self deprecation when they ask you about your leadership experience lol

[sinful locust]

ur underselling yourself

[jaunty cove]

they wnt someone who thinks they are the shit even if they arent

[soft basin]

become a psychopath and lie in ur behavioral

[past comet]

one of the LP

[jaunty cove]

going on team blind makes me feel very incompetent

but also motivating

[rustic topaz]

dang that dude left me on seen

🙄

[soft basin]

we’ll be glad they finally shut up

[rustic topaz]

💀

[soft basin]

good luck tho

just grind and hope for the luck

[rustic topaz]

If I get amaong 🤷‍♀️

[hardy patrol]

do you have prior experience

[rustic topaz]

no

[hardy patrol]

bro abt to learn the hard way

[rustic topaz]

learn what 😭

💀

1%

😭

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Im-jealous-of-my-wife-How-can-I-overcome-this-kVZGbYEz

[sinful locust]

bro blind is something else

[jaunty cove]

this guy has serious issues if hes going to team blind before his own wife about relationship problems

[rustic topaz]

dude in geenral wildin

[hardy patrol]

i would easily sacrifice an amazon offer to avoid being that guy

[rustic topaz]

Bro it's an obvioius troll

[steady crow]

brh that has to be troll post

[rustic topaz]

😭

[jaunty cove]

ok

most people on that website seem a bit strange so i cant tell

[hardy patrol]

i like how youll post anything regardless if its related to tech and ppl spam your shit with "tc?"

[steady crow]

i guess its hard to be not strange when ur in the top 0.1% of smth Lmao

[jaunty cove]

its very neurotic

[hardy patrol]

could be venting abt your wife filing for divorce and taking the kids but theyll still demand your salary

[rustic topaz]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/3-jobs-800k-SWE-kjJC3NxY
bro flexin

[hardy patrol]

funniest site

[jaunty cove]

thats insane

[steady crow]

i gues top 1% thenidk

[hardy patrol]

bro at a certain point like money doesnt buy happiness any more

i would probably stop at 200k

[rustic topaz]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Cultural-appropriation-aMVPzLaM why do dudes put TC on their posts 😭

[jaunty cove]

for these people its the process of earning money thats addicting

[grand bane]

money buys early retirement

[hardy patrol]

fuck that bruh even if i retire at 40 ill still be a bag of dust

[rustic topaz]

what do you do after retirement?

retirement sounds boring

😦

[hardy patrol]

ill take 150k tc if it means i get to spend most of my time how i want to

[sinful locust]

does amazon do background checks for internships?

[hardy patrol]

dont every company do background checks

[grand bane]

spend time with family if you're about that life or just spend all your time vibin at miami night clubs

[jaunty cove]

anyone know companies besides c1 and databricks that do automated OA

i want practice

[grand bane]

personally i'll go for a phd and teach part-time

[steady crow]

no one really just retires and does nothing

[grand bane]

akuna, jpm

[rustic topaz]

second one sounds boring, but spending time with family sounds bettter

[jaunty cove]

ok

maybe i just have to be patient with acuna

akuna

or i failed to get to the automated OA 💀

[grand bane]

just imagine the potential you could have with your life if you didn't have to spend 40% of your time working

[rustic topaz]

what potential?

[grand bane]

the freedom to do what you want

time and money to do so etc

[sinful locust]

background check as in previous jobs etc.

im fine for the criminal record check lol

[steady crow]

Do they check incoming X ?

[jaunty cove]

i would be surprised if they did a background check before final round

they have so many applicants

it wouldnt be thorough

[sinful locust]

i have my research assistantship as a sde internship on my resume, because ive been doing full stack dev, and my manager allowed me

[uneven sand]

don't quote me on this but i think amazon background is literally just criminal history lol

[sinful locust]

this is what it seems like

[grand bane]

i called roblox game dev "software developer contractor" and nobody has bat an eye so i think you're fine

[jaunty cove]

my title is Lord Colin Davis on this internship app

[sinful locust]

beautiful , now i sleep

good night

[grand bane]

rest well king

[sinful locust]

😘 🥰 😍 ✨

[hardy patrol]

jpm oa isnt automated i got rejected at like 1am

made me wake up to read that they dont want me

rude asf

[pseudo shoal]

they sent me hackathon inv

[fleet dew]

everybody got jp morgan hackathon invite ???

[past comet]

Anyone got Figma conformation after applying ?

nvm got the confirmation email just now

[teal plover]

salesforce vs microsoft vs amazon (return)?

my only issue with salesforce is the fact that they don't sponsor as much for international students

that and the fact that amazon pays better

[rustic topaz]

I got jpmorgan

but haven't done it

do you know when it expires?

[real sedge]

any1 kno if dis is accurate:
https://www.levels.fyi/internships/Retool/Software-Engineer-Intern/

seems fake 2 me

[steady crow]

how difficult is jpmorgan oa

[rustic topaz]

holy fuk

retool payin 75$?

@real sedge did you get in?

[real sedge]

nah lmao

i wihs

[rustic topaz]

you still intervewing with em?

[rustic topaz]

don't know

[real sedge]

idt its accurate tho

[rustic topaz]

I wanna know when I can take it

[real sedge]

wich is y im askin

[rustic topaz]

"Free Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner"

I would apply jus for this

🙄

soulkkks

is their app out?

[real sedge]

nah not for interns

[rustic topaz]

😦

[real sedge]

only new grads

[rustic topaz]

@real sedge I got a question

[real sedge]

wat

[rustic topaz]

How do you figure out graph problems. Like how do you figure out how you're gonna lay it out

[real sedge]

for me it took practice

[rustic topaz]

https://leetcode.com/problems/regions-cut-by-slashes/

like this question

[real sedge]

den u develop an intuition for it

[rustic topaz]

I legit can't think of a way to put that on a data structure

[real sedge]

lemme c

[jaunty cove]

man i have no idea what that question is asking

oh

[real sedge]

this looks kinda weird lol

the way i woud do it

[jaunty cove]

flood fill ?

[real sedge]

is convert to a matrix

[rustic topaz]

it was in the

leetocde bot amazon tagged

[real sedge]

idk wat dat means lol

[rustic topaz]

💀

fllod fill qeueston

bfs

but that one is easy

💀

[real sedge]

oh ya thats wat i woud do

[rustic topaz]

this aint nun like flood fill

[real sedge]

convert to matrix

[jaunty cove]

like convert to matrix then bfs on each white region marking it with a new color (integer) then return how many colors u used

[real sedge]

then just find all unmarked areas

[real sedge]

^ this

[jaunty cove]

is that too expensive

[rustic topaz]

How would you convert it into a matrix, like I can't think of a way

[real sedge]

basically convert to matrix

then number of islands

[rustic topaz]

Can y'all link me to a tutoril

[rustic topaz]

Yea

but I can't figure out how to turn it into a matrix

[real sedge]

just check leetcode discussion

[rustic topaz]

😭

[real sedge]

theres prob a better answer there lol

[jaunty cove]

but its hard to transform diagonal lines into a matrix

[real sedge]

ya

but its the first thing dat came 2 my mind

[jaunty cove]

This grid input is 2 by 2 but you cant represent it with a 2 by 2 matrix

[real sedge]

som1 had the same idea as me: https://leetcode.com/problems/regions-cut-by-slashes/discuss/205719/Mark-the-boundary-and-then-the-problem-become-Number-of-Islands-(dfs-or-bfs)

[rustic topaz]

If i was given a matrix, that would be easier, but 🤷‍♀️

[jaunty cove]

thats the hard part of the problem

[real sedge]

u make the matrix

apparantly optimal is union find

which i never learnt...

[jaunty cove]

oh

yeah

[rustic topaz]

yea

but

[real sedge]

but the solution i linked works

[rustic topaz]

You still have to turn it into a matrix

[real sedge]

and is mor intuitive for me

[jaunty cove]

smth eulers formula for finding faces of a graph

[rustic topaz]

bro the math boggles my mind 😭

[jaunty cove]

Time Complexity: O(N * N * \alpha(N))O(N∗N∗α(N)), where NN is the length of the grid, and \alphaα is the Inverse-Ackermann function (if we were to use union-find by rank.)

[real sedge]

just say that you'd like to implement another one

[jaunty cove]

Lol

[real sedge]

i did that today lol

[jaunty cove]

"I think id rather not

[real sedge]

it was a practical interview though

like not a lc style

it was a debuggin intreview

wher i was given a buggy codebase

[jaunty cove]

the solution says we use union find to get number of components in a graph

but there is 1 component

[real sedge]

there were 4, but ya

[jaunty cove]

??

[real sedge]

hoepfully i make it to next round

[rustic topaz]

for what company

[real sedge]

new grad interview

[rustic topaz]

Wait you're graduating 😮

Praying for you bro ❤️

[jaunty cove]

bro this guys solution turns every slash or empty space into a 3 by 3 grid

[real sedge]

ya im old

[jaunty cove]

thats

[rustic topaz]

bro you're like 21 not even

[jaunty cove]

not very clean

[rustic topaz]

💀

[jaunty cove]

but i guess it works

[real sedge]

turnin 28

[rustic topaz]

CAPppp

CAPPP

CAPP

[rustic topaz]

Yea it's the math that's getting me. How I would do it

[real sedge]

ya im jk

[jaunty cove]

thats so much memory

[jaunty cove]

there is no math

in this solution

[rustic topaz]

[jaunty cove]

youre just brute forcing it basically

[rustic topaz]

lol

but

don't you need to do the same for union find

or is it easier

I am learning Union Find just for this question

😭

[jaunty cove]

werent u asking 2 hours ago if you should learn union find for amazon LOL

[rustic topaz]

Yea

💀

[jaunty cove]

yeah idk how the solution does it

they do something different

for union find

One "brute force" way to specify the graph is to associate each grid square with 4 nodes (north, south, west, and east), representing 4 triangles inside the square if it were to have both slashes. Then, we can connect all 4 nodes if the grid square is " ", and connect two pairs if the grid square is "/" or "". Finally, we can connect all neighboring nodes (for example, the east node of the square at grid[0][0] connects with the west node of the square at grid[0][1]).

i dont understand waht this mean

[rustic topaz]

😦

I'll just pray I don't get this bruh

[jaunty cove]

no

just do the bfs one

u got it

[rustic topaz]

by doing the matrix?

[jaunty cove]

yea

its janky but works

its better than giving up

[rustic topaz]

can you give me a problem similar to this but easier and more known?

you have to turn something into a matrix?

[jaunty cove]

https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/

oh

[rustic topaz]

bruh

I've done that before

it's super easy

[jaunty cove]

yes

[rustic topaz]

but the hard part is creating the matrix

[jaunty cove]

https://leetcode.com/problems/alien-dictionary/

this isnt easier

but u have to make a matrix out of information

[rustic topaz]

Yea

can you tell me a question that is similar

but you have to make the matrix out of information

but it's super well known

maybe I can learn it from yt

or sometin

[jaunty cove]

https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule/

on neetcode 150

[rustic topaz]

I've done that too

that's literally topological sort

[jaunty cove]

lol

why not try to implement the solution for this question

[rustic topaz]

make make a matrix?

I made a adjcency list

[jaunty cove]

ok

i mean they're all just representations of an abstract idea

i dont know any other problems with this criteria

you can seach graph on LC

[rustic topaz]

Well

🤷‍♀️

[jaunty cove]

class Solution:
    def regionsBySlashes(self, grid: List[str]) -> int:
        n = len(grid)
        m = [[0for i in range(3*n)] for j in range(3*n)]
        for i in range(n):
            for j in range(n):
                mi = 3*i
                mj = 3*j
                x = grid[i][j]
                if x == "/":
                    m[mi+2][mj] = 1
                    m[mi+1][mj+1] = 1
                    m[mi][mj+2] = 1
                elif x == '\\':
                    m[mi][mj] = 1
                    m[mi+1][mj+1] = 1
                    m[mi+2][mj+2] = 1
                    
        def bfs(y, x, color):
            options = ((-1, 0), (1, 0), (0, -1), (0, 1))
            q = deque()
            q.append((y, x))
            m[y][x] = color
            while len(q) > 0:
                i, j = q.popleft()
                for o in options:
                    ti = i + o[0]
                    tj = j + o[1]
                    if ti >= 0 and tj >= 0 and ti < 3*n and tj < 3*n and m[ti][tj] == 0:
                        m[ti][tj] = color
                        q.append((ti, tj))
        
        color = 2
        for i in range(3*n):
            for j in range(3*n):
                if m[i][j] == 0:
                    bfs(i, j, color)
                    color += 1
        
        return color-2

@rustic topaz This is my python3 code for that problem

~40% faster ~90% less memory

[rustic topaz]

wtf

is it for that problem?

you solved it?

[jaunty cove]

The one where u cut up the matrix with slashes

[rustic topaz]

Yea

so

[jaunty cove]

Its the bfs one not union find

[rustic topaz]

Yea you can use bfs and dfs

[jaunty cove]

idk how i would use dfs

[rustic topaz]

wait so how did you make the grid???

[jaunty cove]

i always use bfs

[rustic topaz]

same way as the other dude?

[jaunty cove]

each cell in the original grid gets mapped to a 3x3 area yeah

[rustic topaz]

I just need to understand how to make a adjcency matrix

[rustic topaz]

ok

[jaunty cove]

why

[rustic topaz]

Cause

that's the only problem I am having

[jaunty cove]

for this problem?

[rustic topaz]

I can't convert the thing into a matrix

yea

I can easily do it if I was given the matrix

😐

[jaunty cove]

an adjacency list is a matrix representation of a graph

[rustic topaz]

It's literally number of island with extra step which is hardest part form e

[jaunty cove]

is that needed for the union find thing

[rustic topaz]

No

[jaunty cove]

are u trying to do bfs or union find

[rustic topaz]

I am trying to do dfs

[jaunty cove]

let me draw something that will elp

[rustic topaz]

but I don't understand how to make the matrix lmao

😭

that's the only issue

[jaunty cove]

once u realize whats going on ur gonna think its janky

[rustic topaz]

Wym?

DOn't you literally represent hte slashes as 1

and then you do a dfs a

[jaunty cove]

yes

so where u getting stuck at?

[rustic topaz]

and find connected non 1s?

like

one set on 0s

[rustic topaz]

will be one graph

wtf is that

[jaunty cove]

Ok

[rustic topaz]

virus 🤨

[jaunty cove]

iphone does stupid file extension by defualt

[rustic topaz]

rat 🤨

💀

[rustic topaz]

@jaunty cove what part of the thing is janky?

turning the thing into a matrix or

???

[jaunty cove]

ok fuck

yes

its not that clever its just brute force-y

[rustic topaz]

Bro

Ion thing it's bruteforce

because

You would do that for union find too??

right?

[jaunty cove]

idk

anything about union find tbh

[rustic topaz]

LOL

Honestly

I'd rather do dfs/bfs on a graph problem than any other method

[jaunty cove]

same

i cant upload the drawing lol

hold on

why

[rustic topaz]

lmao

[jaunty cove]

can u show me what u have for converting to a matrix

[rustic topaz]

wym?????

[jaunty cove]

you say its not working

[rustic topaz]

No

It's not that

It's that I don't understand how to

💀

[jaunty cove]

what

oh so u ahvent written the code yet

[rustic topaz]

I tried but I didn't try to convert it into a matrix

it' on my other computer

I am trying to learn backtracking rn

lol

[jaunty cove]

ok

im confused what youre asking

[rustic topaz]

It's ok

lol

You can send me the picture if you can

I'll def try asap

[jaunty cove]

make a new square matrix thats 3 times the width and height of the grid

[rustic topaz]

So you would do on a 6x6 matrix, but each \ would be done on 3x3?

[jaunty cove]

if the original is 2x2 yes

original grid

[rustic topaz]

Oh

Are there other questions like these that you have to convert something into an matrix?

[jaunty cove]

then you iterate over all the elements in the original matrix. you convert the coordinates in the grid to the coordinates in your new matrix and go from there

[rustic topaz]

?

[jaunty cove]

same complexity?

time yes memory dfs usually better

afaik

[rustic topaz]

dfs better for memory?

[jaunty cove]

look imagine ur doing a flood fill on a huge island

you have a shit ton of coordinates in your q

in bfs

[rustic topaz]

did you solve it?

[jaunty cove]

but with dfs all you need is X elements in your stack at a given time where X is the distance from the middle of the island to the edge

[rustic topaz]

same 😭

I couldn't find a neetcode video

[jaunty cove]

we r represnting slash in a matrix where we have up down lef tright no diagonals

idk how i would implement dfs here honestly

im talking more generally

[rustic topaz]

?

for stack?

[jaunty cove]

but when u add to end of deque then next iteration youre instantly poping right and checking those children

so you will hit the edge of the island in that direction and then not have a bunch of crap in your deque

[rustic topaz]

@queen raven yo have you done dp, backtracking and greedy?

[jaunty cove]

but in bfs you have a whole ring of stuff on each iteration

hm

maybe youre right

im having a lot of trouble visualizing the difference

if any

[rustic topaz]

visualizing difference between dfs and bfs?

[jaunty cove]

visualizing how many elements would be in our queue/stack at a given point in time

and how that gives us our memory complexity

no

i want to be

but i am not very good

which naming conventions, in my code?

[rustic topaz]

what percentage of neetcode/blind 75 have you finished?

[jaunty cove]

al i can say is i like to choose really short variable names

which means i look back at my old solutions and dont know what it means lol

yes cause

[rustic topaz]

So you just do tagged right?

[jaunty cove]

matrix[0] gets a "higher up row" on the y axis than matrix[1] in my head

[astral dew]

[rustic topaz]

You haven't done bit manipulation and math???

i need to become like orangepeeler 🐐

[slow quarry]

98% blind 95% grind 83% neetcode 99% sean prashad

[rustic topaz]

WTF

[jaunty cove]

matrix[0][0] top left matrix[n][n] bottom right so first index is vertical which to me correlates with Y

[rustic topaz]

even sean prashad

😭

[slow quarry]

i did sean prashad b4 neetccode/grind dropped

[jaunty cove]

yea

[rustic topaz]

what about math

[jaunty cove]

i got shit on by a bitmask question last week

[rustic topaz]

I am trying to get prepped as possible for my amazon final

I am guessnig you're good at modified binary search????

[jaunty cove]

the idea wasnt too hard but i just have no idea what im doing

[rustic topaz]

True

[jaunty cove]

some companies like math a lot tho

[rustic topaz]

what about grokking?

[jaunty cove]

im confused

y and x can be swapped and it works cause theyre just variable names

but in my head it makes more sense for y to be vertical and x horizontal

[rustic topaz]

True, but you just do tagged then?

[slow quarry]

finsihed that before even starting lc

[rustic topaz]

💀

dracos cracked asf

[slow quarry]

[lethal badger]

It depends on the graph. You might search for a node in a branch with dfs and then return with no results and then when you try to search for the node in another branch, you find your node right away. With bfs, this would’ve given you the node you were looking in one iteration. You can never tell which one will result in lesser memory usage in general.

[rustic topaz]

I am trying to get the grasp of dp and backtracking. I have a interview in few weeks

[jaunty cove]

yes

[rustic topaz]

aren't you trying to go to optiver or whatever?

[jaunty cove]

where are we hypothetically switching x and y

[slow quarry]

mfs rejected me after 3 days of woeking on it with ex optiever eng

[jaunty cove]

in the parameters?

of bfs

[rustic topaz]

Yo can I dm rq?

[jaunty cove]

yes

[slow quarry]

ok

[rustic topaz]

isn't sushi a troll?

[jaunty cove]

huh

matrix[y][x] != matrix[x][y] unless its symmetric

      m[y][x] = color

this line i cant just say m[x][y]

yes

i chose to do two for loops, i representing which row we're at and j repesenting which index in that row

therefore it makes sense to me to associate i with y and j with x

if i chose to go down columns one by one which would prob be slightly less efficient i think, i would do xy

[jaunty cove]

good point

i dont understand what youre asking

i is the row index and j is the column index

row index represents vertical movement

y is traditionally "up down" axis

i guess this is why i should use more descriptive variable names

[coarse marten]

We are in Zurich bois

[honest aspen]

BOGGERS

[sinful locust]

ay congrats

[sinful locust]

gonna be doing 997

[coarse marten]

Swiss bros are so tall

It seems taller than germans

[sinful locust]

arent dutch people the tallest

[coarse marten]

@wheat void

[next mountain]

Somebody did HRT TEST /

I've 720scores

[versed spade]

Hey! Looking for an outside opinion rq - if I’ve sign an offer for google next summer is it still worth applying to other places like cit, js, etc? I’m not sure if google blacklists or anything I’d you reneg so idk if I’d even take any other offers

[jaunty cove]

i keep getting bit questions on the OAs

lowkey i crushed the Jp morgan oa

wonder if my resume will get by tho

[ember bison]

yeah

you should try to move it tho

if u bag cit or js

actually cit does off season so u can just move that instead

[ivory ocean]

guys

Is this offer?

or could it maybe be a rejection still

yeaaaaaaa

[soft basin]

that’s my recruiter too lmaooo

[ivory ocean]

She goatedf

[soft basin]

when did u interview btw?