2023_summer

[tepid forge]

bro

fr

?

[rapid swan]

[tepid forge]

is 200 enough

200, 100 mediems

[rapid swan]

literally supposed to hear back abt my final results tmrw

[tepid forge]

i dont know

[quaint bolt]

Properly about a hundred

[real idol]

How I cope with Figma ghost

[rapid swan]

Im coping so hard

[quaint bolt]

If you’ve done em properly

[tepid forge]

im grinding leetcode like a dog

all week

10 questions a day

[rapid swan]

:( figma not as good anymore right

bc acquired

idk is figma still better than linkedin

[tepid forge]

figma is a profitable company?

i guess not thats why they got aquired

[rapid swan]

they r

[real idol]

They did double their valuation, so ig they weren't too desperate

[quaint bolt]

[rapid swan]

sadg

[quaint bolt]

[tepid forge]

in 2021?

[rapid swan]

Fs in the chat

[real idol]

10bn -> 20bn acquire price

[tepid forge]

oh damn

[rapid swan]

🚿

[tepid forge]

i dont think they are profitable still

[rapid swan]

must be nice for those working there

[tepid forge]

even with high valuation

[rapid swan]

wdym

[tepid forge]

if they are actually making money .. theres no reason to sell

[real idol]

Nah, founders and employees get liquidity

[tepid forge]

they would have had liquidity before tho

[real idol]

You wouldn't be able to get that liquidity unless they went public

[tepid forge]

from investment banks

investment banks will buy then

[real idol]

Idk how investment banks work, but I'm p sure some random SWE can't sell their options to an investment bank

[sinful locust]

virtu codility was a joke

[tepid forge]

i dont know how it works

but the company can sell

to private investors

aka investment banks

or rich individuals

[real idol]

Oh do you mean private equity?

[tepid forge]

ye

[real idol]

Usually (not always) when private equity buys they buy at firesale prices

Ex. When cloudera was bought

imo acquisition from competitor > going public > private quity buy out

[tepid forge]

i thought going public is the first choice

the best decision to raise some money

[real idol]

Yeah, I'd prob preface that with the current environment

Ipo> acquistion in normal times

[tepid forge]

ye ye ofc right now is bad timing

[rapid swan]

gg

[shadow shard]

figma

[real idol]

They'll still have great engineers for the next ~3 years while everyone waits for vesting to complete

[versed kestrel]

*Many years ago, when Adobe bought Macromedia, they acquired a tool called Fireworks[1]. This was a combined bitmap and vector editor that was incredibly well-optimised for user-interface and web design, at a time when most designers were paying exorbitant license fees to do such work painfully and slowly in Photoshop and Illustrator. Fireworks was cheap, powerful, and hugely ahead of its time. Many of the features and flows people love in Figma and Sketch were pioneered years earlier in Fireworks.
After the acquisition, Adobe starved Fireworks of resources and marketing. They broke things, left major bugs and performance regressions unfixed, and eventually discontinued it altogether. I'd argue this wasn't simply negligence, but a calculated decision to kill an innovative product because it threatened the profits of their cash cows.

As much as I hope otherwise, I believe the acquisition of Figma will go the same way. Once it's under the Adobe umbrella, the simple mathematics of profits from Photoshop and Illustrator vs. those from Figma will result in the latter being starved, stripped of functionality, and eventually left broken.*

[jaunty cove]

imc phone

[rapid swan]

:(((

too good to be true?

[jaunty cove]

Figma got acquired?

Wow

[prisma flax]

MAKES ME SO SAD

[jaunty cove]

What r the consequences of that

for you

[quaint bolt]

What you’re still here

[quaint bolt]

They like figma and adobe gon ruin the company

[prisma flax]

sometimes

[prisma flax]

i am hopefully interviewing there soon

[prisma flax]

yeah

[jaunty cove]

Oh ok

And does them getting acquired reduce the chance that they skyrocket too then

Rip

I didnt realize they were competing with adobe. I thought they were just a storyboarding app or smth

[lofty bluff]

atleast they were fast

arrowstreet btw

[oak kite]

Figma made 75mil in revenue in 2020

getting acquired for 20billion is insane

figma employees are rejoicing

their RSUs effectively doubled and becomes liquid

[lethal swift]

What will happen to Adobe XD now

[jaunty cove]

Adobe saw the future and didnt want that happening

[lethal swift]

XD was Figma competitor right

[cyan garnet]

he quit

he had 1 bil tc

and said fuck it

[rapid swan]

yes

fuci

for which

😭

brooo

[jaunty cove]

Thats a big promise

Prob an automated email lol

[soft basin]

imc is still telling me to do their oa even after i ghosted them like a month ago 😭

[jaunty cove]

Is it a bad idea to schedule a behavioral phone 30 min after a class

[soft basin]

i’m not gonna do their oa lol

[rapid swan]

wdym

also Im wondering like

[soft basin]

adobe has acquired them

[jaunty cove]

I made it past their resume screen with 0 internships idk how

[rapid swan]

what if figma ends up like linkedin

u kno what Im saying

[soft basin]

what’s wrong w that?

[rapid swan]

huh

[soft basin]

like is it bad?

^^

they pay better than their parent company 😂

[rapid swan]

yeah

what if figma ends up like that

then its 🐐

[soft basin]

oh i just read what ur emotes were for that message

[safe minnow]

Do yk how much they pay

Can’t find it on levels 🤔

Oh nice

[rapid swan]

what abt adobe?

fuck

[versed kestrel]

that's an unhealthy amount of

[rapid swan]

😭😭😭

[rapid swan]

im supposed to hear back about my figma final results tmr

thats why all the copium

[soft basin]

windows phones would like a word

what a horrible product

[sterile pewter]

Any tips for figma interview? Mines is today

[soft basin]

ahh

like they were worse than android mfs

and that’s sayin somethin

[rapid swan]

just go into it raw

[soft basin]

raw dog the interview

no protection

[rapid swan]

this

[soft basin]

go to it high asf 🤩

[rapid swan]

[soft basin]

that’s what i did for c1😭

[rapid swan]

https://tenor.com/view/skull-explode-gif-25528415

real

[soft basin]

when ur the first to fall asleep at the sleepover

[rapid swan]

ur right

why would they spare figma their direct competitor

but tbh adobe also pays 200k

[soft basin]

all of this is insane money for me alr

jesus

this is all comin at me at once i’m abt to make more money than my parents combined this summer 😈

[devout jewel]

I just pirate it

Ez

[rapid swan]

literally anti figma's mission

[devout jewel]

They are not taking my hard earned money

[rapid swan]

fr

[devout jewel]

figma are sellout Frfr

[rapid swan]

sadg

[dusk kayak]

man I am not a fan of a paid subscription walls like adobe

[rapid swan]

couldnt they wait for 2 yrs damn

[dusk kayak]

so i generally try to find other products

[rapid swan]

(until Im new grad)

fomo

[craggy holly]

i don't thing the acquisition is that bad for the next 5 years

[rapid swan]

rlly

[sinful locust]

!hungrytiger

[craggy holly]

well the deal doesn't close till 2023 and the stocks vest for 4 years

so majority of employees will stay

for like the next 4 years

[rapid swan]

linkedin or figma

[craggy holly]

figma

[rapid swan]

the decision becomes harder and harder

[craggy holly]

which should be slightly more than what they get now

[rapid swan]

oh important that Im android dev for both

[craggy holly]

old valuation was 10b

[rapid swan]

figma mobile is totally new and stuff

[craggy holly]

(i say this as a figma intern)

but

ya

[rapid swan]

linkedin mobile their majn product and very well developed

[craggy holly]

no

i don't think that's how it works

[sinful locust]

Hungry tiger LinkedIn return?

[rapid swan]

[rapid swan]

[craggy holly]

stock is based on a valuation

[rapid swan]

I get the offer in october

[craggy holly]

if the valuation doubles then it changes

[rapid swan]

idk I should take

[soft basin]

would u take offer or nah?

[sinful locust]

What grad year r u

[rapid swan]

or risk it all and push linkedin to fall

[rapid swan]

2024

[craggy holly]

that's my view on it at least

[soft basin]

ig it’s dependent on if u want to join another company

[rapid swan]

for which headcount is unstable

[rapid swan]

I feel like I vibe with figma more 😭

idk

[craggy holly]

no they will likely change the offers for new grads since the new grads that got offers so far are likely just return interns

[soft basin]

i mean if u secure figma offer take it at first

[craggy holly]

lmfao

[soft basin]

and then do a pros and cons list yk

[rapid swan]

they only give one week to decide

[soft basin]

renege lol

[rapid swan]

thats like nothing

no shot

[craggy holly]

reneging figma would be not a good idea imo LOL

recruiters talk

[rapid swan]

this

[soft basin]

💀💀

[rapid swan]

I dont wanna renege them

[soft basin]

i mean figma intern class is small tho so i’d just take figma then

u could always try comin back to linkedin for full time or something later on

[craggy holly]

if u have questions about figma lmk

[rapid swan]

why is figma better than linkedin

[rapid swan]

yes pls

[craggy holly]

dm me

[oak kite]

do you mind if also dm @craggy holly im pretty curious

[craggy holly]

ya for sure

[versed kestrel]

https://penpot.app/ open source figma

[dusk kayak]

thank you goat, bookmarked

[fleet tulip]

Yo wtf

Figma just got acquired by adobe yall

[vernal plover]

ew what why

[fleet tulip]

That’s actually shocking

Yeah y tf

Figma >> adobe

They fked up

[vernal plover]

makes sense why I got rejected by both

[fleet tulip]

Is that how it works?

[jaunty cove]

people with 849 got rejected

people with lower got in

its a hard resume screen

i quit the deer assessment halfway through

they keep emailing me asking if want an extension

no point im not gonna pass resume screen

no i got screened i think

i dont think anyone has heard back yet

from oa

[plush viper]

would you recommend retaking a 819 for roblox

[fleet tulip]

Oh snap

[jaunty cove]

im not the right person to ask

i think people passed with 819

[plush viper]

feel like its low tbh

[jaunty cove]

look in the process chat and search by roblox

[plush viper]

true

idt ive ever solved all 4 i suck at codesignal

[jaunty cove]

819 means you solved 4 right

and not 2 or 3

[plush viper]

i solved 1,2,4

submitted with 22 min left

[jaunty cove]

thats p good

was 3 just taking too long

[plush viper]

no i just didnt wanna think after 4, looked too hard

im bad at 3's

[jaunty cove]

in my experience 3 is easier than 4 just takes a lot longer

[oak kite]

roblox takes 800+, everything else is resume screen

[plush viper]

u cant do it brute force right?

[hallow scroll]

did you get offer?

[jaunty cove]

3 is always brute force for me

ive done 5 codesignals and 15+ practices and its always brute force

[harsh scarab]

im stronger im smarter

[jaunty cove]

the problem is

[harsh scarab]

im better

[jaunty cove]

translating the description to english

nd not having off by one errors

[plush viper]

ohhh really? i always look at it and im like damn brute force would be annoying to code up and prob wont even pass so im gonna skip

[lofty bluff]

wdym?

how is it bad?

i thought it was fun, i havent done coding yet tho

[jaunty cove]

yeah they always pass

[safe minnow]

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-frequency-stack/

Is this possible to do in O(log n)?

I'm kinda stumped

I can only figure out brute force/O(n)

[jaunty cove]

if you llook at the pdf of the reasoning behind their scoring system it shows that q3 is designed to be a test of whether youre good at writing a lot of code basically @plush viper

[noble ore]

what the odds for amazon if i do sort of good on behavioral and then aced 1 technical question and absolutely bombed 2nd one

[lofty bluff]

that one was, the first part wasnt bad but the second part was

i think i got it right tho, but idk

[hallow scroll]

you got 2 problems?

[lofty bluff]

how many correct tests did you get for the car one?

[noble ore]

yeah shit was ass

[lofty bluff]

the robot

[jaunty cove]

woah this is a sick problem

[lofty bluff]

i got 2 for section 1 and 1 for section 2

[safe minnow]

3/3

[hallow scroll]

probably decent I did good on behavioral and didn't even solve my question fully and still got the offer

[jaunty cove]

the other one was the OOD and you havent learned about that yet

[safe minnow]

Yeah it's pretty cool

[jaunty cove]

right

[lofty bluff]

theres only 3 possible over the 3 sections?

[noble ore]

yeah

[lofty bluff]

i mean 2 secitons

[noble ore]

i mean i did learn about it

i just forgot everything

[safe minnow]

No

Well

Depends on the map

But I think 3 was possible for most of them

[lofty bluff]

i got 2 for the first one and one for the second although i might've gotten 3 for the first i forgot

for the second one only one

[rapid swan]

i wait

[buoyant basin]

Does anyone think Amazon is almost full for summer 2023?

[lofty bluff]

cause it was freaking impossible

[rapid swan]

but if I didnt then its like

[hallow scroll]

[jaunty cove]

i think so but im a doomer

[late terrace]

no they hire until spring

[rapid swan]

theres literally nothing I couldve done better

[safe minnow]

All the foxes and 3/3 on cars was enough for finals

[rapid swan]

idk

[hallow scroll]

yeah im coping by telling myself theyre just super selective

[oak kite]

no.

its september

[hallow scroll]

I was pretty happy with how I did

[rapid swan]

also I have special headcount bc Im specialized

[lofty bluff]

wdym by 3/3

[rapid swan]

so mayhaps hopium

[buoyant basin]

I was reading this discord and some wools were saying that shit had me nervous 😭

[lofty bluff]

over 2 sections 3 succesful tests?

[hallow scroll]

[lofty bluff]

or 3/3 per section?

[rapid swan]

my behavioral guy kept saying "very impressive"

at my answers

[safe minnow]

No, 3 cars in each section

[lofty bluff]

wot

[buoyant basin]

I feel like getting all foxes is near impossible no? 😭

[rapid swan]

and like literally described me as an ideal intern when I asked

[lofty bluff]

no way theres 3 in the second section

[safe minnow]

Nah

[lofty bluff]

the heck?

[rapid swan]

so like Im feeling like I aced

[hallow scroll]

yeah sounds like you aced that part

[rapid swan]

it might just be copium tho

god

[safe minnow]

First off everyone has different maps, second there is a lot of creativity you can have

[rapid swan]

Im coping so hard

[hallow scroll]

just pray technical was enough for them

[rapid swan]

[lofty bluff]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[rapid swan]

nah fr

[lofty bluff]

yea in mine i dont think 2 was even possible i went through every combination

[hallow scroll]

they told me my behavioral stuff was great just lacking during the technical in my rejection email

[harsh scarab]

has anyone else just not gotten amazon OA

[rapid swan]

REALLY

fuck

shit

ok gg

[prime lily]

Meeeeee

[rapid swan]

ur literally better at technical than me

[lofty bluff]

technical is tested with OA right?

or do they have extra stuff for technical?

[rapid swan]

guess Im taking L

[harsh scarab]

its been legit 2 months since i applied and everyone else is giving me OAs

[rapid swan]

they do actual SWE

[buoyant basin]

What company y’all talking about? @rapid swan

[lofty bluff]

what is SWE

[rapid swan]

not rlly any lc

[rapid swan]

figma

[sinful locust]

screw yakuna

[rapid swan]

[sinful locust]

@hearty river why you reject me

[rapid swan]

I feel like I want it too much

[hallow scroll]

I needed a lot of help for one of my interviews tho if you didn’t ask for much help maybe you got a chance

[rapid swan]

so Im not gonna get it

[rapid swan]

but like what counts as a lot of help

😭

[lofty bluff]

what is itr

[rapid swan]

sometimes I would be debugging and my interviewer just gave me the answer

[hallow scroll]

It’s just the post interview desires bro every time i interview with a company I come out wanting it

[rapid swan]

like I didnt have a change to debug

[hallow scroll]

Yeah that’s what they did to me

[rapid swan]

wtf

seriously

[hallow scroll]

Like he just told me to try this then started coding 💀

[rapid swan]

omg yeah

then I stopped and was like no wait

I need tiem

to do my lil method

[hallow scroll]

He helped me write a for loop cuz I was confused but I think that was mostly it

And I went a little over time

[rapid swan]

my interviewer also asked to follow each other on ig

😭

[hallow scroll]

Lmaooow

[rapid swan]

oh wait same

[jaunty cove]

Lmfao

[rapid swan]

shit

[jaunty cove]

no way you dont get an offer right

[rapid swan]

but he also conceded that he explained the problem wrong

hopefully that doesnt affect anything

im scared

should I send ty notes

[hallow scroll]

Same he was also confused mid way he wrote a for loop and it didn’t work and he was like “what.” And just sat in silence

[novel lily]

I have my linked in phone today and I’m so nervous

[rapid swan]

[harsh scarab]

same interviewer??

[hallow scroll]

LinkedIn phone is light dw

[rapid swan]

linkedin phone is free lmao

dont worry

its barely anything

[rapid swan]

wdym

[novel lily]

Yeah, it’s just that I haven’t done an interview since last summers recruiting season

[jaunty cove]

[hallow copper]

Is google SWE intern app open? I only see APM open

[rapid swan]

it opens next week

recruiter told me

[hallow scroll]

Goooogggleee

[rapid swan]

goog L

[hallow scroll]

Fr

[devout jewel]

Sept 19th

[rapid swan]

hiring freeze still going on

[hallow copper]

what was ur wait time from application

[devout jewel]

Confirmed from my recruiter

[rapid swan]

ye

[plush viper]

good to know thanks for that

[hallow copper]

i applied like 3 weeks ago no response

[rapid swan]

kewl

[devout jewel]

for moving to summer and getting an offer at g

[rapid swan]

I thought google doesnt let u move

[soft basin]

imma apply to meta and google anyways

[rapid swan]

like strictly

[soft basin]

worst case i only have amazon 😅

[harsh scarab]

subtle flex

[soft basin]

i don’t even leetcode anymore

[jaunty cove]

what does the shower react mean i dont get it

[hallow scroll]

Omg same 🤯😳😤

[rapid swan]

too sweaty

[jaunty cove]

oh lmao

[soft basin]

tellin me to shower 🥵

[rapid swan]

https://tenor.com/view/roland-library-of-ruina-reception-meme-please-take-a-shower-gif-25730701

[soft basin]

i just showered this mornin

cuz i wash my hair in the morning

[hallow scroll]

That’s a good gif I’m stealing dat

[sick oar]

BRO FIGMA

got bought

[tepid moat]

Is figma still good to join?

[sick oar]

WTF??

[rapid swan]

YEAH

[soft basin]

yep

adobe owns them now

[rapid swan]

Im inhaling severe copium

and hopium

[sick oar]

MY Friend THATS FT THERE IS LIKE :O

[rapid swan]

theyre still operating independently

[harsh scarab]

same but no offers

[rapid swan]

BRO HES RICH NOW

[soft basin]

it’s like linkedin for msft

[tepid moat]

But no upside anymore

[plush viper]

@jaunty cove we can submit as much as we want too right

[tepid moat]

And figma didn't pay that high anyways

[rapid swan]

yeah but adobe has ruined a similar product before

[sinful locust]

adobe haha

acquiring figma

[white urchin]

anyone with grant for linkedin have someone different now?

[rapid swan]

like they acquire competitors so that they wont threaten pay model

[soft basin]

oop hopefully yall get the money and then job hop 😂

[jaunty cove]

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/xebm0h/quant_jobs_brutally_honest_reflections/

[jaunty cove]

you can only do the official one every two weeks

[white urchin]

only if they joined a couple of years ago

[soft basin]

uncensored 😎

[jaunty cove]

look at the most rcent pinned message for auto link

[sick oar]

LMAOOO LITERALLY

[low delta]

Instabase is auto OA?

[plush viper]

nono i meant during the test

a reddit post recommends to spam submit, but someone in this discord said u get points off for submitting many times

[jaunty cove]

i have heard that if you spam submit it might take a few points off

but dont stress too much about it

better to run tests not submit imo

if you pass all the basic tests for 3 you will usually pass the other test too

[safe minnow]

A few points will not make or break your score

[jaunty cove]

cause its not TLE

[rapid swan]

nop

should I start interviewing for instabase now

that figma got acquired

I was stalling the OA

[plush viper]

yea, its kinda useful for 4 tho

[rapid swan]

anything before ipo/acquire is good I feel like

[crisp peak]

Well figma doesn't seem like the best choice anymore rip

What pre IPO companies are still good?

[golden root]

Databricks, plaid, stripe

[jaunty cove]

so figma gets acquired for 20 bil. where does the 20 bil go

[celest bane]

should i take slightly lower offer for capital one in dallas texas

or do mclean virginia

[versed kestrel]

the og investors

or whoever is holding the stocks

[light meadow]

whats the interview process like after nordstrom behavioural hirevue?

[sick oar]

the people who own it

[jaunty cove]

oh so the 20 bil is just all split among those who owned a percentage of the company

[sick oar]

yep

[crisp peak]

Not as much upside

[jaunty cove]

Ok

Cool

[sinful locust]

cracked got the duo oa

[crisp peak]

The valuation of figma went up so employees also benefit I think?

[versed kestrel]

just realized figma hasn't done ipo

[jaunty cove]

do they have to buy all the shres? i thoguht you just have to buy 51%. but i also dont understand this shit at all

[versed kestrel]

so it would be split among whales

[crisp peak]

No

[sick oar]

yea bruh second email

[fleet tulip]

Dumb question, but this means figma will never have ipo right

[sick oar]

yeah

[fleet tulip]

Damn

Yeah figma was hot

[sinful locust]

sucks for those engineers

[fleet tulip]

But now it’s cold turkey

[sick oar]

Yea Figma is no longer a hot place to go

LMAOOO

[fleet tulip]

Good for current employees tho

[crisp peak]

Figma employees cashed in

[sinful locust]

might as well not apply

[fleet tulip]

F

F for Figma

[sinful locust]

im not applying anymore

[crisp peak]

Now onto a new pre IPO company

[sinful locust]

STRIPE

[crisp peak]

AIRTABLE

[sinful locust]

@hearty river

@hearty river

[white urchin]

if you joined at 10b I would expect 1.5x ish return then since the investors are getting payouts first for their preferred equity.

[sick oar]

only if u been there a while

[white urchin]

it's really not as great as people think

don't get me wrong, it's good money but not insane shit that you had to join some pre ipo company for

[sick oar]

if u been there a month or two…

[tame steeple]

Anyone know the cut off for instabase code signal

[sick oar]

u got fucked

does it? i actually dunno

do you get paid out for unvested shares

[tardy orbit]

Should I submit a 738 code base to instabase or retake it

Code signal*

[jaunty cove]

i think 738 might be a bit low but idk their hiring bar

[sinful locust]

retake

[tepid moat]

Did we miss the train on figma rip 😢

[sinful locust]

@simple salmon hows dbricks

[craggy holly]

figma can't ipo now lol

[tepid moat]

this is so sad

[craggy holly]

but its seems like it's gonna operate like github/msft/linkedin, or twitch/amazon from what i see

[rapid swan]

yeah

[hallow scroll]

Does what happened change any of your plans

[tepid moat]

Is that good that?

[simple salmon]

I know most people will think this is a dumb question but should I choose amazon or databricks? Im worried databricks is hypercompetitive and I don't care too much for cali. Amazon is in austin which I like.

[sinful locust]

databricks

[tepid moat]

they don't pay high

[simple salmon]

got offer yesterday

[sinful locust]

congrats

choose dbricks

[simple salmon]

tyty

[hallow scroll]

Have you heard back yet

[sinful locust]

talentthere probably super high

[hallow scroll]

👀

[late terrace]

databricks for sure

[simple salmon]

yeah thats what most people are saying

[sinful locust]

whats intern comp

[craggy holly]

nope cause figma is gonna be alive and well for at least 4 years while stocks vest

[late terrace]

i think they reduced to <50 now

not sure why

[simple salmon]

50 an hour + 2500 stipend a month

[sinful locust]

wha

[simple salmon]

verbal offer

waiting on written

[sinful locust]

so its basically 60

[hallow scroll]

Yeah very true

[simple salmon]

yea

[late terrace]

well stipend is for housing no?

[tepid moat]

worst timing tho

[simple salmon]

housing

[sterile pewter]

Would you all take figma or amazon

[fleet tulip]

For sure db bruh

[sinful locust]

oh yea for housing

[fleet tulip]

The hiring bar at db is wild compared to Amazon

[hallow scroll]

Congrats I wouldn’t cancel them out for an internship even tho they’re bought out still sounds like a great opportunity

[fleet tulip]

Also pre-ipo

[simple salmon]

that what everyone is saying

[sinful locust]

figma rn, seems like itll be better on resume

[simple salmon]

idk why im so hesitant

[tepid moat]

tyty

[sinful locust]

amazon cring

[fleet tulip]

Imposter syndrome maybe?

Db do be hardcore

[sterile pewter]

I gotta try now on this interview

[jaunty cove]

why would figma instantly become a bad internship just cause they got bought out. they still pay well

[sinful locust]

take it now , think later

[late terrace]

FT

[sinful locust]

then stop, its solid rn

[tepid moat]

Figma was like my top but now I am thinking places like DB or Stripe might be beteer

[simple salmon]

yeah

thats what im worried about

im scared i wont get return from databricks

[jaunty cove]

and wouldnt them being acquired make them a bigger name for a resume?

[simple salmon]

everyone there is from an ivy and im from a mid state school

[sinful locust]

thats a problem for hte future tho

[simple salmon]

tbh idk how i got in

[hallow scroll]

Cuz ur cracked

[simple salmon]

haha i wish

[sinful locust]

personally id regret not taking it if i was worried abt imposter syndrome

[slow quarry]

just choose amazon if ur asking this question

[simple salmon]

but fr tho my impostor syndrome is at the max for DB

[sinful locust]

itll subside

[sterile pewter]

Bruh

[sinful locust]

take it before u lose it

[simple salmon]

makes sense

[slow quarry]

DO NOT CHOOSE AMAZON THAT WAS A JOKE

[crisp peak]

Meh? Not that much talent gonna go to figma cuz no more IPO

[simple salmon]

ill accept for sure

[sinful locust]

c1 or dbricks?

[slow quarry]

capital one is quant pay

so c1

[sinful locust]

alr

[sterile pewter]

My interview got canned

[sinful locust]

cant resist the 70 in sf

[late terrace]

figma is still a good internship, its the FT return offer thats the problem

[sinful locust]

knowledge

🧠

[rapid swan]

databricks coper

[rapid swan]

bruh internships are trial runs for ft

[simple salmon]

bro lemme be 💀 all my info is from this server and blind lol

[tepid moat]

but like figma didn't pay that high to begin with

so with no ipo potential

[rapid swan]

how

[sinful locust]

FT not internship

waz

[rapid swan]

its like 190k

[tepid moat]

it is still good, but not the best

[late terrace]

not true unless junior

[crisp peak]

WAAAAluigi

[sinful locust]

credit hours

[rapid swan]

am junior

[tepid moat]

Full time

[undone river]

no idea what is going on

[tepid moat]

it is like 190k FT

[sinful locust]

how are linkedin returns looking

is it messed up

[rapid swan]

theyre just delayed

sux

[tepid moat]

stripe and db can do 230k+

[sinful locust]

damn

[sinful locust]

lol

stripe can do 300 aparently

[rapid swan]

yeah

linkedin 240k

[tepid moat]

so sad

[jaunty cove]

guys the stripe landing page is so sexy. it makes me want the OA even more

[sinful locust]

linkedin cracked

[hallow scroll]

Stripe is so cool

[rapid swan]

but Im still simping for figma

lowkey

[hallow scroll]

Too bad I bombed the oa

[sinful locust]

lc hard?

[tepid moat]

I was super excited for figma

[rapid swan]

how was it

[sick oar]

“Figma will operate w/ autonomy, continuing to work their magic, no plans to change prices, and will also continue to be free for education. we're eager to preserve what's great, and tackle some of the new possibilities together. more details here: “

[hallow scroll]

Dumb

[sick oar]

Not bad

[sinful locust]

do virtu oa

that shit is a joke

[rapid swan]

yeah thats what Im saying

linkedin <> msft moment?

[sinful locust]

i got my oa 4 wks asfter applying on a sunday

[hallow scroll]

It was grouping data and if you can’t finish part two in the allotted time you get no test cases passing

[late terrace]

linkedin > msft

[rapid swan]

yeah ik

[sick oar]

Likely yes

[sinful locust]

msft > hrt

[rapid swan]

Im talking about how they operate separately with mild support

[sinful locust]

viasat > all

[hallow scroll]

Yeah

[undone river]

wat

[rapid swan]

@sick oar would u do linkedin or figma

[hallow scroll]

Like hashmap type of shit and returning a formatted output

[sinful locust]

curious actually what is the consensus on nuro vs stripe

[hallow scroll]

Be warned though read part 2 before coding

[undone river]

👀

[late terrace]

stripe > nuro
Nuro product not making money for a long time

[sinful locust]

yeha

[hallow scroll]

I didn’t and I had to recode everything, ran out of time, test auto submitted and got 0 cases

[sinful locust]

nuro culture seems solid

[sick oar]

Linkedin, unless your offer was super high w Adobe stock

[sinful locust]

Nuro if you want to do embedded stripe if you want to web dev

[rapid swan]

Im stressed

[sick oar]

Do u have figma offer

[cyan garnet]

[late terrace]

would be nice to even get an interview lmfao

[rapid swan]

linkedin summer seems guaranteed with my team that I kinda like

but linkedin fall is susge

[hallow scroll]

Do you have to renege LinkedIn

[rapid swan]

nah not yet

didnt get offer

[sick oar]

it’s not great wlb but it’s not bad

[hallow scroll]

I’d go figma tbh I’m still in the post interview simp phase tho

[rapid swan]

I can tell my recruiter to switch to fall but he basically was like idk what will happen

like basically might risk losing linkedin if I switch to fall

but all the cool companies doing summer

[undone river]

what is riot's hiring internship process like?

[sick oar]

Figma still stacked name

[rapid swan]

Im getting fomo

[undone river]

dam

[hallow scroll]

Wait did u do oa yet

[rapid swan]

@hallow scroll wait didnt u do dropbox

I got dropbox reachout

[hallow scroll]

Erm no

[rapid swan]

oh wait my b

oops

[hallow scroll]

All good

[rapid swan]

I have an atlassian final on friday

kinda wanna ditch

atlassian L

[hallow scroll]

Ditch

[undone river]

all I want was riot games buddy for valorant

they make it so diffcult

[hallow scroll]

Mongodb recruiter reached out but idk if I’d take it over zon

[jaunty cove]

does anyone here know julia

[rapid swan]

yeah

[north portal]

id take zon over mongo tbh

[hallow scroll]

True

[astral dew]

Julia Roberts?

[jaunty cove]

the language

i wish i knew julia roberts

[hallow scroll]

Yeah I don’t think ima reply

[soft basin]

ur doing zon over slack?

[sick oar]

why

[rapid swan]

literally what Im doing

[celest bane]

how is it quant pay??

[hallow scroll]

Still not sure

[rapid swan]

mongodb offer never expires so Im just holding

[soft basin]

based mongodb

[sick oar]

im trying to get an offer but i wont have one for a good few weeks

[rapid swan]

hard

[rapid swan]

ikr

[hallow scroll]

If slack let’s me move to remote ima just do both

[soft basin]

y’all are fucking stacked

😭😭

[jaunty cove]

it pays as much as some trading firms

[rapid swan]

I got that too

idk

[sick oar]

LMAOOO

[rapid swan]

is affirm a unicorn

[celest bane]

its only like 55 an hour for not sf or nyc tho @jaunty cove

[rapid swan]

aint no way

[rapid swan]

which

sadg

[hallow scroll]

I’m actually considering it lol I can’t even pick between the two

[rapid swan]

worth the affirm?

[celest bane]

c1 @rapid swan

[jaunty cove]

really

oh and both are full

[celest bane]

ye

[soft basin]

[rapid swan]

wot

[jaunty cove]

but 55 is still great

[hallow scroll]

Never 😏

[jaunty cove]

considering that you can get in with a 670 codesignal

[rapid swan]

lmao me ghosting both microsoft and atlassian rn

[soft basin]

c1 is way too easy

[rapid swan]

[celest bane]

fr

[sick oar]

did u get final

[soft basin]

hopefully they come in clutch for ng tho

[hallow scroll]

Work laptop dead and I have standup in 3 mins

[slow quarry]

75 an hr

[jaunty cove]

answer q1 on codesignal -> write a class -> solve a lc easy -> 55 an hour

[soft basin]

[celest bane]

how crazy is it that both my recruiters for linkedin and c1 got fired during my application process

[rapid swan]

atlassian final ye

msft I havent done phone yet

procrastinating

[hallow scroll]

Recession

[rapid swan]

[soft basin]

my c1 recruiter quit lmao

[jaunty cove]

is that why i havent heard back from mine in a month

[undone river]

[rapid swan]

wait for c1?

[celest bane]

my linkedin dude was like i love working here and will see myself staying for years to come

shit u not

3 days later

[soft basin]

pretty much yeah

[rapid swan]

why is it only 55 isnt it more

[celest bane]

hes out to tiktok

[hallow scroll]

Lmfaooo

[jaunty cove]

for not nyc and sf

[rapid swan]

LMAOOO

[undone river]

LOL

[rapid swan]

US

[soft basin]

it can be up to 65 depending on location

[stable shell]

this seems doable since slack is v chill

[rapid swan]

THATS HILARIOUS

[sick oar]

it’s rlly easy

[rapid swan]

me every interview

[sick oar]

nice

[rapid swan]

"I love the culturw the ppl the ahlajspak this is my true calling"

[hallow scroll]

Yeah it does, don’t entice me 😈

I think ima actually do it no cap

[rapid swan]

[rapid swan]

what will u put on ur resume

[hallow scroll]

Uh

Double internship

👍

[rapid swan]

wtf

[hallow scroll]

I watched a YouTube video on this girl who did it with Shopify and twitch

[hollow field]

Is instabase oa auto

[celest bane]

blacklist incoming!

[hallow scroll]

And I met this dude from Waterloo who worked full time at square while doing internships

[celest bane]

cant wait

wtfff

??

[sick oar]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[soft basin]

good luck!

[astral dew]

GL!

[north portal]

u got this!

[blissful elm]

anyone take the Instabase backend OA?

[tardy orbit]

^and what’s a good code signal score to submit like threshold

[jaunty cove]

instabase oa not auto

[blissful elm]

did you guys apply to frontend as well?

[tardy orbit]

I did both front end and backend I have no idea which position the code signal is for though

[blissful elm]

it should say in the email, for frontend it says like review your react js

and/or typescript i think

[rapid swan]

how

[quaint bolt]

Typical loo mans

[jaunty cove]

why does everyone in this server go to a coop school

[rapid swan]

cope

bc its based

[jaunty cove]

ya im jealous

[sinful locust]

its 50% waterloo 50% nocoop

[soft basin]

what is coop anyways?

[jaunty cove]

how do i learn systems im a math major

in a week

🤡

[sinful locust]

is tik tok closed?

[grand dagger]

whats up with the amount of roblox finals is that normal? or sign of lowering pay or smth

[sinful locust]

read OSTEP front to back

bruh tiktok closed already
last year they were interviewing in jan

[jaunty cove]

thanks

its dense af

[sinful locust]

OTSEP

PESTO

I love pesto

does career fair actually work

i never got phone from it

[vernal plover]

did anyone else get duolingo final email (virtual batch interview) days?

are we just supposed to enter our availability for the one day they're open 💀 it's like in late octobr

[novel lily]

are all of the faang open for summer yet

[vernal plover]

Google isn't open yet afaik

recruiter said it'll open sometime in september, at least for Waterloo office

[novel lily]

i applied to amazon in late june and still havent been sent an oa

[quaint bolt]

When google winter host matching

[novel lily]

but it sill says i am under consideration

[quaint bolt]

Dw last year I got my OA in like august or something

Or like September

[vernal plover]

same 💀

[quaint bolt]

I think it was like November-ish by the time I got my offer

[sand orbit]

db off

[vernal plover]

was this for winter?

[quaint bolt]

Summer 22

[sand orbit]

Amazon isn’t competitive, they just randomly pip lmao

[quaint bolt]

4th coop

[vernal plover]

you're stream 8 right @quaint bolt

[true glade]

what is a coop

[hollow field]

Has anyone gotten the actual instabase OA yet today

[quaint bolt]

Depends on what you wanna work on I really liked my team at Amazon tbh

[vernal plover]

nope (i mean I haven't)

[quaint bolt]

I’ve got db offer too but I’m not taking it

[quaint bolt]

Yes

However some of the smartest people I know work on storage systems so there’s that too

If your offer’s for the runtime org then you’ll be surrounded by a lot of smart people

[scenic sluice]

Usually implies “i worked instead of school for fall/spring” last place i worked at called their summer program a coop though.

[quaint bolt]

Basically

[quaint bolt]

Coop’s can be any season

Coops are usually just longer internships

[oak kite]

He said he liked his team

[quaint bolt]

I wanna intern at companies that have Canadian offices as much as possible next year

[surreal pebble]

bruh same thing happened to me

[blissful elm]

i got it today

[static spindle]

and money :) and benefits

[oak kite]

Not everyone is comp driven like 95 percent of this discord and r/csmajors and r/cscareerquestions

[vernal plover]

he's referring to an email from codesignal @blissful elm

[quaint bolt]

Also db said if I return for ng it’ll be for Amsterdam

Also waiting on “better” companies

[vernal plover]

are you considering it 👀

[quaint bolt]

Ofc not

[blissful elm]

ohhh xd

[vernal plover]

how does europe ng compare to canada ng for internationals

[static spindle]

europe 🤮

[sand orbit]

I'm also for runtime team

final step

[quaint bolt]

I applied to db for the lols bc people said resume screen’s super hard so I wanted to test mine out

[vernal plover]

pgwp slavery 😍

[quaint bolt]

Pog that’s the only org I’d consider for a storage company

That’s where all the cool stuff happens

Yes

[vernal plover]

fr fr

it's worse when you're intl and aren't a good swe 😭

[quaint bolt]

Yeah I’m surprised they’re not doing Canada even bc that’s so much easier than US

[oak kite]

@quaint bolt are you interviewing or are you set for Amazon

[sand orbit]

yeah heard it's rly harcore

wanna hone my skills

[quaint bolt]

Amazon return internship is my backup for winter

If google hm and meta don’t work out

[vernal plover]

what's hm

ww interviews aren't out yet afaik

[quaint bolt]

Any company that has a Canadian office apart from db I guess

[oak kite]

Oh Waterloo op

[tardy orbit]

Mine said review data structures and algs so I’m assuming I got backend

[blissful elm]

yea

thats what i got @tardy orbit

[quaint bolt]

They interview pretty much everyone for 5th and 6th right

I didn’t ask that bc I assume they won’t

[vernal plover]

Meta hires intls. now, right?

[quaint bolt]

They always have

[vernal plover]

Facebook never hired internationals before like 2019

idk after that

[quaint bolt]

What? They sponsor so much go look at h1b info or whatever it’s called

[vernal plover]

I meant from WW

[sand orbit]

that's def not true

[quaint bolt]

Yeah it’s kinda dead this term tho

Not JS

[vernal plover]

it was a meme, they would interview internationals but never give them a co-op

[quaint bolt]

Literally 1 of the 2 companies I wanted

[quaint bolt]

Whaaaa

I’ve never heard of this

[vernal plover]

im talking about ww

they obviously hired h1b lol

[sand orbit]

Lol

[quaint bolt]

I’m tryna think if I know any international loo kids at Meta

[sand orbit]

fb obsessed with internationals

[quaint bolt]

There’s not a lot of international kids anyways

[vernal plover]

facebook used to have these dinners to everyone who got final round for co-op, and it would be funny because you could tell by citizenship who got offer and who didn't

I learned about this from a upper year in 2019 so this might be ooold

[quaint bolt]

LOL tf

[vernal plover]

(or just cope)

[sinful locust]

anyone do atlassian phone yet?

[quaint bolt]

Prolly cope but that’s still p funny

[simple salmon]

I’m worried if it’s manageable. I understand Databricks is an amazing company. My worry is that if everyone there is as smart as people are saying, I feel like I’m going to be weeded out. Especially in this economy.

[quaint bolt]

Do you have an account on blind? I’d search up reviews there

[vernal plover]

throwback to calgary startup that gave me 3h coding interview, that I did, and got a good mark, and then told me they only hire citizens and PRs

[quaint bolt]

Bro I was waiting for ww

Bc my friend got interview for 6th with amazon on her resume from ww

So I thought I would do

[sand orbit]

amazon is a meme on blind

[agile yew]

If we decide to move forward, the next step in the process will be a General Coding Assessment sent within the next week. If you advance after this assessment, there will be a discussion with our recruiter, followed by a technical phone screen that includes a live-coding exercise and conversation with a Samsara engineer.

I thought Samsara was behavioural only?

[quaint bolt]

Databricks

[sand orbit]

ic

[agile yew]

Blind is a waste of time

[simple salmon]

Yeah I’ve been checking that out, I’m cool with the bad WLB, I’m more worried that if Ivy kids are saying bad WLB then my state school ass finna spend 20 hours a day doing shit

[sand orbit]

i mean if you make a pool to compare db and amazon

[simple salmon]

Everyone on blind is a TC chaser so they choose whatever has more TC lol

[quaint bolt]

Hmmm interesting, I’d say if you can talk to a couple employees and see what the wlb is like

[agile yew]

Yeah exactly it's toxic. People only use the app because it thrives off the anxiety you get from reading the threads, and you keep coming back wanting more

[simple salmon]

Good idea, I’ll do that and maybe reach out on LinkedIn to some alumni

[low vale]

Idk Blind is useful if you look past all the memes and tc

[quaint bolt]

Yeah that’d be best if you have alumni there

[agile yew]

Way more toxic than fishbowl or any other similar thing. maybe bc it's all software engineers

[oak kite]

blind would take amazon over google for 40k+

[low vale]

It's the same as this disc tbh

[quaint bolt]

Storage systems tend to be difficult work too so you gotta be ready for that

[sinful locust]

Not really. More info than this server tbh

[vernal plover]

so same as this server?

[sand orbit]

db is def not ivy kids...

[agile yew]

like what info? i mean not saying that this server is not useful or anything, but there's very little u can gain from talking about a process out of ur control , besides people to relate with and quick questions to be answered

[quaint bolt]

Bro when’s cockroach labs opening I’d trade my db offer for that in a heartbeat

[sand orbit]

most from eng school, just like google

[simple salmon]

Shit crazy

[agile yew]

its mostly from a public

whats crazy about that

[oak kite]

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-or-Google-6LfAgQpi

[quaint bolt]

Seems much cooler

[agile yew]

the cmu and stanford thing is avg at any top unicorn

[oak kite]

^at 35k people already conflicted

[agile yew]

u wont find a top unicorn without that really

[sick oar]

I have an in into Cockroach if you want 👀

[sinful locust]

bruh

[quaint bolt]

Also the guy who started up the Toronto branch is a Bangladeshi uw grad comp eng

[sinful locust]

why u still looking at that

[quaint bolt]

[sinful locust]

@wraith ice

DEEPMIND OPEN TMMR

[agile yew]

people at top schools are way dumber than you think

[oak kite]

is deep mind taking ppl with bachelors?