#2023_summer
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i feel you on the grades part lmaop
My quarter just ended so I have a month to speedrun and fully dedicate myself to the grind
If not then I’ll use my school’s career fair in early February
Plus applying for school jobs
Gonna work on a project with a pal
I just won a Logitech g733 (speaking of league)

From this research group that came to my school
Thought it was a mouse but then I learned it was headphones 🎧
Fuckkkkk gotta do a self recorded interview for J & J xd
the one person i know who got rejected got rejected cuz he accidentally said fuck in the middle of the interview
But thank god it’s not cognizant /witch
Shesh
Never had that happen to me
When I’m around certain people my brain adapts
LOL
is there a "grokking talking to girls"?
missed the opportunity for "grokking to girls"
To talk to girls, it is important to approach the conversation with confidence and respect. You should always be polite and respectful when speaking to anyone, regardless of their gender.
When starting a conversation with a girl, it can be helpful to have a specific topic in mind, such as a shared interest or something that is currently happening. This can help to break the ice and get the conversation flowing.
It is also important to listen and be an active listener when talking to a girl. This means giving her your full attention, asking follow-up questions, and making an effort to understand her perspective.
Overall, the key to talking to girls is to be respectful, confident, and engaged in the conversation. This will help to make the conversation enjoyable and enjoyable for both parties.
I like to conclude every essay with “ultimately”
Yeah it concluded with overall again 
Talking to girls, or anyone else, should be no different than talking to anyone else. It's important to treat everyone with respect and approach conversations with an open mind and a willingness to listen.
Here are some tips for having productive and respectful conversations with girls:
Start by introducing yourself and making sure the other person is comfortable continuing the conversation.
Ask open-ended questions and listen to their answers. Avoid interrupting or talking over them.
Be respectful of their boundaries and personal space.
Be genuine and authentic in your interactions.
Avoid making assumptions or stereotypes about the person based on their gender.
Overall, the key to having successful conversations with girls, or anyone else, is to approach them with respect, openness, and a willingness to listen and learn.
has anyone worked at/interviewed w voleon

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^ i need the answer to this question fr
lmk
ChatGPT about to replace us all
bro ru fr lmao?
lmfao
I usually say crap
as a substitute
haven't heard back after Netflix security intern OA for a month= ghost?
idt its worth
I know this guy
Recession hasn't peeked yet. Some people argue it hasn't started yet. We're only 6-9 months away from next season. If this doesn't tell you how bad next season will be, idk what else would.
anyone interview with NVIDIA for this summer?
have 2 interviews with them next week wondering what to expect
does anyone know what snowflake's general careers email is? I wanted to ask if I could get the oa again as I couldn't do it the past couple weeks
You’re too late
yea it is
lmfao
got along way to go
check google
resume of someone that would be hired at google
lmao
Ong bro but how does it determine answers?
They playin hard to get 😔
nah they reject too lol
ong 
wdym
like who
i know like 10 + ppl with snap offer, but i think most ppl are through some program called snap prep
'i might be first snpa offer without the program
netflix i know 1 other person as well
but ye early into process for sure
idk where yet ill figure it out soon
what does this bofa solos mean T.T
Yo that’s my roommate 
can i marry him?
1984
Being realistic here, if I applied mostly during the end of nov for summer internships. Am I already too late?
depends
for the big name companies, probably
most of the smaller/mid sized ones tho are hiring still
fidelity is always open

Does Bloomberg have open roles?
does anyone know how different the citadel interview process is from citadel securities?
Does it matter if you use ur school email or a personal email to apply for internships?
UwU ber
Apple vs Amazon ? which has more resume value ?
Apple
apple 100%
apple seems to be safer than amazon too
Apple 100%
It got me in a lot of places
ty for the responses, i hope i get da bag 
Yea true 💯
I still would like to work for them in the future
but I don’t wanna to go through their shitty interview pipeline rn
its mega rng innit
my friend got in through 15 minute "implement this thingy in swift"
although im certain it was him saying enough shit for the recruiter to go "yeah he knows more about apple app development than i do, ive seen enough"
Got in as in into the next round or like an offer from recruiter phone…?
like offer
as freshman
the man lives and breathes apple development so its a unique case tho
@near swallow is the goat as he built kirb300. I understand he has a new one but it doesn't have a cool productivity tracker like the old one so I say fuck the future and stick with the og
that's my daily kirb compliments
Apple but I have heard that you should avoid working there too long (like if you take return) because you can get trapped in iOS development which doesn't transfer to anywhere else
Okay, makes sense
man I was not at all prepared for how this season would affect my mental health
why would it not transfer over
isnt it just software development
do u still get interview invites?
uh oh im niched into ios dev, but there are tons of ios jobs outside of apple
.....
from other apple teams
this is true but not usually where ppl who are at apple wanna move to
i have to learna new tech stack when job hopping anyways
what????????????? recruiter talking about swift -> OFFER???????
anyways just what I saw from some apple ppl
he was teaching the recruiter swift stuff while doing the quick technical question
yeah but usually for senior+ roles they look for experience in their stack
i wonder where ios engineers from apple would migrate to
retirement
same
i dont know if i should
try another team bc im coming back this summer
or try for another firm in the winter
bc im scared for the recession 💀
Tbh I just want to do more iOS engineering
which I haven’t really done before at a company
like march-june team 2
june - sept team 3 but yea
yea im in ios engineering
its cool
I kinda figured out why I keep failing apple interview
why
like I said in the past, they found something interesting about you versus the other candidates
so u need to figure out what that is
talk shit ton about it
My last interview
yup
The manager was really into iOS project but I didn’t necessary talk bout it as much
since it was small pet project that I didn’t think much of it
so I felt that he couldn’t see my skills clearly because of that
also partly I didn’t explain it as much since I don’t remember any of the code and project
my current incoming team is asks me pure lc 💀 and i think the other interview i tried for asked me lc too
damn
I don’t mind the lc since it’s good way to standardize how ppl work and code
im bad at lc i am traumatized
since my incoming team was an in person
white boarding interview
since i was conveniently still
just get some practice in 😤😤
working there
damn my first interview was still over Webex
Recruiter fucked up the Webex link
so I dm the interviewer and hopped on his Webex link
i want linkedin
I will let u know how it goes!!
I’m excited to see a company with FREE FOOD
plus mobile engineering 
u better.
im tryna to be like u 🙄
free food 👅
the work is lame compare to apple tho
what ios team are u on @spice jetty
still cool but apple is COOLER
Better get that LinkedIn burger
think teams like facetime, imessage, etc
wowwwwww
change term from summer -> fall?
team dependen i bet :((
Wdym by a productivity tracker LOL
My kirb350 is literally perfect

It’s just missing esoteric grass challenged problems
Like line sweep etc
Also the categories are much better now
I accept ur compliments tho
Walking into interview after doing kirb350
is it related to yeezy350
It isn’t color coordinated
That’s my issue
my only reservation with kirb350 is that its 350 questions
i know you dont have to complete all of it but like b75 is enough for interns (mostly) unless k350 is for ng
nancy pelosi email spam gave me shell shock every time i see the name joseph
another banger from nancy
idk why it took me this long to block them
😭 😭
ok obviously mine was a joke but i believe this one 100%
the only real one on mine
is google HAHA
yeah open ai especially
they're pretty small
maybe you'll get recruited
oh that makes sense tho
i wonder what kind of work they do over there
im really curious now bc of chat gpt
i thought it was real 
saw an apple engineer posting an intern position on his team on twitter
boutta announce my internship on twitter or put "Incoming at _ " in my bio

yeah i wont do that either
im just expecting nothing until i hopefully hear back
what happens if you pass the interview, but no team wants to match with you ?
u get moved to the next season
unless you been in project matching hell for 1 yr already
^
u accept the amz offer?
200iq
aint amazon planning on rescinding some intern offers?
If anyone knew they’re the smartest mf alive
not and intern but damn
stop that guy is so dumb 😭
what he do wrong ?
resigned from google lmao
google was presumably going to layoff low performers, so I think he was afraid he was gon get laid off and accepted amazon
do u guys actually use netflix
My project managers made this UI decision not me

Had to remove it in favor of tracking sources.
Given some problem, which sources cite it. So if problem is in neetcode and b75 then which color do u code it
U cant so i did something else
yeezy irrelevant now didnt he go off the handle lately
https://i.imgur.com/TPstoBt.png rakesh is wild HAHAHA
madness
who
paypal
Netflix and chill
hi
Yo
That’s a lot of questions
bro chill
Is PayPal OA Auto?
It’s called “PayPal Summer 2023 University Intern SE Test” 😅
is it normal for there to be nothing in paypal portal for application status?
deloitte or mathworks
how come
theyre the same pay, i hv no idea what to do lol
i see that chart everywhere, whatd u use to make it?
11 finals zamn
man hearing this when i studied for like 30 mins a day then called it quits after a week
astral projecting onto my monitor rn
hirevue is the worst
lol
talk to us about a moment
i really need to up my lc game like im noticing its the ultimate barrier for most people
once you got experience its just a matter of solving goofy code puzzles until ai eventually forces us into the codeforces age
you have possibly the most realistic and relatable timeline
like half the people here got apple summer stripe winter with 0 years of exp from seemingly blind luck but you hopped between mid companies for 2 years to netflix after grinding like its a full time job
Does anyone know any companies that don’t ask lt
i think the only offer u can really frag ur way into is probably amazon
maybe google too
Apple is to RnG to really tell
lmao, if u do enough lc amazon is basically free
even if it does, ill be ready
Twitter firings were funny
i wanted to be one of them 😔
but its fine, we grind and get in for real now
my entire goal now is to dominate 2024 season when im actually a junior
i really dont, i did like 4 lc problems this season
i should do more lc, and learn programming fr fr
true
it was sudoku validation
o
actually iirc i dont think i got a perfect on it
so idk how i got through either
the actual technical interview was legit DSA trivia
zamn
my zon final was truly just the most humbling experience
I really said who needs to learn optimal twosum cuz it will never actually show up in an amazon final
i dont get this
ngl, Riots communication and overall vibe was lowkey lacking
he has its an exaggeration
they really spent 3 months on my interviews and then rejected me cuz of headcount
actual bullshit
the first behavioural final had very bad vibes
second was ok for me
its super Rng
its honestly the hiring committee decisions after that are the most Rng
which is annoying
like I talked to my recruiter and he straight up told me headcount was the reason i got rejected, and i was like bro YOU GUYS spent 3 months to schedule all my interviews
this whole operation was ur idea
honestly im trying for the other companies next year
Are you interning at Zon this summer?
no
i wish
im interning at walmart or fidelity, i havent decided fully yet
maybe if i get another company 👀
Cisco plz give interview 
same
1.5 months since my invite
to get an interview
i dont think its about u, ur probably one of the most dedicated kids i know
Math works
mathworks tf
walmart is fidelity tier
mathworks better and better comp ng too
and better work
I didnt get walmart 😭
ive heard walmart lowkey not a good place to work
oh rip
Why not
Im still waiting
Recruiter said their still recruiting

To me
are you waiting for an interview?
No
my friend did a poll on blind, and a lot of walmart employees who did internships said that the work itself is dogshit, and their overall compensation and stuff is only good cuz good wlb
Waitin for results
riot oa told u how to do each step lol
not much career movement either, its a c1 situation
I see
lmao fr tho
the last one was kinda hard
Dude
guys
Apparently 2 recruiters reached out to me from fidelity
who the fuck thought it was a good idea to have my Stats finals from 7-9:30 tonight
Lol
Hi does anyone know if tiktok or arista networks do fall, and what would you choose between the two? I’m trying to optimize for trading swe ng next year
we need to keep fidelity rep up, so we can keep them as a free internship
im a huge stan cuz fidelity has insanely good wlb, and the work on specific teams can be geniunely nice
pay is too low
i wish they would pay more
if they paid like 100k, id geniunely consider them over most mid tier companies
like 100k and fidelity easily is better than Bofa, Wells Fargo, Walmart etc etc
fidelity is a good quant pipeline cuz its a finance company
any finance company good for quant
thats why im still considering fidelity over walmart
i hate hubspot
these fuckers took my final interview and rejected me cuz of headcount
then they called me and gave amazing feedback on my interview, and the dude goes "unfortunately we filled up before ur offer could be processed, try again next year"
C1 is chill but no career progression
This is the worst. Happened to me with Twitch
Fidelity has super consistent wlb across teams
but i wanna work on a rust team lowkey
i feel like doing finance shit would be cool
nah fr
im telling u, they need to increase ng pay
Dropbox uses Rust i think
fid pay is shit but damn i did jack shit
if fidelity increases pay they easily have like a top 10 wlb in the industry
and still got a return offer
deadass
every company i want ghosts me man
an intern set up a funeral for a dead racoon in the basement by the ping pong table it was that much of a coast
Wtf
goated
he fed it doordash tho
it was his fault
truly
at least thats what ive heard, i cant confirm that
wait
so u can only interview for twitch?
what if u just dont tell them u have amzn final
like do they find out automatically?
zamn
wild
zamn
actually thats not too bad
its like 2 chances for amzn
type shit
guys im about to go to my stats final not knowing what confidence intervals are
pray for me
no shade btw i just used your offers as an example not you
has anyone interview with nvidia ai intra / autonomous vehicle intern? i had an interview upcoming but no idea to prep
Don't u have to be at Amazon for a certain amt of time before u switch
It was standard interview
u mean just normal lc?
anyone know what restaurant brands international is?
i have an interview with them but i geniunely cant find any info on them
LMAO
popeyes swe
moment
lmao
Lol
which one would u choose
They are parent company for big restaurants
some dude was asking me about a fid intern server but there isnt one
considering making one even though im hopping off the wagon next year
yea but whats their pay like for interns
they actually pay well
yea no, they pay like 120-130k starting apparently
so im interested
Around high 30s I think
whats wrong with them

this server has skewed my perception of success
fax
I have fidelity and walmart and feel like a literal failure
Sweatshop
ive considered that but in case everything else fails id rather go fid ng than walmart ng
they wont
they were remote but are going into full in person
they even removed the free lunches
apparently
cuz everyones going back in person
they do be
oh this is team dependent, my team was in nebraska so i just didnt go
bruh
Krishna, if u come to NC, come with me, we shall go eat good food
unless im in arkansas
in which case rip
im trying not to go to nc but my recruiter takes 5 years to repsond
durham population is like 40% south asian so you'd be right
cookout saved me freshman year cuz it was open till 5am and i would get food at like 3am everyday
yea
personally speaking i think they suck
my moms food better
but there are some decent places
if u want south indian food there are a ton
Anjappar, Naga's are the two main good places that also offer buffets
word
wbu?
did u live in the Chapel dorms or Duke ones?
those were the main two iirc
and NCSU had some
apartments on hillsborough
yea all my friends just subleased and then 4 people would carpool to fidelity hq
ZAMN
rent should not be more than like 1k
this is NC
even the college expensive apartments are like 1.1k
how the fuck did i leave the job with less money than i started
mans got robbed
fr
how did u not find an apartment for like $600-700
dont go near office
try the ones near unis
they do that stupid shit where units are 1.5k on the site
they usually provide shuttles too, and the goCARY transport system takes u to RTP
but if you select the shortest lease of only 3 months they jack up costs hard
also if u find roommates who live in NC apartments in the summer
u can carpool and shit too
its super convenient
wish i talked to you before i interned there bruh
useful info to have before i emptied my wallet
massive rip, i know a couple people who were actually looking to sublease their apartments for like $800ish
yea
all the berkeley kids lived at UNC
and the yale and columbia kids were at NCSU
was funny
the real question was why the fuck were yale kids at fidelity
yea for sure
especially with Apples incoming campus
im tryna get an apple offer so i can stay in NC lowkey
nc is north carolina?
ah ok
NCSU has been popping off
we finally beat UNC in rankings for cs this year
bro we had a kid get into JS this year
and that was the highlight
we also got apple and amazon at our career fair
was pog
bruh american state unis kinda cracked
t50 cs school
we need to get into the t30 no cap
pinterest, amazon, and google have started recruiting way more from NCSU and UNC now
its nice to see
RTP is gonna be great for the future honestly
Duke is just a feeder off prestige, yall dont even need a career fair
u had janestreet
i think ncsu is good cuz cost effective
wait NCSU isnt there
rip
wait is that list absolute value or relative to enrollment
I wish amazon would come to RTP
Netapp is good in RTP tho rn
closest to big tech asides from google and apple
Salesforce no have big hq here tho right?
guys is MIT a target school? im not able to get any interviews this season
um
I got rejected 😔
are you a junior?
yea yea but u not tight with ur recruiter like that 🫢
i read this as "apple male" and i thought it was some variation of sigma male
I honestly dont think the class is that hard
same have had only 2 final rounds (1 for winter, 1 for summer) and failed both
u gotta be a clown to fail it @silver totem lmao
im waiting for walmart
waiting for At&t fidelity verizon etc more company interviews hopefully coming
Geico
;p
we will see
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
ya ong bro
ngl, @elder surge RTP should get way more attention than it deserves
I NEED SMTH
people lowkey underrate how much RTP has to offer companies wise
RTP COMPANIES STAND UP
now we add apple
to this
u get used to it
whooooo
yea
they have the metlife building rn for current employees
but they are building a campus
for their eastern hq or something
its based
they bought the land right behind cisco
so i was like driving to cisco and fidelity
and it was just getting prepped for construction
bet
i need an apple recrutier
ive gotten nothing
does cold emailing recruiters at apple help?
Amazon or cockroach (for friend)
Amazon
rip
i just want an interview chance man
Apple is lowkey a top 3 company to work at for me
Why? Amazon is Aws btw
aside from a quant, if i get a quant fuck nc im out
name brand
if u already have resume shit then go cockroach
Sounds good
absolutely
Aight she’s already has amazon on her resume
i already got a home here
Sounds good
so ill leave for a few years, mint money and then come back
oh then cockroach
wtf i applied like a month ago i got nothing from them
they gotta get back to meeeee
where are these firms coming from
ive never seen them
wtf we spawning in quants now
Guys I'm still in the microsoft's waitlist for the final round for EU
Sadge..
who knows they print money though
ike my phoneE? i got nothing T_T
doubt it, fidelity didnt offer pto
walmart has 1 day
iirc
ng starts hella early
https://i.imgur.com/mAmDQBp.png this is the right one no?
they been open since august for ng, and they had like an 80% ng offer rate for interns
so like they fill up fast for ng
yea that looks right
yea
they have an 80% offer rate for interns
ok will just wait
like 50% id say, most of them end up going to other places
they take like 1k interns tho, they have a really big intern pool
fidelity hires a lot
twosum
and lru cache
and two pointers
and threesum
most common ones tbh
twosum optimal
@honest spire im learning swift in the hopes that apple will give me offer next year
im indian
lol
deadass
just got hit w the fat rejection
after a month+ of ghosting
im mad as shit
wtf
all my non technical interviews i thought were fire too, my final at the end went over an hour of us just talkin and at the end he said tbh u did really good we gonna hear from u soon
zzzzzzzz
deserved.
im graduating in 2024 too no more chances at this
brutal as fuck.
blows, i think the only interview i did bad at thru their process. was the technical
i think i would rather pull my hair out than do a masters
i dont have any interest in stem or academics i am not gonna lie
is it really worth it
compared to just graduating on-time
why? is the new hire process much more rigorous than intern to ft?
i think im just gonna graduate and just see what happens.
i guess.
theres no other ocmpany id like to work at but whatever u pick and u choose ig
fuck me
i just want a cushy job so i can do other shit
i still maintain that like 50% of cs majors either dont know or care about internships
that's true
like this channels main cast all got something and its partly because they spend mad time here
you'll be fine
This is true
But its nice to have to spend summers gaining real experience
if i were to delay my grad id be spending 12 months working at other companies
man i hate this cycle os much
3 months ago, yes
y tho
not everybody can get offers from all the jobs they apply to
nah bro im just saying
dont waste your life applying for jobs
there's more to life than job hunting
esp at ur age
In the land of Leetcode,
A realm of code and algorithms,
A young coder spent his days,
Tapping at his keyboard, lost in thought.
He toiled away,
Solving problem after problem,
A never-ending quest,
For the perfect solution.
But as the days turned to weeks,
And the weeks to months,
He began to realize,
That life was passing him by.
He'd spent so much time,
Trapped in his digital world,
That he'd forgotten,
The beauty of the real one.
So he stepped away,
From his computer screen,
And took a deep breath,
Of the fresh, outside air.
And as he gazed upon,
The world around him,
He realized,
That life was meant to be lived.
So he set aside,
His coding troubles,
And embraced the present,
A new and wonderful adventure.
It doesnt@matter
Tbh riots not all cut out to be that good
bro i thought my final was so good too and
They pay well and shit but they aren’t better than any of their competitors either so it’s not a big deal
then it was just a straight ghost
tru fuck riot
who are their competitors?
My recruiter showed me the feedback and my interviewer gave me a pass on the final interview and recommended me for the league department
Fuck headcount
Go Google and@vibe
i cant do that.
has anyone done the de shaw coding test
its probably every games company, only the major ones know
dont u got 358 to study for @quaint bolt
don't you?
Congrats!
nah not after this news im kmsing
fail me im going 2025 anyways
id be saying this too if i had snap offer
but youre still right
ye true but this like the only company id want then id just sit there for 10 years while doing shit i actually wanna do
once this shit is off my mind i dont have to think about jobs and academics ever again
Lmao fr
man whatever fuck this ima go smoke or smt this tilting the shit outta me
lol real.
tolga tekin?
they were on the new unreleased games
why do u ask?
oh
LOL
riot games.
hahaha
lmfao
disrespectful i was trying my best
Anyone familiar with the Duck Creek interview process?
you got an offer right?
Has anyone heard back after applying to two sigma w referral
I did apply pretty late but I thought I would at least hear something :(((
congrats!
ya there’s becoming 200 lean and job hunting lol
2 things
Also has anyone gotten resume rejected by Netflix yet?
I think they screen before oa
@winter heath you should be like him
Yep but like has anyone gotten a rejection email tho
I haven’t
I did the airtable@thing on Nov 1st so that might be why I haven’t received rejection yet
Did mine October 10 😭
did spotify come out and close alr?
Received a verbal offer over the phone from an AWS recruiter today and I should be receiving my internship offer Monday. Was waitlisted about a month.
Hi what’s up
I really need advice:
The next step in an interview with a small-mid size ML company is a take home project that you get a week to complete. The head of ML(who conducted the interview) reached out to me asking when I would like to start the assignment. All of my final projects are due next week Monday through Wednesday, so I’m thinking of asking to start on Thursday, so I can focus on the take-home assessment project and make it as good as possible.
Do you guys think that’s too long? The interview was yesterday. I don’t think I’d actually take a full week to complete it, so I could ask to start earlier. Not sure what to do
🤨
200 lean more possible than this job stuff
Has anyone in the loop with Riot games gotten scheduled for another 30 min call after their final values interview? If so do you know what the call is about?
ngl
lean prolly harder
im 170 and lean as fuck, but 30 pounds without gaining fat while natty is insane
woudl take like 5 years prolly
ya but its not a chore to train thats fun
so it eventually will happen its a given
eating right and sticking to same thing for 5 years is tough
i cant keep doing same thing more than 3 months tbh
wym eating right
just consume everything in sight
im so bad at getting in protein im ngl i gotta get on top of my shit and stop being cringe and just make more shakes
backpack angle
does anyone know how many qs toast final has
dirty bulk doesnt equal lean mass
most health conscious dirty bulker
not me
trust me I’m the real CHIMI
plz
don’t ban me
😩😩😩😩
@gentle latch
can verify that I’m the real one
ban the imposter
the team matching process started for summer now
it’s time for the dub 😈😈😈
apple did me dirty but sundar won’t do that to me
has anyone done Neetcode's sys design
ur so sexy 😍😍😍😍
bro in 3 days we will either be getting a process dropbox offer or a dropbox offer reject
.
it’s dub
if it’s not dub, I’m not chimi
whaa r u sure?
we don’t know for sure
.
but god. the second it’s official the whole world will know.
except square.
they can wait until they give me offer
I just shaved after a week I feel reborn
There’s no official start date lol
Projects have been approved for a while now. Deadline to submit projects was last week
what font size do you guys use for your resume? im wondering if i can get away with decreasing it... im having trouble squeezing in everything when trying to update it for my 3rd internship
oh hm my recruiter didn't email me yet
anyone here in community college and gotten an internship - can i hyu?
This may not be the best place to talk about this especially since this recruiting game works great for a lot of you here but do people feel like this entire process is just so heartless? Its like you are just stripped of your humanity from step one and reduced to your ability to solve arbitrary challenges or perform on a specific day with kind of random metrics
I understand there is a need to choose based on technical expertise so I don't expect hiring purely on personality in any way. But, the testing just goes about the wrong way both with the challenges used and the metrics used to judge performance
Yeah, that's fair and tbh I don't really have a solution for how this process should work. Obviously, the judgment of your performance does come down to the interviewer's subjective feedback if you have candidates who meet the correctness and efficiency metrics. The margins just feel so thin at times and from our perspective you just don't know what/how to do better sometimes and that can be crushing
I know it sounds like me complaining and tbf it is to some extent but this process is really making me question the humanity of this industry as a whole (I know this is probably the same case for other industries as well so there may be no point in thinking about this at all)
And, I also wanted to mention that the people for which this system works will continue to be woefully ignorant (and that includes me) about what it is like for people who are left behind by such a system and won't really try to imagine and push for a better system
skill issue
anyone know
like a discord server
with people who need private tutors
no i lost
60 bucks playing poker today
thats why
ran into aces twice
Tbh I think that cs/swe is one of the more merit-based fields
Yes the system isn't perfect, but I feel like it's definitely more achievable for someone who comes from a lower class background and who doesn't go to a top school to land top internships than other majors
Altho I do think the current system has flaws
But I can't think of a solution to it that doesn't have failings in it's own way
One solution often brought up is project-based testing, but I think that is subject to even more bias than leetcode style questions
Some people suggest just testing on trivia, but I feel like that would just skew towards people who have connections or get interviews earlier in the cycle.
Honestly just make people do an actual coding project that uses frameworks and shit
Hubspot did something similar iirc and it was supposed to represent on the job work which was cool
It also prevents leetcode monkeys from getting into an internship and realizing they don’t know what the fuck I’d going on with all the other aspects of programming like unit testing and various services/frameworks
Yea honestly I’d rather do that then 100 lc questions
Also no one says they have to be big project
No, this is too tedious
They can be small segments or stuff
And some companies use this as a chance to get people to do their tickets lol
But realistically no company wants to bother with it
But it wasn’t lc is what I was tryna say
Nobody wants to spend a weekend designing and building a huge ass project only to get rejected
But yea it won’t work
Speaking of projects, I need to ask- if you're a 1st-year, what sorts of projects generate recruiter attention if you don't have internships? I see a lot of contradictions on reddit stating projects don't matter
Meanwhile people saying "Do projects if you don't have internships" and other people saying "Don't put Tic-Tac-Toe, a To-Do List or a Calculator on your resume"
No project, way too much time investment per process
I’d say make “baby level system design” more common
Like C1’s case interview
Or SIG’s interviews
Design classes, give high level system overviews, debug or optimize already-written code
I already have my own, as you saw on my resume but I got rejected from several places and I wonder
If my projects were the issue, I didn't think they were bad
People say not to do these because these projects are super weak, I’d do something a little more challenging. Maybe embed tick tack toe into a website that has a leaderboard system
Same SIG’s and C1’s interviews have been the most enjoyable to me, I don’t like being quizzed on bs DSA. I enjoy being quizzed on real job-relevant skills
Can I like read the code on those
I won’t steal
But they sound super interesting
ML projects?
Hahahaha yeah my Amazon interviewer had designed the q for a c++ interview and when I said I wanted to use python he literally went “oh this is gonna be super easy then oh well”
Nice job
Yeah what class teachers markov models and Monte Carlo
I see a lot of quants ask Monte Carlo and I still haven’t learned it
We don’t even have that I don’t think
Is that a math class
Oh is Stochastic Processes a common class?
I have one of my own at my school. wanted to take it, considering between DSP and Stochastic Processes
Going to be taking a bunch of ML/AI courses in the future, you would recommend?
Yeah it's a grad class
ECE dept
What are pre reqs
I see. I can only take one (at least for next sem), which one has helped you the most for DL?
Sweet, that's the one I am registered for.
Awesome thanks

IM SO BAD AT SUBARRAY PROBS
hi matada its been so long
Maximum Subarray - Given an integer array nums, find the subarray which has the largest sum and return its sum.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [-2,1,-3,4,-1,2,1,-5,4]
Output: 6
Explanation: [4,-1,2,1] has the largest sum = 6.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1]
Output: 1
Example 3:
Input: nums = [5,4,-1,7,8]
Output: 23
Constraints:
- 1 <...
can I get a hint
I don't wanna look at solutions cuz that's way more than a hint
I feel like its gonna be sliding window
Ask chat gpt for a hint
that'll be even worse than reading the solutions
@near swallow hint plz mr leetcode god
shit
no shot then
S
so
I looked at solutions
but I don't really understand how the largest sum subarray corresponds to the largest difference
but my thing is
you never reset the "tempsum" tracker to 0
its the algo used
but I was always abd w it
bad*
idk like it just never clicks
idk how to explain it
def maxSubArray(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
res = nums[0]
msum = 0
temp = 0
for n in nums:
temp += n
res = max(res, temp-msum)
msum = min(msum, temp)
return res```
Here's my answer
so temp is the running sum of the entire array
res is the maximum subarray sum found
and msum is the smallest found
I guess I don't understand how the max found, minus the min found, gives the max subarray
is it because if we take 1 continuous subarray and maximize its sum, then by definition the rest of the array could be considered the "minimum summed subarray"?
ohhh ok I just realized that as I was explaining what I don't get
yeah that makes sense
do you do the DnC approach?
Oh I see haha
def maxSubArray(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
res = nums[0]
temp = 0
for n in nums:
temp += n
if n > temp:
temp = n
res = max(res, temp)
return res```
bro that is so much more comprehendible for me
def maxSubArray(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
res = nums[0]
temp = 0
for n in nums:
temp = max(n, temp+n)
res = max(res, temp)
return res```
peak condensed
anyways ty
Kadanes
Fuck kadanes
Holy crapamoly a message he didn’t delet
Kadanes algorithm
Hubspot has a small coding project as their oa. The interview is still lc tho. (Or at least it was when I interviewed)
Barely leetcode lol
if u apply during november are u fucked?

anyone have any luck applying post-january for internships?
small companies u should be fine
Is there some list of small companies?
nah u just look on linkedin or smth
bruh has anyone ever heard back from databento
cant find a single intern on linkedin tf

cri
nop
just wondering if I should expect anything
but ig not
wait I thought u already signed
still in teammatch?
oh jumpstart 💀
depends on priorities at that point
my friend had a jump interview on a sat
rip wlb
realest shit i seen in here
i j want an offer and finals to be over so i can get blasted and watch smth stupid or read more light novels
wots this
bruh its over for me and Im actually jobless
I feel too tired to play games or read stuff
but Im also bored
ig I'll watch
harold the goat
actually watching wano high sounds nuts
i havent watched the anime in a minute just reading manga
it’s a fire movie
the first one is harold and kumar go to white castle
unfortunately i’m caught up
not on the manga but the anime
man
i watched last 2 episodes of pokemon subbed when they cameout
brought a tear to my eye
haven’t watched pokémon in a while
||ash won the world pokemon league or w.e so hes a pokemon master now i think||
i had to get rid of it




