2023_summer

[civic shoal]

hmm maybe that could work too there’s more than one way to do it

[honest locust]

what does dikkstra's in reverse mean

[fickle ivy]

^ ya

[civic shoal]

Djisktras finds shortest path

[sand pendant]

is cisco oa random for everyone?

[civic shoal]

That question wanted you to find the longest one

[fickle ivy]

most ppl seem to have brain damaged questions

[civic shoal]

So you basically find shortest path with negative values

[fickle ivy]

i thought longest path was NP hard though

[fickle ivy]

ohh

[civic shoal]

It was something along that line

[fickle ivy]

but i thought dijkstra died on

negative weights

[civic shoal]

And then reverse the output

[fickle ivy]

and bf was better

[civic shoal]

Yeah I don’t know if it was the most efficient solution or not

[sand pendant]

when is your apple phone btw?

[civic shoal]

bf might be better just never attempted it

[fickle ivy]

oop

lmao

[past comet]

Thats done 🫡

[sly copper]

Wdym by that

[sand pendant]

oh, how did it go?

[past comet]

Good ig but the interviewer was writing some feedback ig during the interview and he was pretty chill

[fickle ivy]

questions were

1. print out alternating strings
2. smth weird
3. ip address regex

[sand pendant]

was it lc style?

[sly copper]

smth weird 💀

[civic shoal]

It’ll work if you have negative weights but only negative weights can exist

[fickle ivy]

ohhhh

then ig it could work

[honest locust]

but if there's a cycle then you're still screwed

[past comet]

Nope not at all

[honest locust]

bc longest path in a cycle

[civic shoal]

Yeah

[fickle ivy]

well with negative you want

shortest path

[honest locust]

is just do the cycle a bunch of times

[sand pendant]

then what exactly?

[fickle ivy]

so cycles don't matter questionmark

[civic shoal]

it was really confusing to implement there’s definitely a better way to do it

[honest locust]

nah cycles do matter i think

[fickle ivy]

then i shoudl just use bellman ford no

https://anilpai.medium.com/currency-arbitrage-using-bellman-ford-algorithm-8938dcea56ea

idk this article says

[honest locust]

are we given the constraint that the graph is acyclic?

[fickle ivy]

use bf

[fickle ivy]

i mean

the first test case is a cyclic graph

💀

so i would think no

[civic shoal]

I mean you could use topological sort in general

That’s the simplest way to do it

[fickle ivy]

is this

lc hard

?

or more like a med

[civic shoal]

I’d say it’s a hard

[fickle ivy]

HARD hard?

or slightly easy hard

[civic shoal]

yeah definitely

[fickle ivy]

i see

cuz like i did a few LC hards

like uh the island one

[civic shoal]

Especially because there’s so many ways to do it

[fickle ivy]

and they were so much more

approachable

[civic shoal]

Yeah not all LC problems are equal in difficult

[fickle ivy]

LC should add expert lmao

[civic shoal]

There are some hards that are actually mediums

[fickle ivy]

or smth

ya

[civic shoal]

and some mediums that should really be hard

[honest locust]

i had fucking LFU cache today so...

that's a hard hard

[fickle ivy]

yeah LFU cache is really difficult

[civic shoal]

yeah that’s fucked

[fickle ivy]

lmao

LRU cache is like

[honest locust]

thanks akuna

[fickle ivy]

what id expct

thats why im like tf LFU ???

and f and r are so close too so im like oh thats def a typo

turns out

[past comet]

@sand pendant

[honest locust]

i learned about lfu and lru cache my freshman first semester

and i still can't implement any of those properly

[civic shoal]

I learned LRU cache in a class lmao

[fickle ivy]

i would quit being a cs major and go take a gender studies class

would that be a good answer @past comet

[fickle ivy]

i learned through leetcode oop

and a friend

[past comet]

Didnt get you ? 😅

[sinful locust]

is goldman sachs summer analyst -> nyc -> engineering -> general their swe internship

[fickle ivy]

is sax open

[civic shoal]

It makes more sense when you’re actually taking a class that requires you to implement a cache

[honest locust]

yea

akuna should stop giving me class/OOP questions

[civic shoal]

And yeah GS applications are open

[honest locust]

those are the bane of my existance

i'd rather have regular lc questions

i had 2 of those today

[sinful locust]

i needa start LC grind

can only do some hards

[past comet]

Same here

[civic shoal]

I’m going through grokking rn

[sinful locust]

which one

book or educative

[civic shoal]

Coding interview

Educative

[sinful locust]

great for patterns

[civic shoal]

Didn’t know there’s a book

[sinful locust]

i might do the entire book

there is

[civic shoal]

Yeah I’m revising the basics

[sinful locust]

sameee

[civic shoal]

Then gonna do b75 again

[sinful locust]

i’d do by category

know what you’re getting into

otherwise you’ll wanna pull ur hair out

[civic shoal]

Yeah that’s usually how I do it

[honest locust]

i'm working through neetcode 150 rn

[sinful locust]

pete ur grinder

[civic shoal]

Ah wait I should actually do neetcode

I hear it’s better

[sinful locust]

it just is more thorough

[honest locust]

what's the grokking book

[sinful locust]

grokking coding interview book

search it up

it goes over DSA

imma use that + youtube

[civic shoal]

Oh it’s just basic DSA

honestly yeah I’d just use YouTube over that

Or even take a coursera course

[honest locust]

yea

[sly copper]

I thought some companies stopped asking blind75 since everyone knows them now

Is it now just forming those problem solving skills?

[past comet]

is sig codesignal proctored ? do I need to show some kind of id ? because i remember showing my passport once 2 yrs ago

[civic shoal]

they don’t ask questions directly as much but blind75 still builds on important concepts

[glacial lance]

When you do leetcode is normal not to know some of the answers

Cause I'm just starting out

[earnest hatch]

Very normal

[civic shoal]

Yeah no one actually comes up with the answers on their own

You kinda learn what the answer is and just apply it to other things

[honest locust]

how long does it take for capital 1 to send oa

i applied like an hour ago

[civic shoal]

They autorejected me the next day so

[honest locust]

i heard c1 was auto oa tho

it's a codesignal

[glacial lance]

So u just do it develop the patterns and the algorithmic thinking

[sly copper]

Can you submit an previous codesignal score

[earnest hatch]

Is it giving you the option

I think people were able to do that with Coinbase

[past comet]

Lmao got only 2 ques for SIG OA (used C++)

done in 6 mins

straight from leetcode

[sly copper]

Ayo

[past comet]

is this same for everyone ?

lmao

Okie

[sinful locust]

how bad is gs oa

[civic shoal]

@glacial lance basically yeah and hope you get lucky in an interview

[glacial lance]

Ah aight

[sand pendant]

what is their general process like? OA -> Phone -> Final?

[past comet]

Anyone filled this ?

I hate filling out these deets tbh

[sand pendant]

is it automated?

[civic shoal]

Companies focus way too much on leetcode and not enough on how to use their broken ass JIRA and confluence set ups

[rapid swan]

LMAO

so true

bruh I was doing some stuff for facebook and like every calendar link they had was broken 💀 and other links too

[civic shoal]

not surprised

[proud whale]

google summer 23' and winter 23' going live soon, spoke w/ recruiter

[past comet]

Lfgooooo

Define soon ? 🫣

[proud whale]

dunno, was told soon

[past comet]

Cool. Gotta start the grind

[proud whale]

start the leetcoding boys

[past comet]

Yes sir

[tiny bane]

so I'm not really great at leetcode stuff at all but I got a referral for an internship next summer at Amazon and got my resume reviewed n sent and now I'm waiting on the OAs

if u have any advice on prep strategies that worked for u for amazon that would be great thanks

also maybe any advice on if Amazon is good and how it stacks up to maybe other internships u have done

thanks in advance

[proud whale]

amazon is great, just a lot of rng in their process i've heard. Blind 75 would be the best place to start reviewing from, i've heard many people get questions straight from Blind 75 on their Amazon interviews. You can also do company tagged for Amazon on leetcode, those are helpful too

process should be OA -> final then you get your decision, they keep it simple

[proud whale]

good to know

[sinful locust]

yeah id expect winter opens earlier than summer

[mystic depot]

💀

[fickle ivy]

is palantir open

[mystic depot]

some people are saying its open. i cant find anything tho

[fickle ivy]

hmm

[rapid swan]

its opening in july but recruiter has started scheduling interviews with people

[sick oar]

when does microsoft open normally

[civic shoal]

I’m still waiting to hear back from the neurodivergent program lol

[fickle ivy]

lmao i accidentally

applied

and got rejected for not being neurodiverse enough

gg

[rapid swan]

bc I got called

scheduled mine for august

[fickle ivy]

gl

[rapid swan]

its karat apparently

so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rapid swan]

bruh "accidentally applied"

[rapid swan]

thanks

[sly copper]

did you say no or something 💀

[rapid swan]

sadg

karat questions r company based they just outsource the actual interviewers

unless its like robinhood where they outsource the questions too

[past comet]

I know someone working in Karat as interviewer

[rapid swan]

YOO

hacks

nepotism for interviews kinda based

[bright elbow]

Did sig send out OAs?

Co24 btw

[hallow scroll]

Aren’t they known to be really hard compared to other tech companies

[past comet]

yea yea

[hallow scroll]

Sig OA is auto but it takes like 2-3 days to get pretty sure

[past comet]

Sig OA is like 2 ques in 1hr

straight outta Blind 75 i would say for me atleast

[fickle ivy]

uh

i appleid like

10 days ago

gg

[hallow scroll]

Sadge

[bright elbow]

Lc med?

[fickle ivy]

wait should i just trying like

try*

[hallow scroll]

Maybe they stopped recruiting or didn’t give you the oa cuz grad date

[fickle ivy]

applying again

[fickle ivy]

maybe

but maybe i was too early?

give it another go

idk

[bright elbow]

Yeah I will try applying again

[past comet]

Can I say the questions hereb ? I am pretty sure I would violate the rules

[bright elbow]

As well

[bright elbow]

Idts

[hallow scroll]

Ik Cisco does that, if you don’t meet the grad date requirement they don’t give you the auto oa

[past comet]

I would say LC medium and well known LC hard

[bright elbow]

They should have sent a confirmation email at least lmao

[bright elbow]

Fair

[fickle ivy]

cisco sent me an OA tho

but i havent heard anything else from them after doing it

[hallow scroll]

Yeah Cisco always ghosts

Try re applying to sig

[bright elbow]

How long does the interview process take at Sachs

[fickle ivy]

hoes

[past comet]

when does microsoft open ?

[fickle ivy]

is sachs open

[hallow scroll]

Yoyo

[bright elbow]

Oof

[bright elbow]

It opened august last year

I think

[past comet]

Aight. noted

[fickle ivy]

dyk abt sachs

mono

also does blackrock only take juniors after completing OA

[bright elbow]

?

[fickle ivy]

like when the applications open

[bright elbow]

I know a freshman so

[bright elbow]

Open

Opened yesterday I think

[fickle ivy]

can u link please 🙂

[fickle ivy]

damn okay

then ill actually do the OA instead of being lazy lmao

[bright elbow]

One sec

I had a brain fart

https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/

[bright elbow]

Pls Oa s are so annoying

[fickle ivy]

blackrock OA 😩

[sinful locust]

try agian

[sinful locust]

lc hard?

@safe elbow dont lurk

[fickle ivy]

yes lc hard

annoying lc hard too

we discussed ^^

[sinful locust]

did you get all test cases

[fickle ivy]

im finishing 2nd problem rn

[sinful locust]

bruh

[fickle ivy]

i only did the first one last night

lol

[sinful locust]

how long is the oa

[fickle ivy]

you get 4 days

[sinful locust]

like 10 hrs

[fickle ivy]

i think

[sinful locust]

bruh

[fickle ivy]

you can like take a break and come back

[sinful locust]

are they not trying to prevent cheating

[past comet]

I remember twitter giving 24hrs to complete the OA 💀 in 2019 ig

[frail cape]

For a referral at Amazon, I should ask the person to refer me first or should i apply then tell them to refer?

[sinful locust]

ask

[frail cape]

ah shit

I already started my application

😩

[sinful locust]

my referrer told me that they would refer first then id apply

[frail cape]

i didn't know that

oh well

Time to create a new account

[fickle ivy]

lmao

[sinful locust]

bruh

[fickle ivy]

imagine

having a referral

[sinful locust]

imagine taking blackrock oa

[fickle ivy]

imagine

[hallow scroll]

amazon is letting you guys get referrals?

[frail cape]

[sinful locust]

im talking for fall

[hallow scroll]

I asked someone and I was told interns cant be referred

[devout fractal]

Have Amazon oas come out?

[sinful locust]

but i got ghosted

rlly thats intersting

[frail cape]

I heard interns can get referred too

[sinful locust]

engineers said they could refer interns

[hallow scroll]

yeah the guy I asked was an engineer

[frail cape]

but it doesn't have that much of an impact is what i also heard

[sinful locust]

confuzzling

[sinful locust]

true

[devout fractal]

Is aws intern sep from normal amzn intern

[hallow scroll]

yes

[devout fractal]

Bet

[frail cape]

Should I finish my application anyway or create a whole new account for Amazon? lol

[sinful locust]

imagine applying to zonama

just finish it imo

referrals dont help much for that company

[fickle ivy]

how far are you @frail cape

[hallow scroll]

💯

[frail cape]

wdym

[fickle ivy]

just like dont submit the app right

[devout fractal]

Has anyone gotten amzn summer 23 oa yet?

[sinful locust]

its literally a 10 min app

POKER

GO TOUCH SOME FUCKING GRASS

HOLY FUCK

[frail cape]

I didn't submit yet

[sinful locust]

likewise

[frail cape]

Yahkunazon >> Amazon anyway

[fickle ivy]

can't reach down that far

oops

[sinful locust]

calm down

ur 5 1

[fickle ivy]

yeah im 5'1 but my bmi is like 67

you get what i mean

[sinful locust]

no

i dont

[fickle ivy]

i literally physically cant reach down that far

[coarse marten]

@sinful locust @hallow scroll

bs time

[sinful locust]

ok i apply to job

then send link

i shall bs

with bogtati

[sinful locust]

nah

[coarse marten]

https://binarysearch.com/room/Graph-Traversers-DqOqa1zbyn

[vernal furnace]

interesting cuz I was told the same but i've heard some others say the opposite lol

[hallow scroll]

not today, im gonna grind out OOP problems today

[hallow scroll]

weird yeah I have no clue

[vernal furnace]

so not sure if I should apply to amazon or wait and ask someone else ik (but again no point if it's not even possible)

[hallow scroll]

nah nvm i'll just bs with you guys lol

[past comet]

Which resources are you using ?

[hot venture]

interns can definitely get referred unless they changed it just now for this season

[vernal furnace]

ok and can interns give referrals from your experience or can only FT's give it? i've heard both

[hallow scroll]

the company im interviewing with has a round where its oop, im just using glassdoor and wherever I can find the questions they've asked in the past

[proud whale]

What do you use for OOP problems? Does leetcode have them?

[hallow scroll]

thats weird, I made a blind post too and 2 amazon engineers said they cant refer

[hot venture]

interns cant give referrals for amazon, but they can get them

[hallow scroll]

leetcode has some but im just doing them on my own personal editor

[proud whale]

Gotchu which company?

[hallow scroll]

Asana

[proud whale]

🔥

Which term

[hot venture]

ohh interesting, I got a referral for summer 2022 and a fte offered to give me one for fall 2022

maybe they changed from fall 2022

[hallow scroll]

summer 23

thats really weird yeah

[proud whale]

Nicee

[hallow scroll]

im taking my chances on emailing recruiters instead of looking for referrals

[hot venture]

I wonder what the chances are to land Asana winter

[vernal furnace]

for amazon or asana?

[hot venture]

asana winter* i mean

[hallow scroll]

amazon

I think I said this the other day, but the recruiters told me the offseason spots are normally people who push their summer offers

[vernal furnace]

this could be a noob question ngl but what could a recruiter even do? like can they trigger an OA or what could u even ask them?

[hot venture]

Vancouver has an office that takes interns Ik

wonder if that's different

[hallow scroll]

considering how the headcount is like 1-2 people you probably have to get an offer really fast to get offseason

[hot venture]

well sometimes recruiters won't even see your resume

[hallow scroll]

depends on recruiter and for the company, they can sometimes start the process and send you the OA

[hot venture]

at least by emailing them it'll up the chances

[hallow scroll]

^

emailing a recruiter gives you a higher chance of getting your resume infront of them

[fickle ivy]

do you guys email recruiters for

every company

[hallow scroll]

amazons entire process is really automated, so you could get screwed by rng

[hot venture]

honestly though imo just putting in an application asap is the best way

[hallow scroll]

if its a company I really want yeah

cant type

[hot venture]

like I wouldn't wait a week just to find a recruiter to email

[vernal furnace]

🤷‍♂️ I thought I had enough experience last yr but maybe I just applied way too late so didn't get an amazon OA despite most people saying everyone gets it lol, so might as well apply early and see what happens

[hot venture]

not even kidding, amazon is complete rng

considering how low their bar is, I'm surprised they don't just hire the first X ppl that apply

[sinful locust]

thats why applying early >

[fickle ivy]

when does amazon send out OAs

usually

amazon has 5000 interns a year??

wtf

brain damage

damn

[fickle ivy]

any1 know

y

e

okay

also is like amazon propel also through

amazon univ portal

[hallow scroll]

if you look in the amazon intern 2023 position its also for propel

[fickle ivy]

so its like combined

hmm

[near swallow]

@gentle latch dont do meta ft

go get hrt

Or bust

Memeing but

The recent news is just sus

[hallow scroll]

hrt or bust

whats the recent news 😳

[near swallow]

Aim high mr toad

?avatar @gentle latch

[warped dagger]

Avatar for Juda#2969

Link as

png | jpg | webp

[near swallow]

Shoot for da moon

So u can land on da stars

[hallow scroll]

who they keep? are they doing layoffs?

ohh

makes sense

[fickle ivy]

?avatar Kirb

[warped dagger]

Avatar for Kirb#1470

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[fickle ivy]

?avatar GrilledBrain

[warped dagger]

Avatar for GrilledBrain#9197

Link as

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[near swallow]

?avatar yahkuna

[warped dagger]

Avatar for bean_pancakes#0710

Link as

png | jpg | webp

[fickle ivy]

?avatar yahkuna

[warped dagger]

Avatar for GrilledBrain#9197

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[fickle ivy]

huh

[rugged knoll]

has anyone given the math test thats administered after the OA for Akuna

this is for quant intern

[near swallow]

I’ll tell u next week but i think interns get more swag

[hallow scroll]

bog this bs is hard I cant solve any of them

[slow quarry]

@fallow garnet

[earnest hatch]

Ask them if you can convert to an intern so you can get more swag, then get a return full-time offer and come back

[fallow garnet]

oh shit facebook gaming

not dead org

interns think FT get free merch we get socks bro

are u mpk or seattle?

ah

[near swallow]

interns think we get swag, we get plummeting rsu’s

[vernal furnace]

btw is there a recommended template to email recruiters to ask them to take a look at my application & if they think i'm a good fit to start process & give OA? it's not like I can just send:
"👉 👈 ayyo fam I just applied, gib OA " lol

[earnest hatch]

Check cscareers.dev, Joey made a post on cold emailing

[coarse marten]

@hallow scroll we got a hard set

I'm really sadge

[hallow scroll]

fr bro

I felt like I barely made any progress

[coarse marten]

wanna redo one?

[hallow scroll]

nah not right now, im gonna take a nap those problems hurt my brain

[coarse marten]

I'm going to eat

maybe in 1hr if you want

[hallow scroll]

yeah that works

[sinful locust]

is it a thing to leverage verbal offer to start interview process w another company

[hallow scroll]

yes

I do this all the time

[sinful locust]

bet thx

[hallow scroll]

npnp

[coarse marten]

@hallow scroll in 30min?

[hallow scroll]

yes

[coarse marten]

@uneven sand

Time to carry us

0/4 last contest

[uneven sand]

bs

I’ll join

[coarse marten]

[hallow scroll]

bog can you add OOD questions is that a thing

[near snow]

for Goldman Sachs, If your current status is applicant for adjustment of status (“AOS”), deferred action for childhood arrival (“DACA”), beneficiary of temporary protected status (“TPS”) or any other temporary work authorization, please answer No.¹

should I answer no to this question?

[coarse marten]

Yes, I will check

[hallow scroll]

yay

[karmic sedge]

Are there any consequences for reneging an offer

[hallow scroll]

black listing

if you're sure you dont wanna come back to that company ever then dw about it

[coarse marten]

The company might contact ur university

[hallow scroll]

yeah that too

[karmic sedge]

oh alr

[hallow scroll]

I think its more common if youre school is partnered with that company for career fairs

[fickle ivy]

reneging?

[coarse marten]

I personally would renege if I bag something better

[hallow scroll]

but even then I reneged 2 companies that worked with my school and never received anything from my school

[fickle ivy]

when do you have to accept offers by

or is reneging like switching after you've accepted

[hallow scroll]

yeah its basically accepting an offer, then saying nvm

[fickle ivy]

[hallow scroll]

most offers have their own deadline

[fickle ivy]

i see

[hallow scroll]

yeye

[karmic sedge]

Do companies let u defer internship to fall sem? I am not 100% certain that ill be able to get work authorization in time for summer 23 but dont want to miss out

[sinful locust]

sometimes

[hallow scroll]

sometimes

[karmic sedge]

alr

im just gonna apply anyway and hope i dont have to renege

[coarse marten]

@hallow scroll @uneven sand

[uneven sand]

[coarse marten]

https://binarysearch.com/room/Array-of-hope-eGIFymDyfd

I don't see any OOD setting

mr juster

[hallow scroll]

[uneven sand]

out of doffice

[honest locust]

for that capstone company

just opened their oa

1-3 are coding, 4 is a database question, 5-11 is mc

fml

[fickle ivy]

which one

[honest locust]

it's literally called capstone

[fickle ivy]

oh lmao

wait asana is open right guys

[honest locust]

lc

interviews were medium to hard

[honest locust]

coding questions are easy to medium, mc are basically sequence questions + basic java/data structures stuff

skipped the database question

ah good luck

what position

ah was it just lc?

ah the first 2 were like class/data structures design?

i hate those

all my quant dev interviews were those

the quant research one i had was just lc tho

[simple salmon]

Anyone know the process for capital one after the OA?

[sinful locust]

if ur resume passes its a superday with like 3? 4? different interviews

[tiny bane]

another question, is there a time frame when amazon sends the OA? it's only been 3 days since my app but just wanted to see if anyone else who has applied got one yet

@ me if u have a response! thanks again

ok thanks :))

[fickle ivy]

i heard late july for summer 2023 apps@tiny bane

[weak wadi]

MSFT did it this year

tons of international interns had visa issues so they have a fall cohort this year

[tiny bane]

thank you!

[karmic sedge]

Thats good to hear

hopefully i wont have to deal w that tho

[quaint bolt]

How was the final @honest locust

[weak wadi]

yep

apparently they bent the rule cause a shit ton of international students got their visa process done too late

[honest locust]

i just had mine yesterday for quant research

quant dev was behavioral + 2 data structure design lc

no stat or prob

did phone on a friday

got the news following tuesday

then sent them the available times on wednesday

got the interview scheduled on friday

[sinful locust]

https://jobs.lever.co/yugabyte/4d4d3eb0-5c17-4177-86ad-fbfaf9cb6fec is this for summer 23

[honest locust]

which was for the next week (which was yesterday)

Like 3 days

Not including the weekend

[royal sail]

How’s the Blackrock oa?

[fickle ivy]

shut

dont

ask about it

🙂

you literally have to assume theres no cycles

and idk if i can assume that

its so vague

[sinful locust]

prefrosh in chat

[fickle ivy]

ok and

[sinful locust]

prefrosh in chat

[fickle ivy]

ok and

lmao

[sinful locust]

https://tenor.com/view/los-angeles-clippers-kawhi-leonard-thumbs-up-two-thumbs-up-approving-gif-16078946

[fickle ivy]

thank you

👍

[clever grail]

why

[fickle ivy]

no

[sinful locust]

dont discuss

[fickle ivy]

wait we aren't

allowed to discuss?

oh shit

okay oop

[sinful locust]

just dm

not here

[fickle ivy]

ok

mbmb

[honest locust]

wait it's hirevue

or whatever?

[fickle ivy]

it is hirevue

[sinful locust]

hirevue sucks

[fickle ivy]

^

[honest locust]

do they have camera recording

[fickle ivy]

but you still need to have ur cam on for the code LMAO

like active

bruh

[honest locust]

bruh

[sly copper]

which company is this

[honest locust]

yea that was what i was asking

blackrock

[sinful locust]

and lc hard?

lol

[fickle ivy]

and lc hard

[sinful locust]

yea im not doing that

[fickle ivy]

kinda

implementation heavy too

im desperate 😩

must do

[sinful locust]

you can do lc hards and youre not even in college nice

[sly copper]

thanks I will avoid them

[fickle ivy]

barclays is also

this bad

ive heard

[sly copper]

noted

[honest locust]

there was another company i did an oa for last year

that had 2 lc hard-mediums

and 2 lc hards

in 90 min

one was dp on trees

[sinful locust]

y

[fickle ivy]

was this gca?

[honest locust]

no

it was a hackerrank

[fickle ivy]

jfc

[honest locust]

just looked up my dms from last year

it was 1 medium 2d array question, 1 medium string question (both requiring the use of hashmaps somehow), 2 dps, one on arrays (1d dp iirc) and one on trees)

company was some startup called instabase

[hallow scroll]

well that checks out lol

[fickle ivy]

lmao

[hallow scroll]

their pay is really good and they have good engineering talent

so they have high standards

[elfin peak]

Like how much? 👀

[hallow scroll]

I think new grad is in the 180-200k range

[elfin peak]

Bruh

[fickle ivy]

how much is fb new grad

[elfin peak]

[fickle ivy]

isnt it higher

or am i delusional

[hallow scroll]

im pretty sure fb new grad offer only goes that high if you have the return intern bonus

there are companies that pay more yeah, but its similar to companies like cockroach labs, their pay isn't ground shattering but the work they do there attracts ex HFT/FAANG engineers

[sinful locust]

bruh amazon is 180-200k NG

and bar way lower

[hallow scroll]

yeah I mean for most unicorns that are like instabase people go for reasons other then tc

[sinful locust]

no

i think

jack harlow matuda inc > FAANG

[hallow scroll]

I agree with that statement

jack harlow swe intern op

[sinful locust]

fr

[fickle ivy]

how do i become a jack harlow swe intern

i think jack harlow matuda inc should partner with dua lipa inc

[sinful locust]

need to be enrolled in T4.5 CS school

[fickle ivy]

am i not enrolled

[civic shoal]

what are the top 4.5 CS schools

[fickle ivy]

in a t4.5 cs school

[civic shoal]

This servers a top 4.5 cs school

[sinful locust]

no

you are enrolled in a top3.141516 cs school

[fickle ivy]

😩 fml

[devout jewel]

get good

[clever grail]

get premid extension 👍

[fickle ivy]

when the 2022 michelin guide includes facebook's new york office

3 stars

[clever grail]

wait really

[sinful locust]

gordon

[fickle ivy]

wait that was a joke

but i have heard this

but i didnt know it was true

jfc

i went to an upscale nyc kbbq once

and holy shit best food of my life

will thi sbe better

rich company nyc food 🤤

i thought amd would serve chips for food

cuz

you know

okay that was bad

LOL but ive been in js office and they have great mexican food so like

maybe 🤷

[honest locust]

sad, i'm only in a 2.71828 school

[sinful locust]

[real sedge]

https://jobs.lever.co/applied/c22805d5-2006-4867-bb32-671951b17206

[elfin peak]

I'm in a 1.61803398875 school 😦

[solar axle]

i dont see it

[hallow scroll]

no

only people who did their summit are in the process rn

[lethal sand]

hey guys

can anyone explain how does a referral system works?

do I need to apply through links of the companies or not?

and then tell someone to refer me

or I should directly tell the person to refer me, without me applying to the companies link/ or website

[proud whale]

Tinder office food is literally amazing

It’s catered by Wolfgang Puck

And just 🤌

[devout jewel]

imagine getting free food

lunch dates

[lethal sand]

did SWE of goldman open?

they told it will be out by 1 july

[ivory ocean]

Anyone do blackrockOA?

The initial right-after-applied one

[sand pendant]

yes

[devout fractal]

a rivian summer 2023 app came out 3 days ago and alrdy has 90 applicants, am I fucked lol? I usually apply in 24-48 hrs

[oak kite]

no u are not fucked bro

[sand pendant]

Can you share the app link?

[devout fractal]

https://boards.greenhouse.io/rivian/jobs/5199457003

rivian needs to fix email lmao

[devout fractal]

have u seen what's going on with tesla recently lmao

rivian's 6 years younger, it'll take some more time

but they're opening a lot of mft plants and battery plants

[sinful locust]

rivian has high upside imo

early tho

[sinful locust]

nah

lol

PM engineering

[devout fractal]

the descp is so vague lol, but im EE and fit, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sinful locust]

yeah ig then

cringe

bruh is tesla simp

i wouldnt want to work at tesla

[hot venture]

Rivian is basically owned by Amazon

[sinful locust]

i can infer

[hot venture]

idgaf about Tesla and I agree with this

[devout fractal]

how tf would rivian go bankrupt in 5 years

mfs have a contract for vans with amzn up until 2030

[sinful locust]

waymo above all

[devout fractal]

idc abt blue origin lol

[sinful locust]

waymo has jags you know they will win

[hot venture]

they need to actually deliver on the contract lawl

[devout fractal]

this is truth

[devout fractal]

they prolly will

[hot venture]

it's taking me weeks longer than originally planned to just get my intern swag because of supply chain issues, how much harder do you think it is to build ev trucks

[sinful locust]

lol

[devout fractal]

im literally interning at an automotive rn

[sinful locust]

a bit

[hot venture]

maybe saying they'll go bankrupt is a bit

catastrophizing

[devout fractal]

they all have supply chain issues

[hot venture]

but they aint doing great

[devout fractal]

imo it depends on how well they ramp up production. I wouldn't say their dead or alive just yet

plus i frankly don't care if rivian actually suceeds or not, the name's decent enough that any engineer there could switch to a better company if it implodes

[hot venture]

even before the recent uncertainty in the market I wasn't super high on Rivian, just because they're pretty much just an Amazon subsidiary at this point and it's not like Amazon can't buy trucks from other companies

[devout fractal]

rivian's trucks are actually designed pretty well, they just need to optmize design costs and ramp up production

[sinful locust]

yea the design is nice for sure

[devout fractal]

which is a totally feasible thing to do

[hot venture]

they do havea lot of cash

so they probably won't go bankrupt

any time soon

[devout fractal]

yeah

the most likely scenario is they'll get swallowed up by someone or be some mid EV maker tbh

[hot venture]

im a bit surprised they're not AVs

I thought they were actually

[devout fractal]

lmao

AVs are out for another decade or two

have u seen how cruise has been doing in SF last week?

[sinful locust]

is it good

[devout fractal]

no lol

[sinful locust]

rip

[hot venture]

well I mean like I'm surprised they're not developing AV

[devout fractal]

https://insideevs.com/news/595817/cruise-autonomous-taxi-block-san-francisco/

[sinful locust]

oh block intersection

lol

[devout fractal]

it doesn't make sense to

AV engineering talent is hard to come by and has high opp costs

[sinful locust]

i would think cruise reaches stage 5 first but i could be wrong

[hot venture]

that's true

[devout fractal]

not to mention it's a decade or two out

[hot venture]

AV for trucks that mostly traverse highways is very different from what Cruise is doing though

[devout fractal]

naw i have a friend at daimler working on that

shit's still hard too

[hot venture]

yeah fair, I have no idea, just assuming

[devout fractal]

ye nw

[novel lily]

apple doesn't do free food?

[past comet]

Nope

I think they offer subsidised rates like ms

[thin chasm]

Anyone know how the Akuna capital quant dev OA is like?

[fickle ivy]

bruh i thought they'd atleast have free apples

[past comet]

I think they have that ? 👀

[cyan garnet]

so stupid

[novel obsidian]

anyone willing to give me a Google STEP intern referral ??

🥲🥲

[fickle ivy]

is STEP open @novel obsidian

[novel obsidian]

not open yet

[fickle ivy]

well give me a referral too if you get one 💀

[novel obsidian]

but im asking in advance so i can prepare for leetcode 😭

[novel obsidian]

are u a rising sophomore?

[fickle ivy]

rising frosh

isn't step frosh/soph

okey

[novel obsidian]

yap

i just finished freshman year and i applied to step as a freshman too but got ghosted 💀💀

i figured a referral would help this time

[fickle ivy]

hopefully this time

but now you've scared me of getting ghosted

[novel obsidian]

most of my friends got ghosted too its a sad reality if u dont have a referral or an exceptional resume or diversity maybe :((

i heard they focus in looking for diversity (???) in underrepresented fresh/sop

[fickle ivy]

exceptional
i mean i can write hello world in python does that count

[novel obsidian]

yes cuz when i wasa freshman i knew nothing abt coding LOL

[fickle ivy]

LOL

asian

[mystic depot]

eu step didn't open till like October last year lol. im in for a wait

[novel obsidian]

does asian female count as diversity 💀

literally asians got disadvantages

[novel obsidian]

ooo same

r u rising sophomore?

💀💀💀 IK

[fickle ivy]

maybe castration is the way to go

[mystic depot]

is this a second year student. im in the uk not sure what sophomore means

[coarse marten]

Time to grind harder mr ducc

Like in Chess

[mystic depot]

step ghosted me last year

i got the oa and then nothin

[novel obsidian]

oh lol ya

[mystic depot]

sad times

[novel obsidian]

second year

same

[mystic depot]

yh im second year

[coarse marten]

Loo kids priviledge

[novel obsidian]

step literally ghosted

💀💀💀

[mystic depot]

u got ghosted too?

[novel obsidian]

im sad but ill try again this time

[novel obsidian]

ya last year

[mystic depot]

im confident this time. i got a feeling

[novel obsidian]

but my resume looked shit back then so its ok

[fickle ivy]

how good is good enough 💀

[novel obsidian]

i blame myself

[mystic depot]

fr same

no idea why they sent me the oa

i got it in feb

super late lmao

[fickle ivy]

it prob wasn't shit if you got the oa lmao

[novel obsidian]

idk how much a referral would help for STEP but i have a feeling this time i might not get ghosted anymore

[coarse marten]

@wraith ice bs?

[fickle ivy]

do sophs get an advantage for step

[mystic depot]

i was so hyped last year when i got oa.

[coarse marten]

Time to bag hrt mr ducc

[fickle ivy]

[novel obsidian]

idk most of my friends got it as freshman

[mystic depot]

got oa palantir and step same day. went down hill from there

[novel obsidian]

its just very random

[coarse marten]

Yes

London

[mystic depot]

yh i saw a quora post about it. they were talking about it being new

[coarse marten]

Nah

[mystic depot]

dont know how old the quora post was tho

[coarse marten]

I believe G Zurich tc > hrt London

After taxes

I might cap

[mystic depot]

https://tenor.com/view/fr-ong-gif-24731885

[coarse marten]

UK taxes are rough

[mystic depot]

fr lol

[mystic depot]

[coarse marten]

Like ~40

Zurich is something like 15-20

Tho you are paid in gbp in London

Not chf

[crisp berry]

anyone applied to Intel? im having a weird issue with their form where when i try to answer the US citizenship status question the page becomes unresponsive

and i cannot finish

is it because im canadian?

[mystic depot]

some applications make me change my mind about applying

[vague lion]

Are Arab men underrepresented

[novel obsidian]

maybe

sorry i dont really know their diversity preference bc its so random LOL

[crisp berry]

i dont think chinese/indian/arab is considered underrepresented in tech

[mystic depot]

fr honestly i think its random lmao

[vague lion]

I don’t see nearly as much arab swes tho

[novel obsidian]

its random af 💀

some people i know with with a sick resume got rejected for step while there someone that barely has nothing in their resume except for coursework and a snake game and got accepted

although ive heard that steps do not look for a lot of exp

so

[mystic depot]

ngl i think i messed up the oa and questionnaire. i wrote that i wanted to work on project lambda even tho they said not to be specific

[novel obsidian]

😔😔😔

[crisp berry]

i wish i knew about those programs in first year

[mystic depot]

yh ngl i found out about a bunch too late

[novel obsidian]

^^

[crisp berry]

i only found out they existed this month

[novel obsidian]

what was the oa and questionnaire about

[crisp berry]

im at the end of 2nd year

L

[mystic depot]

they asked about what projects i wanted to work on, and which countries i wanted to go too

[novel obsidian]

oh

did you research on their projects and pick lambda ?

[honest locust]

i didn't get an oa for step

[mystic depot]

yh ngl i think its cool

[honest locust]

i just went straight to phone

[mystic depot]

bruh

💀

@honest locust just built different lol

[novel obsidian]

bruh

did you cold apply?

because i didnt and got rejected 😭

[honest locust]

yea, no recruiters or referrals

[novel obsidian]

ngl i think my resume was bad so its expected

damn :(

what did your resume look like when u applieed :(

[mystic depot]

your resume must be good 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://tenor.com/view/the-wolf-of-wall-street-clap-clapping-clapping-hands-leonardo-dicaprio-gif-22829304

[honest locust]

very similar to my resume now but like with 2 fewer projects and without google experiene

[mystic depot]

oh fr

[novel obsidian]

did you have any prior experience as an intern somewhere else?

[hallow scroll]

Yeah

[honest locust]

so just uni, 2 experiences, 4 projects, and skills

i did research, but no internships

[mystic depot]

if i was in us i would have got interview

[novel obsidian]

thats good to know

im doing 2 research know i hope they dont ghost me this time aLol

[hallow scroll]

You’re in future force right? @little kraken you should have received an email about claiming your spot and the hotel accommodations

[mystic depot]

u do resume optimisation?

[hallow scroll]

It tells you what company you’re interviewing with in that email

[honest locust]

for a moment i thought you said "claim your spa"

[novel obsidian]

ive been editing my resume very frequently lately but idk if its the best one

[hallow scroll]

Ah okay well yeah should be tableau if that was the recruiters company

[novel obsidian]

i was told i needed to portray some achievements better

[honest locust]

i had to nuke my achievements section in my resume

[novel obsidian]

cuz 80% of my resume is ML so im afraid it doesnt work best for swe internship

[hallow scroll]

All good I’m sure you’re fine

[mystic depot]

i usually update my resume for each application a little bit. I use a site to help include specific "keywords" from the job requirements. I think it helps a little with getting passed the auto check thing they do

[novel obsidian]

esp its all about research and academia

[novel obsidian]

so you tailor ur resume for each job app?

[honest locust]

i have a ta'ing position in algos so i just spam all the keywords in that job exp and my skills

i use a generalized resume for everything

i think ml is fine for swe right?

[novel obsidian]

if you dont mind could i see your resume (anonymous fine if you want) :((

[mystic depot]

for some, especially the ones im really interested in. ngl i started doing it and i got palantir and step. before that i got rejected from a bunch of places

[mystic depot]

yh i can i will cut out some stuff

[honest locust]

wdym when you talk about "keywords"

[novel obsidian]

okay i will dm you :3

[devout fractal]

Yah same issue, u just gotta switch tabs and give it like 5 mins to load

[novel obsidian]

yeah but isnt depth in one swe field better than an all over the place resume

cuz my resume is 80% resume and 20% swe because i make a webapp to deploy those models i did

[honest locust]

tbf i do consider ml and stuff in swe as well

for anyone doing blackrock

is the oa only the programming questions

or is there a video question as well

inside the same test

[vague lion]

Aren’t u uw

[crisp berry]

yes

[vague lion]

How did no1 tell u

[crisp berry]

idk

its fine

ill make it

we'll all make it

[vague lion]

Any tips on abusing ww btw

I’m an incoming meth student

[crisp berry]

what do you mean abusing ww

[sinful locust]

lol

[vague lion]

Making the most out of it idk

[honest locust]

what is ww

[sinful locust]

www

?

[crisp berry]

uh

[vague lion]

I heard u only choose 50 companies first round how’d u go abt that

[vague lion]

WaterlooWorks

[honest locust]

oh

[crisp berry]

yeah it depends on how cracked u are and your risk tolerance

[honest locust]

ohhhhh UW = uwaterloo not univerity of washington bruh

[sinful locust]

oh you choose companies to do first rounds with?

wtf

[crisp berry]

finding an initial internship with no previous internships is very very hard (imo)

[vague lion]

What’s the most cracked internships you’ve heard of for a first year

[crisp berry]

faang

wdym

lol

[sinful locust]

bruh

[crisp berry]

oh

actually still faang

[honest locust]

they're required to have internships at waterloo iirc

[crisp berry]

yea but in the context of WW

which hes asking me abt

i think its a bit easier

[vague lion]

Ppl land regular faang first year????

[crisp berry]

i wouldnt have gotten my first job without WW

[vague lion]

I’ve only heard of Amazon

[crisp berry]

my guy

what does faang stand for

[sinful locust]

yeah lol

@sinful locust

lol

[honest locust]

nah FAANG is outdated, it's MANGA now

[sinful locust]

lol

do u mean unicorn vs faang

[crisp berry]

[honest locust]

bruh

[sinful locust]

jk