2023_summer

[cyan garnet]

[near swallow]

[past comet]

yes, higher the role, lesser difficulty/more common lc questions are asked

[slow quarry]

i got this for oracle oci final

[plush viper]

is oracle good on the resume over compared to something like amazon

idk if its worth interviewing there

but on levels they seem to pay a lot

[past comet]

you got a interview already ?

[slow quarry]

id go amazon tbh over oracle oci

AWS >> OCI

[plush viper]

im at amazon rn and but not sure if amazon return is better than mixing it up with a potential oracle

i dont get why they pay so much and seem to have little work lol

[slow quarry]

naw go amazon atw lol

oci pays high at the start

and growth complete dog at mid/senior lvl

[plush viper]

yea but isnt that perfect for new grad

[slow quarry]

my brother in christ

do u rly want to be paid 260k as a principal eng

[plush viper]

well thats what im saying

take new grad and move after a year or two

problem is even with high salary the resume value prob just isnt enough, who knows tho

[slow quarry]

bro ull earn more at amazon than oracle long term even if oracle pays a tiny bit more at the start

and short term amz still good on the resume

[coarse marten]

🍌 is underrated

Become an amazonian

[plush viper]

i think ill just use oracle interviews as practice then, thanks for opinions

[coarse marten]

@gentle latch

[rapid swan]

😭 wdym underrated its literally faang

[plush viper]

still a dozen or so better companies 👷‍♂️

[coarse marten]

Fang means nothing

As kuba said there are multiple companies better than fang

[ivory ocean]

Quant quant quant

YO

I literally had the urge to randomly pop in here and do a “quant” chant

And it came so perfect with Bog’s comment there

Oh yeah fuck @coarse marten unblock me

I’ll ask everytime I see you

Not sure why I’m blocked

[ember bison]

???

[ivory ocean]

It’s just a joke I’ve been doing cuz my discord literally switches from letting me dm bog to not letting me randomly, so not sure if he changes a setting or something

[deep valley]

Hey guys I got an OA from snowflake for f2022 but didnt do it cause I already have something for f2022 and Im too busy to study for it cause of school

Well this screw over my chances for w2023/s2023 if I were to apply to snowflake again?

[ivory ocean]

No

[deep valley]

Oh ok, cause a recruiter emailed me a rejection so I was worried I would be put on a waitlist where I cant apply for X months

[quaint bolt]

Do not make this mistake. Amazon >>> Oracle

You’ll learn so much more at AWS than OCI too. Oracle’s codebase is absolute dogshit

[south aspen]

amazon > all u cant deny it

[quaint bolt]

this tbh

Amazon -> Quant pipeline real btw. I’m proof

I’m manifesting JS/HRT

[fast ledge]

I didn't get an amazon confirmation email, even though my portal shows as applied, should I be worried?

[coarse marten]

That's shit tier shops

Real one is rentech

@zealous trail

[pseudo orbit]

wait what did you get an offer while i was taking a break from cscd?

[quaint bolt]

yes comrade zenit

[pseudo orbit]

YOOOOO LMAO CONGRATS

[quaint bolt]

I’m a matata now

[pseudo orbit]

WHERE

[quaint bolt]

Tyty

[pseudo orbit]

if you dont feel comfy sharing here dm me

[quaint bolt]

Matata

[pseudo orbit]

😐

[quaint bolt]

Yahkuna

[pseudo orbit]

OH

I REALIZED THAT A SPLIT SECOND AFTER YOU SAID AMTATA

IM SO PROUD OF YOU CONGARS

[quaint bolt]

Tyty

[pseudo orbit]

which city will you be in

:zenit_hug_with_wagon:

[quaint bolt]

Chicago if I take the offer

[pseudo orbit]

AYYYYY

i can visit you then

😄

[quaint bolt]

[pseudo orbit]

POGARS

[quaint bolt]

I’ll prolly be in Cali jan-april tho

[pseudo orbit]

that's fine

i can still see you in chicago

[quaint bolt]

[fickle ivy]

yahkuna

[coarse marten]

@wraith ice time to grind

You have a lot of phones

You must not bomb them

[thin sparrow]

i still haven't realizd it

[ivory ocean]

When JS and HRT open?

Also did anyone do capital one? Is it hard?

[ivory ocean]

Congrats man!!!

[fickle ivy]

autoreject

[soft basin]

was it just me or was the sig oa easy as fuck

[coarse marten]

it was ez for lc monkeys

@sinful locust

[soft basin]

i got like 2 lc mediums

[ivory ocean]

Ez

[pseudo orbit]

LOL

@thin sparrow how are you man

[pseudo orbit]

i heard mixed

but idk, youre a lot more skilled than me mr Adrenalyn

[ivory ocean]

Liar

[pseudo orbit]

wait isnt it the general codesig

LIAR

[ivory ocean]

Fuck

There for it

Got

[pseudo orbit]

congars

[ivory ocean]

My autocorrect is on drugs rn

[pseudo orbit]

youre good

[ivory ocean]

Thancs

[pseudo orbit]

tankq

np

o7

[ivory ocean]

How are you

How’s your application szn going

[pseudo orbit]

it's going fine, ive only applied to mid tiers so far

so p much nothing that's cap1 or better

[ivory ocean]

Some guy on cscareers subreddit just acted like he invented job hopping hahaha

[pseudo orbit]

LMAOOOO

[ivory ocean]

Why?

[pseudo orbit]

i dont feel prepared enough for the real deal

[ivory ocean]

His title was “want a promotion? Try leaving to a different job instead” with some post where he had some story about how he job hopped and got more money lmao

[ivory ocean]

You are ready

I know u are

[pseudo orbit]

did he get hella downvotes or did ppl upvote him

[pseudo orbit]

i havent even taken dsa yet

[ivory ocean]

So

Take adrenalyn DSA

[pseudo orbit]

i struggled w a medium list problem yesterday 😭

[ivory ocean]

I’ll teach

[pseudo orbit]

POG

[ivory ocean]

It’ll help me review too

Let’s do it

[pseudo orbit]

im up for it

[ivory ocean]

Ew I have operating systems in the cal

Fall

[pseudo orbit]

wanna start when i come back from my internship

[ivory ocean]

I’m not ready for that

[pseudo orbit]

LOL

[ivory ocean]

Yeah

[pseudo orbit]

at least youre done w 320

[ivory ocean]

Yeah fr

[pseudo orbit]

and when youre done as well

[ivory ocean]

Fuck that

[pseudo orbit]

i have 320 and 331 in the fall

[ivory ocean]

They’ve pretty much said they’re giving me a part time offer

[pseudo orbit]

AYYYY

[ivory ocean]

So if I want I can work through school year

[pseudo orbit]

i would take it personally

[ivory ocean]

Fuck a 2023 internship, and have a job on grad

[pseudo orbit]

well

[ivory ocean]

Yeah I am

[pseudo orbit]

depends on the hours

[ivory ocean]

It’s choose your hours

[pseudo orbit]

WAT

i could use that tbh

[ivory ocean]

They said if I want I can work 0 hours and they’ll just keep me on payroll

[pseudo orbit]

lol

[ivory ocean]

Lmao

[pseudo orbit]

have you said youre willing to come back for a return internship

[ivory ocean]

I’m happy cuz it removed a lot of the stress for next summer

[pseudo orbit]

like next summer

[ivory ocean]

Yeah I wouldn’t even be an intern tho

[pseudo orbit]

wait wtf

oh so itd just be a pure part time job

[ivory ocean]

I would be a part time SWE through school

Then summer I’d be FT

[pseudo orbit]

that's excellent actually

[ivory ocean]

Then PT senior year

[pseudo orbit]

PT?

part time

[ivory ocean]

Then grad and boom FT

[pseudo orbit]

AYYYY

ikr

[ivory ocean]

yeah PT - part time

FT - full time

[pseudo orbit]

yeye

im excited for next summer tbh

[ivory ocean]

Me too

[pseudo orbit]

i think you and me are some of the best prepped in our school year

and at our school specifically

[ivory ocean]

Still seeing if I can get something better but I am happy I’ve got this offer already

[ivory ocean]

Yeah definitely

[pseudo orbit]

yeah exactly

[ivory ocean]

Haven’t really seen any other MSU people out there prepping

[pseudo orbit]

it's just relieving that you have a backup ready

[ivory ocean]

Exactly

[pseudo orbit]

same here, other than the ones in that one group we have

uhhh feetcode or smth

[ivory ocean]

And it’s a really good company with pretty damn good pay and full remote vavy

Baby*

[pseudo orbit]

exactly

[ivory ocean]

YEAH but they are inactive asf

[pseudo orbit]

so you can chill in michigan

oh true LOL

im not sure if theyre doing LC in their free time

[ivory ocean]

I ended up just hitting up @honest locust to practice LC with cuz those guys are never on hahhaha

[pseudo orbit]

is he MSU too?

that's cute

[ivory ocean]

No he’s not

[pseudo orbit]

some of the interns here just formed our own leetcode club, so every night we meet up and depending on our needs, either do LC or BS

[ivory ocean]

But he’s wayyyy better than me at LC

[pseudo orbit]

means youve got a mentor then

[ivory ocean]

Oh really?

[pseudo orbit]

yeah

[ivory ocean]

See that’s what would be cool abt an in-person internship

[pseudo orbit]

it's really nice

[ivory ocean]

Whereas mine, nobody even does LC

They all said they didn’t prep for their interview anyways

[pseudo orbit]

we will meet up and do bs/lc together

LMFAOOO

[ivory ocean]

Yes certainly

[pseudo orbit]

i dont get how people didnt prep tbh

[thin sparrow]

Doing great

Just got back from a trip to seattle

Papá bezos flew me out for a week

Was very fun

[pseudo orbit]

pogars

still proud of u for getting amz

[thin sparrow]

Went into my first high rise

[pseudo orbit]

AYYY

[thin sparrow]

It wa so cool

[pseudo orbit]

how did it feel

[thin sparrow]

I never really been in a city city before with those tall buildings

So when I got in the elevator and zoomed up it was cool af

[pseudo orbit]

im happy you could experience it

[thin sparrow]

Ty ty

[pseudo orbit]

yeah lol

how are the hq

[thin sparrow]

Very nice buildings

Like incredibly nice

[pseudo orbit]

yeah, i keep seeing that image of the bubbly thingie

[thin sparrow]

I would be cool coming into office 2-3 days prob

Yeah the spheres lol

Right by the banana stand

🍌

[pseudo orbit]

yeah that's how it is at my internship

3 days a week in person, 2 days online

pogars

i love banas

[thin sparrow]

I tried out tinder for the first time too

In seattle

[pseudo orbit]

LMAOOO

and??

[thin sparrow]

Was very pogar

[pseudo orbit]

any progress?

[thin sparrow]

Yea

Met a girl from Hawaii too

We hit off p fast

[pseudo orbit]

wowow nice

[thin sparrow]

Naturally

[pseudo orbit]

that's good to hear

any dates?

[thin sparrow]

Don’t meet many people from there

Yeah I had several

[pseudo orbit]

JEEEEZZ

OK

[thin sparrow]

Need to go back

Kappa

[pseudo orbit]

flexing on every other cs major out there

[thin sparrow]

I told them I can feed you banana since I’m at amz

Instant W

I’ve never used a dating app before

So was first time

It’s interesting for sure

Ya tinder virginity taken

@pseudo orbit bro I can’t wait for the next part

For aot

😭

[pseudo orbit]

yeah that's a good thing

that's your inner monke coming out

LOL i was gonna tag you earlier

[pseudo orbit]

i lost mine 2 or so months ago

[pseudo orbit]

ngl, had no idea another part was coming out

havent even finished s4p2

[honest locust]

Yes hi

[pseudo orbit]

;_;

[ivory ocean]

Yes hi

[heavy magnet]

how is goldman sachs math hackerrank?

do u get a lot of time to answer the questions?

[plush viper]

Does interning at amazon -> interning at Microsoft look weird? Sort of a small downgrade but I feel like the diversification would still outweigh having amazon twice right?

[proud whale]

^

Def not a downgrade to look weird on resume haha

[hot venture]

if anything isn't it an upgrade?

[plush viper]

I don’t think it’s an upgrade

New grad offer is worse right

[hot venture]

in terms of pure TC yes

but for an internship I would take Microsoft > Amazon tbh

I've said this before

but I know more ppl who work for Amazon/have worked for Amazon

than any other company

and I've never worked for Amazon

[quaint bolt]

Nah internship I’d take amazon > msft ez

[hot venture]

id take MS

[quaint bolt]

You’d learn way more at banana corp tbh

[hot venture]

that depends on team for sure

[quaint bolt]

It’s not even about faang lol, it’s just the pure scale you get to work on

[hot venture]

you can learn more at any other company than any other company

[plush viper]

So far this summer, I’ve heard better things about the amazon internships compared to my Microsoft peers experiences. It also seems like the interview process for Microsoft was much easier, but this is only with like 5 data points

[quaint bolt]

Corp mb

[hot venture]

it's the newest variant

[quaint bolt]

Also my friends and I are enjoying our time at banana much more than my friends at msft too

So there’s that

[plush viper]

I think it might be a bad year for Microsoft internships

At least from the handful of friends I have, I’ve heard the usually great events are awful, the management is a joke, and many of em don’t even have mentors

[hot venture]

?avatar @novel ledge

[warped dagger]

Avatar for banana boy#8495

Link as

png | jpg | webp

[plush viper]

Whereas I feel like the Amazon internship has been run perfectly (don’t have much to compare to though)

[quaint bolt]

I wouldn’t go to MS FT as a new grad

[hot venture]

Can't listen to someone named banana boy

[quaint bolt]

Too slow

[hot venture]

for opinion on amazon im sorry

I think im biased because I just know way too many ppl that work for amazon

and I've heard a lot of stories about them being overworked/even straight up bullied

[crisp berry]

you guys are overthinking it

[hot venture]

that's not what im saying

im saying I've heard a lot more stories about amazon

because i know more ppl

[crisp berry]

whats the harm in trying microsoft

part of internship is to exp what u like

he will get more out of trying microsoft than taking opinion from discord

[hot venture]

maybe I just hear more about the bad experiences

[quaint bolt]

Oh I’m not saying don’t go, I was supporting the move lol

I don’t advocate returning to the same place unless you’re really sure you like the team

And wanna work there FT

[plush viper]

Also I will say my internship at amazon and a bunch of others have been ridiculously easy (and I’m by no means a great swe), whereas the full time work on my team does look much harder

[quaint bolt]

How long’s your internship? 12 weeks?

[plush viper]

Yep

[quaint bolt]

Yeah the 16-week interns usually get tougher and more ambiguous projects

[plush viper]

You have to request those right

[quaint bolt]

It’s easy if you’re in a coop program

You request it when you select your dates in that form

[plush viper]

I will say at least for me onboarding took a long time because there was a ton to learn to be able to design my project properly

[quaint bolt]

My design doc ended up being 15-pages

My friend’s was 23

[plush viper]

😳

Is Microsoft also basically Seattle only tho especially for interns

Would wanna try something else and Amazon has interns everywhere at least

[quaint bolt]

You prolly won’t have as much fun anywhere else apart seattle if you’re at msft bc there’s not gonna be as many interns

But idk how large their other locations are

Amazon

[plush viper]

In the Bay Area you could make friends with any of the interns tho no?

[quaint bolt]

Sure, just easier to make friends with people you’ll see regularly

At Amazon we’d take over a huge conference room and work from there

[plush viper]

I’ve been trained this summer, here at Amazon we simply do not see people 😎

Offices are depressing too

[quaint bolt]

Really? I’ve made so many good friends here

[plush viper]

I’ve made some great friends too, but from GroupMe events not from work

[quaint bolt]

Vancouver >>> wherever you are then

[plush viper]

Makes sense

My friends whole team is in Vancouver idk why they put him in seattle

[quaint bolt]

Yeah there’s a couple like that here but the other way round

It’s fine tho they don’t mind since Vancouver’s basically the Canadian HQ

[uneven sand]

logo looks kinda like a banana and they have a banana stand in their seattle office

[plush viper]

Multiple* banana stands

[prime lily]

Design doc

What do you write

[south aspen]

everything

[magic owl]

what is the best way to prepare for the Greylock Techfair tomorrow? I have no idea what to expect but it’s been a while since I’ve gone to a career fair

[south aspen]

it's not tomorrow

[devout fractal]

isn't on wed bruh

you gave me a heart attack lmao

[magic owl]

oops

regardless anyone know a good way to prepare

[civic shoal]

Does anyone know what time the Microsoft neurodiversity fair usually is at?

like is it during work hours or like after 4/5 pm

Nah mines on Tuesday

I’m just tryna figure out timing because I have work during when the event is

It said 8-11 august on the site

[sinful locust]

Does goldman oa have hiddne cases

[ivory ocean]

What Goldman locations offer SWE

[civic shoal]

Dallas and New York mainly

but all locations have the role

[ivory ocean]

Okay

Not all cuz I checked detroit

And no luck

Also none in Chicago

So then I gave up looking so thank u

[weak tulip]

Does palantir really value completeness over optimization, like would they prefer an n^2 working solution over an O(n) solution that’s not passing one testcase

And does anyone know how long it takes to hear back after karat

[heavy magnet]

It’s not a solution if it’s not passing a test case tho

[coarse marten]

Yes

Correctness

[mystic depot]

The OA said that it’s not required for you to pass all the questions for you to pass the OA so I guess they don’t mind in certain situations but they do value completeness

[fierce lion]

[mystic depot]

Ngl that could be them just making people feel better 😂

I didn’t pass all the test cases on the last question lol ngl I got some but not all 😅

[weak tulip]

Anyone know how long does it take to hear back after karat?

[near swallow]

@sinful locust

[hearty river]

@sinful locust

[sonic steeple]

for the palantir karat i got #1 correct, #2 correct (suboptimally), #3 ran out of time and had syntax error so no testcases. should i go for a redo or do I still have a chance of passing?

rip ok

[weak tulip]

If you do a redo, and lets say do worse than the original, do they only take the redo into consideration?

[harsh jackal]

When did you apply? Did you apply through their website?

[sonic steeple]

yeah on website like 10 days ago

[harsh jackal]

Thanks for the info @sonic steeple

Guys, want your opinion on one thing.
I am looking for Summer 2023 SWE Internship opportunities. My resume is still a work in progress but I see a lot of job postings for internships. Now, my question is should I apply asap with current resume or should I wait until my resume is sorted? Really confused.

[gilded bolt]

you didnt show the "current resume", how are we supposed to answer that

[quaint bolt]

Post on #resume

And mention what’s changing

Or what you’re working on

[south aspen]

Pretty sure you’re fine

You just need 2

[quaint bolt]

I meant post your actual resume there

[harsh jackal]

Added now 😀

[quaint bolt]

How many days did it take y’all to get palantir OA/phone

[tough ledge]

has anyone done capital one OA? how was it?

[sonic steeple]

Like 1 week

[quaint bolt]

Ty

OA or phone tho?

[mystic depot]

about a week, ngl i think they may be using OAs and phone interviews interchangeably aka some get oas and some get karat interviews

[quaint bolt]

Tyty

[mystic depot]

u just applied?

[quaint bolt]

So I should be hearing back this week

Last week

[mystic depot]

yh u should hear back i think i only seen one person who has been rejected so far

[quaint bolt]

Hmm I’m in Canada tho so there may be some legal shit there so we’ll see

[south aspen]

Nah

[mystic depot]

im uk and didn't get auto reject so i think youll be alright

[south aspen]

I got it in a week

[quaint bolt]

Oh okay pog

Skill issue if I don’t get it then

[mystic depot]

ngl i cant tell how i did on the OA i just gotta wait

[south aspen]

Which one u get

[mystic depot]

if i get an interview imma freak out lol cause it would be my first

[mystic depot]

some sort of graph problem

[south aspen]

Same same

[mystic depot]

but then again i think they always ask that lol

[south aspen]

How many rest cases u got

*test

[mystic depot]

i got like three questions i passed everything for the first two and some on the last but i kinda ran out of time so i couldn't implement much furthur

[south aspen]

Ah I see

I think that’s enough

[mystic depot]

i think it was rough tho cause three questions in a fairly short period of time is intense

[south aspen]

Hm

Nah it was ok

Esp bc they built on top of each other

It’s rlly just 1 question

[mystic depot]

ye i wish i had just gone faster in the first two and perhaps i would have been able to make more of an impact on the last question

[vernal furnace]

all 3 q's were graph?

[trim vigil]

did u pass the round?

or did u retake it

[mystic depot]

i did an oa so i have no idea 🤷‍♂️

[trim vigil]

ohh its not karat?

[mystic depot]

some have had the karat not me tho

[trim vigil]

i heard karat was 3 graph questions under time crunch

[mystic depot]

i actually looked on the cscareers dev site and it looks like more people have said they had an oa rather than a karat interview but i have heard a lot of people talking about the karat interview

[mystic depot]

no clue tbf

[south aspen]

im pre sure

people who don't get an OA

need to do LC for their onsite

[trim vigil]

instead of the sys design?

i skipped to phone

[mystic depot]

waaaaaaaait the onsite is potentially system design?

[trim vigil]

heres what the recruiter told me

so its sys design part 1 + use a new technology part 2

[south aspen]

depends

heard the 2 rounds r random

[mystic depot]

https://tenor.com/view/peepo-leave-leaving-pepe-peepo-frog-gif-21562981

[trim vigil]

hmmm ok

id prefer lc over sys design tho

[mystic depot]

i better go do some system design study loooool

[south aspen]

wait so you had your recruiter chat alrdy?

u're def gonna have to do sys design

[trim vigil]

yup

[south aspen]

i think they'd trade off the learning round

[trim vigil]

ahhh i see

[mystic depot]

is it a virtual onsite?

[trim vigil]

do uk how hard the lc might be then for vo

[mystic depot]

like on the screenshot

[south aspen]

u finished ur karat then right @trim vigil

[trim vigil]

yea virtual onsite

[trim vigil]

nope lol i scheduled it for next week

[south aspen]

heard it's lc med-hard

[south aspen]

how u have the recruiter chat then

[trim vigil]

recruiter reached out to schedule hr call

and told me to schedule karat

idek if i can pass the karat lmao

i heard its hard

[mystic depot]

u haven't done an OA then

[trim vigil]

yea i skipped oa

[mystic depot]

pray i got no lc on the onsite if i make it

https://tenor.com/view/what-more-do-you-want-from-me-crying-emotional-what-do-you-want-gif-14843331

[trim vigil]

yea and on the final round u might have to do more technical stuff

if u did bad on vo

if u did good on vo then its just a behavioral

[south aspen]

ofc

r u trying to get a return offer?

[quaint bolt]

Idk about goog

But def msft

[south aspen]

o

[quaint bolt]

msft def way more chill than goog when it comes to this

[ocean relic]

learning during an interview bruh

i dont like to learn

[mystic depot]

the key to the interview is to not say this during the interview

[void cove]

Hey Guys! I applied for the Amazon summer 2023 internship for US and Canada location on 4th July. The US location application just shows "no longer under consideration" for me and I did not receive even an email from them. For the Canada location, I haven't received any email yet. Has this happened to anyone?

[mystic depot]

i just checked mine and yes it has 💀

[mystic depot]

ngl i actually also applied on the 4th of july

this gotta be a mistake bruh amazon auto reject every time

[coarse marten]

Probably because of cooldown

It's 6 months I believe

[mystic depot]

i applied to a position in a completely different country like 4 months ago, u think that would still matter?

[coarse marten]

Yes

[mystic depot]

💀 they never even give me a chance

big up palantir they always give me a chance

[coarse marten]

Juda, stfu and do 35h like everyone

You want fast promos right

It's not by working 20h a week that you will get promoted to l6 in 5 years

Jkjk

[uneven sand]

juda just get ge rating

[coarse marten]

Bag an hft firm

Retire at 30

[uneven sand]

ge rating is super easy to get

[uneven sand]

but then ill also have mental health problems at 30

[plush girder]

can confirm, vexor greatly exceeds expectations

[coarse marten]

Mental health?

[uneven sand]

slaving away for ken griffin takes a toll on the mind

[coarse marten]

You are already a degen bro

[uneven sand]

also im dumb as rocks so id have to work 100 hours a week to not be fired

[coarse marten]

You are one of the smartest mr vexor

G freshman year

C++ and cp chad

[uneven sand]

cp

[plush girder]

I didnt know vexor did cp

[uneven sand]

i did usaco in hs

but i've fallen off since

[coarse marten]

You will see me soon in a video mr juda

[quaint bolt]

day in the life of a mr bog intern

[coarse marten]

I swear you will cringe with my French accent

[uneven sand]

day in the life of french student

[coarse marten]

I speak like a monkey

[uneven sand]

it's me

[quaint bolt]

Same

bog’s hot

[coarse marten]

No bro

[quaint bolt]

His jawline can cut a mf up

[coarse marten]

I changed my pfp on LinkedIn

[coarse marten]

The other one was cringe

[quaint bolt]

I’m more of a redhead person

They can do 12 weeks

[coarse marten]

Amz

🍌

[quaint bolt]

No Amazon’s 16

I don’t do baby internships like y’all

Yeah that’s the plan

Do it

Goog my current goal

JS endgame

[coarse marten]

Accept and renege. To make ac autorejecting loo kids like Airbnb

[sinful locust]

JUDAH

NO

IM WOJH

H

[quaint bolt]

Ruining Waterloo’s rep with companies one company at a time

[sinful locust]

Wagon

[quaint bolt]

Go with all the As first

Airbnb and now akuna will hate us

[quaint bolt]

hello

[sinful locust]

Good

Amazon evil

Bezos bad

[quaint bolt]

Man if that were possible LOL

There are sooo many stages between dev and prod

[sinful locust]

You need to sneak the bug into the whitespace

[quaint bolt]

Ain’t no way thats happening

[sinful locust]

That way no one sees it

[coarse marten]

@quaint bolt lc contest next week. Reserve your Saturday evening and don't schedule a date

[quaint bolt]

Oooof that’s a big ask but okay

I’ll go on my date earlier

Or on Sunday

[coarse marten]

Nice mr wagon

Very nice

[quaint bolt]

Spend this week grinding a bit of lc for once

[coarse marten]

Juster

[quaint bolt]

Juster

:p

[plush girder]

Juster

[coarse marten]

stuck_out_tongue

[plush girder]

😛

[quaint bolt]

😛

[compact yew]

can i join?

[pseudo orbit]

Juster

😛

[karmic sedge]

If i dont have a gpa yet but application wont take N/A as a valid answer should i just write 4?

[compact yew]

maybe put projected grades based on what your grades are rn

[karmic sedge]

I have not started classes yet

but i have 4.0 from cc i transferred credits from

[compact yew]

Ye i would go 4.0 then bro

If background check, you can easily show you came in with 4.0

[karmic sedge]

alr thanks

[hollow sun]

@hearty river

[languid finch]

Airbnb auto-rejects loo kids?

[karmic sedge]

why tf is citadel asking for my SAT score lmao

is there like a cut off u have to meet

[sinful locust]

thats just automated

they dont care once ur at 15YOE lmfao

[karmic sedge]

like 1500+?

[clever grail]

@sinful locust can u review my sat score for me

[karmic sedge]

alr

i meet but still stupid that they asking this

high school stuff shouldnt matter

i see

[earnest hatch]

Is this after OA?

[karmic sedge]

nah on application

idt ima get an OA Lol

[earnest hatch]

Oh I left it blank and still got OA

[karmic sedge]

not cause of score just that im rising freshman Lol

[slow quarry]

bro they dont care abt sat lol

theyll gpa gap u not sat gap

[karmic sedge]

i was talking w alumni at my school and he said that its very unlikely I get hft internship cause they want ppl from like ivys

[queen plover]

ppl who break into quant will have corresponding backgrounds

it'll be just there

i mean

[slow quarry]

lots of ppl from non targets + strong state schools

just get faang and pray

[slow quarry]

naw

[queen plover]

nah disregard that i kinda don't know how to explain it

[quaint bolt]

they don't care about SAT scores lol

Dk why it's still there

[compact yew]

You shouldn’t be discouraged by that

[quaint bolt]

dk if they autoreject us still, but they don't like us

lemme find that post

[compact yew]

Should just make you more motivated

[quaint bolt]

[languid finch]

savage

[stark basin]

imaging being a middling student at a school like Waterloo
can't get into top/unicorn companies cause they can't pass the interview loop
can't get into average, good companies cause they have a "bad reputation of reneging"

[sinful locust]

Mf really said “reputation within airbnb for reneging”

Pretty sure airbnb has the reputation within airbnb for reneging

Also wtf kinda question is this lol

[quaint bolt]

?

valid q if you don't know about HFTs

which is, might I remind you, a very large number of people lol

[stark basin]

can confirm no idea about HFTs until i started applying for internship

[quaint bolt]

same

[stark basin]

might as well not have learned about it, not interested in it anyways
(not that they would be interested in me)

[quaint bolt]

nah it's not bad, I'm at the bottom of the barrel tbh and I'm doing fine

[stark basin]

that comforting to hear

[sinful locust]

What about… all of tech

[stark basin]

[sinful locust]

Airbnb pay isnt much higher than faang

[quaint bolt]

It's blind, I assume they're coming from a pure TC standpoint

[sinful locust]

Its still not that great

216k for L3

Ig it is higher than faang

[quaint bolt]

my man you need to go outside

[sinful locust]

But like not in such a tier where you have to ask “where else would you go”

Its not unique in that pay range

Not even close

[stark basin]

what's the point in which you stop looking for higher pay ranges and just go for a company you actually like

[sinful locust]

Within 20% probably

[stark basin]

[sinful locust]

Depends how big the wlb diff is tho

Like if its only slightly diff then I’d probably have a smaller threshold and for a much nicer wlb maybe I’d take a bigger cut

[pseudo orbit]

ok

yes it's clarkson

who even are you

dang my about me really didnt strike a chord with you

[sinful locust]

@pseudo orbit

[pseudo orbit]

is this cooper kupp

[stark basin]

i'll still be a happy boy if I can somehow get into Microsoft

lowkey i'll be a happy boy if I can get into anywhere I make enough to do what I want to do
which isn't a lot

i'm a chill person

[sinful locust]

And now you got offers from all 5 faangs

[south aspen]

looks like we gotta rescind one of ur offers

[near swallow]

I interviewed at all faang and didnt get asked dp

Nvm not apple

I didnt interview there

L

[south aspen]

:c

[near swallow]

Karat is only times i got asked dp

The karat phones. Blind75 level

[south aspen]

r u fr

wtf

i thought they only asked tree / graph type shit

[near swallow]

Yeah im a strong believer dp is getting phased out

U will study 40 hrs just to learn something u get asked once every 15 interviews

For companies who are out of touch

[south aspen]

ok honestly imo dp isn't that bad

[near swallow]

No cap

[south aspen]

like it's pretty intuitive to memoize a backtracking solution, no???

tabulation is the fucked one

[near swallow]

but i do think the blind75 dp is worth cuz of karat. But karat is braindead u dont have to explain

Just solve

[south aspen]

longest common subsequences

💩

[near swallow]

Everyone says this until u actually go deep. Dp is not easy

I used to think it was

[south aspen]

yeyeye i mean the memoization problems r not bad

tabulation is fucked

[near swallow]

If u can get away with memo i agree. Just recurse and keep it simple

[south aspen]

then ure from another dimension

[near swallow]

that’s why it’s hard. Dp is a lot of setup, lot of code, and tbh explaining it in an interview is hard

[south aspen]

yeah how tf

do u explain tabulation

????

"yeah so i saw this problem before"

[near swallow]

Think of all the dp vids u watch on youtube and how much explain and drawing it takes

[stark basin]

what's the common one
is it binary search
it's not binary search is it
i'll dp every day over binary search

[near swallow]

Binary search is easily a common gap in knowledge. Yes. It’s why i failed G

Do the normal topics. Most common is graph trees and then cover bin search on ur own time

[stark basin]

words cannot describe my utter repulsion on binary search problems

koko can eat a caterpillar dick

[sinful locust]

I like that one

Haha

I find the binary search solutions pretty “elegant” compared to some of the others

At least the fact that you can design a cool condition function that exploits monotonicity in the problem

[quaint bolt]

You end up getting a knack for tabulation

It’s straightforward to convert a recursive dp solution to tabulation anyways

Do it enough times and you can go straight to tabulation

[south aspen]

Ye but not all questions u can do recursive dp right

Like for longest common subsequence idt u can right

Or can u

Never tried

[quaint bolt]

Yes you can

[south aspen]

ok then it’s freelo

[quaint bolt]

Also I’m pretty sure MIT’s dp lectures are all recursive and they do lcs there iirc

[south aspen]

perfect

[sinful locust]

Do people ever leverage an interview opportunity at one role for a company for a different role at the same company (ex. akuna)?

And when leveraging an interview do people mention the company that they're interviewing with or just mention "another company"

probably another

[sinful locust]

ok

[quaint bolt]

Not for diff role at same company

But diff company yes all the time

[sinful locust]

yo

WAGON MAN

HAS ARRIVED MATUD

[quaint bolt]

ALT MATATI

[sinful locust]

WAGUUNI MATUDI

Yea sounds good

I suspected that same company wouldnt be the case

[quaint bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/wagon-man-gif-19438449

[sinful locust]

Time to leverage interviews 😈

[sinful locust]

[quaint bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-swing-gif-22685450

[sinful locust]

dawgo

Yo

[sinful locust]

Tabulations just easier to deal with sometimes

Only difficulty is you gotta make sure you get them in order

Memoization kinda a pain tho sometimes having to query the memo table

[sinful locust]

STOP

[sinful locust]

NOOOO

[sinful locust]

stop

recursion dp

https://tenor.com/view/sad-cement-seal-java-programming-gif-24524699

that ones a cool one

binary searching for the answer is a pretty cool strat

Yep

[quaint bolt]

Depends on the company

For goog I got binary search, graph and trees

I think bs is very much overlooked

And can catch you off guard

[stark basin]

i'm fine with graph and trees
guess I should work on binary search again

[zenith vortex]

for anyone already did palantir karat, are all questions graphs or there might also be different types of questions

[quaint bolt]

If you’ve done and are comfortable with binary search on monotonic functions, you’re good

[stark basin]

[quaint bolt]

If you haven’t, I’d take a look into those types of qs

Like koko eating bananas

[stark basin]

as soon as I saw the binary search tag on koko I knew how to do it
but I don't think I would have come up with BS if I didn't saw it

[quaint bolt]

dfs, bfs, topo sort, union find

[stark basin]

hey that's not bad

[sinful locust]

wtf is that

[stark basin]

binary search problem

[quaint bolt]

Dijkstra, prim’s, kruskal’s

[stark basin]

tf is a floyd warshall bellman

[quaint bolt]

Yeah one’s fine

[sinful locust]

graph

Floyd warshall is one

Bellman ford is another

[stark basin]

[quaint bolt]

MST’s uncommon but a friend got it for his goog interview

L4 tho not intern

[sinful locust]

Ah

[stark basin]

i'll
i'll stick with dijkstras and prim

[quaint bolt]

Or L3? Idr

What’s entry level

[sinful locust]

Dijkstras is easy yaeh

Prims is similar

[stark basin]

you literally change one line of code

[sinful locust]

Once you know the priority queue approach, Dikstra, Prims, and Kruskals can be learned pretty quickly

Yes

[sinful locust]

I need to revisit those algorithms

Also need to revisit Bellman and Floyd

[quaint bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nope-cat-cute-gif-4544032

[stark basin]

i think my goto topo sort method is a little inefficient rn though

I think I saw better ones

[sinful locust]

wdym go to

cant you just do toposort via dfs

[stark basin]

like the first way I learned

[sinful locust]

I see

[stark basin]

I think that's one of the ways I saw yeah, I should revisit that

[near swallow]

ignore the colors

[stark basin]

rn I throw everything into two dicts and keep popping ones without prereqs

[near swallow]

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-first-and-last-position-of-element-in-sorted-array/discuss/702162/python-lets-implement-pythons-bisect-algorithm
https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/786126/python-powerful-ultimate-binary-search-template-solved-many-problems
https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/691825/Binary-Search-for-Beginners-Problems-or-Patterns-or-Sample-solutions

[quaint bolt]

I essentially got a much harder version of search in a 2D matrix for one of gooble’s follow ups

[sinful locust]

Dfs topsort > kahn

[stark basin]

i hate the rotated array

[sinful locust]

I never remember how to do kahn

Dfs is easy

[stark basin]

oliver kahn

[near swallow]

gengis khan sort
eliminate all items until remaining elements are in order

[stark basin]

stalinsort

[fickle ivy]

turingsort

[fickle ivy]

uninstall life to fix all your problems

[near swallow]

the more you can play around with bfs the better

good for topo and dijkstra

good for matrix/graphs/backtrack

everything, all roads lead to bfs

[stark basin]

bfs is nice

[quaint bolt]

Only if you’re a icpc chad

[stark basin]

icpc

[quaint bolt]

If you’ve got icpc/competitive programming stuff on your resume goog will ask you harder qs

[fickle ivy]

fr

imma just not do icpc then 💀

[quaint bolt]

But if you’re good enough to put that on your resume, you should be good anyways lol

[stark basin]

cry

[quaint bolt]

Every icpc mf I know told me about their goog interview and are like “Yeah I derived a formula for a wormhole in 5 mins”

So yeah idk if you’re like an expert or something on cf, feel free to put it on your resume anything’s gon be a breeze for you anyways

[fickle ivy]

noi like

im not even going to do any

competitive prog

5Head

[near swallow]

[sinful locust]

interviewers can’t see ur resume

??

that’s not the interbiewes tho

doesn’t that lead to bias lmfao

engineering interviewed aren’t supposed to see ur resume before interviewing h

u

behavioral portion is someone else isn’t it

[simple garden]

?avatar @sinful locust

[warped dagger]

Avatar for altf4#1901

Link as

png | jpg | webp

[simple garden]

Remove this

[sinful locust]

LOL

[simple garden]

Now .

[sinful locust]

Lemickey

[simple garden]

No

[sinful locust]

no

[quaint bolt]

They can

[sinful locust]

huhhh

[quaint bolt]

My goog interviewers had my resume open lol

[sinful locust]

everyone else has said they can’t

wtf

[simple garden]

Yeah they can ask about past exp/projects

[sinful locust]

ik but it could lead to bias shit

[simple garden]

They might not mention it but it will be open

[sinful locust]

i shojkd stop teyharding my resume

LOL

like wot

[quaint bolt]

Most lc hards are prolly meme for you tho my man

[sinful locust]

LeMickey

STOOOP

LEMICKEYMOUSECLUBHOUSE

[quaint bolt]

are you plat

[sinful locust]

NO WOJUDI

NO

STOPP

im gonna report you

YAKHUNA

bruh

altf4

stupid ass name

change it to LeMickey

or LeSomething

yes

LeYahkuna

judatati

LeMatada

[simple garden]

No

[sinful locust]

METATATI

OMG

[sinful locust]

STOP

[simple garden]

Respect LeGoat

[sinful locust]

HES NOT JUDATATI

HES JUDAH

[simple garden]

Now .

[sinful locust]

WITH AN H

[sinful locust]

shit goat

5 rings more like intern at 0 rings

[simple garden]

clears JorGamble btw

[sinful locust]

LeBum has 0 rings

[simple garden]

Just like harden

[sinful locust]

harden has 3

2 with rockets 1 with thunder

[simple garden]

Harfatass will never win a ring

[sinful locust]

stop

drose op

jaylen better

[sinful locust]

LeTrash bragged about scoring 42 against the nba janitors a few days ago

[simple garden]

Ye for 5 min in 2013

[sinful locust]

@sinful locust

[simple garden]

They were Best Buy employees and he OWNED them

[sinful locust]

NO THEY WERE JANITORS AND CUSTODIANS

THEYRE THE GUYS WHO MOP THE FLOOR AFTER A PLAYER FALLS

[simple garden]

So basically harden?

[sinful locust]

except for this game, those guys were probably better than lemickey's competition

[sinful locust]

NO HARDENS THE ONE WHO FALLS

and then takes 54 free throws

also you know im not actually a harden fan right

I just have this pfp as a meme

[simple garden]

Celtics fan?

[sinful locust]

lejames is good

[simple garden]

Even worse LMAAOOOO

[sinful locust]

bruh

[simple garden]

Thank you

[sinful locust]

lejames is worse

celtics are goat

celtics are great

tatum OP

larry bird goat

mf trying to say lebron good but celtics bad

lebron couldnt even make the play-in

[simple garden]

Tabum got locked up by wiggins😭😭

[sinful locust]

https://tenor.com/view/grant-williams-zach-zarba-adam-silver-nba-nba-playoffs-picture2022-gif-25898449

[simple garden]

Lebron literally owns the Celtics how does that make sense

[sinful locust]

idk celtics made the playoffs

so thats one thing lebron cant imagine saying

celtics have 17 rings, lebron has 0

[simple garden]

I agree with this

[sinful locust]

no#

STOOOOO

p

[simple garden]

Grant Williams is a tank

[sinful locust]

he will be next year

when grant is good hes amazing

but he has to be in the zone

chet will make finals

watch next season

and he’ll get MVP

[simple garden]

Celtics medical staff will destroy him

Like they did IT

[sinful locust]

paolo traded to lakers next season

[sinful locust]

pablo picasso isn’t going anywhere

STOPPP

hes gonna suck in LA instead of orlando

lakers literally just take all the shit players from any team and make them even more shit

[simple garden]

I’m not even a lakers fan i just like lebron

I’m a raptors fan

[sinful locust]

I like old lebron

heat lebron

that man was fun

but he didnt get any rings there

[simple garden]

He literally won two ??

[sinful locust]

https://tenor.com/view/basketball-norman-powell-raptors-toronto-raptors-dunk-gif-16102094

JLIN raptors >>

[pseudo orbit]

which one is baller

which one is cooper kupp

[sinful locust]

LOL cooper

[ocean relic]

Paolo gonna be goat

Just watch

[sinful locust]

no

[ocean relic]

He’s daddy

[sinful locust]

pablo picssso shit

[ocean relic]

Chet ass

[sinful locust]

no he didnt lol

lebron has 0 rings total

how could he have 2 there

dwayne wade did win a couple tho

imagine giving urself a W reaction

🤡

legerald

lewack

https://tenor.com/view/milwaukee-bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-giannis-bucks-go-bucks-gif-22247315

lefreak is goat

[uneven sand]

offensive foul machine 😤

[sinful locust]

bruh

who

asked

[soft basin]

if i get a mock interview w a company can i connect with the mock interviewer?

[sinful locust]

yes lol

why not