#What were the questions asked?

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slate swift
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azure wave
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medium leetcode question, finished like 15 minutes early tho so i chilled with the interviewer

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bro said wlb is shit 4KEKW

slate swift
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Oh wow so only question and which topic was it and is it leetcode tagged.

slate swift
azure wave
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slate swift
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So no resume discussion right ?

azure wave
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there was for the first 15 minutes

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he was interested in my team and what i did

slate swift
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Oh I see

slate swift
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All the best for next rounds

azure wave
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ty!

slate swift
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I think each round is a elimination round right?

azure wave
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i got round 1 and 2 scheduled at the same time

azure wave
slate swift
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Thanks for your answer's

azure wave
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ofc

chilly jacinth
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is this NG role

stuck tinsel
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team?

azure wave
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buoyant cobalt
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congratz bro

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applied with referral and it still says "Resume screening"

azure wave
buoyant cobalt
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ads and trust and safety

azure wave
buoyant cobalt
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applied the 3rd of september

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did you apply before ?

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also I go to noname canadian uni

azure wave
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i think they look at school and experience a lot more, especially since there's no oa

buoyant cobalt
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also i got 1y internship exp, do you have more ?

azure wave
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reach out on 8/23

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applied on 8/13

buoyant cobalt
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oh

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i might still have a small chance

azure wave
buoyant cobalt
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like i've been an intern for over a year

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didn't do multiple internships

azure wave
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i see i see

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i have ~1 year at amazon; a couple other internships

buoyant cobalt
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oh i see

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yeah big names like zon do make a difference

azure wave
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i think they look at school too, my friend from my school got an interview as well

buoyant cobalt
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oh

buoyant cobalt
azure wave
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umich

buoyant cobalt
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i see

vast stag
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sounds like ads interviewing many candidates

azure wave
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there's a team match after the interviews

vast stag
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oh matching only after first 2 rounds?

buoyant cobalt
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why is there even so many people at tiktok, it's only a small mobile app

azure wave
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the job posting says 2-3 rounds

vast stag
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i think should be 3

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2 coding 1 hm

azure wave
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i feel like hm could be after team match tho

buoyant cobalt
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i don't think there's any with hm

vast stag
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its kinda weird if you don't interview with hm

buoyant cobalt
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yeah

vast stag
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yap

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oh really?

azure wave
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i'll ask my recruiter

vast stag
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i didnt ask him anything about the recruiting process lol

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he just ask me for 2 rounds interview and i say yes lol

azure wave
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me too lmao

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who's your recruiter

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i think we have the same dude

vast stag
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COSC?

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guy with long name

azure wave
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yep lmao

vast stag
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nice keep in touch if we pass the first 2 rounds lol

azure wave
vast stag
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y

upper dune
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hey fellas. I'm also interviewing for the ads team. Same recruiter as well 👀 @vast stag@azure wave my second round is tomorrow

azure wave
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how did round 1 go?

upper dune
azure wave
upper dune
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how did round 1 go for you?

azure wave
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same for me, super chill experience

upper dune
azure wave
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do you know how many rounds we have

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app says 2-3

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apparently there's a team match phase as well

upper dune
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no clue tbh. i asked COSC twice and he just ignored me lol

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i read somewhere that it's 2 technicals + 1 hm then offer

buoyant cobalt
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damn you guys are living the dream

azure wave
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bruh we literally doing the same shit

upper dune
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did ur first interviewers name start with D

azure wave
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i forgot his name tbh

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some asian dude

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on a non consumer facing team

upper dune
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ah ok then it's diff interviewers

azure wave
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yea

upper dune
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my first interview was aug 26

azure wave
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oh mine was yesterday

upper dune
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since then they've kept rescheduling lol

azure wave
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oof

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hm should be non tech right

upper dune
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what difficulty were the questions u got

buoyant cobalt
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did you guys already graduate btw ?

azure wave
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1 medium

azure wave
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grad

buoyant cobalt
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oh

upper dune
upper dune
upper dune
buoyant cobalt
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i graduate in december 2024, am I too late ?

upper dune
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nope

azure wave
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nah

upper dune
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earliest start date for this role is jan 2025

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so you're good

buoyant cobalt
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i mean in general

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to be applying

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i started applying in september

azure wave
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nah not really

buoyant cobalt
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okay

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thanks

azure wave
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worst case you keep applying for an extra sem

upper dune
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yeah def not too late

buoyant cobalt
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true

upper dune
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especially if canadian cuz i've noticed canadian recruitment starts much later (january)

buoyant cobalt
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oh really

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thing is I would prefer working in Quebec, but i feel like we get no job postings ever

upper dune
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yeah that's what sucks. most postings are either vancouver or gta

buoyant cobalt
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fr

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are you in qc ?

upper dune
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i hear quebec has lots of govt job postings tho

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no im in ontario

buoyant cobalt
buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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every so often i see a quebec posting but 90% of the time it's some game publisher like EA, ubisoft etc

upper dune
buoyant cobalt
upper dune
buoyant cobalt
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i'm employed already

upper dune
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i see

buoyant cobalt
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(intern)

azure wave
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ro secured?

buoyant cobalt
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but i make 60k

upper dune
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coveo is big in montreal

buoyant cobalt
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because they lack budget a bit

buoyant cobalt
azure wave
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i see

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i mean thats decent in canada right

buoyant cobalt
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their offer for ng is usually 70-75k which is decend in qc for sure

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especially since it's a remote/ flexible hour job

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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maybe check back every month. especially january

buoyant cobalt
azure wave
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espeically in ads

upper dune
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mine said it was alright but it depends on the team. i specifically asked about having to work funky hours cuz of meetings with china teams and he laughed and said that it does happen sometimes

azure wave
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yea

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do we know what tc is?

upper dune
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better than amazon at entry level which is kinda crazy ngl

azure wave
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wait is your location for vancouver?

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mine's san jose

upper dune
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yep vancouver

azure wave
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nice

upper dune
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not nice sadge

azure wave
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can you switch

upper dune
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tiktok doesn't have any other offices in canada

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and idk if they sponsor for USA roles

azure wave
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damn

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thats rough

upper dune
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fr. getting paid in peanut currency + living in highest COL in canada

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double whammy

azure wave
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yea 131k is rough ngl

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i think us is 200k

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which is honestly lower than zon

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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im citizen

buoyant cobalt
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oh alr

upper dune
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@azure wavewhich org did u intern at zon?

azure wave
upper dune
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👀metoo

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payment risk engineering?

azure wave
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oh shit

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nah

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do you know expo

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we do a/b testing for sps

upper dune
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haven't heard of it

azure wave
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damn

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were you intern or jr dev?

upper dune
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intern

azure wave
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i see

vast stag
buoyant cobalt
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@upper dune do you think spontaneous applications work or nah ?

upper dune
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Unless we have different definitions of spontaneous.

buoyant cobalt
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we probably dont

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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Oh I’ve never heard of that

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It doesn’t hurt to try

buoyant cobalt
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some companies do do that i feel like

upper dune
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I doubt many people are submitting these so at the very least your resume might be looked at by a human

buoyant cobalt
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i've seen it at shopify before

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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Good luck!

buoyant cobalt
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btw

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do you know of any other montreal "big tech" ?

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
buoyant cobalt
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alr no worries

upper dune
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@azure wave15 minutes. good luck

azure wave
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Also I heard back from my recruiter about the entire process

upper dune
azure wave
upper dune
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quite a lot of rounds man sad_kermit

azure wave
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Worried about team match tbh

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Hope it’s not similar to googles

upper dune
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last sentence confirms that theres no team matching though

azure wave
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You’re right

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I misread that as the team match begins after round 2

vast stag
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yap looks like we don't get to choose, we can only be chosen :((

upper dune
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bro i went full braindead omfg

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bombed that shit

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it was a question i've seen before too

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FUCKKK

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he asked me a system design question too wtfff

azure wave
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they asked you sys design wtf

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bro i think i aced that shit

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i got a leetcode hard

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and i solved it and passed all the test cases

slate swift
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@azure wave which topic is it and do they write the question on the hackerank or just tell it

buoyant cobalt
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how many lc did you solve ?

azure wave
buoyant cobalt
azure wave
azure wave
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I haven’t Leetcoded in a while tho

buoyant cobalt
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okay, i'm going nc 150 rn too

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am at 50/150 so still a long way to go

azure wave
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I think it’s more important to know the concepts and patterns tbh

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The number of questions you do doesn’t matter too much

vast stag
azure wave
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They’re not supposed to

upper dune
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Guess I just got super unlucky

final hedge
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I'm getting my first round for compliance team on 18th Sept. Super nervous

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My first ever big tech leetcode interview, how to not blow it up

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And how far away from the first round did you guys schedule the 2nd

icy bloom
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Wait sorry for intruding on this convo but did they ask LC hard on first day/interview or second day/interview. Like does second round mean second interview or is it after u do the two on separate days

upper dune
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in this context, second round = second interview

icy bloom
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fuck lc hard so gnarly

azure wave
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tbh it didnt feel like a leetcode hard

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and it's proably not the most optimal solution but it seemed like the interveiwer followed along pretty well

icy bloom
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oh dam

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so u hadnt even seen it

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u were just able to do it

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Do yk if tiktok does tagged problems?

azure wave
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i didnt get tagged problems

slate swift
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Even in first rounds ?

azure wave
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both my interviews were more like pair programming tbh, a ton of communication and explaining ideas

azure wave
slate swift
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Oh I see

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Any dp problem or all non dp

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I have my interview on 18 th

azure wave
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non dp thankfully

slate swift
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Nice

icy bloom
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thanks for the help also

buoyant cobalt
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Bro @azure wave @upper dune it says my application is in "Written test" stage

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isn't it OA ?

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why didn't I receive an email

upper dune
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idk what that means

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but if it's written test, then you'll prob have to wait a bit for it to get sent to u

buoyant cobalt
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didn't you guys have this ?

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buoyant cobalt
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because you guys didn't get an OA, you had first round directly right ?

upper dune
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we interviewed for ads team

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ads team doesnt have oa

chilly jacinth
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I gave an OA and havent heard back, now it says "resume screening"
do they screen after the OA?
was a 2025 role

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its been almost 15 days

buoyant cobalt
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so the process is team specific. got it

buoyant cobalt
upper dune
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remote

buoyant cobalt
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okay, thank you

icy bloom
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do u guys think all the tagged LC at the top are just ones from the OA lowkey?

runic ravine
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When did they reach out to you to schedule the seoncd round interview? I finished my first one a week ago, and I think I did well, but I haven't gotten reached out for the second round interview yet

vast stag