Congrats

[civic yarrow]

Timeline?

[pale sandal]

Applied: Oct 17
OA invite: November 26
OA completed: November 30
Final invite: Dec 5
Final date: Dec 20
Offer: Jan 2

[dawn chasm]

Did you email to expedite

[royal quest]

Did you send follow up? If so what date did you send follow up?

[spiral quarry]

canada or us? and oa score?

[pale sandal]

I emailed on the 29th, they responded the 30th with "please wait 3-5 business days"

[pale sandal]

Canada

[civic yarrow]

How did u feel about ur final

[spiral quarry]

gotchu and did u get perfect OA score?

[pale sandal]

OA was terrible lmao: 3/15, and 7/15
first one was a leetcode hard regex, second was a max flow rate problem, iirc you needed Ford-Faulkerson

[pale sandal]

the final was great, I thought it was my best interview performance so far

[spiral quarry]

ohh damn unfortunate they gave hard

do u think comments and behavioural part helped?

[pale sandal]

every question I got was insane this year 😅

[spiral quarry]

i got like 15 and 9 did it last friday

[pale sandal]

definitely, I left comments for the regex one, and I know the LPs inside out

[civic yarrow]

Did u get the final interview survey

[pale sandal]

nope

[civic yarrow]

On how the interview was

Dam really?

[pale sandal]

yep

I somehow solved it in aroun 15 min, and he followed up for 5 minutes asking about optimization and how to make the code more readable

[spiral quarry]

is the final 45 min or 1h and is it 50/50 split time on LP and lc?

[pale sandal]

45 min final

[civic yarrow]

Makes sense

[pale sandal]

first 10~15 he asked 2 LPs, and technical was around 20 minutes

[civic yarrow]

Yk which survey I'm talking about right

[pale sandal]

rate our interview process?

[civic yarrow]

Yup

[pale sandal]

I did not get that one

[civic yarrow]

Alr

I thought u had to get it before to get an offer

[pale sandal]

no answering that

[pale sandal]

nope

just make sure you use STAR for LP questions, or they'll keep following up

I followed it almost to a tee, and they guy seemed satisfied and didn't ask any follow ups lmao

[neat path]

What kind of questions do they ask for LP’s
Do they ask specifics from resume sometimes?

[spiral quarry]

sorry last thing do u think they care more about getting the lc part correct in the final or just ur thought process/communication on it?

even if it’s not perfect

[pale sandal]

honestly, I can't tell

I didn't know word search 2 was a lc hard lol

so I didn't panic and just solved it

the code worked and I communicated the whole process

[pale sandal]

I would say you at least need to brute force it and how a working solution

the guy emphasized that he needed me to write something that worked, and then we can optimize it later if I have time

it's important to write something I think

[spiral quarry]

yeah i think that makes sense

thank you!

[pale sandal]

every LP question they asked me started off with "Tell me a time where you (insert LP question here)"

[pale sandal]

happy to help!

[pale sandal]

mine were:

1. tell me about time where you showed initiative
2. tell me about time where you worked under pressure and had to deliver features

they won't tell you exactly which LPs they are asking, or directly ask about your resume, but if you know what you're doing it's easy to figure out what they're asking

[trim warren]

Did you solve using brute force first then get to optimal after?

[pale sandal]

yep

[worldly thistle]

did u "pre-script" answers?

[pale sandal]

I thought of multiple stories for each LP, but I didn't memorize each answer word-by-word

just talking points ig

I think it was a lc hard so he was fine with a logically correct brute force answer, but he made me start the optimal question for 10 minutes lmao

I think the writing out the optimal solution was like bonus points atp

[lament dagger]

Do you know which office (Van, Tor)?

[neat path]

Thanks

[fierce vapor]

Did you have to run the code?

Like on test cases or was it a dry run

[opal bison]

was this undergrad? if so that's surprising that a flow problem would appear in undergrad

[pale sandal]

I'm undergrad, applied for intern

[pale sandal]

dry run, just explain how your code will handle a test case(s) and go through the logic

[pale sandal]

yeah... I'm pretty sure my experience this year was an extreme outlier, every single technical question I got this year was leetcode hard

[opal bison]

are you sure it was a max flow problem though? you got 7/15 so im assuming you did it without ford-fulkerson

[restive quest]

for word search two isn’t it just run a backtracking helper on each word

If true add to final list if not then don’t