#!process meta reject (looking for

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fleet pawn
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so sorry to hear that bro

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can you share rec and timeline?

scenic verge
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I will try to write everything that happened here in the thread.

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Timeline:
reachout 01/21
oa completed: 01/23
Screening scheduled: 01/23
Screening: 02/21

Took exactly a month to prepare for everything

foggy spruce
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PE right?

fleet pawn
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sorry to hear that

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you'll get something better

scenic verge
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PE Basics:

First interview I had was PE Basics, and it was very straighforward, I had two interviewers and they were very chill and pleasant to talk to.

I was asked to describe everything that happens when typing www.cutecats.com in the web browser.

I started with URL parsing and DNS lookup, then they asked me about DNS architecture and how it worked and I mentioned the muti-level architecture that DNS servers have and how if link is not found browser, OS or router cache how then it needs to reach the root DNS server then .com server .. etc.

Then I talked about the individual layers and how the request is packed, going over everything from application layer to Data Link Layer.

Then I talked about the local area network NAT and how routing works, also mentioned ARP and how IPv6 doesn't even use NAT.

then they asked me more of a distributed systems questions and fail-over mechanisms. I talked about how there's multiple layers that the request has to pass till reaching the endpoint server (multiple proxies), and mentioned firewall, load balancer, caching layer, and finally web server/application server.

for failover mechanisms I said that we needed multiple servers (said same for proxy servers as well) so we don't depend on a single node and explained how that would work.

Then they asked me how the data would be distributed, I provided an example of a bad way of distributing data among servers using one directory server and mentioned it that this was an approach we could take or we could have a much better option in using consistent hashing and explained how it works also mentioned RAID 6 and how we could preserve data in each node if failure happens.

Overall I think this went really well, the interviewers were very nice and made me feel like I did extremely well on the interview.

scenic verge
thick oar
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Maybe there was an issue in the coding section? Based on what you said, it doesn’t seem too bad how you answered

scenic verge
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PE Coding:

Very standard LC interview.

I got asked easiest question that was Valid Parentheses and I wrote the solution using stack and explained how and why it works. Then she asked me if this is how I would have wrote code in working environment and I was caught off-guard and said yes, then she proceeded to say what if instead of brackets/parenthesis/braces we had 'a' and 'b' or something like that so then I used a map and rewrote the solution. Thought It went well.

For the second question she asked me Dinosaur CSV question, which I knew the solution of and wrote the solution straight away but I didn't do an optimization that is I should have dropped the dinosaurs in csv2 file that didn't meet criteria of csv1 right away. She noticed and asked me about it. At first, I didn't notice but finally I said what I would have done differently verbally (didn't have time to modify the code, and she looked satisfied). I also mentioned that we could independently parse the two files and rather than one after the other (i.e. different threads) but I am not sure if it was a mistake. at some point she asked me something and I just nodded my head since I didn't understand what she said (multiple times) and I am still not sure if it was a mistake but overall I felt happy with my performance.

scenic verge
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This lady was Indian and had pretty strong accent, very stale didn't smile or anything through the whole interview but didn't give me any negative signs either tbh

coral path
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Some interviewers are just weirdos and reject for the sake of rejecting

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Had a same experience with Bloomberg (same question too lol)

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Dw bro you’ll get something better u just got unlucky

scenic verge
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the coding part was so easy I didn't think there was even a slightest chance I would get rejected lol

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I felt like it was just a bit of miscommunication

coral path
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Dw bro their loss

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U seem like u know ur stuff too from the first part

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I didn’t know PE was this much theory

gleaming harbor
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who interviewed you for PE basics?

scenic verge
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yeah I went over other people's experiences and they had to answer all sorts of stuff: OS, Networking, Distributed Systems are the main topics

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that's why I took a month to prepare

lone plume
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I think it’s because of the coding part, they expect for the valid parentheses without the stack

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Ur basics sound good if anything was to reject you it’s definitely the coding part

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Because some interviewers expect optimal from the get go

scenic verge
lone plume
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Sorry bout that bro I’m also bout to interview with em same role in 3 weeks

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What did u prep with for the basics

gleaming harbor
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@lone plume are you done with your screening?

scenic verge
stiff coral
scenic verge
coral path
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And she works with python everyday

stiff coral
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I’m 100 percent sure my soln was optimal

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Still reject

coral path
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Makes me wanna punch my laptop 😂😂😂

gleaming harbor
stiff coral
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I genuinely think like the monent u get those interviewers ur fate is sealed

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Like ur getting rejected whether u do good or bad

coral path
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Yup

stiff coral
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Was this the onsite?

coral path
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Or they find the most minuscule nick nack

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Nah phone

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Wayyyy back

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Like movement

stiff coral
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I got rejected after first onsite

coral path
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November**

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Damn sorry to hear that bro

lone plume
coral path
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It gets worse with each round passed

lone plume
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Bloomberg is awful

scenic verge
lone plume
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they have no method to their insanity

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They reject for no reason

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All my techs were great, my interviewers literally said this is great. Still got rejected

lone plume
gleaming harbor
lone plume
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Did u solve a lot of those sad servers stuff?

stiff coral
coral path
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I was like dawg u gotta send that to ur interviewers first 😭

scenic verge
scenic verge
lone plume
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Thanks for the information bro, really unfortunate that you got rejected 😦

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Have u applied to their Business Engineer position?

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Try asking your rec if you could be referred to that position?

scenic verge
lone plume
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Did they?

scenic verge
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I have 0 processes right now and I'm graduating in May. Hiring needs to pick up the pace, or else I'm cooked 💀

lone plume
stiff coral
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Zon will save u bro

scenic verge
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someone let their zon recruiter know to save me from unemployment. I can offer X and Meta recruiter emails 🙏

calm plover
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i have 3 zon recruiters who ghosted me. i can give you their email, not guaranteeing any response tho 💀

scenic verge
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I'll take whatever I can get lol

scenic verge
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I got couple of dm's asking about my race, I want to clarify here that I am a white intl student

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after talking with some people I think what got me rejected was that I dove straight into solving the dinosaurs csv problem and didn't do much explaining beforehand (I was explaining while coding). They focus lot more on your ability to communicate solution rather than coding, so they might have assumed that I had the solution memorized + slight optimizations I missed initially didn't help either.

stiff coral
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Yeah it’s more dependent on ur interviewers race

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Indian/chinese international interview->reject

fleet pawn
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bruh

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4/5 of my interviewers were indian😭

stiff coral
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Sorry to hear that

toxic gyro
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what's PE lmfoa

misty pond
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Following

fleet pawn
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it is a thing

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hold up

fleet pawn
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i mean if interviewer tells you to do this w multiple types of parenthesis then he just don't want you to pass, but single type can be done