!process Snowflake reject (after 2x

[vivid swift]

What questions did they ask

[nimble moat]

[nimble moat]

One of mine was hard DP💀

[quartz maple]

not too hard tbh

1 LC Hard and 1 LC Medium

https://loghead.gitbook.io/algorithm-notes/array-matrix-interval-binary-indexed-tree/median-of-k-sorted-arrays

https://leetcode.com/problems/decode-ways/description/

this, but generate all the decodings [return a vector<string>]

I solved both questions, with a little help from interviewers while debugging

yeah, I also don't know why I was rejected :/

[vivid swift]

this one harder imo, but best of luck man, it's tuff out here

[quartz maple]

I solved both lol

must've been something in my communication ig

[nimble moat]

bro this is a backtracking prob

[nimble moat]

as for this one it should be TopK with binary search, also kinda tricky and I'm not sure if u can pass by using Heap. U may get reference from the optimal solution of LC 378

[nimble moat]

I may have a couple questions for u:

1. Did u resolve the problems in one pass?
2. Did u communicate with interviewers on the idea of ur approach, and analyze it properly?
3. How were ur follow-up questions?

[quartz maple]

yes, correct

[quartz maple]

yep, I solved using the heap approach and he was happy with that

[quartz maple]

1. I came up with the approach and wrote the code independantly, but I needed some help to debug the code (pass by reference instead of pass by value for the backtracking qn, <= intead of > for the heap)

It may be that they were looking for at least one perfect round? I'd have thought they'd give me a third round at the very least

2. Yes, I did all that - communicated step by step from idea to solution, and then explained what I was doing when I coded it out.

3. Just verbal follow ups since we had like 10 mins remaining in the interview both times, which I answered correctly (Hash join vs merge join for intv1, and (I forgot) for intv2)

[nimble moat]

So for the first question did u actually figured it out with the help?

Also in my interview, all of my follow-ups are additional questions

I also needed to code them up

[quartz maple]

yep, it was working code

[quartz maple]

hmm

[quartz maple]

I'd asked both interviewes for expectations regarding the number of questions they wanted to cover
both said one, if there is time remaining they can ask a followup

so not sure

[vivid swift]

Respect it, Dyk what the feedback was?

[quartz maple]

The interviewers seemed happy and satisfied with what I gave & said

No feedback after the rej; no response to my email :/

[vivid swift]

Rip man, wish you the best hopefully u have an internship lined up for summer

[quartz maple]

🙏

[nimble moat]

Yeah man wish u can other chances

Maybe they just near wrapping up things so...

But don't look down on urself! The questions u solved aren't easy at all, keep up man💪

[quartz maple]

thank you!

Yeah I have an offer with Meta, so its not too bad
but really puzzled that this happened to me thrice now

Linkedin, Rubrik and Snowflake all rejected me after a "perfect" interview - where I vibed well with interviewers and solved everything correctly and interviewer seemed happy and satisfied

forced to conclude that my non-tech skills must be lacking

now is the perfect time to practice that ig...

[nimble moat]

Awesome man

I didn't even get an OA 🥲

[quartz maple]

haha, this is for the PE role

but I think cold emailing at the correct time really helped for this season

sadly I missed the SWE train, so could hop onto the PE one only

[nimble moat]

True haha

[inner pond]

when did you cold email?

im aiming for s26

[quartz maple]

when they opened apps

november 5

[inner pond]

Did u email hiring managers? Or

And what did u even mention after applying lol

[quartz maple]

just your generic cold email template

I emailed the recruiter

she'd posted on Linkedin about looking for PE interns