#!process C1 reject after powerday 😥

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stoic garden
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I thought I did really well honestly 😭

kind onyx
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I’m wondering too cuz I haven’t heard back

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Did u ace tech and behav?

stoic garden
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I completed all 4/4 for technical, finished case perfectly I'm pretty sure. Behavioral took up whole time and we had a good conversation, but he did try to speak to me in Chinese initially and I wasn't fluent (shoud've learned when i was young) so maybe that was held against me

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Mine is RP

kind onyx
stoic garden
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you might hear back soon, hopefully you get offer 😭

kind onyx
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I’m confused on how u didn’t get offer

stoic garden
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thats what i thought but i dont know why else i wouldnt get offer since the other rounds all went perfectly

stoic garden
kind onyx
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Wait bruh

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That doesn’t make any sense

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Are you sure you communicated clearly

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Like you can ace tech but not explain well

stoic garden
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I thought so, i guess its hard to say for sure but my interviewers seemed to understand and agree with everything I was saying

zealous spruce
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That's actually crazy

stoic garden
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the behavioral vibes were a bit off after the initial language interaction but still not bad

zealous spruce
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Initial vibe check fail b/c of language is wild

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💀

kind onyx
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I highly doubt it

stoic garden
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was there maybe another part after technical beyond the 4?

kind onyx
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I’m pretty sure there’s a committee

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They all decide I think

zealous spruce
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LEGIT THIS

kind onyx
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Fair but I’ve heard ppl fumble tech for example and still get it

stoic garden
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Dang i prepped so much for the technical part i thought having that 2/3 would be enough

kind onyx
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You didn’t fumble anything

kind onyx
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That’s not normal

zealous spruce
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Hey at least knowing you can do all the questions perfectly is something at least

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Gotta get what you can from it even if it was BS

kind onyx
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I’m assuming so

stoic garden
kind onyx
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I’m guessing the behav guy rlly didn’t mess with u ig

stoic garden
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yeah he was like "Oh I thought you'd be able to speak it" and then he wasn't as happy as he was initially

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felt kinda robotic like question, answer, question answer. some followups but idk

kind onyx
stoic garden
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A bit yeah

shy gazelle
kind onyx
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Also maybe if hc is low the bar may be higher??

tacit island
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!process c1 offer

stoic garden
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no way hc already low?? i thought they interview for a while

stoic garden
kind onyx
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Okay like hypothetically if they spoke together

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If one guy is like

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The behav wasn’t great

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The other two can’t argue since they can only speak to technician aspects

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So it’s ggs

shy gazelle
stoic garden
fallow blade
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Yo did u make sure to talk your solutions out

stoic garden
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yeah this also made me kinda sad i wasnt expecting a response for a bit

shy gazelle
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whats OOO

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oh out of office

stoic garden
stoic garden
kind onyx
stoic garden
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damn

kind onyx
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Just my theory tho

fallow blade
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Nah c1 lowk really emphasizes soft skills so behavioural lowk the most important

stoic garden
fallow blade
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but who knows

shy gazelle
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fr they reopen back in jan and feb cause of reneg

shy gazelle
fallow blade
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unlucky gang 🥀

shy gazelle
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behave everyone says is ez

stoic garden
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My behavioral wasnt even bad!! Like when he asked questions after I answered in STAR well and he didnt disagree or anything. I guess bad vibes after language behavior enough

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I guess this is the reality now

kind onyx
fallow blade
shy gazelle
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they all say that😭

fallow blade
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yeah bro who knows man I dont think its really @stoic garden fault or anything just bad luck

stoic garden
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how do i show intellectural diversity?? like color stack etc. or diversity based clubs??

stoic garden
shy gazelle
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dont mistake an interviewers kindness for how well you did

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for me it was coding

fallow blade
kind onyx
stoic garden
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wow ths is interesting for sure

fallow blade
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yeah i got the offer couple weeks ago

kind onyx
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Nice

stoic garden
kind onyx
shy gazelle
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i think it depends per interviewer

stoic garden
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i Guess its team dependent. my guy seemed to expect that id speak chinese from the first impression so I kinda disappointed after that and it was cooked

shy gazelle
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nah dw ur chill

stoic garden
unkempt robin
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Oh fck nah im worried now

stoic garden
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I guess my next steps are to keep focusing on technicals, and in parallel learn chinese better so this doesn't happen again in the future

kind onyx
unkempt robin
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

kind onyx
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Bruh ain’t no way

unkempt robin
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Shit I think i finished case and tech fine, and my behavioral was super chill

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😭😭😭😭😭

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Is it wraps

kind onyx
unkempt robin
kind onyx
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Bruh if doing good = cheat I may be finished

shy gazelle
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they still sending out power day interviews, dont worry about what u cant control

unkempt robin
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But we vibed

kind onyx
unkempt robin
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We were talking abt kpop demon hunters and shit 😭😭😭😭

stoic garden
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no way, those interviews weren't even hard. i showed work, made a mistake in beginning for one of the parts and fixed myself, etc.

kind onyx
unkempt robin
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Hopefully she put in a good word

stoic garden
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😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

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so much time wasted on leetcode i shouldve been grinding duolingo

unkempt robin
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Idk like 40 50 plus fs

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She was talking abt her children

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And how they liked ts

kind onyx
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Wait does anyone know what the hiring bar for c1 is for normal cases

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😭

stoic garden
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I thought it was pretty easy to get as well but i swear i did well on the tech and case

kind onyx
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Ok 🙏

shy gazelle
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then how r ppl who aced everything getting rejected?

stoic garden
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i got this!! unless behavioral guy said im not normal just cuz of initial interaction

kind onyx
stoic garden
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i did better than this

shy gazelle
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well i did my power day on oct 1, im prob gonna find out my result this coming week

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i was 3/4 tech, behave great. case 3.5/4

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yeaa, for vcn, pros/cons, test cases, fix bugs, add new feature

kind onyx
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There’s 4

shy gazelle
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is it bad if i only said one pro and one con?

kind onyx
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U probably explained well

shy spade
stoic garden
kind onyx
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💀

stoic garden
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have you gotten a response??? @shy spade

shy spade
kind onyx
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💀

mild ravine
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i also got rejected after powerday

stoic garden
# shy spade Not yet

how did your interviews go? I thought mine all went well but seems like i failed behavioral vibe check cuz interviewer thought I would speak chinese but I wasnt able to. and afterwards he seemed annoyed

shy spade
stoic garden
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yeah this is crazy 😭

shy spade
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C1 seems like they faced multiple lawsuits regarding violations of protect class, labor laws eeoc

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Did you ever seen the blind post in august

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Tbh i had similar experience during Google host matching call

stoic garden
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what do you mean

shy spade
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First interview Question were do you speak chinese and when i said no, his face went very negative

stoic garden
shy spade
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Google has class action settlement for racial bias against non white/asian in earlt 2025

unkempt robin
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Does recruiter matter ?

stoic garden
stoic garden
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i guess this yeah

mild ravine
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there is definitely a faultline between chinese and indian

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as a chinese person

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theres some kind of invisible beef

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my c1 behavioral interviewer was this old north indian guy with a picture of some indian town as his zoom background

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got rejected solely from that interview

stoic garden
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i guess this is the norm now. better race match or behavioral vibes immediately just gone

shy gazelle
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i dont think recruiters decide, its more so the interviewers that may have a higher bar

tight crane
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@stoic garden was it a generic rejection email?

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interviewing is so RNG

rugged willow
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@stoic garden are you international

rugged willow
cursive iris
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was the rejection via email or the recruiter called

pine otter
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usually email -> rej

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call -> offer

median raft
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Only seen memes about that happening

stoic garden
stoic garden
shy gazelle
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So higher hc makes the bar higher?

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Is it really that late though, mclean is only full

zealous flicker
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Bro what

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Now I’m acc worried if bar going up as hc is filling up

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I got powerday in a week 😭

shy spade
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For tip?

zealous flicker
full wigeon
kind onyx
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Same

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But diff recruiter

shy spade
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When was your interview

kind onyx
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30th

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💀

undone trout
undone trout
zealous flicker
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i just had powerday

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case he was grilling me for more pros/cons after i alraedy listed 3 each so i started blanking

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but the rest of the case i breezed through it

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technical, i was able to fully implement it and ran it and it worked, but i made some small mistakes and he had to help me a little

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behavioral was fire tho

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we really vibed

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the introduction + his questions only took like 20 mins then i just asked him questions for the remaining 30 mins

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do i have this in the bag guys?

rugged willow
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Which case did u have

zealous flicker
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vcn

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i said about fraud, ease of use, security, attracting younger generation

zealous flicker
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idk if struggling on that first part is gonna hold me back

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cuz i did really well on the rest

rugged willow
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You’ll prolly get the offer

zealous flicker
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bro i hope so

zealous flicker
median raft
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But this was a month ago so idk if hc plays a role or not now

shy spade
shy spade
zealous flicker
zealous flicker
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did u already have powerday?

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oh damn bruh

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its been more than 2 weeks

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i just took it today

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ig imma be waiting a long time

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aint no way bruh how they taking so long

shy spade
zealous flicker
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Bro what happened

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Oh bro

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Which problem did h have

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Yeah same

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I also struggled on the pros cons part

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He kept asking for more 😭

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Yeah exactly bro

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I was panicking

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What about the rest of case ?

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But u got it done right?

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Oh ic

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Did u complete the debug

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Yeah and I think the modulo thing was also messed up

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Yeah idk where they pulled that from.

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What does that even mean

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I had what if the requirements keeps changing like instead of 14 digit for master card and visa what if u had something else that kept changing.

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Oh deadass?

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I said u need to divide by power of ten first then take modulo

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Yeah but he was asking what if it keeps changing u don’t want to hard code

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I said u could load it dynamically

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Like a variable

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Yeah last digit

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Odd or even

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Yeah so like mod 4 and mod 6 mad no sense

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U would have to divide first then take mod 2

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Yeah it was weird

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It’s fine if u did well on other interviews u still got a. Shot

rugged willow
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@untold fog ima be real with u but ur prolly cooked

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It’s usually the most senior interviewer for the case portion

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And they’re the ones who guide the convo if you get accepted or not

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Interviews

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I heard a previous intern say you need a minimum of 3/5 on all interviews to pass. But other ppl say you need to do pass 2/3 of the interviews

pseudo hamlet
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Hey if it makes you guys feel better I had a similar experience with vcn, tripped up towards the end

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Waiting for outcome

pine musk
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that's what i'm doing

median raft
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Yes that’s an offer

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Congrats

zealous flicker
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Yoooo CONGRATS!!