Plaid vs keep recruiting for summer 2026

[split river]

congrats! what do you mean "Can get procs if needed"?

[heavy hound]

Like ppl have offered to interview me/directly connect me, but I said idk yet

[split river]

Wow! What do you think is special about your background that has people reaching out to you directly?

[heavy hound]

Idk really tbh, I think I just meet ppl, talk about the projects I work on and then somehow it relates to a specific team

[split river]

By meet ppl do you mean at events or do you just do hella coffee chats?

[heavy hound]

Both, mostly events though

[split river]

damn. I gotta start actually going to stuff

[heavy hound]

Most times I never actually ask for a ref though, they usually offer if we have a good convo

I try to only put effort into things I'll actually like

[split river]

valid, they probably appreciate the genuine conversation as opposed to the desperation most people approach with

lets be honest they can smell it from a mile away

really cool man, thanks for the info

[heavy hound]

Lmao yeah, I think asking basic questions like what do you like etc are so overdone

[split river]

its funny cuz a good engineer delves much deeper than surface level yet that is what everyone starts with in conversation

although with the scale of applicants it does make sense that people dont want to commit too much time to each interaction

hard balance to find tbh

[heavy hound]

Yeah, usually I do a good amt of research on the team, etc, and try to bring that to the convo

[split river]

I'm gonna try that. recently I've been focusing on reaching out to engineers directly on linkedin and asking to chat cuz talking to HR gets you nowhere

[safe heath]

Plaid is fine

[heavy hound]

Compared to everything else, does it have the same hmmph value as Uber for example?

[safe heath]

Uber is better but plaid is a good internship

[heavy hound]

Yeah, ig I don't feel like continuing the rec cycle rn

Maybe I could push Uber to winter, idk how doable that it

[safe heath]

go with plaid you’ll be able to recruit at a lot of places new grad

[heavy hound]

Idk what to tell the others, like I literally did an interview this morning w/Talos and BB called me yesterday

I don't wanna disappoint them and say no

[humble sable]

Don’t forget me when you’re rich @heavy hound

[stable minnow]

how long did it take for you to hear back from plaid?

[heavy hound]

Lmao I'm finna tag you 🥰

[heavy hound]

1 wk

[heavy hound]

Plaid vs keep recruiting for summer 2026

[graceful torrent]

How was ur round 1 can I dm?

[heavy hound]

Rd 1 was very pragmatic coding, like thing abt building something to do something, not the typical LC style

[heavy hound]

Fwiw, you don't have to get a perfect/solve all parts, although in my case it definitely helped a lot cuz they followed up next day, Plaid really cares abt if you show aptitude

[heavy hound]

I think I/others posted a bit abt what type of questions to expect, but if you truly have questions that you can't find the answer to sure, although I'm not gonna js give out the question outta fairness (and I signed NDA) for others