#Timeline
queen drift
23 oct - r1
18th nov - onsite
24th nov - recruiter emails for avail to talk about moving me to hiring committee stage, ghosts for 2 weeks
8th dec - recruiter call about how hes moving me to hc stage
15th dec - recruiter emails about a call on "interview feedback update and next steps conversation" and schedules for 16th dec
16th dec - i'll find out ig
CANADA
rich agate
ho w long after r1 was r2
rotund shoal
23 oct - r1
18th nov - onsite
24th nov - recruiter emails for avail to talk abou...
Next steps is a good sign
queen drift
ho w long after r1 was r2
^updated
rotund shoal
My friend got rejected and he just got email saying update
rotund shoal
No “next steps”
rich agate
what is hc stage
rotund shoal
Did u solve followups?
queen drift
made mistakes like forgetting a clarifying q on first int which he pointed out, second int i needed hint on 3rd followup to solve
queen drift
Did u solve followups?
followups that they asked, yes, not sure if i had code followups for r1 it was some tough dfs memoization q
tough for me ig
rich agate
for r1 you had dfs memoization
neon pelican
@queen drift ur the goat
rich agate
ridiculous
rich agate
theyre always tryna do too much
gaunt gate
bro my r1 my interviewer kept dragging the first question telling me to write test cases and go thru each one of them and stuff. i just gave the verbal solution for the followup and he said it was good
cooked
queen drift
theyre always tryna do too much
l3 google you can get away with brute force
rich agate
oh what
queen drift
my interviewers did not let me code unless i told them verbal optimal
neon pelican
l3 google you can get away with brute force
memoization is not brute force
queen drift
is jsut not optimized for space complexity
yeah the guy seemed pleased with the approach ig lol
rich agate
did he get offer
queen drift
hes in tm
neon pelican
ye memoization if very valid
rich agate
crazy
gaunt gate
my interviewers did not let me code unless i told them verbal optimal
idk i feel like there is high variance amongst the interviewers (higher than most companies i feel)
rich agate
yea its just rng
queen drift
like i had a similar graph q as him and i had to do an optimal sln but he just did brute force and was fine
i didnt even know my interviewers' names 😭
queen drift
bro my r1 my interviewer kept dragging the first question telling me to write te...
i actually had this for r1 too, made me dry run a ton
rotund shoal
Graph was calling the function multiple times?
queen drift
nah its just one of those can u go from a to b types
rotund shoal
I see
Bruh my followup for graph was some competitive programming algo
I told him verbal for it
Couldn’t code it up
Cooked ig
rotund shoal
Rej
queen drift
btw he scheduled for 45 min, idk if good sign or bad sign or if im looking too much into it
subtle storm
I had “next steps” in the email and I got tm, ur chilling 👍