!process zon int completed, how long is

[vocal lynx]

how do u think u did

[tranquil light]

chopped

[cedar aurora]

trust in urself

[robust iris]

I got my offer within 2 days

[vocal lynx]

how was the behavorial whatd they ask

easy/medium lc?

[cedar aurora]

oh damn 😭

its been 4 business days since i had my interview i havent heard back yet

i think its variable depending on team

[robust iris]

ya prolly

[tranquil light]

behav was chill

LC was one super easy, other hard variant

[tranquil light]

probs good sign, most people who do get rej r getting in the first day or 2, everyone after is offer

[vocal lynx]

whatd they ask

[tranquil light]

generic stuff lol

nothing specific

[vocal lynx]

why do u thjink its chopped then

[tranquil light]

hard variant?

[vocal lynx]

also what team

[tranquil light]

weblabs

[vocal lynx]

oh i see

[vocal lynx]

aws?

[tranquil light]

no

[cedar aurora]

im hoping for that man

i got no other procs rn

[robust iris]

its a test environment org right?

[cedar aurora]

what typa question was it

[vocal lynx]

how long it take u to get ur interviee date, its been 3 buis days since thety inv me, and i sent my dates in

[tranquil light]

ye basically

[tranquil light]

hard graph / string variant

i need this, zon pls save me

day 0 prayer

[cedar aurora]

they sent email asking for availability 3/16
i responded w availability same day after business hours
received tentative dates 3/18
received final confirmation of dates 3/20

[shy drum]

what team

[vocal lynx]

i got email for availability 3/35
replied 3/25 after buis hrs w availabolty
rc emailked me saying looking forward to scheudle u 3/26 morning
havent heard back since

[cold token]

Are u sure bro😥

[tranquil light]

wym

[cold token]

Liek that’s true

[tranquil light]

idk, coule be observation bias but most people get rej soon while offer in 4+ days

[cold token]

hopefully

Did u get optimal for ur hard variant

[tranquil light]

bro idk if i even got it or not 💀

[cold token]

Son

I lowkey be gpting my question after the interview to make sure my shi right

even after dry runs

[hexed python]

do we have to make our own test cases

[tranquil light]

nah

jus dry run suffices i think in the end

[cold token]

one of my interviewers didn’t even dry run

Even tho we had time

[hexed python]

wdym dry run

isn't a dry run with your own test case

[cold token]

like go through example test cases to make sure ur code is right

[hexed python]

ahh okay

[vocal lynx]

what team

[vocal lynx]

^

ah

hard interview?

[cold token]

Sorta

To me it was but apparently I just didn’t know a certain trick

I’d say harder meds

[vocal lynx]

iokok

[tranquil light]

ye same

for me neither dry run LOL

[cold token]

def out the norm tho so I wouldn’t worry

[hexed python]

getting some wicked shit in person must be so awkward

[cold token]

Ion think they be giving hards irl ngl

[hexed python]

hopfeully not

[cold token]

But yea that would suck

[hexed python]

would suck for them more than me

[cold token]

Free vaca

[hexed python]

imagine spending thousands to get someone in person to not hire them

yea 🤣

[tranquil light]

classic zon moment

[cold token]

Yeah heinous ngl

[cedar aurora]

bro one of my technicals involved a prefix tree and i'd never done a problem using one before so it might be chopped for me

[cold token]

can’t believe they are flying people out actually ngl

[hexed python]

whichever VP signed off on flying interns out for interviews needs to be laid off

[cold token]

A trie?

[cedar aurora]

yeah

[cold token]

na fr tho

[cedar aurora]

im not a cs major so i dont take regular ds classes like other people might

[hexed python]

was it like design a trie class

[cold token]

Ah

[hexed python]

that one's tricky if youve never done it before

[tranquil light]

bro no one does tries 💀

its such a stupid topic

[cold token]

It’s easy when u learn it

[tranquil light]

u def hav to know the answer beforehand for design prefix tree

[hexed python]

yea its like the nested hashmap thing

[cold token]

but yea nobody is coming up with that

[cedar aurora]

design a spellchecker, it wasnt obvious which data structure to use but i was like inching my way towards the solution

[tranquil light]

i think i got lucky i was able to come up with smthn for my hard qn atleast

[hexed python]

wtf

[tranquil light]

so i think i got lucky there

[hexed python]

design a spellchecker!

[tranquil light]

nah thats cooked 😭

[hexed python]

bro thats OD

[cold token]

did u like have an array of possible words

[cedar aurora]

deadass my interviewer didnt paste anything into the livecode website he was just like

[cold token]

😭😭😭

[cedar aurora]

how would you design a spellchecker to find a word thats close to a word in a pre-existing dictionary

[hexed python]

no way he expected you to code that out

[cold token]

I hate when they do that

[hexed python]

probably just wanted you to say trie

[tranquil light]

i think its probs a design qn

[hexed python]

cuz thats wicked

[cedar aurora]

yeah since i was not getting to a trie i tried my best to just unpack more of the problem and like

see what the problem acc entailed

[cold token]

Yea u might still get it tho ngl

[hexed python]

its basically this problem:

https://leetcode.com/problems/design-add-and-search-words-data-structure/

its like a trie data structure with a backtracking component

thats fucked

[tranquil light]

bro is giving us so much hope <3

ty king

[cold token]

w problem

[cedar aurora]

my thought process ended at needing a tree and using dfs with flagged word endings to see how far the misspelled word gets

[hexed python]

thats good

[cedar aurora]

but i couldnt code allat out

[hexed python]

you basically derived a trie

on the fly

[cold token]

Zon is just ultra weird so no one fully knows loll

[hexed python]

you definitely have a chance

[tranquil light]

ye ik, its def all over the place

jus gotta hav no expectations lol

[cedar aurora]

i appreciate ur guys' votes of confidence 🙏

[hexed python]

was yours in person

[cold token]

Yeah that’s prob like a lc hard ngl there’s so much nuance to that question

[cedar aurora]

mine was virtual

i would have crumbled if that was a problem i was given in person 😭

[hexed python]

yea ngl

[cold token]

in person I’d just start having fun on the white board

[hexed python]

🤣

[cedar aurora]

start playin hangman w the interviewer fr

[crystal briar]

why are zon interviews so rng

[tranquil light]

in person these qns r crazy 😭

[hexed python]

is zon way more selective this year?

[crystal briar]

one of my friends got a hard dp and another friend got 3sum and course schedule

[tranquil light]

pray u get blessed, thats all

[crystal briar]

Like bruh

[tranquil light]

😭

[crystal briar]

I have mine tmr 🫩

Plsss

[cold token]

It’s lowk abt the same, although more selective about who they give interviews with

[tranquil light]

gl king

u got this

[hexed python]

3sum in person woukld be crazy no?

[cold token]

interviews are maybe slightly harder

[cold token]

Son

[cedar aurora]

interviewer lowkey stayed on call w me 30 mins after our allotted time bc i was his last interview of the day so im hopin i got some brownie points lmfaoo

[cold token]

wait that’s fire

[hexed python]

thats a great signal

[hexed python]

im seeing less linkedin zon posts

noticeably

[cold token]

ye they might’ve gnehinelt halved their intern class

[crystal briar]

I mean zon last year was insane

This is probably normal compared to other years

[hexed python]

maybe that means the layoffs are gonna stop

[crystal briar]

Last yr prob an outlier

[hexed python]

jassy leaves when we start full time, RSUs pump, you feel me?

[crystal briar]

They also started very late this year

[hexed python]

yea i mean in person interviews in mid april is nuts

[crystal briar]

Like they’re sending out OAs in almost April

[cold token]

Oh yea I forgot their doing that😭😭😭

OAs this late is diabolical

[cedar aurora]

crazy that somehow they're waitlisting at the same time they're sending out OAs

[hexed python]

they are?

[cedar aurora]

i've heard some teams are nearing hc

[hexed python]

i feel like there are two pools of candidates

like some get team matched and some dont

before the interview

[crystal briar]

Yea it’s just team based

It’s so weird

[cold token]

They just ask for time complexity and space for me

And any optimizations I could do

[crystal briar]

Anyone who’s willing to share details about their int dm me 🙏 or say it here idc im desperate

[cold token]

direct

[hexed python]

they tell you the LP?

[cold token]

No

Oh I see what he meant

I meant they ask like specific time u did xyz

[crystal briar]

What do I do if I have no idea how to solve a lc they give me

Like genuinely

[cold token]

try and solve brute force

[crystal briar]

What they ask u?

Lemme guess

Time u had a conflict in a team

[cold token]

No

[crystal briar]

Fuck

lol

[cold token]

I prepared for that tho lmao

[hexed python]

just start freestyling lol

[cold token]

My friend got that

[crystal briar]

Share with the class pls what did they ask u

[hexed python]

ive lowkey never had a conflict on a team

[crystal briar]

Yea ig ur already fried

[crystal briar]

I have but I lowkey did not handle it well

[cold token]

I mean my problem is lowkey a lil niche

Prob waste of time

[hexed python]

im sure its interview dependent

like im gonna be in person, they might ask me specific resume related questions

at least id guess that

[crystal briar]

Do u think having 4-5 core stories is good and then just pivoting it based on the exact question

[hexed python]

yea

[cold token]

Fs

also have some ai story

[hexed python]

thats what ive done for every behavioral ive ever done and its never failed

[crystal briar]

Oh ya

Everything I do is ai so that’s easy

[cold token]

the manager will grill like 10x harder

btw

[rigid steppe]

i got fucking GRILLED on ai

[hexed python]

wtf

WHAT

[crystal briar]

I have the manager first 💔

[cold token]

Yeah deadass

[hexed python]

how do you get grilled on AI

[crystal briar]

Like hella follow ups?

[cold token]

swear bro asked me about the intricacies of everything I did regarding to AI

[crystal briar]

Seems like they care a lot about how u use ai

[cold token]

Lowkey some parts he was like I know u already answered this in the last question but still proceeded to ask the question

Shi felt like I was repeating myself💀

[cedar aurora]

depending on the interviewer they'll ask u questions like "tell me about yourself" or "why amazon" that type vibe, but sometimes they'll just get into the LP type behavioral questions

[hexed python]

"so do you like GPT or Claude more"

[crystal briar]

Interesting

[tranquil light]

Bro for me he switched it up, he was like gimme a project where u started using AI, fucked it up, why’d it get messed up and how’d u change using ai after that

[cold token]

😭😭😭

[tranquil light]

So fuckin random, I’d prepped the normal how do u use genai qn, but this was a curveball 😭

[hexed python]

??????????????

[crystal briar]

Claude deleted my gitignore file

[cold token]

This is the worst I’ve heard ngl

[rigid steppe]

yea bro just loved ai

[tranquil light]

Ye it was cooked, I had to larp outta my ass

[crystal briar]

There’s no limit to the larp

[cedar aurora]

my ai question was like how did u use ai on a project and did it make the process easier

[cold token]

professional vibecoder team

[cold token]

bro got the baby process

[crystal briar]

Ya that’s what I heard they usually ask

[tranquil light]

Ye. How can I tell him all I do is vibe code 💔

[hexed python]

IRL larp is so obvious

[cedar aurora]

but yeah apparently there's a new LP called GenAI fluency

[tranquil light]

This is what I prepped and what everyone been getting 😭

[hexed python]

unless youre insanely charismatic

[crystal briar]

😭

[cold token]

Cap if you prep larp well enough there’s no limit to it

[cedar aurora]

you just have to be so committed to the larp

[hexed python]

ima be looking at the ceiling and shi

[crystal briar]

Just be a chadlite and you’ll get hired

[tranquil light]

Nah there is no limit to larp

Larpers shall keep winning forever

[rigid steppe]

my whole career is larp

[tranquil light]

Same

[cold token]

same

[cedar aurora]

larp it till you make it

[hexed python]

genai question is actually slop

[cedar aurora]

or whatever the saying is

[cold token]

I remember he lowkey asked me about cnns

[hexed python]

wtf

[cold token]

And I had to dig out my brain the one video I watched ablit it on YouTube

[cold token]

Tbf I was explaining a project using it

[rigid steppe]

😭

[cedar aurora]

just yapping to yap

[cold token]

Damn bro

[hexed python]

ohh well yea that makes sense

what a banger follow up

ts getting licked

[cold token]

my interviewers lowkey only stayed for like 10 mins

After

dude was getting calls

[crystal briar]

Yo that’s lowkey a good ass question

[crystal briar]

Ong lmao

[crystal briar]

Wait what happens if ur first one goes over time

It won’t right

[rigid steppe]

is yours like actually back to back

[crystal briar]

Yeah

[rigid steppe]

mine had a 1 hour gap

[cold token]

dude I had like 4 hours in between

[crystal briar]

Mines back to back

Bruh

Wtf

[rigid steppe]

kinda unlucky

[cold token]

ye idek

[rigid steppe]

going over time is a good sign i feel

if its not you struggling on a lc solution

[crystal briar]

Ig I’ll just have to tell bro I got my second one right after

[tranquil light]

Bro I had a 4 hour gap

That shit locked me out

[cold token]

ye you’ll be fine it’s not that serious anywyas

[hexed python]

mine is 9-11 AM

[cold token]

It’s the same zoom link anyways

I think

[tranquil light]

That’s p nice I’m ngl

[cold token]

So your manager will just join

[hexed python]

yea

[crystal briar]

Ye mine is 1-3 pm

[cedar aurora]

yo mine was 9am and 3pm 💀

[hexed python]

well

[crystal briar]

My manager is before my sde I’m pretty sure

[hexed python]

actually i have to drive to the office

[cold token]

U have irl???

[rigid steppe]

ya mine was too

[hexed python]

so ill probably have to be up at 630

yea

[cold token]

lucky ahh

[hexed python]

nah bro

[cold token]

refer us when u make it

[hexed python]

ts gonna be so sped

[cedar aurora]

oh shii which location

[tranquil light]

Ah hell naw

[hexed python]

mountain view

[cold token]

holy peak

[crystal briar]

Yeoo

[tranquil light]

Yooo

[cedar aurora]

tuffff

[hexed python]

nah bro

[tranquil light]

I think all my interviewers are from Seattle

[cedar aurora]

my sister's bf is from sunnyvale

[crystal briar]

I think mine are from the bay

[cold token]

good info bro

[crystal briar]

But idk if that means anything for location

[hexed python]

the big vale

[cedar aurora]

ur welcome!

[hexed python]

prolly means its a bay area team

did you ask your recruiter what team

[cold token]

usually

[crystal briar]

No

My recruiter was a bum she took like over a week to schedule and then delayed my shi

[cold token]

I remember seeing someone get a Boston team after their interviewers were in Seattle

[hexed python]

wtf

[crystal briar]

I wanted to have as little contact with her as possible lmao

[cedar aurora]

maybe got re-matched to a diff team

[cold token]

Ye I think so too

[crystal briar]

Hopefully we don’t get hced

That’s my biggest fear

[cold token]

But no HM call in between which was weird

[crystal briar]

I’d rather fail the interview than get hced

[hexed python]

i mean its deadass april

[rigid steppe]

ya april is kinda crazy i was worried about getting hcd mid march

[hexed python]

anything can happen

[cold token]

Failing feels sm worse bro

Also does anyone know how long cooldown is

[tranquil light]

Same but I’m ngl with how many ints they sent I think April hc still fine

[tranquil light]

6mo

[rigid steppe]

yea id assume so

[hexed python]

dude i swear nobody got an interview this year

[tranquil light]

And then everyone got it 💀

[crystal briar]

They sent hella in the past 2-3 weeks

[tranquil light]

Everyone and their mom got zon istg

[crystal briar]

A lot of ppl failed tho

[tranquil light]

Yes that is true

[hexed python]

hdyk

[tranquil light]

Bar has gone up

[cold token]

really 💔

[crystal briar]

Ik more people irl that failed than passed

Yeah

[tranquil light]

Same 😭

[cold token]

damn wtf

[hexed python]

wdf

[tranquil light]

Ik a guy who got 2sum and another tagged who failed lol

[hexed python]

okay so its a skill issue

[crystal briar]

Bro threw two sum 😭

[tranquil light]

He solved both

So it’s random

[hexed python]

wat

[cold token]

Did reject usually happen within 2 days

[tranquil light]

I think so yes

[rigid steppe]

thats what ive seen

[cold token]

[crystal briar]

I’m not sure but ik one of my friends that got rejected got it pretty fast

[cold token]

nice nice

[tranquil light]

Same

[rigid steppe]

ive seen either first 2-3 days or like 10+ days rej

[cold token]

Well not nice but

[tranquil light]

Both my frnds who got rej got rej in 1 day 😭

[cold token]

Damn

[hexed python]

should i just grind tagged

[tranquil light]

It’s random, do NC 150

[hexed python]

fuck

[tranquil light]

I really think that’s higher value

[rigid steppe]

yeah you actually just need to know your stuff

[tranquil light]

And then do top 20-30 tagged

[rigid steppe]

you cant memorize tagged qs

[tranquil light]

Nope

[cold token]

Yea nc 160 first and then tagged

[tranquil light]

Mine both were untagged

[crystal briar]

I’m memorizing the top 20 tagged tonight if I don’t alr know how to do it

[hexed python]

k

[tranquil light]

Yes do that

[cold token]

I memorized all hard tagged lol

median of two sorted arrays

[tranquil light]

I got so Lucky the hard untagged was similar to a tagged hard id see

So I just implemented a similar soln, but I’m not sure if it’s completely right or not

[hexed python]

bruv

[cold token]

If it’s tagged as well then yes

[crystal briar]

No way they be actually giving hards bruh

[tranquil light]

Same, 100% memorized

[rigid steppe]

ive heard ppl get some hard ass qs

[cold token]

(Trapping rain water, k sorted lists)

[tranquil light]

I’m being deadass

[cold token]

Etc

[hexed python]

asking median of two sorted arrays to an intern is crazy

[tranquil light]

imo LRU cache also jus memorize that shi

[rigid steppe]

is lru hard?

[cold token]

Na it’s not that bad

[tranquil light]

No but zon loves it in the past

[cold token]

Once u know it’s DLL

[rigid steppe]

yea ik someone who got it last year

[hexed python]

lru is easy

[cedar aurora]

if its a problem that people are often asked then lowkey they'll care more that you can explain your thought process than acc coding it

[tranquil light]

Try concatenated words instead

[crystal briar]

Lru cache is def worth memorizing

It’s so unintuitive

[tranquil light]

Yep

[cold token]

Cap what

It’s lowkey intuitive

[tranquil light]

I think for practice do design twitter as well

In case u get a lld design qn or smthn

[crystal briar]

Bro I’d never in my life think of using a dll and hashmap

[hexed python]

you got this?

[tranquil light]

Exactly 😭

[tranquil light]

Variant of it

[hexed python]

brother

what

[tranquil light]

😭

[hexed python]

its over

[cold token]

I thought about using a queue and hash map but couldn’t store references and got lost and realized u need a DLL for it

[tranquil light]

U see why I’m dooming now

So damn unlucky

[cold token]

after watching neetcode

[tranquil light]

I’m just another chud 😔

[hexed python]

at least the brute force is easy 🤣

[cold token]

I wouldn’t say u have to memorize the problem

[hexed python]

sorry HM, thats all i have to offer

[tranquil light]

Nah I think i did expected soln

Or not expected but I knew how to do concatenated words so I tried building on it

[cedar aurora]

yeah just understand how a DLL can help u track references to most/least recently used keys and u should be good

[tranquil light]

Like the main idea of it, interviewers sorta helped out but not much

[crystal briar]

Ye I also thought of a queue but I didn’t think of dll after

I got lost

[tranquil light]

Super easy and hard variant 💔

I thought the same after my first interview, only to get touched in the second

[hexed python]

swe interview RNG needs to be studied in a lab

[tranquil light]

Pure luck

[hexed python]

jesus christ man

[tranquil light]

Damn that’s so lucky 😭

[crystal briar]

U got 2 easies in 1 int?

[cold token]

I got med and med/hard

[tranquil light]

And I’m out here getting hard variants, fuck me

[cedar aurora]

ts rigged bro what

[hexed python]

it is lol

[tranquil light]

Ggwp

[crystal briar]

Also depends on team prob

Better teams probably ask harder questions

[hexed python]

you realize the odds of you getting a trie problem in an intern interview is deadass like 3%

[tranquil light]

Bro I think not team it’s interviewer dependent

[crystal briar]

Ye but ur interviewer is from the team

[tranquil light]

Completely dependent on the person

[cold token]

I woulda been cheesing my ass of if I got a trie problem

[crystal briar]

I’m sure they have some standard per team or like a question bank

I’ve always ignored tries ngl

[tranquil light]

Possibly

[crystal briar]

Maybe I should look at it tn

[tranquil light]

Same I just do the prefix design trie qn that’s it

[hexed python]

dont its actually pretty free if you spend an hour on it

[cold token]

Literally it’s just the same shit over and over again

[tranquil light]

Damn lucky

I’m jus a unlucky chud 🥀

[cedar aurora]

LMFAO

we Not the same

[cold token]

WE are getting offer

[hexed python]

i mean you literally almost got the hard variant

[tranquil light]

Another day of ngminess for me

[hexed python]

thats special

[tranquil light]

Ye I def think I put up a chance, who knows LOL

[hexed python]

600!!!!

[cold token]

Ngl ur question was lowkey a lil hard an autocorrecter has a lot of nuance

[tranquil light]

Ah hell naq

[cedar aurora]

you got this cmon have faith in urself

[tranquil light]

Before prepping I had 70 now it’s 140 💀

[tranquil light]

thanks man, it’s jus waiting game now

[crystal briar]

I have almost 300 but I still feel like ima get cooked

[cedar aurora]

yessuh when was ur interview ?

[tranquil light]

Shud I hop on LinkedIn and go glaze my interviewers

[tranquil light]

2 hours ago 💀

[cedar aurora]

LMFAO

[crystal briar]

Did anyone get asked tell me about urself

[tranquil light]

Ye

[cedar aurora]

one week to go good luck

[hexed python]

bro if i got even close to solving a hard variant i would feel damn good about myself

[tranquil light]

That’s the prayer

[hexed python]

youre straight

[crystal briar]

Oh deadass

Wait what team did u int for

[cedar aurora]

my non-SDM interviewer asked me to tell him a bit abt myself

[tranquil light]

Ye I’m not too down, but it’s luck, I saw concatenated strings like day before so I had a good idea

[cold token]

Ye they all ask this

[tranquil light]

I think coming up with the soln without seeing it is impossible

[tranquil light]

Weblabs

[hexed python]

it is

[hexed python]

i think you could probably derive its some sort of DP but past that its fucked

[tranquil light]

Dp memoization most optimal but that’s outta my pay grade 💀

[cold token]

Yes if u want to get ur decision tmrw✅✅✅✅✅

[tranquil light]

Or maybe a tries solution,

[hexed python]

thats OD

[tranquil light]

💀💀💀

[cold token]

glad u caught the reference😭

[tranquil light]

Oh well

Recruiting for summer 2026 ends tho

[crystal briar]

Should I skip my class that’s before my interview tmr

[tranquil light]

Yes 💀

[rigid steppe]

ye

[crystal briar]

It’s the first lecture of the quarter tho 💀

Idk if it’s required

[cold token]

Some ppl say don’t but I would skip ngl

[crystal briar]

Whatever idgaf

[hexed python]

fade

[cold token]

Damn I thought they ask everyone

[tranquil light]

I wasn’t asked why zon either

[crystal briar]

I’ve never seen anyone get asked why Amazon

[hexed python]

amazon probably has the most RNG interviews of all time

[crystal briar]

Maybe I’m wrong

[rigid steppe]

yo what quarter system is this

[crystal briar]

The big ucla

[tranquil light]

Holy

Orz

[crystal briar]

Fuckass quarter system

[crystal briar]

💀

[hexed python]

no way quarter system is a real thing

[rigid steppe]

damn u start in april

weird asl no

[hexed python]

🤣

[crystal briar]

Yea

Finals in march

Cooked

[rigid steppe]

what jan apr july oct or smt

[cold token]

hell na bros classes are 2 months wtf

[crystal briar]

Sum like that

[rigid steppe]

i have that for summer thats it 😭

[crystal briar]

At least we go back to school in the end of September

[hexed python]

nah thats ass

[crystal briar]

Ik

I’m coping

[rigid steppe]

do u finish ur classes before latest zon start date 😭

[cold token]

I think their latest is July 15 so he should be good

[hexed python]

whats the intern salary this year

[rigid steppe]

o ye us might be diff for me its jun 22

[cold token]

Depends on lo

[crystal briar]

Bro there’s hella quarter system schools

June 15 is the standard start date for quarter system ppl

[rigid steppe]

crazy

[cold token]

Oh what

[crystal briar]

Cuz quarter system ends June 10-13 ish

[cold token]

Oh yea im trippin

[crystal briar]

Usually

[cold token]

Why tf I say July

[agile iron]

its just completely interviewer dependent tbh

[agile iron]

~9-11k + 2900 housing (2200 in lcol) a month

[hexed python]

wait

10k for the whole summer?

isnt that low?

[agile iron]

a month

[cold token]

I like how they consider DC lcol

[hexed python]

oh shit

🤣

[robust iris]

11k a month about

[hexed python]

wow

[cold token]

If u in the bay shi

[robust iris]

its within the 11-12k deponding on location

[hexed python]

thats insane

[agile iron]

what loc is paying above 11 💀

bay is like 10.5

[hexed python]

is bay 70/hr or 60

[rigid steppe]

i get literally half that cus im in chuddy ass canada bro 😭

[robust iris]

including relocation

[cold token]

60

[robust iris]

I'm in Austin its 9138+2200 relocation

[hexed python]

c*nada

[cold token]

adding relocation is cope im srry

[agile iron]

oh, including relocation ur at 11-14 depending on loc yeah

[hexed python]

if i get mountain view im pocketing ts

[cold token]

lucky ahh

[robust iris]

eh not really, in austin rent is like 700-1200

[hexed python]

😭

[agile iron]

if ur interview it there it will be

[cold token]

Seattle tho

[hexed python]

yea it is

[agile iron]

is it really that low 😭

no way

[cold token]

And especially a late ass lease like this

[hexed python]

austin is so cheap

i was there last summer

[robust iris]

yuh for sure

I mean higher areas can be like 1500-1800

[agile iron]

i have a ton of friends in austin but nowhere near 700-1000 thouhg

[cold token]

bro they got like 20 interns in Austin

[hexed python]

i lived next to the domain on a last minute short term lease for like 1500 a month

[agile iron]

i think a lot more tbh

[cold token]

Yea im trollin but its def one of the least

[crystal briar]

Wait yea Austin is like barely anyone

My friend got a pm offer for Austin but that’s the only one ik of

[agile iron]

also, a ton of colleges close to amazon office had a lot of people interview for that location in-person

[agile iron]

i know several ut people in austin

[cold token]

u know their whole headcount

[agile iron]

i should

unfort, they stil havent given me access to abode 😭

[cold token]

[hexed python]

600 message proc thread

[cold token]

What two zon ints does to mfs

[tranquil light]

Fr 😭

[hexed python]

theyre gonna give me N queens and im going to start shaking and crying in person

[cedar aurora]

fr same, if i get herndon that's free money

[rigid steppe]

what is a herndon

[cedar aurora]

city in virginia 💀

[cold token]

Chud Virginia

[rigid steppe]

lol mb 😭

[cedar aurora]

its just data centers for miles bro

richest county in the us btw

[tranquil light]

I heard someone got that as well 😭

[rigid steppe]

ig bro

[hexed python]

WHAT

[tranquil light]

Zon asking hards man, times are dire

[tranquil light]

Ye I think last week someone said in cscd they got n queens

[rigid steppe]

i genuinely got so lucky 😭

[cold token]

Time to hit the books bud

[shy drum]

anyone int for documentdb

[agile iron]

for in person, you should expect at least one hard or a harder medium

[cold token]

When’s ur int

[scenic juniper]

is this for zon sde?

[hexed python]

time to rip a dart and some beer

[rigid steppe]

yea i feel like in person is a lot harder for some reason

[scenic juniper]

int next week

[cold token]

Damn

[tranquil light]

Idk it just all feel random LOL

Can’t find any pattern in ts

[cold token]

Bro just getting bad news on bad news

[agile iron]

i think they're also a bit more lenient with not getting exact solution thouhg

[rigid steppe]

just anecdotally ive seen in person qs be crazy

[hexed python]

?????????????????????????????

[rigid steppe]

and ive seen hella easys for virt

[tranquil light]

Surely if they fly u out they hire u

[cedar aurora]

just show em ur not an npc

[agile iron]

not necessarily

[cedar aurora]

and u should be good!

[hexed python]

deadass yo 🤣

[rigid steppe]

dawg they flew in a couple ppl from across canada for vancouver intv and im in van and they gave me a virt LOL

[agile iron]

its only a couple teams doing in-person, and team-matching prolly isnt too location based

[hexed python]

theyre flying me from indiana to sfo to give me alien dictionary in person yo 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[cedar aurora]

nothin u cant handle

[hexed python]

true

if you name all the data structures one has to hit right

[cedar aurora]

LOL exactly

dont forget to try trie

[cold token]

That’s lowkey the method sometimes

[hexed python]

ill remember you

[hexed python]

this is NOT the method

[cold token]

😭😭

na fr tho some problems I jus go through all dsa see if anything fits

[hexed python]

oh yeah

[cold token]

it sounds bad but it lowk not

[hexed python]

just not out loud

[rigid steppe]

dawg for sm shi like alien dictionary how am i meant to act like i came to that solution naturally 😭 i just got that shit memorized and thats that

[crystal briar]

How bad is it if u have to take like a minute or two to think in silence

[hexed python]

real shit

[cold token]

Ts not even that bad yall trollin

[rigid steppe]

my interviewer was literlaly like just dont talk js solve the question 😭 tlak after

[cold token]

Wow

was it a hard problem

[rigid steppe]

no it was easy asl but ig bro did not gaf abouit the process

[hexed python]

Jane Street is calling

[cold token]

I mean for the most part u should try saying ur thoughts

[cedar aurora]

^

but if u just need a second to think about it as soon as u get the problem thats fine

just tell them beforehand

[cold token]

^

[cedar aurora]

so they're not like "what is this dude doin"

[cold token]

Or just install Cluely

they might be having problems w that now😭

[crystal briar]

I heard u don’t even have to share ur screen

Like wtf

[cedar aurora]

yea i didnt have to share mine

[cold token]

shit I’m not taking that risk tho ngl

[hexed python]

you think they would notice if i hate the meta oakleys with GPT installed on

[crystal briar]

But I’m too much of a pussy to try

Yeah I’d rather take the L and not solve it lol

Than risk cheating

[cold token]

na bro

[cedar aurora]

i feel like they're trained to know when people do cheat tho

[rigid steppe]

for my sdm i didnt but sde wanted me to share

[cedar aurora]

neither of my interviewers cared/ask

[cold token]

Did y’all use chime or zoom

[cedar aurora]

zoom

[shy drum]

zoom

3 business days since int is it over

[idle acorn]

my old manager and mentor at big tech who intv ppl regularly said ab 50% of all their intvs get caught cheating and failed

😭

[hexed python]

wtf

[cold token]

Do they cal them out directly

[cedar aurora]

how do they catch ppl cheating

like yea what do they say

[hexed python]

probably overlaps with the people LARPing on their resume to get past ATS

they would get fucked in background check anywasy

[cold token]

Lolll

Amazon bg check

funny

[hexed python]

theres none?

[cold token]

I shoulda put prev meta on resume

[hexed python]

wow

[cold token]

It’s just criminal

I think

[hexed python]

thats absurd

[cold token]

I could be completely wrong tho

[hexed python]

alien dictionary is just topo sort

i get it

but i cant code it

[agile iron]

as long as you dont claim employment, bgc doesn't really screw anyone over tbh

or like, wildly change title

[hexed python]

yea im saying like the dudes who LARP FAANG to get past ATS

holy buzz acronym sentence

[idle acorn]

they didnt tell me i just asked them how often they see it and thats what they said

[cold token]

If you can’t code topo sort hit course schedule

[agile iron]

this seems unlikely... i can't imagine that 50% cheat, and I can't imagine that 100% get caught too

[idle acorn]

ok well this is literally what they both said so idk what to tell you

[agile iron]

i dont doubt that they said it, ofc, i just can't fathom it being actually true

[hexed python]

alr

[agile iron]

at least, i'd like to think that it isn't true and that most people arent cheating 😭

[hexed python]

thanks

[trail venture]

Wait my manager didn’t gaf

The swe grilled the fuck out of me

[rigid steppe]

for ai?

[toxic tartan]

thread with 740 messages💀

so it seems like zon giving lots of two pointers/graph/tree this year

not much dp horror stories

[agile iron]

uh, i got dp lol

[toxic tartan]

solved 80% of 30 days tagged and been redoing nc150 but i guess ill do the dp section again too

when will this suffering end

[rigid steppe]

when the interview is done

[cedar aurora]

bro not even

[trail venture]

Wait lowk I got two tree questions LOL

Ts was so funny

[cedar aurora]

suffering's done when u get ur result back

[tranquil light]

Ermmm

The sufferings of ngmis like me shall never end

[rigid steppe]

not over yet bro

[tranquil light]

True, I’m jus waiting

[rigid steppe]

i thought i was cooked then got an offer

[tranquil light]

Why can’t zon just give me verbal decision rn like cmon

[tranquil light]

Orz

[toxic tartan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/asa-mitaka-stare-yHl9yq2hX5z48RlgAN

[trail venture]

If I got the trie question right and I think behaviorals were p good

Is that very high chance of offer

[rigid steppe]

prolly

all intvr dependent

[trail venture]

Aight bet

So up to variance atp

😀😀😀

[ionic grove]

Do you remeber your LCs by any chance?

[cedar aurora]

what location u interview for

or like where were ur interviewers from

[sage osprey]

yall think i can learn 200 lc in 6 days or no

[trail venture]

Yea

U got it

[cold token]

Yea

as long as most concepts aren’t new

Theoretically

[idle acorn]

😭😂

[sage osprey]

bet

nc150->tagged or vice versa? or should i js group tagged into the roadmap

i have solid understanding of everything except dp and tries for ref

[crystal briar]

btw did ur guys interviewers let u write on paper while solving

i always do that for my lc problems to visualize my thoughts but one time i had a technical int where they didnt let me

[cold token]

I didn’t do that nor would I recommend it

try using comments

but maybe if u ask they might say yes idk if it’s allowed

[crystal briar]

Bro but like what if I’m tryna draw my backtracking tree or wtv

Or draw my linked list and see how I should modify the pointers

Whatever

[idle acorn]

oh u werent joking? lmk if you actually are able to pull this off whatsoever

are you actually going to try to do 200lc in 6 days

[cold token]

ye I’ve deadass learned to comment backtracking trees out as well as recursive function call stacks shits so good for interviews bro

[crystal briar]

how 😭 u got an example?

Like the arrows help me

Idk how to comment ts

[cold token]

Both from gpt but that’s literally exactly what I do

[crystal briar]

smart

[cold token]

I feel like the recursive one helped me the most when debugging any recursive functions ngl

[sage osprey]

honestly not doing 200 from scratch

just gonna review solns and make sure i understand the patterns of each enough to explain to intv

not too worried abt writing the code im just rusty cuz first proc a while

[idle acorn]

ok yea cuz

200 means 1.38 problems an hour for all 6 days straight with 0 breaks to do anything including sleeping

[sage osprey]

10x engineer type numbers

if only

[frosty lodge]

I got 3 stack questions

[toxic tartan]

💀 💀 like dfs stack or just stacks

[cedar aurora]

801 messages in this thread holy

[frosty lodge]

Regular stack questions, easy and medium

[boreal lantern]

like reverse polish?

[frosty lodge]

a similar one

[boreal lantern]

but three in a row is crazy

[frosty lodge]

well one was a follow up so technically 2

[boreal lantern]

i see

[spring star]

what behavioral questions did you guys get and how deep do they go into your resume?

[sage osprey]

+1 on the resume i lwk larped on mine for zon

[rigid steppe]

highkey no generalized advice for zon this year, entirely depends on what the interviewer cares about, they can grill you on technical or behav or ai or ask sys design or whatever

[crisp robin]

This is the only right answer for zon interview prep this year

Just be generally ready for anything

[sage osprey]

any teams in particular might be considered 'harder'?

[crisp robin]

AWS

but also there's no strong statistically significant evidence of that

people just tend to generally fear AWS interviewers 😭

[cold token]

Ngl everyone I seen w AWS has gotten easy and meds

[sage osprey]

aws does sound kinda scary

but i dont even know what team i'm int for my rc has given me zero information

[trail venture]

I had an easy and a hard med for AWS

This past week

[plain anchor]

whose ur interviewer

i got AWS

[crisp robin]

How do yk?

Did you get names?

[plain anchor]

yes

today

[crisp robin]

Nice

I’m still in the dark

Hopefully soon

[plain anchor]

how good is aws

[crisp robin]

AWS cracked

What’s your loc?

[plain anchor]

seattle i think

[crisp robin]

I hope I get my finalized dates soon

[plain anchor]

hopefully

im scared

😭

🙁

[crisp robin]

Interview scheduling is guaranteed right?

[plain anchor]

yes

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