!process zon rej vs offer how well do

[tropic sonnet]

How was ur interview like what did they ask

[solemn narwhal]

i think if u come to a working solve for both qs its offer

[ripe horizon]

I told my interviewer mid question that I think I pooped myself a bit and still got an offer

[foggy bluff]

wtf

[foggy bluff]

dm me

[tropic sonnet]

I did

[solemn narwhal]

does a team interview one intern at a time ?

curious as some people receive offers fairly quickly

[carmine cypress]

following 😭

[solemn narwhal]

i think its likely

given how long some people wait to get scheduled

probably have to wait for someone else to interview

[carmine cypress]

that would be pretty inefficient

[solemn narwhal]

ive never heard of someone getting rejected off stackrank

yes but zon interview process is never known to be super efficient

[carmine cypress]

i mean probably they interview 2-3 people at the same time

[solemn narwhal]

yeah maybe

i can see it being a small grou;p

[carmine cypress]

every interviewing team would probably have 2-3 interns

i see your argument of it being the number they hire

but how do you know if you're the first

[solemn narwhal]

ive just seen some people receive offer like 2 days out

[floral rain]

Ngl I guess I got a couple hints on my solution, but isn't part of the coding interview confirming with the interviewer if you're code is on the right track 😭

[solemn narwhal]

it could be team by team basis

hints is fine just arrive to the correct solution

[floral rain]

I did 2 virtual interviews today, and both my interviewers didn't actually know the complete details of the solutions

They just said mhm this is good

[carmine cypress]

idk people have been rejected with perfect interviews

[floral rain]

I checked the actual solution after and there were minor errors

[solemn narwhal]

could be behavioral fumble then

from what ive seen if the person isnt a bot and solved the qs then an offer was very likely

[carmine cypress]

i think as long as you convince them

[carmine cypress]

also varies wildly by org

[solemn narwhal]

yes

[carmine cypress]

i think AWS is harder

certainly a higher bar

[floral rain]

I said time complexity was O(nlogn) and space complexity was O(1)

[solemn narwhal]

yes i have a friend who did aws interview today

got asked hard graph q

[floral rain]

My interviewer said I swapped it 😭

[carmine cypress]

dude time is logN

nlogn is sort

[floral rain]

Fawk

[solemn narwhal]

u might be ok

[carmine cypress]

😭

sorry

[solemn narwhal]

but yeah that is rough

[floral rain]

@carmine cypress

Thang is my interviewer said space complexity was O(nlogn) and time complexity was O(1)

[carmine cypress]

not surprised

someones interviewer did not know what a heap was?

[floral rain]

Wait ur frickin gaslighting me bro

The space complexity is O(nlogn)

I mean time***

[solemn narwhal]

yeah for two sum

ii

[carmine cypress]

no for binary search

[solemn narwhal]

its fine

but binsearch is logn

[carmine cypress]

i thought you were asked a general question

[floral rain]

Ye

[carmine cypress]

yeah you do upto n binary searches in two sum 2

[solemn narwhal]

yeah im ngl if u fumble runtime after coding up a solution

[carmine cypress]

so n*logn = nlogn

[solemn narwhal]

its actually sufficient grounds for reject i feel

[floral rain]

Wdym

[carmine cypress]

oh wait then you chilling

[floral rain]

I never had to actually run the code

[solemn narwhal]

like if u come up with a solution

and then say the wrong runtime

like with a solution in mind

[floral rain]

The thing is my interviewer didn't even know it bro 😭

He swapped it

[solemn narwhal]

ts so funny

typical amazon

[floral rain]

I just agreed with him

I had the correct space and time complexity

Its very interviewer dependent i think

[solemn narwhal]

ive heard that happened before

[floral rain]

Just go along with what ur interviewer thinks

[ripe horizon]

lol i messed mine up too and he asked about something then i fixed it, the first interview i didn't even say time or space. He told me he didn't need it

[solemn narwhal]

i think u would be good then

[carmine cypress]

maybe you had to show "have backbone" and tell him 😭

[solemn narwhal]

maybe the HM interview would be lighter as its been a while since theyve done LC

[floral rain]

He also asked me to do pseudocode rather than do actual code

[carmine cypress]

was this HM or SDE?

[solemn narwhal]

and then the SWE interview could be harder or nearly the same

[floral rain]

and I did pseudocode and space and time complexity for the two pointer and hashmap approaches as well

[ripe horizon]

do HM even interview? both of mine were SDE managers

[floral rain]

Ye i only got sde managers

[carmine cypress]

SDE managers = HM

[floral rain]

o

lemme see

[ripe horizon]

oh tf

[floral rain]

I got SDE and SDE manager @carmine cypress

Ngl the SDE manager is fuckin cracked out with AI

I started asking him AI questions and he got so excited

Cause thats his field

[carmine cypress]

yeah i think thats typical

[ripe horizon]

how did i get interviewed by 2 managers, doesn't a team only have 1

[carmine cypress]

could be two different teams then

because some people also have shadow interviewers

[solemn narwhal]

lowkey could just be good rng

[ripe horizon]

They both were Quick Sight idk

[carmine cypress]

if you're being considered by diff teams

[carmine cypress]

could be different subteams

[floral rain]

did u get leetcodes for each interview @ripe horizon

Just curious

[ripe horizon]

ohh zaym

[solemn narwhal]

most of the current teams interviewing are aws no ?

i havent seen many non aws

recently

[floral rain]

Cause i was stressing so hard for my interviews and it ended up being very doable medium leetcodes

[carmine cypress]

yeah stores wrapped up

[floral rain]

yea i got aws interviews

[carmine cypress]

i think

[ripe horizon]

yeah i got serialize + deserialize bin tree and merge k sorted lisits lmao, got so lucky

[solemn narwhal]

my int is prime video

[carmine cypress]

wtf both hards

[solemn narwhal]

was surprised to get it lol i thought id get aws

[carmine cypress]

i got both meds

[floral rain]

actually how do u know if it's AWS

[ripe horizon]

tbh both i think should be rated as easy

[solemn narwhal]

just search up ur interviewers

usually theyll have the team name on linkedin

[ripe horizon]

oh which ones

[carmine cypress]

no like one of mine was a easy-medium ish,

[carmine cypress]

DM

[solemn narwhal]

mostly ive heard easy med

like a real easy problem and then a easier medium

[ripe horizon]

okay 😭

[solemn narwhal]

thats from aws

for non aws it could be easier (?) not sure

[floral rain]

o sh lemme delete my leetcode problem name

[solemn narwhal]

nah i dont think its that deep lol

[floral rain]

I woulda been cooked bro

merge k sorted list is a hard

wait wtf theyre both hards

[ripe horizon]

it's a very easy hard, literally just a heap

[floral rain]

I woulda been ultra cooked

I genuinely got very easy mediums

[solemn narwhal]

merge k sorted is fine but serial deserialize

is a little annoying

[floral rain]

Bro I got some lucky ass interviewer rng

[solemn narwhal]

nah lowkey this other guy just had bad rng

i have primarily heard only easy med

[ripe horizon]

merge k lists is just a heap, and the other one is just pre/in order traversal. If you do it you'll see they honestly should be listeed as easy-medeium problems

[floral rain]

Did u alr have these problems memorized 😭

I woulda been yapping the interviewers ear off

I assume the interviewers are expecting u to communicate a lot on hards, right

so maybe if they gave me enough hints i could have done those problems then

[ripe horizon]

no bruh 😭 did u read the problems

[ripe horizon]

I mean you have to communicate but don't over communicate. Also I learned from my friend to not say out loud what you're trying like a teacher 😭

[ripe horizon]

The tree on imo is harder than the list one

[floral rain]

I thought ur supposed to dictate what ur doing 💀

Maybe my interviewers were just chill

Were ur interviewers actually confident on the problem implementation?

[ripe horizon]

lol, i thot i was cooked bc my interviewer talked at lightspeed

[ripe horizon]

wdym

[floral rain]

Like some syntax was wrong for my first interview problem but he told me to just continue and dry run because he said the solution was good and he didnt care about specific syntax

[ripe horizon]

was yours not on livecode? There is a syntax highlighter

[floral rain]

syntax highlighter?

like intellisense?

[ripe horizon]

like it hightlights ur syntax bro

[floral rain]

💀

[ripe horizon]

like how this is colored

[floral rain]

no i was supposed to put a frequency array into a tuple but i ended up doing some tard shit and doing tuple.add()

But he was like eh dont worry about tuple syntax

[ripe horizon]

@foggy bluff is ur name soma

[ripe horizon]

oh interesting, i thought u meant something else

is that python?

[floral rain]

yea

to store an array as a key u have to put it into a tuple

[ripe horizon]

lmao it's probably fine 😭 but yeah add is for sets and append is for arrays

[floral rain]

Ye ik 💀

I was blanking but my interviewer didnt know the syntax and didnt care

[ripe horizon]

did u get is valid anagram?

[floral rain]

Its like my interviewers vaguely remember the problems but havent touched them

[ripe horizon]

ohh that's what its called

i meant logic is more important probably

[floral rain]

Ye when it came to logic i think i did pretty good

Its just when I joined one of the zon info sessions the host scared tf out of me

Im assuming she interviews mostly full time SDE

Moral of the story is zon is very interviewer dependent

[ripe horizon]

full time is still LC

[floral rain]

Yea but the interviewers are a lot stricter

From what I seen

[ripe horizon]

o 😢

[floral rain]

Although some of the interviews yall interns got seem crazy as well

From what i seen in some past discord msgs

[ripe horizon]

mine told me i could go pee ❤️

[floral rain]

Pull out ur phone and start googling the answer

[floral rain]

Mid lc problem?

[ripe horizon]

lol it was before the probleem

[floral rain]

Lel

[foggy bluff]

no

wa

[ripe horizon]

ur name is wa?

[foggy bluff]

no

scooby doo but replace o's with 'e's

[ripe horizon]

nvm then, i thought i recognized u

[foggy bluff]

oh no

[ripe horizon]

sceeby dee

[foggy bluff]

skibidi

[ripe horizon]

fuck you

[foggy bluff]

LMAO

did u not realize

[ripe horizon]

no

[foggy bluff]

cooked

[worn shoal]

Tf 💀

Are you deadass

[ripe horizon]

No 😊

[worn shoal]

How did you bring ts up bro lmfaooo

[ripe horizon]

I have sharted twice before

[floral rain]

Wait did u alr get offer @ripe horizon

[ripe horizon]

yeah

[floral rain]

How long did u wait to hear back

[ripe horizon]

16 hours

[tropic sonnet]

What level lc questions did u get

[foggy bluff]

bud put them up here in chat 😭

[ripe horizon]

i think i shouldnt be pasting them in here anymore 😭

[floral rain]

dats crazy

Mfs said we need to hire dis guy

[solemn narwhal]

i mean bruh solved two hards essentially

easier hards but still

i think if u effectively solve both problems and do well it should be offer