#How did you do on the bug squash round?

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junior sigil
unique glade
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it wasn't my strongest round, but they were impressed enough by my other interviews

eternal latch
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do you have any advice @unique glade

unique glade
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good debugging skills will make you stand out (lots of people struggle the most on bug squash plus they want u to test and debug ur own code)

eternal latch
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i dont understand how it is so hard, most people have expressed difficulty with it. i would think that you just run the tests and then you can basically see what's broken, then you go there and look around for things that may be working improperly and find the fix there.

could you compare your experience to this assumption i have? is it just extremely hard to find the thing that's broken? is making the fix difficult/time consuming? is it helpful/unhelpful running the tests?

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also just curious, do you know if you'll take the offer/where you'd be?

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sry i'm just spammming u with questions

unique glade
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It’s a lot easier to debug ur own code since you wrote it, you can reason more easily about what its supposed to do

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If instead you had to debug a large project like bs4 you don’t necessarily know what it’s supposed to do at a deeper level than “just pass the test”. In the bug squash they could give you test cases that are failing and it’s hard to tell why/where since the test case could call one function which calls a bunch of nested functions.

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I accepted the offer and will go to Seattle. Seems most new grads are going there

eternal latch
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thank you for your response

eternal latch
unique glade
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Gl!

eternal latch
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thank you! have fun at stripe hehe

strange halo
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Hey, just wondering how long did it take for you to hear back after EM?

errant herald
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@unique glade mind if i dm?

unique glade
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sure

unique glade
strange halo
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I prob got rejected lul

junior sigil
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@unique glade Did you receive an email like this from your recruiter?

Hi Natalia,

Thank you so much for taking the time to interview with the team. Now that you've completed all of your interviews, I would love to hop on a call to discuss how it went and walk you through next steps. Please find time on my calendar here.

Best,

unique glade
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yea

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i think u got the job, congrats!

junior sigil
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Just signed my Stripe offer! Do you know if/when we'll receive swag?

eternal latch
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what city

junior sigil
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San Francisco, but according to the news they should probably relocate to South San Francisco soon?

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Need to ask that to my recruiter

eternal latch
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ah nice

wintry gale
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@unique glade @junior sigil how did you guys do on the integration round? how many parts did you get through

junior sigil
wintry gale
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thanks!

coarse void
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@unique glade congrats on your stripe offer!! i'm also recruiting for the seattle office (chatting w recruiter this monday 🤞) curious if you know what stripe's WFH policy is - as in, are they cool with people working remotely indefinitely (even after the office opens back up)?

unique glade
coarse void
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ahh tysm!

eternal latch
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@unique glade what were ur "scores" like on each of the rounds?
like coding x/2, bug squash x/4, integration x/5

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btw you were right about bug squash that shit was hard lmao

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i'm just trying to gauge how i did––i think Natalia got 0 on bug squash but all of them on integration so it seems assessment is holistic

eternal latch
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i was told its super remote friendly

coarse void
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yep - i got a verbal offer from the recruiter today but am waiting on the written! recruiter seemed bullish on being able to give me a remote offer after i explained my situation, but we'll see

eternal latch
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damn nice

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grats

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do u remember what u got on each of the rounds

coarse void
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@eternal latch oop sorry for late response! in terms of questions - nothing i got was LC, i remember during on-site i got a bug squash q (which required getting a test to pass that previously was failing), a q that asked me to use some HTTP apis, build a sample invoicing system

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oh in terms of how i did - i think i got everything in terms of finishing all parts of each q

eternal latch
eternal latch
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damn nice