#previous experienceschool?

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whole bay
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Title

fallen kernel
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no-name canadian school, prev amazon aws akuna

sterile steeple
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How did the onsite go for you?

olive tartan
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The real question is….

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Are u gonna take it

sterile steeple
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^

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what's the offer looking like 👀

whole bay
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Was it just technical-> technical -> final?

sterile steeple
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it's oa --> technical --> final for most people

fallen kernel
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oa -> recruiter call -> technical -> final

sterile steeple
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oh yea i forgot about the recruiter call

fallen kernel
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oa 9/17, recruiter call 9/24, technical 9/30, final round 10/13, offer today (dates are when I did them, not when I got scheduling)

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initial offer is 138k and 20k signing

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plus 45k options vested monthly over 4 years with 1 year cliff (at 7.3b valuation, stock value - cost = 237k)

winged shore
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How long did they give you to accept?

fallen kernel
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target 2wk, but not firm

whole bay
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How hard was their first technical?

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And was the offer 300k+?

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I looked on levels.fyi and it was pretty big

sterile steeple
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none of their technicals are really leetcode

whole bay
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Hmmm okay, might have to eye ball it then

sterile steeple
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they emphasize design & communication most

frigid zinc
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does ur code have to run?

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for phone / onsite

sterile steeple
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Yea we ran code for my phone

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It was an OOD question pretty much

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Haven’t had onsite yet but expecting the same

frigid zinc
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gotcha, thanks :0)))

whole bay
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OOP for phone round?

sterile steeple
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Yea for me

fallen kernel
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had some fucked triple while loop action going on

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but it ran so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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definitely didn't have OOP/OOD for any of the rounds, since sys design was proper sys design

sterile steeple
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Lol I also had like no efficiency at all

fallen kernel
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oh yeah I WAS SO HAPPY WITH MYSELF

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cuz I used a for-else loop

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and the interviewer was super impressed 😂

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that's the one happy moment I remember about scale final

sterile steeple
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Lol yea

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All the people I’ve talked to there so far are actually pretty nice

winged shore
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I have my post-final technical because they still aren’t sure about me on weds and have no idea what to expect

fallen kernel
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scale seems nice, I just hope they can jack up the tc

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cuz i'm iffy on the valuation shenanigans

frigid zinc
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dang wth

fallen kernel
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picture this:

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me going into the interview thinking it's algo based

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ready to slap heaps and trees on everything

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then it's a simulation problem

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and it takes me 15-20 min to even understand the problem statement cuz i'm that shook

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then I code up this triple nested while loop monstrosity

olive tartan
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Was the tech phone that balancing load problem

fallen kernel
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and don't even mange to get to the follow-up question

olive tartan
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Between servers

fallen kernel
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nope

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distributing tasks to workers on a pipeline

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in the last 5 minutes I blurt out the solution to the follow-up

olive tartan
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Sounds about the same

fallen kernel
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and the interviewer goes non-stop

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"no no you did really well"

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like that super fake ass shit

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and I was like "ah i'm fucked"

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anyway, the moral of the story is that if I can fucking bomb a phone like that and still get offer

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none of y'all have any fucking excuse

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go get em

frigid zinc
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why first technical u mean the phone right after the intial recruiter call right? just making sure cause i have that lol

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so it wasnt OOP? im getting so confused here

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and was ur tech phone with camera on? i like being in normal cloths for interviews lolol

fallen kernel
fallen kernel
winged shore
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All of mine were over video but everyone was super casual

fallen kernel
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but yeah, all cam on

frigid zinc
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okay, gotta dress up nicely 😦

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but yea im good at algos but sometimes i get a leetcode hard that i cant do

fallen kernel
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nah the q I got was just full on simulation

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literally make it as inefficient as you need to

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idk if it's the same thing as the one you'll get BUT my interviewer for final round asked me if I had gotten that q on phone

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so seems to be commonly reused

frigid zinc
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did yours ran?

fallen kernel
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barely

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lol

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yeah it did

frigid zinc
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can we use print statements lmaoo

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like throughout our code

fallen kernel
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probably?

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like to debug?

frigid zinc
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but like if u solved it then u definitely was gonna make it through either way ahhaha

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wth so u did well, crazy good

sterile steeple
fallen kernel
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right? algo problem my ass

frigid zinc
sterile steeple
frigid zinc
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yall are absolute gods

fallen kernel
sterile steeple
languid nymph
gentle drift
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were there 2 interviewers for first phone? my invite has two engineers

sterile steeple
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I only had one, probably one of those engineers is training to be an interviewer

winged shore
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yeah a lot of mine had two

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one person would just be observing

strong nest
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@fallen kernel did you negotiate this? I think I got the exact same offer

fallen kernel
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they said it was completely non-negotiable

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I tried to really aggressively negotiate w them

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but nothing

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I know that this is a hard decision, but we are not able to come up on the salary, signing, or equity. This is our best and final offer.

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😦

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waved robinhood and databricks in their face but they didn't bite

olive tartan
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Did u take it

winged shore
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Yeah i used scale to negotiate Google and then tried to use use Google to negotiate scale and they wouldn’t budge

fallen kernel
fallen kernel