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Interestingly enough, I believe while Kamelot was founded in the US, most of the members are from Europe currently. One thing I learned ~15 years ago was that Nightwish commissione…

The trademark dispute was with the Rhapsody streaming service - I don't think it was ever announced, but I suspect the streaming service paid them money to change their name since …

This is a kind of interesting change to see FB make to me (I had heard about this a couple of weeks ago from my brother, who was one of the ICs affected by the layoffs), as recentl…

Love most of the advice I see here, but there's a few quibbles I have here. > You’re going to have to grind Leetcode. Yes, even the dynamic programming problems. One trend I've bee…

One of the paths to financial success in the Bay Area is dual income households - the high pay for those families make it financially a no brainer to live in the area. The compensa…

Where do you get that she is a staunch liberal? I see in Wikipedia this mention > Writing in The Guardian, Moira Donegan called Weiss a "professional rightwing attention seeker" an…

I work at a non-Google FAANG - from what I've seen in my org, "CS fundamentals" (which I assume is some proxy statement of sorts for leetcode-style interviews with emphasis on data…

I've heard of airline companies doing similar when interviewing flight attendants - United will fly you to Newark to interview, but often there will be people shadowing candidates …

This sounds very shortsighted. My own grad school happens to have a top 4 CS program (UIUC), but I went there for math (was top 15 at the time, not sure how it has done since). Som…

My org is generally anti-leetcode so I can’t speak for your experiences - the only data structure/algorithm questions you may encounter in an interview with my org is likely practi…

I'm a senior engineer at a FAANG who is close to reaching staff by promotion - I've conducted enough interviews over the past 5 years at my current company to at least understand h…

My coding question I give (in the occasion I am called upon to ask one to candidates) typically is not particularly unique, but practical - if someone wants to study for it, it doe…

I can definitely tell you that our recruiters do not tell candidates to do that.

But significant interview prep hurts the primary job of the interviewer, which is to evaluate whether candidates would work well within the team/org - I don't mind if candidates do…

Talk with your manager, and see if you can come up with a plan to take a long vacation (I'd recommend at least 2-3 weeks, if not longer depending on how you handle burnout historic…

Unless you view it as not worth the effort. I've done two onsites with Google in the past essentially YOLOing it (I only study my interview failures because I view otherwise as an …

As someone who has done a lot of interviewing from the interviewer side at my current FAANG, it's usually obvious when someone has seen the question before - in the debriefs, the c…

In the Marine Corps you never do a sir sandwich - that gets corrected in boot camp or beforehand for the few that do do that.

As an American born Asian myself, the "unofficial" quota system process colleges use is painful to me - I was an extremely academic high performing student before college, netting …

I know virt and Shnabubula from the video game music rearrangement scene - both are crazy talented artists. I'm still holding my physical copy of this album from the kickstarter - …

I am currently at one of the FAANGs for almost 5 years, and even got promoted from mid level to senior in that time - I did not ever do any leetcode grinding, nor was it a major fo…

Their numbers seem kinda low looking at levels.fyi

> The real answer is because manhole covers are mass produced and manufacturing circular ones is usually easier and cheaper than the alternatives. My understanding is the primary r…