Ask HN: How was your interviewing experience this cycle? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How was your interviewing experience this cycle?

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Post by vanusa » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #19

vanusa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to do 50% of mediums Great. So if they give you 2 or 3 mediums in the course of the interview process, with a strict 30 minute deadline -- what is your chance of failing?

they usually do 2 medium problems in 45-50 minutes, first one is generally an easy medium, second is a bit more challenging. Chance of failing is dependent on many variables, you should practice some leetcode and hope that luck is on your side.

Sounds like Russian Roulette.

If they were as smart as they think they are - you'd think they'd come up with a system that wasn't so luck-dependent.

Re: Ask HN: How was your interviewing experience this cycle?

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Post by fatnoah » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 7:31 PM UTC

aditya_rs wrote: post #16

fatnoah wrote: post #4

a) 1 b) Too many to count c) 6, I think? d1) System design, performance management, product eng partnership/relationship, management principles d2) 1 e) Not really necessary I interviewed more as a favor to someone I knew at the company, but I ended up liking the company. When it came time to talk compensation, I threw what I thought was an FU number at them (i.e. I started my then current job with a max band offer a…

Congrats on the offer! > e) Not really necessary What do you mean? As in you didn't have a need for managing the time because you weren't really interviewing for a lot of companies or you didn't find the number of interviews too much of a burden on your time?

>Congrats on the offer! Thank you!

>As in you didn't have a need for managing the time... Correct, I only interviewed with one company and the interviews were broken up over a couple days, so it was easy to find an hour here and and hour there.

Re: Ask HN: How was your interviewing experience this cycle?

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Post by decafninja » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

vanusa wrote: post #13

decafninja wrote: post #5

By season, I am assuming you mean the Covid period (2020 to present). Got showered with dozens of recruiter emails for various companies. As a rule, I generally do not cold apply to any company as my experience has been that doing so is a first class ticket to being ignored. However I'm also pretty selective as to what companies I'm interested in, so the vast majority I did not proceed with. 1. First interview was wi…

FAANG, where I failed the phone screen largely due to the interviewer having a thick accent on top of him using a speakerphone that made things worse. That's why they only hire the top 0.2 percent - for their "communication skills". And for their awareness of the pros and cons of key technologies. Like speakerphones. Had a friend refer me to the FAANG he works at, but was ignored. Which is kind of an internal FU to t…

Curious - why would it be an "internal FU" to him?

Also as an addendum regarding the homework - as usual, homework is always in addition to the leetcode interview, almost never instead of. Which is another reason I tend to make it a point to reject any homework.