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"GPA does matter" No, it does not, unless you're a recent graduate. Absolutely nobody pays attention to your GPA, if you're more than a few years in your career.
I had plenty of interest with lots of companies, including many FAANGMGOEWVIOPJW companies.
This was years ago though.
These interviews are becoming their own profession.
I know you made the statement in jest, but trying to improve on the interview process is not a bad idea. At the very least, it's less engineering time wasted conducting interviews.
Let me give a cautionary tale in the form of an ad (my email is in my profile). Full disclaimer: it's both, but the value to the discussion is the cautionary tale part. Feel free to ignore the ad part. Edit: I tacked on a perspective how I started to like leetcode questions, I hope that helps people find some inspiration to get through the leetcode grind. If I can do it during the evenings, then so can you! ;-) I'm l…
Of course this has nothing to do with what system design questions (most) interviewers care about. But this is the system design that matters on the job.
Read books for the real system design after you land the job, they won't really stick before you get expeirence - refactoring legacy applications, pragmatic programmer, clean coder, clean code, clean architecture (all clean books are by 'Uncle Bob').
For interview system design (I'm not speaking from too much experience here), youtube has some good videos "software system design interview", I've seen "grokking the system design interview" book being mentioned.
Good luck. Hope this helps somewhat.
These interviews are becoming their own profession.
The last time I interviewed, I did it full-time for about a month. Was kind of fun actually: you're solving isolated little coding problems, talking with companies about their engineering and business challenges, meeting smart and friendly people, and at the end of it all you get a big pay raise. The downside is mostly that it's a ton of scheduling calls and on-sites (back when those were in person). At the end of th…
To get a software engineering job, step 1 is to quit your software engineering job to study full time to get a job doing something very similar.
Doing your job as a software engineer is an impediment to interviewing as one.
Here are some psychological tricks that will help you ace a job interview. Tailor your answers to the interviewer's age. Generation Y interviewers (between 20 and 30): Bring along visual samples of your work and highlight your ability to multitask. Generation X interviewers (between 30 and 50): Emphasize your creativity and mention how work/life balance contributes to your success. Baby Boomer interviewers (between 5…
This is... incredibly disconnected from my 15-odd years of experience in my career. Is this how Silicon Valley engineering careers work?
Here are some psychological tricks that will help you ace a job interview. Tailor your answers to the interviewer's age. Generation Y interviewers (between 20 and 30): Bring along visual samples of your work and highlight your ability to multitask. Generation X interviewers (between 30 and 50): Emphasize your creativity and mention how work/life balance contributes to your success. Baby Boomer interviewers (between 5…
Since when are 35 year old in 2021 gen-x?
Including the number of stars on the github projects they worked on seems so.... narcissistic? Promotional? Idk but its distasteful and I would probably throw out the resume at that.
I really think all of the resume changes, other than the incoming intern at bytedance were extremely bad changes. It went from someone who is smart, with a breadth of experiences, to someone that is obsessed with social media likes.
"GPA does matter" No, it does not, unless you're a recent graduate. Absolutely nobody pays attention to your GPA, if you're more than a few years in your career.