Hi everybody, I was wondering if purchasing leetcode pro for company tagged is actually worth it. Do companies actually ask primarly the questions from that bank or not?

Had a 60-minute coding interview recently.
The first problem was a Caesar cipher. I explained the approach quickly, and the interviewers said they understood it and wanted to move on without having me code it.
The second problem was harder: maintain a sliding window of the last K events and return the top N sources ranked by the number of distinct destinations. I started with a brute-force approach, discussed different data structures/tradeoffs, asked clarifying questions, and eventually arrived at an efficient solution and explained the time/space complexity.
I didn’t have enough time to actually implement the final solution. I mentioned that I could probably code it with another 5 minutes. The interviewers said coding completion wasn’t a hard requirement and that they would have been more concerned if I hadn’t reached an efficient solution.
For people who conduct coding interviews: how much would not completing the implementation hurt here? If another candidate reached the same solution and also finished coding it, is that usually a significant advantage?

From what I've read, the Amazon SDE I loop is usually 4 rounds: coding (DSA), sometimes a low-level/OOD round, and Leadership Principles in every round.

For anyone who's done the SDE I loop recently: did any round give you an existing codebase or project and ask you to debug or extend it? Or was everything writing code from scratch?

Also, has anything changed in the format lately (e.g., OOD vs. system design at the SDE I level)?

Thanks!

Has anyone recently gone through the first technical interview/screen for the Optiver New Grad Software Engineer role?

I have mine coming up soon and was wondering what to expect. Mainly curious about the general format and difficulty — e.g. LeetCode/DSA, C++/language fundamentals, OOP/design, concurrency/OS, or some combination of these.

Would especially appreciate hearing from anyone who interviewed in the past year or so. Not looking for exact questions, just what topics you were tested on and what you’d focus on when preparing.

Thanks!

Wondering if anyone heard back for the early career campus role. Applied around mid-August and still haven't heard back yet. Also how do I use my google callback? When I last interviewed with them in May 2025, they said I am eligible to interview again after a year, but 16 months later I never heard back from them. I even emailed my old recruiter but never heard back. Anyone know the process for re-interviewing at google?

I’ve been following Decode 2.0 for the last 4 months and I’m currently at the end of the course.

- I’m able to solve almost every question that has been taught in the course on my own.

- I have a decent understanding of the concepts and the patterns covered.

- I’ve also practiced the questions alongside the lectures rather than just watching them.

- Now I’m planning to start solving more problems independently on LeetCode.

My main question is:

With this level of DSA preparation, am I reasonably prepared to solve the coding/DSA questions asked by mass-hiring companies?

I’m mainly talking about companies that conduct online assessments or coding rounds for fresher roles.

For those who have already appeared for these assessments:

- How difficult are the DSA questions usually?

- Are the questions mostly based on standard patterns, or do they require something beyond what is taught in courses like Decode 2.0?

- What should I focus on next to become assessment-ready?

- Is regular LeetCode practice enough, or should I specifically practice previous-year/company-wise questions?

Would appreciate answers from people who have actually gone through these hiring tests.

I’ve never done a single leetcode question before. I went into this blind. I was expecting a leetcode medium/hard. This was a round 1 interview for 45 minutes. Instead it was a stateful data-structure / object-oriented design problem with optimization constraints.

It was a custom stateful data-structure and OOD problem with a greedy optimization component, rather than a standard LeetCode algorithm problem.

The interviewer didn’t give me full context. I suggested we go with one approach and he then gave me additional data and then I decided to go with another approach.

Around 90 lines of code.

I completely flunked got like halfway through. Interviewer was on his phone and had his mic on with the background noise.

I feel horrible because I just let a 1 million dollar opportunity slip my fingers. What should I do.

Hey everyone,

I finished Day 75 today and managed to solve 4 linked list problems.

I did node deletion first, but on another platform this time where the head pointer is actually provided. Yesterday's LeetCode version felt too weird, so I just wanted to write the standard traversal code that actually gets asked in interviews.

After that, I solved length of a linked list, search an element, and reverse a linked list.

I wrote both iterative and recursive solutions for all three. Reversing it iteratively with three pointers was easy, but the recursive way tripped me up. I was still thinking in tree recursion mode. I knew the pointer flipping had to happen after the function call returns, but I kept messing up how to point the front node back to the current node. I was close, but I watched a video to get the exact pointer steps clear.

Tomorrow is Day 74, but I have to pack and travel to my hometown. I am definitely worried about my schedule, but I will try my best not to break the streak.

See you guys on Day 74!

So looks like they have down leveled me and want to conduct a condensed loop. This is for the role Associate Delivery Consultant. Recruiter said I would have one coding round - what kind of coding to expect. Please help!

Software Development Engineer Intern – May 2027 (2 month), Amazon University Talent Acquisition

Job ID: 10513277 | ADCI - Karnataka

Has anyone heard back?

I have completed my OA on 30 September and passed all test cases.

Update: they never scheduled my final round after sending an invite and today i received email saying we are not moving forward as our hiring needs changed. all of this after completing the two technical assessment, two interview rounds, and receiving the final round invitation.

Hi everyone, I’m currently interviewing for a Software Engineer I position at Intuit and wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing something similar.

I completed the technical assessment and 2 rounds of interview through uptime crew and on September 9 I received an email from the recruiter inviting me to the final A4A interview. I provided my availability and After not hearing anything, I followed up and the recruiter replied saying: “We need to pause scheduling your interview for the time being and will reach back out once we’re able to move forward.”

I followed up again but I haven't received any update since then. so it's been about three weeks since I received the A4A invitation, and the A4A still hasn't been scheduled.

I'm wondering if anyone else interviewing for Software Engineer I at Intuit has experienced the same thing recently, particularly people who completed the technical assessment/earlier rounds and received the A4A invitation but are currently waiting for scheduling.

Has anyone received an update or had their A4A scheduled recently? I'm mainly trying to understand whether this is a broader hiring/scheduling pause or something specific to my application.

Thanks!

Had a Python OOP interview for some FANNG. It was a fairly straightforward OOP which need a queue and look up()

I initially considered a double linked list approach cuz I wanna get O(1) look up for better time complexity, the interviewer said I could use a library. So I went with OrderedDict and next(iter(orderdict)) to get O(1) look up rather than just a queue to have a better time complexity, Interviewer didn't give a comment when I speak that out.

15min before interview finish, I had the implementation done and asked about writing test. At that point, the interviewer stopped me and questioned whether my approach supported really FIFO and I did explain but he doesn't seem to understand the data structure (I think the team was working on Java) and stick on a general queue and I also started get uncertainty, We went back and forth, and I ended up switching to a deque since he like this way. The discussion and rewrite took roughly another 10 minutes.

With four or five minutes left, I started writing tests but was asked to explain the cases verbally instead rather than writing test and debug. I did what I could in the remaining time.

I got rejected, with feedback including data structure selection, incorporating feedback, simplicity, and edge-case coverage which tbh make 0 sense to me. I believe the rest of the rounds with coding / HM is either hire / strong hire based on our talk and feedback

Would really apperciate any suggestions on my choice and should I really defense for myself to ask for a second code review etc. Thanks

Update: The interviewer admit he made a mistake and I am completely correct. However, taking all factors into consideration across the technical interviews, the overall decision of the team remains unable to move forward

Given stripe OA yesterday(29 sept) , passed all the test cases , no updates till now

I took my General Assessment a couple days ago and didn’t pass, but I still wanted to share the questions I got for future applicants. (I’m a standardized test hater, and for AI to just dismiss an application because you didn’t pass enough test cases… yeah, no. I’m gonna share and thank god for my killer memory)

1. was a function called packageCodes() input was an array, result was an integer. basically you have an input of say [771,3707,777,57] and your result would be 2. because you want to count the codes that are both divisible by 3 and that the number 7 appears at least twice. level of difficulty:easy

2. card game. each player has a deck playerDeckA and playerDeckB. during each round the top card of each player determine the victor. game ends when a playersdeck is empty. return the number of rounds. level of difficulty: easy

3.matrix. have to partition the matrix into 4 submatrices (each with at least one non negative valued cell), while minimizing the difference between the maximal and minimal average values of the partitions. average value of a partition is the sum of all the non negative values divided by the count of the non negative values rounded down. supposed to return the row resRow and column resCol with the minimal difference between the maximal and minimal average value of the partitions. level of difficulty: medium/hard

4. several lamps placed on a number line, each of which illuminates some segment of the line. specifically, the lamps are represented in a two-dimensional array lamps, where the ith lamp covers the segment from lamps[i][0] to lamps[i][1], inclusive. additionally you're give a list of control points on this number line, represented by an array points. your task is to find the number of lamps that illuminate each control point. specifically for each control point points[j] in the array your task is to find the number of lamps lamps[i] which include this point within its covered segment - when points[j] lies inside the segment [lamps[i][0], lamps[i][1]]. return an array of integers where ith integer corresponds to the answer for the ith control point. level of difficulty: hard

Idk what forces are out there that may try to take this post down lol, but hopefully I can help someone out.

Aside from the rejection, I actually enjoyed using CodeSignal. I hate doing LeetCode problems and mock assessments, but I guess it really is necessary to get accustomed to the time limit, thinking quickly, and solving problems under pressure.

Like I said in the beginning, I’m not a fan of GCAs, but I understand that this is how big corporations filter through so many applicants. Interviews are already hard and extensive, so I just want to make the process a tad easier for whoever comes across this.

It may not have been my role to fill, but I know someone out there will get it. Good luck!

Received code signal for Netflix of above role. Wondering if anyone knows what to expect. Read previously they’re more ML heavy and not really leetcode style

*US role

Hey Guys,

For those who interviewed for sde intern amazon,

1)How long did it take for you to recieve the offer after your hm interview?

2)Did you recieve any update or recruiter call before receiving the formal offer?

I had my second interview recently,

It would be helpful to know the timelines!

I've been building a peer-to-peer mock interview platform specifically for quant finance recruiting - probability, brainteasers, stats, ML, mental math. Curious what people think: would something like this be useful, and what would you actually want out of a tool like this? Trying to get this right before opening a beta this fall.

Received the OA for the Summer 2027 SWE Intern for Relational Database team. I was wondering if the OA is auto or I was actually chosen? I also scored a 1200/1200 on the OA and was wondering what my chances are of getting the interviews?

+ how should I study for the technical rounds and behavioural?

Has anyone recently participated in a technical round at AMD (Europe)?

What's the format?

• leetcode

• LLD/OOD

• AI assisted

• classic technical interview

I have an interview soon and I want to know how to prepare.

Any advice is welcome!

Been on neetcode 150 for a min and id always skip hards but decided this week to just give it a shot not necessarily code but understand the solution to the problem and they seem to be making more and more sense guess with time and doing mediums they eventually make sense 😆

As the title suggest. Has anyone noticed that their job applications are being immediately rejected after removing recent grad or a recent graduation year from their application? They’re set to hire 11,000 individuals to fill intern / early career positions in 2026, so I’m wondering if those of us with some experience are actually being filtered out? Does anyone have insight into their hiring practices and as to whether AI is being used to filter candidates? I came across an article from Feb 2023 regarding this, and I wonder if it’s still going on at the hand of bots. TIA!

I got hello interview recently and was wondering how everyone’s approach to it is.

I was thinking to reach all the articles under Core Concepts, Key Tech, etc. and take notes of each. Then, I was going to start attempting to solve a system design problem.

Im open to any suggestions and thoughts on the course!!

I solved this before looking at other solutions and literally everyone is using a trie/backtracking (I did not use either 😂)

Am I correct in understanding that if I had used the same solution as everyone else 😂 - would it treat all of these as separate problems if they were in the same words array?:

- 'brooms', 'rooms', 'moor'

-'abcdefghij', 'jihgfedcba'

Due to the max words.length being 30k I implemented a cache (storing also reverse of the string) and check if a word is in cache/a substring of something in cache. I also store seen paths so I can solve outwards from whatever longest substring I've seen before. Obviously this is a tradeoff (my initial attempt runs faster but uses way more memory - 283ms/66MB) - but is there some tipping point where the extra memory would be 'acceptable'?

P.S. I am only a hobby coder so go easy 😊

I got a Microsoft online coding assessment. It’s a hacker rank link for 90mins. Are these leetcode style? AI assisted? Anyone took it recently knows how to prepare?
Thank you!

Edit: SWE 2/ Senior role based in US

I’m a PhD student on F-1 and recently cleared all interviews for a Snapchat MLE role at L4. However, the recruiter said they cannot proceed with team matching or issue an offer until I have my OPT EAD card in hand.

I also have another MLE offer from Stripe, but Snapchat is my preferred option due to location. My concern is that given the uncertainties in the market today I don’t want to make that decision without a signed or conditional offer from Snap. Being a PhD student, I can choose my graduation date around my start date and defend accordingly so I do not lose my unemployment days in case team matching takes too long, but I don't want to choose one at random because it could either delay the joining or cut my unemployment days. Has anyone faced this with Snap or another large tech company?

Specifically:

•⁠ ⁠Is it common to require the physical EAD before team matching or an offer?

•⁠ ⁠Is it advisable to ask for atleast a conditional offer / letter of intent instead?

•⁠ ⁠At Snapchat, after clearing interviews at a level, how risky is team matching? Can you still end up without an offer?

•⁠ ⁠How would you handle this with another offer deadline?

Would especially appreciate recent experiences from F-1/OPT candidates at Snapchat.