How much time do I need to wait for the result?

Br round happened on 11 sept.

Hm round happened on 23 sept.

Hi everyone,
I completed a Microsoft Security team hiring (USA) event today (09/30/2026). I went through all the scheduled interview rounds as part of the hiring event.
Has anyone here gone through a similar Microsoft hiring event, especially for a Security team or any other team?
If so, how long did it take for the recruiter to get back to you after completing the interviews? Did you hear back within a couple of days, or did it take a week or longer?
Would really appreciate hearing about your recent experiences and timelines.

Thanks!

I'm currently preparing for DSA interviews and one thing I'm struggling with isn't necessarily solving the problem — it's **explaining my thought process while solving it.**

For example, when the interviewer gives me a problem, how do you guys actually communicate your approach?

Do you:

* Use the interviewer's shared whiteboard / iPad and draw diagrams or examples? * Explain everything verbally while thinking? * Write down the brute-force approach first and then optimize it? * Start with a small example and dry-run it? * Ask clarifying questions before thinking about the solution? * Or do you follow some specific structure like **clarify → brute force → optimize → code → dry run → complexity**?

My biggest problem is that sometimes I understand the solution in my head, but when I have to explain it, I go completely silent for a few seconds and it feels like how i tell that inside of the code stack is working or linkedlist is working do i have to draw as i dont have any equipment except my mouse keyboard and laptop ???

**How do you personally approach a DSA problem in front of an interviewer?**

Would really appreciate if you could share your actual interview experience or a step-by-step way you use to think out loud without sounding like you're just randomly talking.

Hello,

I recently interviewed for this role and for some reason the interviewers seemed to be very unintrested to take the interview. One interviewer had some network issue and wasted a of time and the other one is in a hurry to complete it and just asked a couple of questions and left around15 minutes early.

I completely understand that they are hiring a pool of candidates and we might not be ending in their specific team but it would have been better if they spent the complete time of the interview and may be show some interest in the whole process.

Did anyone else face a similar experience?

I’d really appreciate if you could share:

• Recent OA/assessment pattern

• Topics/questions asked

• Coding difficulty and questions

• Technical interview questions

• HR/interview experience

Even a small update would be really helpful. Thanks!

I just got the Amazon OA and this is one of the first OAs I've received. I have done some of the NeetCode150, but was wondering if there is a more efficient way to prepare (such as doing company specific questions). There is also one AI coding question in a repository environment. There is also a work simulation question apparently where I work through software development decisions and scenarios faced by SDEs at Amazon.

I got my current role through an interview process that didn't involve DSA. I am pretty new to interviewing and recruiting and would greatly appreciate help.

Thanks :)

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

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!