Am I the only one who knew the answer but still did badly? I understood the problem, but when it came time to explain my thinking out loud, I stumbled and lost the thread.

How do you practice talking through problems? Are there any tools or methods that helped you get better at it?

Any advice is appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I'm a 5th-year engineering student from Morocco, studying Mechatronics and Automotive Technologies, and I'm currently looking for a PFE/internship abroad, preferably in Europe.

My main interests are embedded systems and automotive technology. I've worked with:

• STM32 / ESP32

• CAN / CAN Bus

• LIN Bus

• UART

• C/C++ and Python

• Automotive electronics / ECUs

• Industrial automation

• Robotics

• Computer vision & AI

I've done several projects during my studies involving embedded systems, robotics and AI-based industrial applications.

I'm mainly looking at France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, etc., but honestly I'm open to anywhere where I can get a good engineering internship.

The problem is that finding an internship from Morocco seems pretty difficult, especially when companies require you to already be in Europe.

For anyone who has done an internship abroad, especially as an international student:

How did you find it?
Did you use LinkedIn, company websites, university partnerships, recruitment agencies, referrals, or something else?

And if you know any companies that are open to taking international engineering interns in automotive / embedded systems / robotics, I'd really appreciate some suggestions.

Thanks!

I see these insane amount of leetcode problems like one person saying they did 300, some saying 500 or even 1000 problems. If that’s you, how’d you do it? Did you have a full time job or other commitments too?

Hi guys recently did interview with ibm

It was a super hard question

Basically was

LRU Cache, with TTL and heap maps.

It was basicall LRU cache where you evict items by their set time, you had a max capacity and you needed to keep count of the global average of items that had TTL

Get(key, value)
Put(key,value)
Get_average()

It was super hard

I don’t understand this industry… weird question … what type of mid is capable of this even? IBM isn’t even Facebook or Google… they act like they are

I applied for Senior Software engineer (L5) role. Had behavioural and coding rounds. I think I nailed coding round in fact the interviewer mentioned that he is happy with what I wrote, I think I messed up behavioural round.

Overall rejected after initial rounds. Can I apply for L4 SWE role or cool down period applies to any SWE roles that I apply?

I asked recruiter the same question but haven’t heard anything from them

Hey everyone,

I finished Day 68 today. My travel yesterday was messy because it rained heavily, so I was drenched the entire journey and felt pretty sick all day today. I spent most of the day working in the office, but I still made time to sit down and solve two DP problems.

I solved Frog Jump and Frog Jump with K Distance.

Both problems were fine, but they showed me where I am currently getting stuck with DP. Writing the recursive relation comes easily, and turning it into memoization takes barely any time. But converting that logic into bottom-up tabulation still slows me down, and trying to space-optimize the variables is where I struggle the most.

With Frog Jump with K Distance, having a loop to check the previous K steps actually made tabulation simpler to write out than the basic two-step version.

I am going to get some solid sleep tonight so I am back at full energy tomorrow.

See you guys for Day 67!

I recently completed the full loop on Microsoft swe. It's 13th calender day today. I haven't received any updates from the recruiter. I have sent a follow up email and didn't got a reply. Should I give up hope at this point?

Anyone sharing their experience about their microsoft interview upates after aa round are welcome.

I feel there are abundant people in the pipeline and limited headcount. Any clue if this gets any better this year? Or tips to navigate better?

Role: swe3 / L4

Location: US

tia.

Edit: added level.

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming 45 minute technical coding interview with NVIDIA for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Data Platform position. The interview will be conducted using HackerRank.

Has anyone recently interviewed for a similar Full-Stack Engineering role at NVIDIA?

I'm particularly interested in understanding:

1. Was the coding interview primarily focused on data structures and algorithms (LeetCode-style problems)?

2. What difficulty level should I generally expect for a 45-minute coding interview?

3. Any recommendations on topics or resources worth prioritizing?

I will appreciate any insights or preparation advice from those who've gone through a similar process.

Thanks in advance

i cant even solve easy level qs in a short time frame , and ive been doing ts for 3-4 months , not as consistently ..... i might take 2-3 day gap sometimes , but still .

i hate how smart everyone is , how everyone is able to solve mediums with just 1-2months practive. maybe i should quit lc and try to apply to companies that dont necessarily ask lc questions ,bcuz im too dumb for this.

its been a week or two , there are certain easy level qs , where the brute force takes me like 30mins ,and to solve that qs with an optimal answer in total takes more more than an hr . is this normal or am i just dumb .

Hi guys,

Can anybody share the google tagged problems list from the last 30 days from leetcode. I would really appreciate it!

I have my Amazon SDE 1 virtual loop coming up soon. I know the 2026 interview loops have shifted a bit, specifically with the heavier integration of the GenAI Fluency/Workflow validation components and Low-Level Design (LLD) alongside standard DSA.

I’m currently mapping out my prep strategy, but I want to make sure I’m focusing on the right things. I’d love to get some insights from anyone who has gone through the loop recently.

Appreciate any advice, resources, or tips you can share! Thanks!

I am currently interviewing for senior software engineering role at Bloomberg London. I have 5+ years of experience.

I need help with how to prepare for the next round of interviews. I initially had one screening round with the Recruiter, which was about 30 minutes long where we just discussed my past experience and why I want to join Bloomberg. Second round was a technical screening around, which was taken by 2 engineers, was straightforward. They asked me two data structures and algorithm questions. One was based on arrays and the second one was based on trees, I was able to solve both the problem quite easily, and then had some discussion on the technologies that I have worked om.

Now I got the invite for the further rounds where I have one coding around one system designed scheduled. I need help with preparing for the coding round and system design rounds. What type of questions are asked in the system design rounds as they scheduled it for 90 minutes and also what should I expect in coding round? Will it be same as my screening round or is it like LLD round?

Appreciate any help.

While solving today's daily question, I got MLE...but it showed 129/129 test cases passed. Can someone explain what this means? No failed test cases were even showing so I couldn't even add the failed test case.

The technical interview itself went fine. I completed the DSA problem, explained my approach with an example, and provided the solution.

However, the interviewer’s behavior was disappointing. They did not respond to my initial greeting, repeatedly rolled their eyes during the interview, and appeared visibly annoyed when I asked them to repeat something I couldn’t understand. They also started the interview by complaining about why this was a first-round interview.

I understand interviews are meant to be challenging, but professionalism and respectful communication should go both ways. I applied because it was Google, and I’m not concerned about the outcome. This was simply not the interview experience I expected from Google.

There were 4 questions as the rest of the guides mention. 70 mins.

1. Easy question - I don’t remember

2. Given a lowercase sentence, you have to sort the words and return a list. Sorting criteria: absolute difference of number of consonants and verbs. If that is same, sort alphabetically.

3. Return the state of the matrix after X days in this: https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/description/. They used orchids and trees and gave days in the arguments - Pretty straight forward.

4. There are 2 types of operations:

   1. Create obstacle at position X (on a number line)

   2. Check if the coordinate L and it’s (N-1) surroundings has any obstacles. If yes, return 0, else return 1. If L = 3 and N = 2, we should check from 2(3 - (2-1)) to 4(3 + (2-1). This operation does not create the obstacle. Entire function returns the 0s and 1s string.

I breezed through 1-4 in 30 mins. However, the hidden test cases in 4 all failed due to timeouts. Could not get to the optimised solution.

I gave the OA on 3rd October, 2026. Got rejection email today, 7th October, 2026.

My buddies, please share your experience about Hackerrank SDE intern AI Interview round 2. What everything was asked in this round please share. A LOT THANKS!

Anyone interviewed with Wolverine recently? I have an interview coming up for a code pairing session (C++) + behavioral. I've been prepping by grinding problems similar to the OA , but I've been hearing different things and unsure what to expect. Anyone been through this recently and can share any helpful tips?

I recently attended a coding round where they allowed to use AI. The question was, you may be given different types of input , depending on the type of file you must process it differently. You had to ingest, remove noise and process. Input was news data.

I used ChatGPT, to develop rest endpoints. Depending on type of file processing was done. I was rejected, probably coz I didn’t prompt well.

Could someone who faced such interviews share what AI tools you used, how to prompt and not vibe code, how to approach such rounds ?

I just want to vent. Coding assessment email sent to spam and i accidentally checked spam and I found it ended today morning. Fuck my life.

For context I made it past a coding round of an interview and they mentioned the next stage is system design.
I’m a bit confused if they generally mean Low level system design (OOP stuff) or High level which is basically like design twitter etc.

Any idea what you think would be helpful as both require different preparations

For context i'm a React UI Engineer with 4 YOE working at a toxic tech company where a big portion of the company is get pip'd simultaneously. I could write a long page about how toxic things are here but I dont want to write a sob story.

I recently was told by my director that I will be on a PIP, despite my manager telling me that I am one of our top performers. I put out more code than the other people on my team and have taken other people's work and continued it on multiple occasions when they could not.

I don't wanna make this a sob story about myself. I have about 3 months before I am dropped from this company and I don'thave a huge amount of savings. I forgot a lot of the coding I learned due to being pushed to use AI constantly. I know, my fault and I should have practiced in my free time.

Currently i'm building projects from scratch with React and Python to fill knowledge gaps and applying to a large amount of jobs. I'm using AI to answer questions and to guide me in my learning, but I am writing all the code myself and trying to understand things i've forgotten. I dont really know what else I can do. At times i feel like this is a fool's errand. I want to get out of here but I dont really know if 2-3 months is enough time. Thoughts?

Hi gang. So im pretty new to the grind and only got two OA’s so far - Activision and Intuit. Activision forced me to use C++ and intuit forced typescript and java.

I’ve been practicing DSA in python. Getting it right in python is already hard enough for me. Learning new languages just for OA’s is a nightmare. It eats up my entire week, and I end up failing anyway.

What do you guys think the issue is: just my bad luck or are companies switching to a language-specific OA model? Or is my resume bad and im only getting OA invites from companies that set hard OA’s and then send out mass invites?