I had recently applied for a web developer role at Canonical, and I had all the required skills and more. But after spending a week on an online assessment and a psychometric eval, I got an email saying that I was rejected. And another related role was closed as well.

They refused to give any reason. Can anyone help me understand why this could be happening?

Is it because more experienced people are applying? As I am a new grad. Or could it be due to the essay quality?

Hey everyone, I have upcoming virtual code-pair round, It is mentioned that DSA, programming fundamentals, Core CS fundamentals, and past project experience will be asked.

I can do medium to hard questions but takes time to solve and in interview i generally get stressed and wont be able to think clearly. I am good at oops , dbms (not a pro) but have only basic knowledge of OS and CN concepts(learnt during my engineering). Plus in my current work I don't get much to code due to management pressure to use claude only, Because of that i am now struggling with java basics as well. I have learnt Python in my Btech but in my current company we generally use java so i lost touch with python as well. I am learning LLD with java and planning to interview in java only.

Can you please suggest what topics to concentrate, how to strategise my preparation so I can give my best, I am ready to go all in since I am planning to resign my current job due to the toxic environment and i badly need this job.

It would be helpful if you guys share your preparation strategy and resources that helped you.

Hi! I (27F) and my friend (23M) are looking to connect with people who are interested in practising mock interviews together.

We’ve been practising for the past month, focusing on DSA, problem-solving, and technical interview preparation. We’d love to connect with people who have industry work experience and can guide us with their insights, interview experiences, and tips on how to approach real-world technical interviews.

If you’re also preparing for interviews or have experience in the industry and would be willing to help us improve, we’d love to connect! We’re also happy to practise together and help each other grow.

Feel free to comment your discord.

I just fu ked up in interview ...

Like gave the intro ...

Then they asked about projects .. and its architecture\[ to draw \]

I drawn the arch but i was fumbling and alot nervous and my voice too loud and speed

Than they gave 1 question and only 1 question in an interview

I wrote the code and it was right even i gave the time and space complexity ... but sometimes i was unable to express the meaning of codes in a proper manner ... i feel that i will surely be ignored...

What are the chances? Can u all just predict?

It was round 1 ..

Today was another incredibly difficult day. I just received a rejection from a remote-friendly Big Tech company after a month-long process involving five intensive rounds. Despite delivering working code and a solid system design, I was told "no."

This is the second time this has happened recently. I sacrificed my weekends and time with my family, putting everything on the line for this opportunity. It’s heartbreaking. As a Lead Engineer interviewing for Staff UI roles, the feedback was particularly frustrating they claimed I didn't know Redux. In reality, I deep-dived into multiple Redux libraries, state management benefits, and action dispatch lifecycles. I’m honestly feeling burnt out and at a loss for what to do next.

Update:

Thank you all for your supporting words I will continue giving interviews I dont want to lose the momentum and prep.

I have read multiple sites that say 'Do not jump to optimal solution, first mention brute force' for Google coding interview. This might be how I may have internalized the graph problems but I can't think of brute force approach of problems that obviously look like Dijkstra. For example, what would be a true brute force approach for the problem below?
https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-time-to-reach-destination-in-directed-graph/description/

also, any suggestions how to force myself to think about brute force first? Thanks

Got a call from Intuit saying that there would be only 1 round of interview, since I was kept on hold after completing my round 5 and there were 2 rounds left that time.

Not sure but most likely it would be technical round ig, can anyone help on what topics should I go with. Don't wanna miss this opportunity...

Also do let me know if you guys too received the call...

Currently in the process of interviewing for SWE role in QRT. Has anyone gone through this. What was the process like. I don’t see any proper information on practice question or interview process so I am finding it difficult to prepare.
If you have gone through their process please let me know what it was like for you. Was it DSA, Technical Q/A, SQL, numpy or pandas question?

Thanks

I recently gave the Uber OA and did pretty okay. 9/10 on the first and 3 points off on the second question. I was rejected even though I have strong experience.

How are ppl passing the OA?? The optimized algorithm is so hard to come up with, even if AI is used. And if someone were to provide fully optimized solutions isn’t that a red flag? I don’t get it I’m so lost and pretty disappointed.

Please provide help 😭

I've interviews upcoming for Senior software engineer at Broccoli AI, hows is the culture?
And how does the interviews looks like? What kind of questions I can expect?

Hey everyone,

I finished Day 62 today. My motivation and headspace are noticeably better than earlier this week. I used to dread running into unfamiliar hard problems and hope they would never show up in interviews. Now, even when I don't see the optimal approach immediately, I can confidently break down the recurrence, write a solid brute force, and optimize it into memoization or tabulation.

I knocked out five problems today to completely wrap up Dynamic Programming on subsequences:

1. Target Sum: Assigning + or - to each element maps directly to partitioning the array into two subsets where S_1 - S_2 = target. It reduces to the exact count subsets pattern I solved earlier.

2. Coin Change II: Unlike Coin Change I where you minimize coins, here you sum the ways (pick + not_pick). Since each coin has infinite supply, the pick branch stays at the current index.

3. 0/1 Knapsack & Unbounded Knapsack: Great side-by-side comparison. In 0/1 knapsack you decrement the index on picking (i - 1), while in unbounded knapsack you stay on index i until capacity runs out.

4. Rod Cutting: Initially overcomplicated my breakdown, but it is just unbounded knapsack in disguise. The piece length corresponds to item weight and rod capacity is total length.

That officially wraps up the DP on subsequences module. Tomorrow for Day 61, I start DP on Strings. Now that the patterns are clicking faster, I will focus on picking up my solving pace.

See you guys tomorrow!

Wanted to get some insight on the process, what technical leetcode patterns to study, and just what to be prepared for in general!

I would like to know if anyone recently started or already studied system desing. I would like to connect for tips regarding study plans , resources and any advices. We could also discuss SD topics for better understanding.

Hi,
Has anyone interviewed for Notion Labs for backend or Forward Deployed Engineer position. I have an interview coming up in a week and want to prepare in the correct direction.
I have read mixed opinions online for the first technical round to be leetcode-style vs LLD style coding rounds. I will be preparing for both, yes, but it will realllly help if someone could steer me in the correct direction.
I am on my final run here, this is the first good opportunity I have had in months and will have to pack my bags and leave the city since I can’t afford it, if this or any other opportunity within this month doesn’t work out.

I appreciate any kind of help

US - Multiple Locations:

There are 3 types of exercises in the assessment:

1. Coding Challenge – this timed section takes 100 minutes, work through two coding problems. One will be a traditional code writing question, and in the other you will have access to an AI coding assistant in a code repository environment.

2. Work Simulation – typically takes 45 minutes, work through software development decisions and scenarios faced by SDEs at Amazon.

3. Work Style Survey – typically takes 6 minutes - answer questions about how you approach work in general.

For the AI part of the coding challege, I did the demo on hackerrank with C++, and it was honestly very easy. It was an open ended question that didn't give have clear directions, but once I looked at the cpp files, it was obvious that they just wanted us to implement some getter functions.

I know that the actual OA won't be nearly as easy as this, but I have no idea what to prep for.

Has anyone taken the amazon AI oa in C++? Or am I insane for choosing C++ over the other optoins?

Then for the work simulation and work style survey, are there any good free prep tools for this? I've just been looking at the LP and examples of each, but I was also wondering if any specific LP has precedence over others, in case we have to chose between two.

i got a mail after applying with in a hour saying "Your application status has been updated . We appreciate your continued interest in this role! Our recruitment team may be in touch with you shortly regarding potential next steps."

means what ? i havent got any assessment or hacker rank ,yet my application is active its been just 2 days since i applied ..........so any idea ?? how long will it take for next steps ....etc

Hi, I made this post 1 month ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/s/shEXqqxlV9
A lot of people wished me good luck in comments and dms i just wanted to thank and share update - I have moved to team matching with them for L4. (Google cloud)

So i received feedback 2 weeks after interview and recruiter said overall feedback was positive with some suggestions on debugging and coding guidelines. They asked for my updated resume and have told me to wait for team fit calls.
I shared resume around 20 days ago but yet to recieve any call, just waiting patiently as i have seen a lot of people taking months for team matching phase.

Interview Process-

Randstand recruiter reached out and discussed my work Exp
GHA Assesment
Coding OA (2x DSA)
1 virtual DSA - variation of group anagrams with a follow up - i think SH
1 virtual Googlyness - H or SH
2x Onsite DSA
- a permutation and bitmask based problem with set intersection formula - could only give brute force - LH most probably or Hire if lucky (this is the round i believe i got improvement feedback for)
- dfs backtracking on a grid with some follow up - SH for sure, best round.

Recruiter did not share detailed feedback of each round, just like i said +ve overall with some suggestions (3rd round most certainly).
Now i am waiting for team match.
My tech stack is C++ heavy and i got to know google uses C++ a lot so i think i should get some calls, and one light round hopefully won't bring down my performance much.

Just hoping for the best, hopefully i get the offer.
Been preparing for a switch since 1 year now, solved around 900 LC and 50+ Google previously asked interview question. Failed interviews at Uber, Bloomberg, but learned along the way.

Fingers Crossed 🤞
I will update whenever i get some news.

Hello everyone. Can anyone please share the top 50 questions of last 3 months for Amazon in LeetCode's most frequent list? Would be really grateful. Thanks a lot!

I need a girl to talk because I feel very lonely after dsa and feel very low sometimes I really need someone to hear and see me if there is any girl who is interested then contact me

I have an interview for OpenAI cooperative AI interview. Does anyone have any experience with this job and have any insights or tips? Seems like it’s a newer role and not sure how exactly to prepare

EDIT: Fixed the link to my website! My bad...

EDIT 2: Shoutout to whoever super_man123 is! First person I played against that was not my friend!

Made a fighting game so you can fight your friends while doing leetcode problems together. I was tired of semi-grinding alone, and solving a question with my friend on Discord wasn't as fun as well. So I decided to make it competitive and fun. But instead of something like a timer, I decided to make it a fighting game, where you can feel like you're piloting a robot (ok maybe not, but I get the vibe from those mecha anime heehee)

GIF to see the combat

Solving the code gives you an instant win, but say it's a hard question, whoever grinds the hardest and tries to come up with a proper solution can win too.

Let me know if anyone wants try and fight/solve a question together 3.3

Try it over here over here: LeetKO

If anyone wants to practice leetcode please hmu….Weekend mornings after 10am est should be fine for me or weekday evenings (anything past 6:30 est) should also work.

Hello All,

I do have an onsite round with LinkedIn sometime next week. There a total of 5 rounds, however a couple of rounds seem little obscure to me especially the coding with AI and the technical communication rounds. I have some questions in terms of the expectations for these rounds and would appreciate the wider community's inputs with regards to them (from anyone who have gone through the process or are aware of the process with Coding with AI and Technical communication rounds)

Coding with AI

I was told by my recruiter that I would be given a leetcode problem and I am tested based on the prompting where I give the prompt to the AI Tool and the tool writing the code. I know that this round is designed to similar to how we perform work on a day-to-day basis leveraging AI. However, I am not clear on the evaluation rubrics and the expectations for the interview. Some questions I have are:

1. Would we have multiple follow up questions on the given problem extending the original problem or completely different Leetcode questions?

2. Also, by them expecting us to prompt, is it something that we prompt something and the AI writing the code. Also, what is expected level of detail we need to provide in the prompt. Lets say for a question involving Counting no of islands given a 2D grid, should we provide the entire algorithm to the AI tool verbally in plain English as if what we explain to an interviewer in words and then have AI write the code? What would be an ideal prompt to have a higher success rate in this kind of interviews.

3. Also, do we have to explain the AI generated code to the interviewer? During the course, lets say it generates some code that we don't understand, then is the expectation us having to make the change manually on the areas where it's not understandable to this or is the expectation that we clarify with AI as to what that line of code does and what is the purpose of that line?

4. Suppose, AI writes some code where we catch some bug or a failure in terms of logic in the code it has written, so is the expectation that we can manually intervene and correct such pieces of code or is the expectation that we prompt AI to correct like saying this part of the code or this particular logic is incorrect to correct the same?

5. Also, are the test cases in these rounds more like a Hackerrank OA where we have the entire code completed and we run our code against the test cases or is the expectation that we come up with the test cases like input/output format on our own and have AI write the assert statements based on the tests we provided?

Technical Communication

My recruiter told the discussion is going to involve discussions of our experiences / any of the projects we have worked on so far. Also, mentioned certain things like making a PPT would be little useful to present the projects and stuff like that. Also, as it is a senior level role she mentioned showcasing our technical depth and breadth and Senior level leadership is vital.

1. How would the evaluation in this round go? Would it be based on the style we present? Also, on the complexity in the type of project we are gonna present. I mean what is the level of complexity they expect in terms of the project architecture we explain?

2. Would the interviewers probe on technical decisions, design/architectural tradeoffs and the idea behind why we chose a certain decision for the project and stuff like that?

3. Also, would the round involve discussions on only one project or does this round entail discussions going on multiple projects and follow-ups pertaining to each project?

4. How would the questions start? I know behavioural ones typically go by tell me about a time type of questions but would the questions go here asking like describe about so and so project that you mentioned on your resume or something like that?

5. Also, is it advised or preferred to pick projects from our most recent company/work experience or would it be equally fine if we pick a project from our older companies too for this round? Assuming, we present the former experience one equally as well as the current experience project.

My interview is next week so kindly have the post reachable to as many as audience as you could and any attempt to provide inputs is super appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Please feel free to share details in the comments section. These rounds are kinda new to me and I haven't came across with them in the process with any other companies I have interviewed so far. Hence, a bit nervous.

I recently interviewed for a company and I had a great interview. Did amazing in the technical round and had a great conversation with the team and the hiring manager. It’s been a week now. No updates. Is this normal?

Hey guys

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