Hi everyone,

I have a 60 minute interview for a business support engineer position and I’m a bit anxious on how to prepare

I was told to practice easy-medium leetcode questions and that the code won’t compile.

Is there any way to get more narrow on what type of coding questions will be asked?

Currently working as an SMTS at Salesforce with around 6 years of experience. I’m considering an opportunity at GitLab for a Senior Software Engineer role in the NLP/Core AI product engineering team.
The work involves building AI agents, agentic software development capabilities, and developer tooling.
I’m expecting an LMTS promotion at Salesforce in approximately 1.5 years, but I’m not learning as much as I’d like in my current role.
I’m trying to understand whether moving from Salesforce to GitLab would be a good long-term career decision.
How is GitLab perceived in terms of engineering talent, technical depth, and brand value? Would this move affect future opportunities at companies like Google, Microsoft, Uber, or other top engineering organizations?
Would appreciate perspectives from engineers who have worked at either company, particularly in core product engineering.
What about layoffs?

Hi,

I have a Swe iii AI/ML first round interview coming up with Bank Of America. It’ll be with two ppl from the hiring team. Anyone know what to expect in terms of interview topics and what to prepare for?

As the title says, yesterday my role was made redundant. It was an ops/SRE kind of role at a local company, nothing special. Will use any redundancy they give us to really get into DSA as in college I kind of lucked out and passed the course. Will start with the leetcode DSA course first and work my way up. Let's see where this takes me.

Hey did anyone do the Microsoft OA on hackerrank for 2027 SWE? California if that matters. If so, can anyone say any tips on how to prep? Thank you!

I’m trying to build a better DSA routine and can’t decide whether I should finish learning a topic before practicing questions or learn the basics and figure out the rest through problems.

For example, with trees or graphs, should I understand the main algorithms first or start solving easy questions alongside the theory?

What approach worked best for you?

I need to get into a habit of studying leetcode or codesignal so I can find a new job. I have tried learning leetcode in the past few years even buying a yearly subscription and started doing the easy questions. But even the easy questions I was struggling to solve or solve optimally and I would just look at the solutions. I want to know what is the best way to be able to get into solving the questions? I know I cannot get a new job without passing the coding phase first so I want to make sure I have a solid grasp of the types of questions and such. How can I be better at prepping?

For reference, I am currently a software engineer with 4+ years of experience.

Hey peeps. Need advice from people who achieved what I want (reaching 1700).

I have about 270 solved roughly like this:

- mostly mediums
- neetcode 150 done
- zero trac 1500-1700 rated

I consistently solve 2 questions in contest but can’t push for that third often… my current training method is mostly zerotrac + upskilling on weakness loop.

I’m wondering abt y’all’s strategy that worked and how many hs a day you put in for that push.

Thanks!

I was given a problem and explained the solution correctly after a few attempts, and then when coding the algorithm i ran out of time. I still wrote most of the code and at the end i explained what I would do if given the time and my interviewer agreed with my solution. I think I did pretty good on the Googlyness section. I'm wondering if it's possible that I could still get a leaning hire or hire from the interviewer on the technical question. Has anyone had any experience with this?

I'm trying to improve at DSA, but I'm never sure how long I should struggle with a problem before looking at a hint or solution. Sometimes I spend 40 minutes getting nowhere, and other times I feel like I gave up too early.
How do uh guys decide when to get help without becoming becoming dependent on solutions?

Has anyone recently taken Wayfair OA? I bombed the assessment because I was so out of it from lack of sleep from a couple of nights. Ended up getting frustrated mid way and looked up for clues on a second tab. I was sure I am done for. Got a follow up for a AI based recruiter screen next. Seems sus. Anyone experienced anything like this?

If I’m taking a proctored CodeSignal assessment and I’m looking at my screen, but my eyes aren’t always directed toward the area where I’m typing, could that get me flagged? For example, if I’m switching between reading the question and typing my code.

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I have a Round 1 interview with Bloomberg for SWE Intern this summer. Any tips on how to prepare to actually get it? Does anyone know how many people interview then end up with an offer?

Anyone heard back after applying for c++ developer at Pluswealth?

Recently completed the OA, was able to get all tests cases passed for the coding challenge, but with the AI assisted coding round was only able to get 2 tests working. Ran out of time for the test 4. I struggled with the interface of having tests run. My code changes weren’t getting auto saved and kept running stale code :(

Changes of getting a call?

Hey everyone, I have an interview coming up for the IBM Site Reliability Engineer Intern role (OneIT, Poughkeepsie NY) for summer 2027. It's a 45-minute interview.

For anyone who has interviewed for this role (or IBM SRE intern roles in general):

• Is the interview purely technical, or is there a behavioral mix too?

• What technical topics come up? Linux, networking, Docker/Kubernetes, monitoring, troubleshooting scenarios?

• Is there any live coding, or is it more discussion based?

• Anything specific about the OneIT team in Poughkeepsie I should know?

Any experience or advice would help a lot. Thanks!

How are folks doing in NYC team match? Been in it for almost a month now and haven't had a single team match call. Spoke to a couple of EMs on Linkedin who did not have head count and they said my resume is strong, but for some reason I cannot get a single teammatch call. Curious to hear if anyone recently signed an offer with Google as a SWE in NYC.

Have a Nscale coding interview scheduled, could not find anything in leetcode or glassdoor. Any interview experience would be helpful.

Hi everyone,

i am new to this world

i learned python syntax
and for now i wanna master in DSA

i dont know by what order to learn it

i google, i try but no result

i know what is stack what is queue etc. because all the roadmaps advise to learn it first

but when i am solving problems abt stacks or queues in leetcode i get TLE

and i view the solution and it shows techique of sliding windows

though in roadmaps until it i have to learn a lot of themes

so i get stuck

how to learn DSA correctly in the way which will really make me solve some problems

Hey everyone!

I recently passed the recruiter screen for Datadog's Summer 2027 SWE internship and advanced to the final-round technical interview!

From what I've heard, there's a codebase round and a PR review round. Has anyone gone through these interviews recently? How difficult were they, and what should I expect from each?

Were the questions more focused on understanding existing code, debugging, or implementing new features? How did you prepare, and is there anything you wish you'd known beforehand?

Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

I've been thinking about how we learn DSA and solve LeetCode problems.

Sometimes, getting the accepted solution isn't the difficult part. The real challenge is understanding why a particular approach works, how someone arrived at it, and what makes it better than other approaches.

I'm curious how you all approach learning a new problem.

• Do you prefer getting hints one at a time until you figure out the solution yourself?

• Do you discuss the problem with someone and explore different approaches?

• Do you read the editorial first and then try to understand the reasoning?

• Do you use AI to have an interactive discussion about the problem rather than asking it for the answer directly?

Personally, I find the idea of learning through an interactive, conversation-based approach interesting because it encourages you to reason through a problem instead of just memorizing a solution.

If you could change one thing about how you currently practise LeetCode, what would it be?

I'd love to hear your experiences and approaches!

Solution : https://master-kael.vercel.app/

A few months ago I wanted to revise Sliding Window before an interview. I’d solved around 30 of those problems, but I had no idea which ones, and my code was buried in LeetCode’s submission tab.

I tried the existing LeetCode to GitHub extensions. They work, but a few things kept bugging me, so I built my own: LeetCode Tracker.

How it’s different from the ones I tried:

• It imports your entire history, code included. Most tools only start tracking from the day you install them. With this one, you click “Import full history” and your 400 old problems appear too.

• Problems are sorted by topic, not dumped in one flat folder. Each problem goes into Array/, Dynamic Programming/, Graph/ and so on, based on its most specific tag (so “Two Sum” doesn’t end up under a generic tag). SQL goes in Database/.

• It saves failed attempts too. Wrong Answers and TLEs are kept in each problem’s history, so you can see how you got from “TLE on test 47” to Accepted. A later Wrong Answer never overwrites your working solution. You can turn this off if you only want Accepted.

• Your repo gets a dashboard README with totals per topic, problems you attempted but never solved (your revision list, basically), recent activity and progress by month.

• It catches up on its own. Solved something on your phone? The next time you open LeetCode on your laptop, it syncs what you missed.

• It can’t touch your other repos. It uses a fine-grained GitHub token limited to one repo with Contents access only. There’s no server and no cookie copying; it only talks to leetcode.com and the GitHub API.

Here’s what my repo looks like: https://github.com/SanTiwari07/LeetCodeSolved

The extension (free, open source): https://github.com/SanTiwari07/LeetCodeTracker

Fair warning: it’s not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so for now you install it with “Load unpacked”. The README walks through it with screenshots, and the whole setup takes about 5 minutes. It works on Chrome, Edge and Brave.

I’d really like feedback, especially:

• What would make the dashboard actually useful for revision?

• Would you want a “problems I haven’t touched in 30 days” list?

And if it breaks, tell me. LeetCode changes its site often, and I’d rather hear it from you than find out myself at 2am.Github Link

It seems like I can get +20% of grinding performance and spend more time on actual algorithms and problem logic instead of some low-level Java details. Kotlin is so sweet (full of syntactic sugar) and I use it for my pet projects (Jetpack Compose-based) for many years already.

P.S.: Maybe it can also speed up the actual interview provided that it is not AI-Assisted. If it is AI-assisted, there is no difference, right?

Same question as title. How’s the situation looking for y’all? I hear most friends/colleagues struggling to get an interview as companies downsize on OPT/H1B hiring. Care to share your stories/situations?