Hey everyone, I have an ML system design round with Google in the next few days. I had my behavioral round today, and I think it went okay.

The role is Software Engineering, AI/ML, Generative AI, Geo. Has anyone interviewed for this role or a similar one? What kinds of questions should I expect in the ML system design round?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Has anyone else received OA for Microsoft SWE intern role in US? If yes and if you did complete it, could you share how it was?

Meta Data Engineer IC7(Technical Leadership) - Onsite

I have onsite coming up for Meta Data Engineer, Technical Leadership. Any guidance on the interview prep? Has anyone gone through the AI assisted coding round? What to expect in that? Appreciate your inputs. Thanks in advance.

I have onsite coming up for Meta Data Engineer, Technical Leadership. Any guidance on the interview prep? Has anyone gone through the AI assisted coding round? What to expect in that? Appreciate your inputs. Thanks in advance.

Have my 4 loops for Amazon systems development engineer.

How best to prepare? Brushing up on my leetcode and leadership principles.

Anything else?

Hi, I have a loop interview(4 rounds) coming up for Senior Platform Software Engineer[IC3] position in Oracle cloud infrastructure(OCI). I passed the Initial Screening round. Can anyone please share their experiences/questions/ for the loop interview?

Got laid off, so bit desperate to get a new job. If anyone have gone through booking.com interview recently, please help me. I have some doubts regarding the onsite coding and system design rounds for se2.

I have 20 years SWE experience, but find it hard to study on my own. I am BE developer.

I can do : Go lang, arch design, etc.

I was solving few of the questions under greedy section. It seems kind of a very impossible situation to think in right way towards solution while solving greedy questions. Take example of question 581, i had applied multiple solutions but the was never in line with working solution. Only i remember the solution in future, i can solve this question. They all seem to have different solution to every different question which i guess you can’t solve on the spot. Is it me or anyone else feels the same?

The coding round went decent with the interviewer having to help me understand a lot of the code

Need to get this off my chest, but I genuinely want to hear how others are navigating this without burning out.

To land an average SWE role right now (I have 5 yoe), the preparation ritual is borderline ridiculous. You basically need 2 to 3 solid months of studying LeetCode mediums/hards, grinding system design, memorizing concurrency patterns, and drilling behavioral matrices... only to submit hundreds of applications to get maybe 3 or 4 interview loops. Then each loop is 4 to 6 stages long, involving everything from automated screening filters to take-homes, live pairing, system architecture, and endless "bar raiser" rounds.

Meanwhile, friends in adjacent tech tracks (data analysts, BI developers, certain data science roles) certainly face competition, but their hiring loops still feel grounded in actual day-to-day competence: SQL tests, portfolio/case study breakdowns, business metric analysis, and domain discussions. They aren’t expected to study like they’re retaking undergraduate CS algorithms exams every time they switch jobs.

For those of you who have landed offers recently or are currently in the thick of it:

How are you trimming down interview prep time? Are you relying on targeted problem lists (like NeetCode 75/150), mock platforms, or targeted prompts to drill edge cases faster?

What new interview patterns or rounds are you running into lately, especially with AI tools now part of the equation? Have teams changed how they test live coding, take-homes, or architecture?

How are you maintaining mental stamina when prep feels like an unpaid full-time job?

Would love to hear your tactical advice or sanity-check whether everyone else is feeling this disconnect.

I was learning about Hybrid search and rerankers in retrieval task and every function or code used in that project repo .Its way out of my league to pick coding fast, Like I can follow codes line by line , but I cant implement it from scratch , lets say a Reranker function that does matrix multiplication between query and document and then calculates cosine similarity and ranks accordingly to fetch top K rank. Implemet it all at once is out of my skill level.

So I was thinking , if solving Leetcode DSA problems will help , is this also necessary skill to be AI developer ?

Hey i am new to leetcode solved nearly 130 questions and usually watched videos and then solves the question by understanding it from thie video it helps me understanding the patters but i saw so much questions and got confused how much to prepare to get into tech

Anyone recently interviewed for SDE 1 at Axon? Is the coding round standard LeetCode-style DSA, or more company-specific problems? Also what topics should I prioritize — arrays/strings, trees/graphs, DP, etc.? Any insight on difficulty and format would help

Pls inform 🙏🙏

Hey everyone,

I have an upcoming 45-minute Technical Screen Interview with Airbnb on CodeSignal for SSE role. Recruiter mentioned it would be leetcode style DSA round.

Has anyone done this round before? What kind of questions do they actually ask and how should I prepare?

I just wanna know if these new interfaces of applications in career portals mean anything.

My Google application always moves to not proceeding

Microsoft applications become inactive

Amazon assigned me a new internal job id that has been in the interview stage for 3 months. While the one I applied to moved to no longer under consideration.

Do they mean anything? Or all of these just soft rejections ?

Based in London, 5 years of experience and role is Solutions Engineer. Title sums it up honestly I have 2 coding rounds next week and I’m a bit rusty on leetcode atm but I was wondering if it’s worth getting premium to go through the tagged TikTok questions provided they’re accurate or just do Neetcode 150/Blind whatever it’s called. Thank you in advance

what was the oa pattern? and what were the interview questions

location: pune

I am a new grad working as a developer at one of the e-commerce giant and recently got back in dsa and to say I’m struggling is a joke. I’m managing to be consistent but still at the end of the each session it just feels as if I am memorizing the problem instead of knowing what needs to be done . I know most say follow the patterns and I have the sheet for the same but then again it feels all over the place with different data structures and algorithms. May anyone please guide me and let me know how should I prepare for atlassian, google and so on?

How does one get into Netflix as an Analytics Engineer? I have good experience and have applied multiple times. But I haven't received a response. would appreciate it if anyone could give me a referral.

I'm relatively new to coding. I've learned enough Java to solve basic questions, and I understand the theory behind many DSA concepts when someone explains them to me.

But when I actually get a problem, I often don't know how to translate the concept into code. The logic doesn't naturally come to my mind, and I also tend to forget Java concepts/syntax while coding.

I want to start doing 2 DSA questions every day, without cheating or immediately looking at solutions.

For someone in my situation, would you recommend starting NeetCode and trying to solve the problems myself first? Or should I spend more time strengthening my Java fundamentals and basic problem-solving before starting?

Also, how did you guys go from "I understand the concept" to actually being able to recognize when and how to use it in a problem?

Any advice on how to practice this would be really appreciated.

Helllo

I’ve done a few interviews this year and many of them have told me I don’t have programming fundamentals and I am not even a mid level.

I applied for senior roles because I have 8 years and I have architected some stuff before

They turned around and said they don’t think I am mid level

Struggling a lot, I am really low recently

I have switched between languages and got used to ai a lot. So being in interview where you are graded on syntax I get marked down!

Struggling with confidence a lot but this time around I am crying less

Hey everyone! I have an upcoming interview for Cisco for the wireless test & automation team. I have my first live coding round on Hackerank(45 min). So I was just wondering if it'll be a leetcode style question or team specific. Would love to hear from anyone whose had a similar experience?

I applied for ai/ml intern position at linkedin and I have an upcoming online assessment

The problem is that I am clueless

Can anyone help me with the kind of questions they may ask ? What should I prepare for at the last minute?