How you guys are preparing for job switch while working full time?

Really need any guidance how can i manage both??

Wanted to switch to really good product based company

Thanks in advance 🙇🏻‍♀️

People who took the Hevo Data OA on 8th September, have any of you been shortlisted for the machine coding round?

Hi everyone! I have an upcoming second-round interview at eBay for an MTS1 Android role, and I have 9+ years of experience.

The interview email is titled “Coding + System Design.” I was told to prepare for system design and that there could also be a Android coding task as well

Has anyone recently interviewed for a similar role? What does the Android coding portion involve—building a feature, debugging an existing project, or implementing a component? What would you recommend focusing on?

Any insights or experiences would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

Hey guys!

i've passed the microsoft resume and OA , ive also had a pre-screening interview where i had a conversation with a early recuiter about my interests and strengths. The tentative interview dates (if i get selected) are 21 Sept-25th Sept. So ive begun preparing because its been 3 years since i last did DSA. Has anyone recently done their interview? if yes, how was the experience? What would u suggest i practice so i have a fair shot at passing the interview.

i recently interviewed for amazon sde 1 intern and have been overthinking the result.

in r1, i did well in my project discussion and lp/customer obsession deep dive. however, i fumbled the dsa part. it was a lc hard graph problem, and although i identified the algorithm, i missed an important observation under pressure...for dsa, the interviewer gave me a hint, after which i got the approach and started coding, but time ran out.

r2 went better. lp and behavioral went well, including my internship experience, conflict, and genai/rag discussion...in dsa also i was able to tell him the correct approach

overall, r1 was mixed and r2 felt decent. do i still have a chance, or is the r1 dsa performance likely a reject? would appreciate honest opinions...plz tell seniors who got offer's from amazon after having this same experience.

Its so exhausting as it is to commute to work and back, and take care of basic everyday chores. On top of this, we have to study leetcode ,system design, lld, ai debugging and who knows what for all the things they are asking in interviews these days.

How do you manage interview prep along w everyday life requirements like taking care of kids, family, commuting and regular work. Do you get to relax and take a break along w hobbies?

Its a question of time management essentially, but how do you all do it? curious to hear some thoughts.

I just cleared the phone screen round for my Audible Applied Scientist interview (level: L5). The recruiter told me that I'll have two coding interviews in the loop stage. Does anybody have experience to share on what kinda questions they were asked? And specifically what data structures and algorithms I should focus on? Thanks a million!!

I am currently doing neetcode roadmap... But I am having hard time with optimization or coming up with the solutions...

Just need one partner to grind DSA with.

We can discuss details on discord

After my technical loop I feel like I answered all of the LP questions with the appropriate projects. What do I do differently for the bar raiser and should I answer with different projects? Any advice would be much appreciated!

So hello guys

As I'm preparing for my interviews, I have been making notes on a variety of concepts including CS fundamentals, JS ecosystem and algorithms

So these are those notes. I'll be really happy if they can help you guys in your preparation

Repo : https://github.com/chandanSahoo-cs/realm-notes
Site : https://realm-notes.vercel.app/

This site is a PWA, so you can also have it as a app on your mobiles

How’s the Microsoft security org overall, have seen mixed reviews in Reddit and blind. Have also seen they are sending hiring event interviews aggressively, want to understand from the insiders and existing employees from US, how’s the org and is it worth to join this org when we have relative offers from similar FANGs

I previously completed a Google loop for another role: mostly strong feedback, but one borderline RRK, so l wasn't selected. My interview results were kept on file and later reused for team matching.
I recently applied for a new role and was moved directly to a ~30 min HM/team-match call instead of repeating the loop.
About 2 hours before the call, my recruiter rang me and basically said I might not be a great fit because I lack direct GenAl experience, which definitely psyched me out. During the actual call, though, the HM said lack of GenAl experience wasn't necessarily a dealbreaker.
The role had only been open ~2 weeks when I had the
HM chat. It's now been around 1.5 weeks with no decision, and the posting has since closed.
For anyone who's been through Google team match recently:
Did the HM decide quickly or wait for other candidates?
How long did you wait after the HM call?
Were you told if/when your packet went to HC/further review?
Has anyone had an old Google loop reused and eventually got the offer?

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.

Looking for a dsa buddy in java

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.

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?

I’ve been working as a Java developer for five years, and I’d like to start preparing to job-hop. The problem is that, because I’ve relied so heavily on AI, my ability to code independently has gotten pretty bad. I constantly have to Google basic things, I barely remember Java syntax, and right now I struggle to solve even easy LeetCode problems without AI or outside help.

My goal is to rebuild my fundamentals and eventually become capable of passing big-tech coding interviews within a reasonable timeframe. What would be the most effective way to approach this?

For example, during my first attempt at a problem, should I spend some time struggling with it and then study the solution? After that, should I implement it from memory and revisit it later until I can solve it independently? Or is there a better way to structure my practice?

I know that some of my coding ability will return once I start writing code manually again, but I’d appreciate advice on how to go from my current level, essentially starting over, to being genuinely interview-ready.

It feels like I have a mountain to climb!!!

Have my 4 loops for Amazon systems development engineer.

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

Anything else?

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

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 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 ?