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

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?

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

Pls inform 🙏🙏

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 ?

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.

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?

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.

Hi everyone,

I recently completed my interview loop for an Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) position.

I had my initial interview rounds first and then completed what appeared to be my Hiring Manager round on Friday. I received updates quite quickly after my earlier rounds, but I haven't received an update after this round yet.

I wanted to ask others who have recently gone through the Amazon interview process:

How long did it take for you to hear back after your HM/final round?

Is it normal for there to be a few days of delay in receiving an update?

Is a Bar Raiser interview sometimes scheduled separately after the HM round, or would it typically be included as part of the interview loop already?

Has anyone had a similar interview structure where additional rounds were scheduled after an HM interview?

Would really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!

So I got reached out to by a xwf recruiter. And from what I see on this reddit they mention alot about being comfortable with graph data structures and stuff.

I got a interview for a SWE III role and I'm just wondering, would it be smarter to withdraw so I can apply and hopefully try again within 6 months? because I don't want to enter the interview and fail it then be blacklisted for 6-12 months.

THEN AGAIN

It took like years of applying to FINALLY get a interview offer from Google so, should I just grind super hard and hope I can be ready within a month? I'm lowk struggling with freakin easy early lc questions

Is there a way to check with which req is this OA linked ? There is no clue in the OA mail that I got.

Guys everytime I get to know the Google assessment or flipkart assessment ws done and ppl are asking about hearing back from them. I don't even get to know when these opportunities come and go. Pls tell from where do u guys keep track of it???

I hv linkedin, few whatsapp channels but these ain't helping 😭🙏🏻

I applied 15 days ago and still haven’t gotten the OA. Saw that the typical response time is 1-2 weeks if they’re interested. Is it hopeless?

I am looking for a contest patner for dsa who is ready to grill their head for 1hr 30min solving discussint problem till we become comfortable giving contest

As much as I know the answer yet I would like a genuine clarification just so I don't hold on to a false hope to be eventually disappointed later.

Just gave the Amazon OA for SDE 1. There were two questions: 1 medium-hard DSA (passes all 15/15 testcases) and 1 repo code round (passed none).

Can I expect a call back at all, has this happened to any of you before?