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by throwaway49494
2273 days ago
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I decided that I wanted a job at Google, so I did the only reasonable and started grinding Leetcodes, probably at the same level as Recursive Cactus. I even took two days a week off for a couple of months to just do leetcodes. ~10 hours every weekend was Leetcodes. I read the whole CLRS (and made sure that I understood 80% at least). I wrote a thesis. I studied maths. I dug deep into databases and distributed systems. All this at the same time as I was working a full-time job as a softare engineer at a world-famous tech company and as a head of engineering at a startup.
I've been programming my whole life, and I've got a lot of experience with Java, C++ and Ruby, and now 10 years professionally. I've written operating systems, game engines, networking protocols and many products from the ground up. I get great feedback wherever I go and I learn systems very quickly, and I'm soon the "go to"-guy at a new place. I tend to out-experience the "old guys" that everyone look up to. But Google? I was invited for a video interview. I think I might've miscommunicated my understanding of database transactions (though I got great feedback on my coding tests), but alas, from that point, the recruiter lost any interest they might've had. For some position, I had to ask multiple times to learn that it was internally filled. This is a pretty high bar IMO. |
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try again - there's randomness and variance to the interview process.
most FAANG engineers did not get in on their first tries and without even more prep a second time around most likely.
and even then you might just be unlucky and get a bad interviewer who won't hire you for any arbitrary reason.