| Got two jobs and refuted one offer. In the middle of 2 interviews. I don't have any tricks. I'm just a bit luckier I think. I am quite unlucky in certain other ways that I consider this a necessary complement. I'm a mediocre data engineer at best, but people usually look at years of service and automatically assume 6 years in some well known but non-faang companies is good enough -- well in most places it indeed is enough. Neither do I practice LC -- I did have a few LC interviews but everyone agrees that DEs are inferior to other SWEs so they only gave me easy/medium. I prefer companies that don't give LC interviews TBH. I'm fine with SQL LC though. The only thing I'm doing is coding personal projects using Python or Java or C so I brush up language skills, in this way at least I don't need to Google for list comprehension or enumerate loops. But I'm so burnout by my day job that I don't work on personal projects very often. I don't love my old or new job. I desperately want to switch to a low level job, no hope as for now. I don't consider myself being success as I hate my job and don't know what to do next. My company is not hiring at the moment so good luck to everyone who is seeking for a job. |