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I told Google and Facebook to please stop contacting me, as after three attempts, either you know I suck or you'd accept me. It takes way too much effort to br

I told Google and Facebook to please stop contacting me, as after three attempts, either you know I suck or you'd accept me. It takes way too much effort to brush up on my algorithms/data structures each time I interview.

culi 4y ago
Does it feel worth it to go through it at least once though? I'm a junior engineer and I remember studying really hard for this one "hiring platform" (once you're in they find you contracts, sorta. One of the few non-scammy ones out there). The interview was pretty intense but I got a TON of good study material and really in-depth feedback I guess a key difference though is that it's not very "data structures and algorithms"-y and much more "optimizing React performance"-y I ended up actually passing but, being the only junior there, no company was interested in a contract with me. However, I don't really consider it a waste of time because I really learned a lot from that interview and I think it played into how I interviewed later At the current company I work for they're really surprised at certain skills I have. Skills that I can trace back to having to study for that one interview
- knicholes 4y ago
  I can remember some pretty intense plane trips home trying to figure out why my answers were insufficient or why they failed to understand that my answers did actually work. The problems made me think a lot more about architecture than I would have otherwise, but really the main experience is that I'm really not good at programming on a whiteboard and changing pace quickly. Yeah, I'd say definitely try it at LEAST once just to see what's out there. You might just get an offer of life-changing money. One time all of my interviews involved reinforcement learning. I didn't know much about it, so I tried to answer all of the questions the best I could using CS concepts and programming. Years later, when learning about Reinforcement Learning, I face-palmed pretty hard when it became extremely obvious that they were testing my knowledge of policies.

culi 4y ago

Does it feel worth it to go through it at least once though? I'm a junior engineer and I remember studying really hard for this one "hiring platform" (once you're in they find you contracts, sorta. One of the few non-scammy ones out there). The interview was pretty intense but I got a TON of good study material and really in-depth feedback I guess a key difference though is that it's not very "data structures and algorithms"-y and much more "optimizing React performance"-y I ended up actually passing but, being the only junior there, no company was interested in a contract with me. However, I don't really consider it a waste of time because I really learned a lot from that interview and I think it played into how I interviewed later At the current company I work for they're really surprised at certain skills I have. Skills that I can trace back to having to study for that one interview

knicholes 4y ago
I can remember some pretty intense plane trips home trying to figure out why my answers were insufficient or why they failed to understand that my answers did actually work. The problems made me think a lot more about architecture than I would have otherwise, but really the main experience is that I'm really not good at programming on a whiteboard and changing pace quickly. Yeah, I'd say definitely try it at LEAST once just to see what's out there. You might just get an offer of life-changing money. One time all of my interviews involved reinforcement learning. I didn't know much about it, so I tried to answer all of the questions the best I could using CS concepts and programming. Years later, when learning about Reinforcement Learning, I face-palmed pretty hard when it became extremely obvious that they were testing my knowledge of policies.