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Started prepping/interviewing in Oct after reading this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581 Secur

Started prepping/interviewing in Oct after reading this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581 Secured interviews with Facebook, Databricks, Snowflake, and Stripe (3 referrals, 1 recruiter reach out). Bombed the FB phone screen due to nerves/first interview of the cycle. Completed the remaining three loops by December, and got offers from Databricks and Snowflake (Stripe went on two week holiday break and hasn’t gotten back to me yet). Accepted the Databricks offer! Happy to talk about practice/process (within the limits of the interview NDAs)!

silenced_trope 2y ago
Are you in the Bay Area? Do you know if Meta requires all employees to commute to their S. Bay campus? I have a recruiter pestering me from them. I'm open to Meta but not commuting. If their SF office is open though I'd consider an on-site role.
- j-scott 2y ago
  Not in the Bay Area, but I have friends at FB and I believe their RTO policy is strongly enforced unless you’re senior and have been at the company for a year at which point you can go remote.
Ancalagon 2y ago
Is the meta interview process still primarily a leetcode gauntlet?
- j-scott 2y ago
  Phone screen was 2 problems in 45 minutes, I believe the onsite portion would have been more of the same but I didn’t get that far :D
  - Ancalagon 2y ago
    Sounds like yes then. I thought they would have stopped doing this after the layoffs bc they hired too many underqualified people with that method.
giantg2 2y ago
Who the fuck is making you sign NDAs just to interview? That seems absurd for most roles/places.
- j-scott 2y ago
  Databricks, Snowflake and Stripe required NDAs for the onsite portion of the loop. The NDAs covered anything internal discussed during the hiring loop.
  - giantg2 2y ago
    That's crazy. Unless they're hiring you to solve a novel problem there's really no reason. If you're not paying me for the interview, I'm not signing an NDA.
    - igor47 2y ago
      From the interviewing side -- if you're under NDA I feel more free to answer arbitrary questions about the business. But your opinion is not unique, so my current company stopped asking for NDAs. We sometimes still do it during the offer stage if a candidate has a lot of detailed business questions
      - giantg2 2y ago
        Yeah, I could totally see it being valid if I start asking for business model or implementation details. The only time I thinknid ask something that detailed would be if it's a startup and I want to understand their financial situation to see if they're stable.
- brainfog 2y ago
  If you're interviewing for staff level positions and above, you'll be discussing long term planning and some pretty tactical stuff where an NDA makes perfect sense. Might be a bit overkill for senior and below but meh.
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satvikpendem 2y ago
Are they all in-person now or remote? Also wondering how you secure interviews with the big tech companies if you don't have referrals per se; I do have friends at some of these places but I've mostly worked at smaller companies my whole career, and some contract positions at bigger Fortune 500s, I'm not sure if big tech would go for my sort of profile over others who've worked at bigger companies or other big tech companies.

silenced_trope 2y ago

Are you in the Bay Area? Do you know if Meta requires all employees to commute to their S. Bay campus? I have a recruiter pestering me from them. I'm open to Meta but not commuting. If their SF office is open though I'd consider an on-site role.

j-scott 2y ago
Not in the Bay Area, but I have friends at FB and I believe their RTO policy is strongly enforced unless you’re senior and have been at the company for a year at which point you can go remote.

Ancalagon 2y ago

Is the meta interview process still primarily a leetcode gauntlet?

j-scott 2y ago
Phone screen was 2 problems in 45 minutes, I believe the onsite portion would have been more of the same but I didn’t get that far :D
- Ancalagon 2y ago
  Sounds like yes then. I thought they would have stopped doing this after the layoffs bc they hired too many underqualified people with that method.

giantg2 2y ago

Who the fuck is making you sign NDAs just to interview? That seems absurd for most roles/places.

j-scott 2y ago
Databricks, Snowflake and Stripe required NDAs for the onsite portion of the loop. The NDAs covered anything internal discussed during the hiring loop.
- giantg2 2y ago
  That's crazy. Unless they're hiring you to solve a novel problem there's really no reason. If you're not paying me for the interview, I'm not signing an NDA.
  - igor47 2y ago
    From the interviewing side -- if you're under NDA I feel more free to answer arbitrary questions about the business. But your opinion is not unique, so my current company stopped asking for NDAs. We sometimes still do it during the offer stage if a candidate has a lot of detailed business questions
    - giantg2 2y ago
      Yeah, I could totally see it being valid if I start asking for business model or implementation details. The only time I thinknid ask something that detailed would be if it's a startup and I want to understand their financial situation to see if they're stable.
brainfog 2y ago
If you're interviewing for staff level positions and above, you'll be discussing long term planning and some pretty tactical stuff where an NDA makes perfect sense. Might be a bit overkill for senior and below but meh.

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satvikpendem 2y ago

Are they all in-person now or remote? Also wondering how you secure interviews with the big tech companies if you don't have referrals per se; I do have friends at some of these places but I've mostly worked at smaller companies my whole career, and some contract positions at bigger Fortune 500s, I'm not sure if big tech would go for my sort of profile over others who've worked at bigger companies or other big tech companies.