coachdarek

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by coachdarek 4y ago
Oh wow that's a really good question. I would pick the following but keep in mind it's important to go through all the different solutions. 1. Unique Paths 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/unique-paths-ii&#x2F
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Oh this is good to know. I would recommend asking the recruiter directly if you passed HC. For borderline candidates what they do is wait until a hiring manager is interested in your profile before moving to HC. They do this because if a hi
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Hi TreasonStar, so I actually went through a pretty painful team matching process myself. I had to wait 4 months getting turned down by hiring managers in favor of internal transfers. Did your recruiters say that you had passed the hiring c
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Should I be willing to relocate to US for FAANG internship or it would be fully remote? If need to relocate, will I be responsible for paying flight tickets and lodging? > If companies have given you an offer to work in the US for an in-
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by coachdarek 4y ago
+1 to the comment on the resume funnels being a black hole. The best option is to directly interface with recruiters. Recruiting is a numbers game at the end of the day. There are pseudo-infinite recruiters and a few applications for each c
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by coachdarek 4y ago
90%+ of students that go through our program get a job paying at least $100k within 6 months.
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by coachdarek 4y ago
If the goal is to get a FAANG-level internship, then there's 2 parts. 1. Get the Interview 2. Pass the Interview My opinion is getting the interview takes ~10% of the time and passing the interview is ~90% of the work. With this in min
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by coachdarek 4y ago
While it can happen, I'd say it's very rare that if a candidate does poorly on the LC interview that they would get hired at FAANG companies in the current hiring environment. FAANG companies don't really have another better
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Are you looking for positions in US/EU? OR are you looking to work at US/EU companies where you live now? The main barrier would be the work sponsorship. If you've coding background it's likely that it'll be easier
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Hi I totally understand the sentiment and this is a very common thought that I've seen people have about making the jump to FAANG. Just a heads up, my advice is in the context of getting SWE roles at FAANG companies. First off, you def
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Specifically for big tech companies there wasn't much difference. But then again, most of the companies are American companies so I imagine a lot of the same interview culture was brought with. Most final round interviews would have 4
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by coachdarek 4y ago
Just clarifying the question here. Are you asking what percentage of applicants are rejected for soft-skills compared to Leetcode performance? To give my best shot at this, I think I read that the behavioral interview at most big-tech compa
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I'm a ex-Google SWE that's coached 300 through the FAANG interview process. AMA
13 points by coachdarek 4y ago|29 comments
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Also feel free to connect with him directly on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/serdardoruk/ GitHub Profile - https://github.com/serdardoruk
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Here is the GitHub profile link - https://github.com/serdardoruk
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Colleague looking for SWE roles with only math degree. Short notice
1 points by coachdarek 7y ago|3 comments
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by coachdarek 7y ago
We've mostly been focused on getting candidates jobs within the US. We're working with several international candidates on how to get them jobs in the US. I've already begun conversations with lawyers to create an ISA that ap
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by coachdarek 7y ago
The majority of general Google SWE interviewees rarely interface with a hiring manager; they're only interviewed by other engineers.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Yeah it sucked, but when I was living at home with my parents I had to put those things aside.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I agree, that's actually how I prepared. Unfortunately, most don't have the luxury to dedicate 30 full-time days. Many that we work with our university students with courses or full-time employees. This is why the 250 hours if a p
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I'm not sure if those statistics are published, but FAANG companies drive all of their business decisions with data; recruiting shouldn't be any different. > when you have 15/20 years of experienced, are you grilled, teste
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by coachdarek 7y ago
These are also the things that we are looking for most in CodeBreakers students.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Maybe are loopholes if someone wants to go find lawyers and pay enough legal fees. Thankfully we haven't had to deal with this issue as our students have been pretty satisfied.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
250 hours is a lot of time!
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I appreciate the kind sentiment. Interviewing and hiring the right candidate for a job is a near-infinitely complex problem. I mentioned in an earlier post that 5 hours to assess an employee's performance will have lots of false positi
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I can't speak for other companies, but I can assure you that Google emphasizes extreme scrutiny that there is as little implicit bias as possible throughout their interview process.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Many who might be interested in CodeBreakers fear investing $8k and end up with nothing. That's why we offer the ISA option to work with everyone's budget. Candidates planning to use the service seriously to get placed are encoura
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by coachdarek 7y ago
"Average" is the starting point. After learning data structures algorithms and how to communicate, they are no longer an average candidate (by FAANG standards)
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Re: Domain I know, I already got the domain so I didn't think of changing it -_- maybe down the road I will haha.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
The curriculum has 3 main parts: data structures/algorithms which include a review of the frequently asked topics such as binary trees, linked lists, heaps, etc. This covers the theory behind them, but also how to use them in the conte

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