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by coachdarek 7y ago
I wish I could comment more on the legality of the income share agreements, however, I end up leaving that discussion to a lawyer so I don't have much input here.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Hey saganus, this has come up with previous students actually. They asked and also felt bad about getting free help, but really it's our fault for either having too high of a salary target or not giving them better coaching. That&#x2
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I wouldn't descibe it as a power dynamic; that's not what we do. We teach our students programming fundamentals that help them do well in interviews outside of just Google as well as prepare them to be better engineers.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
The FAANG interview is meant to reduce the number of false positives, however, the cost is having a lot of false negatives. This isn't really a problem for them since they have so many applicants.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Thanks! Updated :)
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Every candidate is different, but generally, if you have experience as an engineer and can get someone to refer you, then you will likely be able to get an interview.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Predicting the success of an employee and how well they will perform on a brand new team/stack over the course of potentially several years is very challenging and likely impossible especially when the people interviewing you aren’t ev
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Google will definitely “lowball” you if you don’t have competing offers. However once you do have them, google is very quick to match them. This is just my anecdotal experience though.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Sorry about the confusion with our website and the roadmap. We’ve been changing our website around and still have missed a couple of things. Upfront pricing is paid 2-weeks after starting the program for the exact same coaching the ISA stud
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I don’t think it’s just a few weeks of gaming. Maybe if you do 60 hours a week. We’ve found that an average undergraduate or masters in CS or STEM field who just knows how to code basic Python will require ~250 hours of total work to become
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Although some candidates come into CodeBreakers with already very strong interviewing skills, the majority of our students come from pretty modest CS backgrounds and resumes.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
That’s a good point, if someone is capable, driven and has the resources to navigate the process on their own I encourage everyone In that situation to do so. CodeBreakers is for those who fee like they would benefit from the support networ
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by coachdarek 7y ago
This is a really common question and I’d be happy to elaborate. I don’t collect any referral bonuses from google nor do I provide any internal google questions to students. What we do is teach data structures and how to communicate these id
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Sure I’d be happy to! If you’d like to schedule a time to chat with me, our website www.codebreakersacademy.com has a Calendly link available to book a time directly.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I would say if you picked only one resource (outside of CodeBreakers of course :P) that Leetcode is your best bet for the data structures / algorithm interview. If you can do random LC mediums in ~40 minutes you’re in pretty good shape
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Several of our students have done CodeBreakers whole working full-time jobs both married and unmarried. On average it took around 4-5 months based on about 10-15 hr/wk commitment.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Because of CodeBreakers, I decline any referral bonuses from google. It usually doesn’t matter anyways since you only get the bonus if candidate has never applied to google before; most people have at some point so it rarely pans out.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Anecdotally I would say Dropbox. My friend who had a 4.0 in College who got offers everywhere else didn’t pass Dropbox’s interview. He’s a PhD student at MIT now.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Nope, it’s only for 1-year.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I think people consider it gaming because hackerrank is not accurately representative of day to day as a FAANG engineer. That being said I don’t think there’s a really great way to assess that in a 5 hour onsite interview. So hackerrank end
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by coachdarek 7y ago
+1 having software engineering experience for 2+ years, recruiters will probably reach out. If you have a referral, then that pretty much guarantees the interview.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Yup, cleared everything with legal/HR.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
We have a team of coaches that work across FAANG and other big tech companies; I haven't uploaded their profiles to the website yet though. EDITED: Although I'd be happy to connect you with some of them directly. I typically don&#
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I know there is a big Google office in London so I would assume that there is also a big demand for engineers at other FAANG across Europe. I think there is a big myth that FAANG engineers are somehow different than anyone else. Anyone who
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by coachdarek 7y ago
I try to be the most efficient with the time that I do have while making sure that I still finish all my work at Google. Somehow there just ends up being enough time for everything.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Absolutely not. We've worked with people of all ages and backgrounds, many without a formal CS background. So having no open-source contributions is totally fine. Things to improve changes - Find people to refer you. This pretty much g
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Trustpilot uses a Bayesian Average to determine the overall rating which is the 4.5 stars. Here's a link explaining their methodology - https://support.trustpilot.com/hc/en-us/articles/201748946-T...
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by coachdarek 7y ago
The demand for coders is likely only going to increase in the short, medium and long run. FAANG companies have increased their employment of engineers by almost 10% for the past 3 years. I don't see the software engineer market slowing
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by coachdarek 7y ago
No age restriction or location limitation. We work fully-online with flexible scheduling. Our students come from all ages, cs backgrounds and locations.
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by coachdarek 7y ago
Nope! We don't teach anything Google-specific, we focus on teaching programming fundamentals that apply to any technical interview.

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