I was messing around with this thing called Interviewcoder and it kinda blew my mind. It’s basically a little coding overlay that pops up during live interviews and OAs but doesn’t show up on Zoom or Meets. You can move it around with hotkeys, toggle it on/off, and it spits out Leetcode solutions plus time complexity on the fly.

Tested it on a couple problems just to see and ngl, it works. The wild part is it’s totally invisible on screen share, interviewer only sees your code editor, not the overlay. Feels like cheating but also like… companies keep forcing these grindy algorithm tests, so I get why people are using stuff like this.

Curious if people actually pulled offers with it and how smooth it went for them.

Because the cost of employing a bad engineer is substantially higher than the cost of rejecting an excellent one, FAANG companies make technical interviews exceedingly difficult.

As a result, organizations are compelled to set a high standard. For most businesses, this entails establishing a more stringent screening procedure and asking tough questions.

Amazon's hiring procedure is well-known for being arduous. Every new employee, according to the corporation, should raise the average level of productivity in whichever team they join, guaranteeing that the company's standards continue to rise over time.

Three variables, in particular, make technical interviews particularly challenging.

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1. Problem-solving abilities

Companies are always on the hunt for exceptional problem solvers. This is why technical interviews are becoming increasingly challenging, particularly at FAANG organizations. FAANG interviews necessitate thorough preparation that includes a broad range of topics in essential technical domains including data structures and algorithms. Systems design, dynamic programming, recursion, and job skills are all prevalent and equally important areas that require significant attention.

There are three basic reasons why companies test for problem-solving abilities:

• Candidates that are good problem solvers can provide solutions to complicated, data-intensive challenges that require a creative solution.

• Problem-solving has long been used to develop a tried-and-true method of identifying brilliant programmers.

• Technology is constantly evolving. Because technology evolves so quickly, today's tech stack will be tomorrow's legacy system, and employers will want you to pick up new skills as you go.

2. Time Management

The second aspect that contributes to the difficulty of these interviews is time management. In a typical technical interview, you'll have 45 minutes to answer two coding problems.

Not only do you have to deal with the stress of answering these challenging questions, but you also have to do so quickly. You will fail if time runs out.

Given these deadlines, the only way you'll be able to answer questions quickly is if you understand the mechanics and have enough practice with them. So take your time and plan ahead.

3. Career Skills

Career Talents are a set of technical skills, knowledge, and experience that you'll need to complete the responsibilities that come with your work effectively.

They will determine your ability to make decisions, influence others, and complete tasks (well). Interviewers usually analyze your communication abilities and working approach.

Career-skills questions might be incredibly difficult to answer at times. As a result, you must recognize that technical interviewing is a skill set that must be developed and is distinct from the skill sets on which you are currently working.

Need some inputs as I have 11 days left and I am not very comfortable with DSA solving on my own without looking into the solution. What algos should I concentrate on and how to come up with a solution quick than having the best solution. Thank you in Advance

Hey geeks!

Is there any platform / group where everyone can help each other for solving their take-home coding challenge.

Would be a win-win for all if we get in a group where the only protocol would be Karma. Help all, and all will help.Many aspirants who just want to practice or get a feel of what these tests look like, will get a nice hands on. The help-seeker would get the help by getting his coding challenge solved.

The help-seeker can give the test on a VC with screen-share or phone call, or can just send pics of problem. Can be decided mutually in the group. He/she will have the right to form the team.I would just call this helping and nothing more.

I can take the lead on this if not pre-existent. Anyone In?

I’ve been prepping for interviews and kept wishing LeetCode gave better feedback / help. So, I built LeetTrainer, an AI-based tutor that:

• Gives feedback on your solution

• Breaks down time and space complexity

• Recommends related problems to try next

It’s like having a mock interviewer that reviews your code instantly.

I’m offering a 7-day free trial while I gather feedback from other people prepping — curious:

• Would this help you learn faster?

• What would you want it to do that it doesn’t?

You can check it out here: LeetTrainer

i just have a programming assignment interview and i am looking for someone who is girl and can do code take over my interview with my professor ?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a resource that made a big difference in my preparation and helped me land my dream role at one of the FAANG companies—coding flashcards. I’m actually the creator of these flashcards, which are designed to help you reinforce key concepts, especially in Python and JavaScript.

If you're just starting out or need a quick review before an interview, these flashcards can be a really handy tool. You can find them at thecodingcards.com, and feel free to use the coupon TCC30 at checkout for a discount.

I’d love to hear if they help you with your prep! Hope this helps :)

Hey everyone,

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I've been working at this company for almost 4 years, and things started to get bad in the last 18 months. I can't do anything without making my boss angry, and it's been stressful. I'm travel-addicted and my job is online, so I've been basing myself in different countries over the last couple of years. Gradually I've traveled more and focused on work less, with the mindset "if he wants to fire me, I'm okay with that. No point in quitting" since he's often unreasonably angry at me. I have a lot saved, and I want to spend a few years just getting travel out of my system.

He recently put me on a 3 week Performance Improvement Plan, claiming that he wants me to succeed. But I doubt that he'll pass me. He said that he'll give me a good reference regardless because I'm a good engineer, and the PIP is basically because I'm unprofessional and lack independence.

My key points:

1. I've been contemplating quitting anyways

2. Collecting unemployment while abroad is too risky, and I won't be back in the states much this year.

3. I doubt that there's a severance package for getting fired. But I can't find any info about it, and I'm afraid to ask. The company is small, HR and my boss are friends.

4. It makes a better story if I quit. Regardless I'll say "my investments went well, and I needed to focus on myself for a few years." but it obviously looks better if this was my decision.

So what do you guys think? Is it worth quitting just for the story and peace of mind?

There are 8 million vague blog posts, book lists, videos, bullshit coding interview prep startups from EX-FAANG wankers looking to profit off this toxic interview process, coding practice platforms, some chick who claims to be an expert and wrote a book about it even though she only interned at most of the places she says she worked at, and on and on...why has no one ever just elucidated a clear-cut method for how to be successful at coding interviews?

First of all, companies everywhere need skilled engineers to innovate and drive quality services for people. If you believe that monopolies are not so good, you should want to support a diverse economy. Secondly, google is run by extremely powerful people, given the size of the company. People like this are not so modest, and you can bet that their intentions are not so grounded in the good of the public. Companies as large as google have the ability to change the mindset of the public, presumably for the good of their profits. Please consider gearing yourselves toward medium sized, well-valued companies that can help to make the world a diverse and thriving global economy.

Looking for a developer that can develop a website on blockchain technology.

This Facebook coding question is a bit tricky. The empty string returns one even though only characters a through z are mapped from 1 through 26. The reason for the empty string base case returning 1 is that we have to count all the characters as one combination. This took me a couple of days to understand.