Can someone confirm if Sama was asked DSA in his Microsoft interview ?

I am a fresher 2023 graduate and have been doing this (applying for jobs) for almost a year, everyone said you have to do internships as it is necessary so did 2 internships one for a year and another for 6 months but apparently no one counts internships as experience even jobs that had 1-3 yoe as requirement and now everyone's hiring 2024 grads as freshers (I tried to look for another internship but there were none during the time of placements). I am now tired of this field, many full stack devs don't know shit outside Javascript world and many of them can't even use tools like git properly and are so cocky of themselves. Saw an SDE on twitter who apparently has 6 years of experience, doesn't even know how to configure multiple SSH and says managing multiple ssh is a downside. A women dev (cause in India you have engineers and female engineers apparently) doesn't know about sidebar cache and calls it a bug and she's in google. and If I try to roast these people with my real name there's a whole cabal of Banglorians who will grab their macbooks inside third wave coffee and start tweeting against me after aggressively drinking their Chocolate mocha frappe. Just go into any random tech twitter space no one seems to be talking about tech it's always about DSA, interviews, LIFE IN BANGLORE, which cafe they visited. I let myself believe tech was my passion and worked hard for but Indian techies and companies are worst, this generation thinks they are better than their predecessor but follow the same politics everywhere even when it comes to Tech communities (who tf does politics in a community that produces open source code wtf). They talk about networking and creating a community all the time but can't even respond to linkedin cold dm and blame the sender by nitpicking about the format 👏👏 and then they'll go on post the screenshot and rant how it's the sender fault to even try to network with them with a message that isn't written from their own blood.

I am a 2YOE software engineer, and I wanted to make a switch. Having a grip on DSA but can't rely on it. I am seeing a good number of folks getting into start ups get paid well too. Can someone comment on startups that are paying well but require less grinding. Open for comments and views. Thanks

How did you get it? :P

My friend is a .net developer and he feels his career has become stagnant. What new technologies should he learn so he has a better chance at a better job?? I suggested him to keep practicing DSA for interviews??

My experience: 4.5 Current base: 30 This is what they have offered me: Base: 37 15% standard bonus Equity: 100k No other component Any thoughts on this? I was expecting much more from Google...

Can you list down the companies you have interviewed at for Data Scientist/ML roles and tell us whether DSA was asked? I'll start: Paypal, Visa, Truecaller, Navi - No DSA (had multiple rounds) Paytm, Coinbase - No DSA(Rejected after one round) Walmart- Asked DSA, but it didn't carry much weight Zeta, Microsoft - Asked DSA

Folks might be knowing this guy as one of the cringe tech influencer from YT selling DSA courses. Folks from MS can confirm this, got this from a blind post through a mutual friend.