Cloud support associate - AWS 
 They heavily ask networking, OS, DBMS.

Software Developer

Could you please list out IT companies/roles where they don’t ask about DSA in interviews?

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Non DSA IT companies interviews

Software Engineer

Non DSA IT companies interviews- Grapevine

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

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

Which top product companies ask DSA in their data scientist interviews and which ones don't?

Senior Data Scientist

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

What are the companies' interviews mostly focused on DSA for experienced?

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Different companies follow different methods to choose their workforce, so if you've given/taken couple of interviews yourself can you provide insight on how you do it and why you think it works? Also what would you change about the general process of tech hiring?

Let me go first. 
0. (obvious, but) Minimal weightage for DSA - 
When I conduct interviews, I rarely ask DSA problems. It rarely gives me an opportunity to assess the candidate's breadth of knowledge, and come to a conclusion of how much experience they have with the tasks that they're going to do on the job. What if they've practiced the same problem / variation of the problem that I ask? I want to assess technical competence, not their acting skills. 

1. (debatable) Culture fit should be given a higher weightage than skills - 
Skills can be learnt, behavior and character takes time to build.  It most often hinders the progress of the team. 

2. Stop setting standards for the interview that your team doesn't follow in the first place -
I've had friends who had to pass interviews of high standards only to work in shitty teams. They were yearning for an achha din but it never came. 

Your thoughts? Nothing's wrong here, please be open to discussion.

How would you fix tech hiring?

I've been interviewing for few months and every company requires leet code style questions. My DSA skills are rusty as I haven't continued preparation along side my job for last 2.5 years.

Any product based companies which doesn't ask DSA questions for sde2 back end role?

Which companies hire without DSA in their interview process?

Hiring without DSA ?

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

Any company hiring without a DSA interview? Maybe a take home assignment or something like that? 
I do know some DSA from college time but am out of practice and have been working as a full stack dev for 3 years.

Anyone hiring?

Welcome to Ask Grapeviners's Private Community

I am working as SDE 2 in Amazon, doing well for now, getting good work however i always have this feeling that one day i may end up losing job due to layoff or anything else and the thing is that in such a scenario i am not at all prepared for job change.
I never liked doing DSA or you can say i was never good at it. I did just enough to get an internship at Amazon and then got converted to full time and from there i never touched DSA again.

How to get over this insecurity ?

Insecurity on job change

I am an ML engineer working in a startup.

My current situation is horrible,I am constantly stressed about getting laid-off(My performance is good,I got promoted a month ago). I came to know that my company will probably lay people off this month,since they are unable to meet targets.

Now,I got rejected in four interviews.
There is a lot to learn and revise.
Stats and probability.
Machine learning algos.
Deep learning architectures(got rejected because I was unable to explain the architecture of a complex model in detail).
DSA(got rejected twice in this round).
SQL (got rejected once since I was unable to solve the SQL problem).
ML ops(some recruiters ask this as well).

With the added pressure of getting laid off,my whole life is turned upside down.I am unable to focus.
Every meeting or discussion I attend I feel like people are evaluating me.( This was not the case before).
I don't know what to do.
It would really help,if you guys share your interview experiences below.

Rant

Machine Learning Engineer

I am working as a front-end developer in a startup for 2+ years and i want to switch to a different company.

The problem is I have only worked on the frontend in my current job though my designation is SDE in my offer letter. I don't have much knowledge about backend either.While applying for jobs the JD says i should have work experience in backend tech so in this case should I apply to those jobs or not.There are very few job openings for frontend and everyone is asking for full stack.

Will my interviewer asks questions for backend also though I have not worked on it? Or should I only focus on DSA.I have a good knowledge on frontend.

Should I just focus on frontend and DSA for my interviews? I am planning to Target FAANGM and good product start-ups

Experience - 2+

Tc - 9.5(8.5 + 1 bonus)

Are frontend devs not eligible to apply for SDE roles?

Most data engineer or architect interviews have a system design, ds algo round.
But real world work hardly requires writing any algos or working beyond Lists or Hash maps.
What is the point of asking questions on skills which are not relevant to the job?

Why ask DS Algo in data engineer interviews for job roles required to work only in cloud services?

Data engineer

Hello, I have 4YOE in Java, Spring Boot, actively looking for Software Development/Backend Development roles in Bangalore. I am not good at the online assessments they take for DSA, however I am fine appearing in technical interviews and answer questions there. Please suggest.

Any companies not taking DSA online assignments?

I'm not able to solve DSA Problems (Med - Hard). I have my placements in 6 months and while I have good Development Skills but my DSA Skills are lacking. Every time I try to solve a question I get stuck and copy the code from the discussion section. I want to get out of this hell!! 😭🙏

Finding DSA quite Tough

DSA questions are asked in Microsoft interviews for Azure data engineer roles as well?

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I am looking for companies that rely only on work related questions and don't put emphasis on leet code style interviews

Companies that don't ask ds algo questions

Product Owner

Currently working as SDE 1 and looking for SDE-1 opportunities only.
Asking what kind of things they ask us in interviews?
And how much they dive into them?
Like 
DSA is important. Except that what should I start preparing on?
Do companies really ask System design? If yes 
What they ask lld or hld?

What does an interviewer expect from a candidate who has less than 2 yoe?

I am an engineer working in Deloitte. Overall Exp 6.5yrs. My tech stack include Python, Data Science & AI-ML and GCP. I wanted to give it a try for product based company. I am not sure from where should I start? 

Just a little bit of guidance will really going to mean a lot to me. I come from a civil engineer background and I have reached Deloitte through lot of struggles. But I think I can reach further with some help.

Need a dronacharya in this kalyug 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Non DSA IT companies interviews

Discover More

Data Scientists on

by Matilda Olive

Deloitte

Which top product companies ask DSA in their data scientist interviews and which ones don't?

Software Engineers on

by Matilda Nadeen

Samsung

What are the companies' interviews mostly focused on DSA for experienced?

Product Managers on

by Dezi Taye

Stealth

How would you fix tech hiring?

Software Engineers on

by Karilyn Lee

Bookmyshow

Any product based companies which doesn't ask DSA questions for sde2 back end role?

Software Engineers on

by Coy Lee

Stealth

Hiring without DSA ?

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Nadeen

Others

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

Software Engineers on

by Dezi Carmden

Stealth

Anyone hiring?

Ask Grapeviners on

by Jordon Hyrum

Amazon

Insecurity on job change

Data Scientists on

by Jordon Olive

Quantiphi

Rant

Software Engineers on

by Dezi Nadeen

Startup

Are frontend devs not eligible to apply for SDE roles?

Software Engineers on

by Karilyn Carmden

Publicis Sapient

Why ask DS Algo in data engineer interviews for job roles required to work only in cloud services?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Vernon

Principal Global Services

Any companies not taking DSA online assignments?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Lee

Stealth

Finding DSA quite Tough

IT Company Discussion on

by Dezi Lee

Infosys

DSA questions are asked in Microsoft interviews for Azure data engineer roles as well?

Indian Startups on

by Jordon Lee

Google

Companies that don't ask ds algo questions

IT Company Discussion on

by Kendall Denver

SocGen

What does an interviewer expect from a candidate who has less than 2 yoe?

FAANG on

by Aaron Carmden

Deloitte

Need a sincere suggestion from folks working in product based companies