Nvidia too gave 3 coding questions+ 3 mcq

How was the test? 
 How did you apply via referral or something else?

System Engineer

Referral, questions were easy/medium level  but python sucks 😑 I spent 10 mins searching for error atlast I saw  it was an indentation error .

Software Engineer

I recently gave one. The first question was easy for me and passed all test cases. But second one was a little lengthy and tough. I had 0 cases pass at the end. But I still got through to the interview rounds.

What is wrong with Hackerrank Tests being so hard? I was not able to solve all the problems. Also for each problem that I solved hardly a few test cases passed. Has anyone face similar problem?

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What is wrong with Hackerrank Tests being so hard?
I was not able to solve all the problems. Also for each problem that I solved hardly a few test cases passed.
Has anyone face similar problem?

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Just received a hackerrank test link from a company I'm interviewing for. I haven't tried that platform for solving any coding challenges though. I came across people being pissed about hidden tests and absurd results that are failing their submissions. Role is Frontend, focused on JS. Looking for suggestions to clear this without any issue.

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Hi any body here attended ibm's hackerrank coding  round. What type of questions they ask? It's for a front end role

IBM hackerrank test

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I received a call and a subsequent HRank test for this company Lytx. 

There was a DSA problem where: For a given MxN matrix containing only 1s or 0s, we had to identify the minimum number of left or right cyclical shifts required on the row for getting at least 1 column with all ones. 
Sample Input: ['1001,'0101,'0000'] 


I used chat gpt and still couldn't figure out an exact solution, leave aside solving it on my own.

Question for the community: Say they select me for a further round anyways, will the interview as well be this brutal in terms of DSA ? Are these companies expecting programming prodigies or am I just not there in terms of my problem solving journey ?

Hoping for some brutally honest responses.

Gave a hackerrank test for Lytx

Software Developer

Any idea about the cutoff for Apple's Hackerrank test which had two questions related to dynamic programming and the duration was 50 minutes??

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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

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One of my good friends had applied to a 1YoE+ opening in a well known big MNC. He was contacted by the recruiter about this opportunity. First round was screening on HackerRank. He said the questions were easy, like the smoothest cake walk anyone can have. But he faced a lot of issues with the online IDE that the platform provides and he could not complete the test in time and hence got rejected.

I too had applied for the same opening right after him. I did not face many issues in my test, but there were issues which irritated me. After giving the HackerRank test, I casually pinged him and while talking about it, I got to know that we both had got the same set of questions asked. And the fun fact was, though our approaches were a bit different(like very minor), the output obtained was the same. But weirdly, despite getting the same outputs, all my test cases passed while his had failed. How is that possible, is something both of us are wondering about RN.

I suggested him to reapply by creating a completely new profile and everything because, he's a far better developer than me who deserves this opportunity, and it's sad to see him loose such a good opportunity to work at one of the dream teams.

But he said he can't take that path I recommended because he would feel guilty about it, knowing that he already knows the test questions and would easily clear that, which feels like cheating.

I'm asking amazing people here what he should do ? Do what I said OR just let go of it assuming it was his fate ?

We have been actively applying to many openings but because we don't have more than a YoE, we have barely got opportunities coming our way. So, I suggested to him "desperate times call for desperate measures".

Friend lost an opportunity because of something he didn't have no authority of.

During a recent interview at a Pune-based startup, I encountered a problem statement that involved a rather uncommon custom data structure.

The problem, summarized on one page with about 150 words, took me around 10 minutes to fully comprehend.

I discussed my approach with the interviewer, proposing the use of a specific data structure tailored to the problem's requirements:

`Element = pair<pair<int,int>, vector<int>>;
`vector<Element> vp;

However, despite my clarity, the interviewer insisted on using a HashMap. With just 20 minutes left, he abruptly requested a switch to HashMap and solving the problem. This change, coupled with the lengthy problem statement, led me to overlook two important edge cases, ultimately costing me the opportunity.

“After checking his LinkedIn profile, I found that the interviewer was a 5-star coder on CodeChef. This suggests he was so confident in his approach that he was not ready to accept an alternative approach. His stubbornness and his ultimate preference for the HashMap cost me an opportunity.”

PS: I am myself a competitive programmer with a rank under 100 in CodeChef long challenges.

Don’t be a stubborn interviewer!

Recruiter reached out to me and have the screening round coming up. I read that the interview process at Stripe is unique and there are rounds for fixing bugs, doing integration, etc. Can anyone shed some more light on this and how to prep?

Need info on Stripe's interview process

"Interviews are hard in that they have absolutely nothing to do with your day-to-day job. If I were to go through the interviews again right now I'd make a massive fool of myself. 

I'd say it's basically common knowledge that prior to making any hops, you've got to take at least a month or two to grind leetcode problems so that you're back in that head space where you can solve pointless problems with high efficiency.

Interviews are also hard because, if you end up with the personality type which views interviews as a chance to show how much more clever they are than everyone, then you've already failed. Their ego is tied to their "high bar" and impossible question set, and you're just fodder for them to show off that "high personal bar" during the de-brief."

A lot of FAANG engineers seem to report that the interview was the hardest thing... | Hacker News

A lot of FAANG engineers report that the interview was the hardest thing that they've done, harder than anything they do as part of their actual job

Growth Manager

I just finished an interview with ServiceNow for a senior software engineer role and writing this up.

Anger rushed through my body after finishing the interview for multiple reasons.

reasons:
1. The interviewer joined 10 minutes late and he was very lethargic.
2. The questions he asked regarding my current job were very basic and then I realized that he should be fresher or should have 2 - 3 years of experience.
3. After the interview I checked his profile on LinkedIn and he was a 2021 graduate (as I guessed).
4. I don't understand why an organization assigns software engineers (2.5 YOE) as interviewers for hiring a senior software engineer(8+ YOE). It doesn't make sense to me.
5. Then the interviewer asked a basic DSA question, and I gave him the solution, now he was not familiar with the Python language hence intrigued about the implementation of the heapify in Python. I explained to him how Heapify works but still, he could not understand what it is.
6. The part I got pissed off is the interviewer's attitude of him knowing everything.
7. The interview was scheduled for 1 hour and we went overtime, it's okay to go overtime by 5-10 minutes., But this guy is taking more than 20 minutes. He din't have basic ethics of valuing candidate's time.

This is not my first interview with ServiceNow, this is my second and I had same feelings in the first interview as well.

It's okay for me to not grab this opportunity, but think about someone who is really struggling to get a job during this tough time, because of the interviewer being lethargic.

Hope ServiceNow focuses on their interviewing system and improves it.

ServiceNow interview is shit 💩

Hack to crack IBM technical assessment (Hackerrank)

Tech skills -React js

IBM hacker rank technical assessment

I'm a backend engineer with 6+ YoE.

I have never had interest in solving DSA problems. I started off as being very bad at it- I did understand the technical details behind various data structures and algorithms, but never had that passion about applying it to various leetcode problems. Over time, I have got better with DSA, but I still can't say I am at a great level- I still often struggle with Leetcode-medium problems.

I am confident of being a decent engineer- with a nice mix of tech and soft skills and an interest in building things. I also have some aspiration of joining a Faang company (or other such top-level company); but I feel overwhelmed at how "good" it requires you to be in DSA.

So, I wish to know- how good do I need to be at DSA before I can realistically apply at such companies, given my YoE. And, how may I possibly gauge how far away I still am from that "required level"?

How much DSA preparation is enough?

I needed some help in coming up with a study plan to specifically train for Google's interview process. I currently have 4yoe, so I think the interviews will be for SDE2 role. There will be 3 DSA rounds, 1 Googleyness, and 1 Leadership round. I already have experience in DSA and have solved most of Neetcode 150 (except DP, Bit Manipulation, and some hard problems). If any of you have given Google (or any FAANG) interview before, I would love to get some guidance on how to prepare in 30 days. I already know most of the common algorithms like DFS, BFS, Sliding window, Binary search, etc so I won't have to start from scratch.

Also, the recruiter mentioned that I will have only 45 mins to solve two questions: mostly 1 hard and 1 medium. So I basically have around 20 mins per problem, which I feel is very difficult to solve a Leetcode Hard problem unless you have seen it before. Did I misunderstand the recruiter? Are there any tips on how to get good at this?

Got a call from a Google recruiter, have onsite interviews in 30 days

Folks who are working in product based companies or having a good command on DSA and solved atleast 100+ problems, I need an honest answer from you here. For how many of leetcode medium/hard problems were you able to figure out a solution on your own without watching a YouTube video or reading an article on some site?

How many of medium/hard questions were you able to solve on your own without looking up for solution anywhere?

What did it take to get to that point? I'm reasonably comfortable with mediums but hard problems feel like a few notches above in difficulty. Should I find the equivalent rating of mediums on codeforces and work from there? Or is it better to keep reading LC hard solutions until something clicks?

To folks who can solve LC Hards

Got a DSA ROUND with Uber tomorrow 

Any tips ?

Uber Interview

I have a interview coming for FAANG next week. I want to solve some premium problems listed on Leetcode, but don't want to spend unnecessary 30 usd. anyone who knows where can I find those questions?

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