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

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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?

Software Engineer

I am software engineer with 2 years of experience. I am not from NIT IIT no MBA no Mtech. I have seen a culture where talent guy from lower college background get paid less than the industry standard.
I have no money to go for higher studies can’t take the risk that can hang my live to nowhere. 
So Is there any way to earn more without being from IIT NIT Mtech MBA?

How to get a job with salary 15lpa +

Hi, I'm a software engineer with close to 6 YOE. This is my second company and I feel pretty stagnant here working for 3 years and see no growth. I've started preparing. Is DSA still being asked in the interviews even for people with experience ? How many rounds are there usually and what is being tested? Your advice would be very much appreciated :)

Need help:Starting preparations for a switch

As a Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience, can you guys please guide me on preparation for DSA. Consider my current knowledge about DSA 0.

How should I start?
Approx how much time it will take?
How should I know what topics are more frequently asked at my level?
Any DSA plan for 0 to hero in DSA?

Apart from DSA I’m also preparing for HLD and LLD and I’d love to have recommendations from you folks about how to prepare these and where to prepare these from?

Also, if I’m missing something in my prep do let me know

DSA prep for interview

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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

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 just think we should skip DSA rounds for existing FAANG employees.

I understand the importance of DSA rounds and is pretty much required for SDE 1 roles as their major work is to code. But for higher levels, it starts becoming less and less relevant and pointless.

In most companies DSA is to understand the basics of the candidate, can they write code, explain the problem and thought process. Now most FAANG interviewers look for the same thing. Now once I have cleared one that means I have proved myself to be someone who meets the bar, doing it again is just like "Well, have you continued grinding leetcode after getting the job". You can check design competencies, problem solving in design, mentoring etc. but why ask DSA and go through that gruelling interview process.

Your thoughts?

Skip DSA rounds

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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

I am a JAVA backend dev, currently in TCS with 5.5 yrs of exp. I want to switch to a Product now. My dev skills are good. I have worked in few projects. With this many years of exp, the expectations are too high now, System Design, Kafka, Jenkins, Docker and DSA on top of that. I don't know how to start, once I start preparing DSA I feel like I am missing on reading system design and other stuff. Also, I don't feel confident about my DSA skills. Are there any devs here who were very bad in DSA but are very confident now. Please share your experiences in comments. Since I already have so many years of exp, this is my last chance to switch to a good product company. Please guide.

DSA Hell

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?

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?

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

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

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...

Google L4 salary | bangalore

Hi,
I am looking for 3-4 people who would be willing to join a study group for interview preparations. We will be starting with DSA and system design and have mock interviews. A perfect candidate will be someone who is:
1. A working  professional who already knows the grind and wants to practice for next big switch
2. Motivated to study 2-3 months for 10 hours a week
3. Friendly :)

Interview Prep Group

12 years of experience, currently working as an engineering manager. My next goal is getting into big tech in engineering management roles.

Do I need to brush up on DSA again? Should I expect them to ask me DP/Graph etc? I’m fairly confident with system design and engineering management rounds.

Preparing for EM interviews at Big Tech

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?

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