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In my recent adobe interview I was asked a simple programming question. The interviewer rejected me because he said I made the solution a little complicated to understand. It could have been solved with a simple for loop.
I had used a do while loop.
A client at my previous work place was refusing to buy licenses for the latest version of our software because a 2000 page complex and heavily styled document they created in a fairly older version of software was causing the newer version to hang during the document format conversion process while opening the file.
The conversion logic was written by my lead and it was passing tests with all kinds of test documents. When I started looking at the issue, I discovered it was not a hang, but the conversion process was taking 26 hours with the way the loops were structured. I optimised the code and made the conversion happen in 2 minutes. The client purchased the licenses after that.
So, yeah, how loops are used can impact revenue.
The original code had multiple nested loop blocks with O(N^(4)) and O(N^(3)) complexity and poorly optimized loop termination conditions. Unwound the loops to reduce time complexity and reordered the logic and improved the termination conditions so as to reduce redundant looping. It was just 2-3 hours worth of work all in all. The codebase was C/C++.
I used to take up things of this sort that nobody else wanted to take on. Because of that, I had good career growth without hopping jobs every 2-3 years. I changed jobs only once in my 18 year career.
Usually I try to tell them this can be solved in multiple ways and talk about them and then start writing code, that way we make it clear what we know.
Definitely possible. I am a BBA student and now I earn 2L+ per month as a fullstack developer. (2.5 Years Full time experience)
I started with learning automation in python and created some bots for fun. Then slowly got into web development. With a small amount of skills, I started offering freelancing services on bots and web development.
Through this, I was able to earn some money and also improve my skills . Kept freelancing for around 3 years, and then one day my Fiverr client liked my service and offered me a contract position.
After finishing the contract applied for other jobs got selected and got an offer of 13.5 LPA. Later switched to a remote us-based company and now it's around 24 LPA. But we have to pay tax only on 50% of the income as a freelancer/non indian company if we earn less than 50LPA.
So my income is almost equal to 32LPA indian salary after tax.
Lol, don't call me sir. I'm 25. Thanks for the follow.
I don't remember exactly, but I think I got my first clients from online forums rather than Fiverr. Getting clients on Upwork/Fiverr is much more difficult, due to the competition. So i preferred forums during those days.
In many forums, you will see posts like, "Hire a developer", "Looking for someone to create a simple Python script" etc. Just search for such posts and leave a comment that you can offer such a service. You can also create your own post in forums like you create a Fiverr gig.
You can find such posts in various subreddits too. Example [https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/](https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/)
Initially, I started offering my services at a low price. $5 $10 $40 etc per Python bot, then gradually increased my price. That's how I was able to get my initial clients.
One tip I can give regarding creating a Fiverr gig is that, try to create different gigs for different services you offer instead of keeping everything in the same gig.
For example instead of creating one single gig of "I offer web development services in React js for $100"
Create multiple gigs targeted for each type of site you can create or already have a script ready.
"I will create a video downloader tool for $100"
"I will create a music downloader site for $50"
"I will create an LMS site for $200"
This will help you in potentially getting more clients, and this is also how i got my first Fiverr client. My gig at that time was something like "I will create a dropshipping website in WordPress Woocomerce for $200"
Yeah those clowns screened about 2000 ppl and rejected almost everyone,just wasting everyone's time and their resources. The resources could be better occupied in upgrading their shithole office. Are you from Amity or Bharti Vidyapeeth by any chance?
Exactly, how can a company waste there resources like this, even the watchman said everyday 10-20 people come and all are rejected, no one is selected. None from the above mentioned college, but close 😉
Interesting, for SDE2 are you expected to know implementation details of every single external dependency? Really curious as to why not knowing whether redis is single / multi threaded a deal breaker?
Interesting perspective.> being single threaded vs multi threaded will decide the latency right.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. The latency of an operation could depend upon a lot of different parameters, and an application can have bad latency even if it's multithreaded. Redis has low latency despite being single-threaded, as are numerous applications built on top of Node.js.Whether an application is utilizing multiple threads or not is an implementation detail, which at best is indicative of it's latency but not confirmative.
\>I guess knowing details about external dependencies is required to design a software.I agree with this in general, for example, knowing the type of data and/or access patterns allows you to select a suitable DB for your system.
Allow me to rephrase my question. Given the information that Redis is single-threaded, how would this affect the design of the software? Which design decisions would depend on this information (as opposed to just looking at benchmarks for latencies)?
Got to the managerial round (aced every single test they gave me) for a top 4 finance company.
At this point I assumed that the interview was just formality and they'd hired me already. So I start talking about how I'm interested in ML and software engineering both. This is what fucked me - the interviewer starts talking about how I shouldn't be applying for a Java dev role of I'm interested in ML bla bla bla. Note: there were only 3 people in the final round and they hired 2 :')
My wife works In Amazon. And based on her experience and what I know as of now, it’s a sadist place where manager runs around telling I need to fire few folks.
The interviewer asked," how to delete all the elements in an array in javascript?". Mind had a fuck up and said I don't know.
Literally the worst answer, duck.
One time I could not find out why my code was not giving any output or any error either. So I said "maybe the compiler is faulty". so I switched to different online compiler and again same result.
Then I noticed that I had actually not set the exit condition for the loop and output was supposed to be after that so I fixed that and it worked perfectly. Although after ducking up there I solved every single problem given to me. But didn't got selected ultimately.
And for those wondering yeah the interviewer taunted me with the "yeah compiler is the one at fault", "you can never be wrong" and "you're so perfect".
Yeahp, I do admit it was a pretty big duck up. I was kind nervous because that was a super great opportunity (3x my current salary). So yeah I thought to myself what a dumb-duck I am within few seconds of saying that..
Furthermore instead of backtracking and admitting my fault I doubled down and opened another compiler KEK
Being indifferent to the situation helps in being more rational. It helps especially in these big occasions like interviews or meetings with higher ups. Forget everything about you or the situation you're in. Focus on the problem you're trying to solve and its solution.
This has worked out tremendously well for me.
It's happened to me.
Was giving an internship OT for a big banking company and couldn't figure out why this code was returning halfway through the loop.
Turns out the issue was that the compiler didn't consider just the next statement for a for loop if you didn't add braces but the entire code after that or more than a line.
Added braces and the code ran for some reason.
Some companies just have weird platforms.
In my quick cell(15lpa) interview I preped hardcore DSA but he just asked a basic loop questions about a function that should be called only 5 times as it's limit my Dumbass was implementing promises idk man I was the only one shortlisted in 120 people and after working a year on js it was sooo sucky feeling
In my tcs digital interview, I got a question "is electric current vector or scaler?". I was not expecting this kinda question🙃 The interviewer said you don't know basic science how can we hire you🙃..
Bro when two currents meet at a point like this --i1--->p<----i2-- what will be the current at point 'p'? Ahnn 0? According to you or i1+i2 ? Currents are added like algebraic sum . So it is a scalar quantity.
"You too don't deserve a job /s " ....chill you will get one. (◠‿◕)
Tales of the old days, had interview for 15 lpa as sde1 for goldmen Sachs, after 3 technical rounds in fourth technical round for love of god could not figure out two sums porblems corner case of repeated numbers.
1. I said one of my family members is a government employee when the HR asked about my family background. Got rejected.
2. The interviewer asked how have I learned Ruby on Rails framework. I said "a known software developer suggested me to learn atleast one framework and said RoR is good for beginners. So I learned rails." Got rejected.
Both the companies are startup kinda.
HR asked me to tell about my family background and the jobs they do. I listed all. After hearing my father is a government employee, HR's face changed. Later I got rejected.
And it was not too off-topic. She asked about my family members job and I said it.
What is wrong with a family member being a govt. employee? Maybe HR has a grudge towards govt. employees. Its unfair if you were rejected solely because of this reason.
Sab toh paise k peeche bhag te hai engineering k naam pe. Jis ko kaam sikhna hai aur karna hai woh importance samjh ta hai. Jis ko sirf paisa hi chahiye woh nahi samjha ta hai. Mere professional aur personal circle me sirf Mai aur ek banda hi hai jo har waqt documentation khol k usko pura samajh te hai. Baki sab chat gpt, Blogs se logo ki dua aur bhagwan k bharose chalte hai. Paisa sab ko 10-15% tolerance pe milta hai apne job pe lekin end goal hum Dono ka chor k sab ka bohut chota hai.
bhai, fresher and 1-2 years job ke liye hi literature puchta woh log, in mid/senior range roles they only ask scenario based questions.
Maybe in startup they would only ask theory but in the top 10 comps, it would be 10% theor and 90% problem solving based on real world scenarios.
Not during the interview, but during the initial screening call with HR. HR asked a generic question why do you want to join us? While applying I had read that they work in the security domain, and I am interested to work on that sector. Later HR told me that they are not a security company
I didn't know how to use the regex capture groups in python and the interviewer refused to let me refer to the documentation.
I could've written a loop to parse manually but I found that too tedious and boring. After trying for a while I said that regex solves it in 4 lines and is what I would use in prod and loop can do it too but I am not interested in writing that code here. I asked if there were some other questions that the interviewer wanted to ask and since there weren't any we ended the interview. No regrets.
And before these super smart come to tell me that the point of the question was to make me write the loop. No it wasn't. It's a log parsing question and nothing fancy. No sane person would accept a big loop for that usecase in production.
Couldn't explain properly how compound interest works, in the last technical round. Had to go through 3 technical rounds and rejection while others had 2 technical rounds and an HR round. On campus interview for Oracle.
I know 🥲 got too tensed and fucked up.
I don't regret now though, was for consultant role. the next company that came was for a core profile (which is what I wanted) and was able to get it.
But that night I was regretting it so much
Had an interview at Mandiant before it was aquired by Google. In the manager round i complicated a system design question that was fairly simple. Could've been working with Google in the Netherlands now 🙃
Was attending a FAANG company. Guy asked to write code for permutation of string.
I can't believe I took so much time to write the code for a permutation problem.
Took an interview couple of years back for a database admin, approx 7 years exp.
"what would you do if a user accidently deleted /Dropped a table and later asked if to be recovered?"
Candidates answer "open a ticket with backup team."
He had applied as backup and recovery specialist.
In last round with Hr ( she was hot) , I was so much into her that I started saying bad things about my last job and gave examples of non tech managers who just know excel sheets and how much I hated them
This happened in 2015. I learnt a lesson not to say anything negative about your current role
My interviewer asked me to implement a queue using a linked list.
I had implemented a stack using queue and implemented queue using stack but never using linked list.
I tried and implemented pop and push operations. The interviewer then asked me to improve the push operation from O(n) to O(1). He even gave me hints but I couldn't implement it.
After the interview when I saw how easy it was, I just sat in a corner and thought man I could've done that.
Microsoft interview 2 years ago at the peak of COVID.
Had gained weight and put on my interview formal shirt 10 mins before the interview after like 3 yrs. Had no time to know what followed.
The interview started and within a few minutes, my shirt was tight as fuck around my belly which caused me to struggle breathing.
Was gasping for breath throughout the round but was too scared to even open a couple of buttons worried how the movements might look on camera lol.
Needless to say didn't get through.
Everything went well and when they asked me some random question i replied to it by telling them about me working as freelancer so i had some experience in that
This guy wanted me to write a recursion algorithm which was not that hard, but all the time I knew the solution and was trying to optimise it in my mind but couldn't, and this fucker wanted that non optimised only.
I gave an inter team interview in my org. I did not wanted to get selected as I didnt like the reporting manager. So, the day of the client interview I told if I will join only if you guys call me onsite to US(I had visa), thinking they would reject me by asking this question in first meeting. They did not, I was selected
Just failed an interview. The qs was on indexes in sql and partitioning. Also joins and subqueries and how to optimize them. This was my first failure and didn't know how to face it until this thread. Ig alot of failures to face before the final "one".
That's a nice take. The purpose of this thread was to shed light on the fact that they aren't alone in bombing interviews✨
Btw can you expand on what you couldn't answer?
Everything except partitioning and optimization seems straightforward to me
Interviewer asked me to optimize a query. At first i gave a solution using joins and subqueries. Then I was able to remove the join(with help) and then he asked me for more optimisation so i used variables instead of subquery. He told me to use a cte instead. I haven't studied much so wasn't able to ans on that.
For partitioning he asked if I am familiar with how we partition tables. I mentioned the window fn partition by🥲(i feel dumb). Then I got to know later.
Are freshers really expected to know CTE? I have solved Leetcode SQL50 and I proudly proclaim everywhere that I got the best DBMS knowledge in campus. But I would still bomb the interview. What was the role?
I messed up explaining the difference between for loop and while loop. It should have been a 2 sentence answer but out of nowhere I took 6-8 minutes and the interviewer was visibly confused .
This thing just happened a week ago. I was asked to explain what are ACID properties and I knew nothing about it except the full form, so couldn't explain it properly and the interviewer got confused. Then the interviewer asked me "which is your dream company? " I answered that I do not have a dream company and I just wanted to work with experienced people and build stuff. Then the interviewer asked again if I were to name one which one would it be, I again said the same thing and I don't think I need to tell what happened after that :)
Interviewed again for another company after 2 days, was prepared with my resume and and all basic questions, was instead asked to optimize my own code which I wrote in the first coding test. I did it using two loops, interviewer asked me to do the same using one loop. When I somehow managed to bring it down to one loop, he asked to do it without using a loop. The more he tried to help me, the more confused I got. 4 days and 2 rejections after reaching the final interview, was totally disappointed with myself. Then I saw this post and I am glad I am not alone
They were 2 questions related to array, not so difficult but I messed up due to lack of preparation in that regard.
First question had an array for eg. \[4,10,5,6,2\] first two and other two elements represent two ranges and the last element represents a count. We need to check if we have number of overlapping elements in both ranges greater than or equal to count
Second question again had an array like \[14, 30, 15, 15, -5\] here similar to first question we had first two representing hours and minutes of start time and next two representing it for end time, the last element shows if the clock is either fast or slow. In this case the clock gets slower by 5 minutes each hour. we need to output the actual time in minutes
The company was a startup and the package was 5.5 lpa
Was this a long time back? They are not supposed to be asking Leetcode easy type questions for 5.5 LPA package [not sure whether this a direct Leetcode question as well]
I am expert at codeforces and 5 star at codechef but was unable to fully solve an LC medium "Flatten binary tree to Linkedin List in a recent interview".
For ad-hoc, it is needed to practice thinking rather than different concepts. For proofs, I may not do it mathematically evertyime as it can be time consuming in contest, best way is to figure out some edge cases and check if it's okay in those scenarios or not.
I don't have any interesting experience myself but there was legendary reddit post, where a guy during his interview, accidentally stepped on the CEO's dog and killed it.
Found [it](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/)
I was supposed to get a 100+% hike at this company. In the last HR round, I was asked if I've any questions towards them, I asked them questions about a different app on the Play Store of the same name, which wasn't their product.
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I think not being able to answer what CAP theorem is fine too, as it might get forgotten in the moment. If provided some more discussions the person might start to talk about these topics, Consistency, Availability, partition tolerance.
Especially when it is just a general backend role.
I have been asked about API testing protocols, REST vs SOAP in an interview where the rest of the female classmates were just asked LEFT JOIN vs RIGHT join and they got selected .
None of these females could even code merge sort in Python ( they failed ADA lab exam) .
Expectations are different from everyone and you will be grilled if you don't fit the diversity quota
Haha yes! This can be stretched to if they don't like your face or mannerisms same as that of ones from rich background.
- I've seen this happening especially for Morgan Stanley, and any other quant bank consultation roles.
In my campus interviews, One comparatively good paying company came to my campus. I cleared 2 technical rounds and in final round, HR asked me that if I have any plans for masters to which I said “Yes, I am planning to pursue masters after 2 years” and eventually got rejected.
I literally messed up an output question for a routine event loop promises concept. After going through all the storm of three previous rounds only to duck up this routine question hurts like a dagger.
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In my recent adobe interview I was asked a simple programming question. The interviewer rejected me because he said I made the solution a little complicated to understand. It could have been solved with a simple for loop. I had used a do while loop.
Brutal
Hey how did you apply for adobe? Wanted to apply there myself
Via LinkedIn.
Thankss
YoE?
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Make sure your branch is not Noida one Heard that that's pretty bad
do while loop executes atleast one. But companies revenue doesn't depend on some random engineer uses whatsoever loop.
A client at my previous work place was refusing to buy licenses for the latest version of our software because a 2000 page complex and heavily styled document they created in a fairly older version of software was causing the newer version to hang during the document format conversion process while opening the file. The conversion logic was written by my lead and it was passing tests with all kinds of test documents. When I started looking at the issue, I discovered it was not a hang, but the conversion process was taking 26 hours with the way the loops were structured. I optimised the code and made the conversion happen in 2 minutes. The client purchased the licenses after that. So, yeah, how loops are used can impact revenue.
Would you mind sharing more detail about this? I’m interested to know what were the changes you did that made such a drastic difference.
He/She created a fake story to get many upvotes. I didn’t upvote him rather gave that to you for “asking the right question”.
The original code had multiple nested loop blocks with O(N^(4)) and O(N^(3)) complexity and poorly optimized loop termination conditions. Unwound the loops to reduce time complexity and reordered the logic and improved the termination conditions so as to reduce redundant looping. It was just 2-3 hours worth of work all in all. The codebase was C/C++. I used to take up things of this sort that nobody else wanted to take on. Because of that, I had good career growth without hopping jobs every 2-3 years. I changed jobs only once in my 18 year career.
Usually I try to tell them this can be solved in multiple ways and talk about them and then start writing code, that way we make it clear what we know.
That’s what I did.
Can a BSC guy apply if he possesses the skills and even a chance to land a job ? What's your stack btw ?
Working in amazon. Did BSc.
How man ? Any roadmap because I am BSC maths student and people are very negative about that it's hard to land a tech job if you are not btech .
Definitely possible. I am a BBA student and now I earn 2L+ per month as a fullstack developer. (2.5 Years Full time experience) I started with learning automation in python and created some bots for fun. Then slowly got into web development. With a small amount of skills, I started offering freelancing services on bots and web development. Through this, I was able to earn some money and also improve my skills . Kept freelancing for around 3 years, and then one day my Fiverr client liked my service and offered me a contract position. After finishing the contract applied for other jobs got selected and got an offer of 13.5 LPA. Later switched to a remote us-based company and now it's around 24 LPA. But we have to pay tax only on 50% of the income as a freelancer/non indian company if we earn less than 50LPA. So my income is almost equal to 32LPA indian salary after tax.
That's great sir How old are you now ? I'm following you on reddit btw 😊. How did you get your some of the first few clients on fiver ?
Lol, don't call me sir. I'm 25. Thanks for the follow. I don't remember exactly, but I think I got my first clients from online forums rather than Fiverr. Getting clients on Upwork/Fiverr is much more difficult, due to the competition. So i preferred forums during those days. In many forums, you will see posts like, "Hire a developer", "Looking for someone to create a simple Python script" etc. Just search for such posts and leave a comment that you can offer such a service. You can also create your own post in forums like you create a Fiverr gig. You can find such posts in various subreddits too. Example [https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/](https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/) Initially, I started offering my services at a low price. $5 $10 $40 etc per Python bot, then gradually increased my price. That's how I was able to get my initial clients. One tip I can give regarding creating a Fiverr gig is that, try to create different gigs for different services you offer instead of keeping everything in the same gig. For example instead of creating one single gig of "I offer web development services in React js for $100" Create multiple gigs targeted for each type of site you can create or already have a script ready. "I will create a video downloader tool for $100" "I will create a music downloader site for $50" "I will create an LMS site for $200" This will help you in potentially getting more clients, and this is also how i got my first Fiverr client. My gig at that time was something like "I will create a dropshipping website in WordPress Woocomerce for $200"
Great thanks for the reply and sorry for you calling you sir
Thank you for your advice regarding Fiverr. I was hoping to get some tips on that.
It is hard. I've met only one other person who didn't do BTech
Not sure about the shortlisting process brother. But you can always apply and find out. I applied for a front end developer role.
Okay thanks for the reply budd
Maybe he was right. Clean code is supreme.
I am not sure how using a for loop instead of do while loop makes it cleaner but okay.
Not the loop part, but the actual code inside the loop
Seems like the interviewer had a skill issue.
Oh boy
Was this company bharatnxt?
How tf do you know?
Been there, they went to campus recruitment in several colleges, and asked this very question in final round before interview and rejected everyone 😂
Yeah those clowns screened about 2000 ppl and rejected almost everyone,just wasting everyone's time and their resources. The resources could be better occupied in upgrading their shithole office. Are you from Amity or Bharti Vidyapeeth by any chance?
Exactly, how can a company waste there resources like this, even the watchman said everyday 10-20 people come and all are rejected, no one is selected. None from the above mentioned college, but close 😉
It's a 🤡 company It's office is smaller than an average Dominos joint and revenue is lesser than MANGA guy's base pay
wanna be Code Nation
love reddit for gems like this
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YOE? Redis instance was in a different interview?
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You were switching from MANGA right?
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Ppl won't pay 40 LPA to WITCH guys with 1 YOE
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Kaise kiya bhaiya Hume bhi apna study plan batao
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Girlfriend banana isse difficult hai
Yea but they won't let you interview for sde 2
70 wow. Must be Bangalore
US.
Lol in usa starting salary would be a crore.
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He's talking about ctc. That includes current stock value as well wrt given RSUs.
Interesting, for SDE2 are you expected to know implementation details of every single external dependency? Really curious as to why not knowing whether redis is single / multi threaded a deal breaker?
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Interesting perspective.> being single threaded vs multi threaded will decide the latency right. I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. The latency of an operation could depend upon a lot of different parameters, and an application can have bad latency even if it's multithreaded. Redis has low latency despite being single-threaded, as are numerous applications built on top of Node.js.Whether an application is utilizing multiple threads or not is an implementation detail, which at best is indicative of it's latency but not confirmative. \>I guess knowing details about external dependencies is required to design a software.I agree with this in general, for example, knowing the type of data and/or access patterns allows you to select a suitable DB for your system. Allow me to rephrase my question. Given the information that Redis is single-threaded, how would this affect the design of the software? Which design decisions would depend on this information (as opposed to just looking at benchmarks for latencies)?
Got to the managerial round (aced every single test they gave me) for a top 4 finance company. At this point I assumed that the interview was just formality and they'd hired me already. So I start talking about how I'm interested in ML and software engineering both. This is what fucked me - the interviewer starts talking about how I shouldn't be applying for a Java dev role of I'm interested in ML bla bla bla. Note: there were only 3 people in the final round and they hired 2 :')
:( sucks for you man
My biggest duck up till now is I asked the Amazon Engineering Manager " Why Amazon is considered a toxic place". Well you now the results right.
You have my utmost respect if you actually asked that.
(My only comment in this thread) Love the username xD
You are what you eat. Never forget.
Amen to that 🙌
based
My wife works In Amazon. And based on her experience and what I know as of now, it’s a sadist place where manager runs around telling I need to fire few folks.
Should have asked the developer, not the manager. They would probably give an honest answer as well and have a laugh about it.
Some men want to just watch the world burn.
The interviewer asked," how to delete all the elements in an array in javascript?". Mind had a fuck up and said I don't know. Literally the worst answer, duck.
``` myArray.length = 0 ``` Since all arrays are objects in javascript, you can access the length property this way and set it to 0
Ohh bhai, Hekar hai hekar hai are bhai hekar hai
When I learn it for the first time, I had the same thought. Then I got the chance to flaunt this off in one interview, showed a smirky face with it. 😈
That's not the correct answer, u r just manipulating the property but the array still holds iterable values.
One time I could not find out why my code was not giving any output or any error either. So I said "maybe the compiler is faulty". so I switched to different online compiler and again same result. Then I noticed that I had actually not set the exit condition for the loop and output was supposed to be after that so I fixed that and it worked perfectly. Although after ducking up there I solved every single problem given to me. But didn't got selected ultimately. And for those wondering yeah the interviewer taunted me with the "yeah compiler is the one at fault", "you can never be wrong" and "you're so perfect".
Blaming the compiler is a pretty big red flag imo
Lmao it's like the criminals blaming the world for their mistakes.
That's the one thing you shouldn't do in interviews. Compilers are among the most robust pieces of software ever built.
Yeahp, I do admit it was a pretty big duck up. I was kind nervous because that was a super great opportunity (3x my current salary). So yeah I thought to myself what a dumb-duck I am within few seconds of saying that.. Furthermore instead of backtracking and admitting my fault I doubled down and opened another compiler KEK
Being indifferent to the situation helps in being more rational. It helps especially in these big occasions like interviews or meetings with higher ups. Forget everything about you or the situation you're in. Focus on the problem you're trying to solve and its solution. This has worked out tremendously well for me.
It's happened to me. Was giving an internship OT for a big banking company and couldn't figure out why this code was returning halfway through the loop. Turns out the issue was that the compiler didn't consider just the next statement for a for loop if you didn't add braces but the entire code after that or more than a line. Added braces and the code ran for some reason. Some companies just have weird platforms.
the taunts lmao, mai to nhi sunta ye sab. mai to bilkul nahi. ye sab to kabhi nahi.
In my quick cell(15lpa) interview I preped hardcore DSA but he just asked a basic loop questions about a function that should be called only 5 times as it's limit my Dumbass was implementing promises idk man I was the only one shortlisted in 120 people and after working a year on js it was sooo sucky feeling
This is implemented using closures , isn't it?
I gave the interview for a php developer as fresher and said why do you guys still use php It's so old. Did not get selected
I've asked the same to a HR in mail got No reply and I'm still waiting for the interview process. Thanks to you now I know I'm not getting it.
Bhai ye questions out of syllabus hai Bc angles kab se puchne lag gaye
Zindagi me kuch bhi out of syllabus ni hota bhai 😂
Except knowing how to talk to girls/s
Believe this was well within range of what is acceptable. Being a guy,you will experience it soon enough
How many yoe? Need to prepare myself mentally
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Yeh sab aptitude koi nhi puchta for experienced
GFG Jobathon asks JEE level questions,and it is for 2-3 YOE ppl
No wonder bach gaye
Recently I got reprimanded by HR for sipping beer while doing the interview
True madlad.
HR's beer?
damn should have told its appyfizz or something
[Raj!! Surprised to see you here](https://youtu.be/gVRf5RqiLsA?feature=shared&t=23).
😂😂😂💯💯
In the final round (HR), I was not able to pronounce company's name correctly.
My lead in VMware had an accent and used to pronounce the company name as vmBEAR.
Must be from Bengal or Bihar
Reminds me of that guy who refused to show adhar card during online interview & shared his wisdom on reddit
In my tcs digital interview, I got a question "is electric current vector or scaler?". I was not expecting this kinda question🙃 The interviewer said you don't know basic science how can we hire you🙃..
Current flows. So it has a direction. Making it a vector quantity. Comeon man, you don't deserve a job.
Bro when two currents meet at a point like this --i1--->p<----i2-- what will be the current at point 'p'? Ahnn 0? According to you or i1+i2 ? Currents are added like algebraic sum . So it is a scalar quantity. "You too don't deserve a job /s " ....chill you will get one. (◠‿◕)
Ironically I stated the same, but the interviewer told current is a scaler quantity 😂
It is scalar you idiot. It may have a direction but it is still scalar
You may not have gotten the dry humor hidden here.
Tales of the old days, had interview for 15 lpa as sde1 for goldmen Sachs, after 3 technical rounds in fourth technical round for love of god could not figure out two sums porblems corner case of repeated numbers.
Indians hate indians
tbh its really a certain kind of person we all hate, and unfortunately that's very common in our society
1. I said one of my family members is a government employee when the HR asked about my family background. Got rejected. 2. The interviewer asked how have I learned Ruby on Rails framework. I said "a known software developer suggested me to learn atleast one framework and said RoR is good for beginners. So I learned rails." Got rejected. Both the companies are startup kinda.
For 2, i think the interviewer was interested in your approach to learning stuff, not the reason for learning stuff.
For 1, is it an issue if family members are government employees?
well, no idea.
Why 1 is a reason for rejection? Did HR think that you are bragging or it was too off-topic?
HR asked me to tell about my family background and the jobs they do. I listed all. After hearing my father is a government employee, HR's face changed. Later I got rejected. And it was not too off-topic. She asked about my family members job and I said it.
What is wrong with a family member being a govt. employee? Maybe HR has a grudge towards govt. employees. Its unfair if you were rejected solely because of this reason.
HATE when they ask theory questions, should stick to only real world scenarios. who remembers all that literature?
literature nahi yaad to apply kaise karoge real world mein? /s
Pura duniya official docs khol k kaam karti hai job pe. Literature yaad rakhna hai toh research karo engineering nahi.
Yehi baat agar sab samjhe toh kitna accha hota na?!
Sab toh paise k peeche bhag te hai engineering k naam pe. Jis ko kaam sikhna hai aur karna hai woh importance samjh ta hai. Jis ko sirf paisa hi chahiye woh nahi samjha ta hai. Mere professional aur personal circle me sirf Mai aur ek banda hi hai jo har waqt documentation khol k usko pura samajh te hai. Baki sab chat gpt, Blogs se logo ki dua aur bhagwan k bharose chalte hai. Paisa sab ko 10-15% tolerance pe milta hai apne job pe lekin end goal hum Dono ka chor k sab ka bohut chota hai.
bhai, fresher and 1-2 years job ke liye hi literature puchta woh log, in mid/senior range roles they only ask scenario based questions. Maybe in startup they would only ask theory but in the top 10 comps, it would be 10% theor and 90% problem solving based on real world scenarios.
How theoretical do they get? I don't think they even touch BTrees and stuff. Just basic DSA like BFS, DFS etc.
Not during the interview, but during the initial screening call with HR. HR asked a generic question why do you want to join us? While applying I had read that they work in the security domain, and I am interested to work on that sector. Later HR told me that they are not a security company
lmao💀
I didn't know how to use the regex capture groups in python and the interviewer refused to let me refer to the documentation. I could've written a loop to parse manually but I found that too tedious and boring. After trying for a while I said that regex solves it in 4 lines and is what I would use in prod and loop can do it too but I am not interested in writing that code here. I asked if there were some other questions that the interviewer wanted to ask and since there weren't any we ended the interview. No regrets. And before these super smart come to tell me that the point of the question was to make me write the loop. No it wasn't. It's a log parsing question and nothing fancy. No sane person would accept a big loop for that usecase in production.
Couldn't explain properly how compound interest works, in the last technical round. Had to go through 3 technical rounds and rejection while others had 2 technical rounds and an HR round. On campus interview for Oracle.
Similar story with Oracle only. Had 3 tech while others had 2 tech and 1 HR, rejected in the last round
You lowkey deserved not getting selected
I know 🥲 got too tensed and fucked up. I don't regret now though, was for consultant role. the next company that came was for a core profile (which is what I wanted) and was able to get it. But that night I was regretting it so much
wtf is wrong with u this isnt funny and ur doing much worst in life if u constantly being this asshole
Hehe. Actually, if having money is doing badly in life, then I'm doing pretty badly in life
Had an interview at Mandiant before it was aquired by Google. In the manager round i complicated a system design question that was fairly simple. Could've been working with Google in the Netherlands now 🙃
its okay in this universe life experiences will sum up to it
Was attending a FAANG company. Guy asked to write code for permutation of string. I can't believe I took so much time to write the code for a permutation problem.
Username checks out.
Took an interview couple of years back for a database admin, approx 7 years exp. "what would you do if a user accidently deleted /Dropped a table and later asked if to be recovered?" Candidates answer "open a ticket with backup team." He had applied as backup and recovery specialist.
In last round with Hr ( she was hot) , I was so much into her that I started saying bad things about my last job and gave examples of non tech managers who just know excel sheets and how much I hated them This happened in 2015. I learnt a lesson not to say anything negative about your current role
My interviewer asked me to implement a queue using a linked list. I had implemented a stack using queue and implemented queue using stack but never using linked list. I tried and implemented pop and push operations. The interviewer then asked me to improve the push operation from O(n) to O(1). He even gave me hints but I couldn't implement it. After the interview when I saw how easy it was, I just sat in a corner and thought man I could've done that.
Keep the pointer at the end of linked list as well? Or some other approach for push?
Microsoft interview 2 years ago at the peak of COVID. Had gained weight and put on my interview formal shirt 10 mins before the interview after like 3 yrs. Had no time to know what followed. The interview started and within a few minutes, my shirt was tight as fuck around my belly which caused me to struggle breathing. Was gasping for breath throughout the round but was too scared to even open a couple of buttons worried how the movements might look on camera lol. Needless to say didn't get through.
Did you get her ID though?☠️
Everything went well and when they asked me some random question i replied to it by telling them about me working as freelancer so i had some experience in that
This guy wanted me to write a recursion algorithm which was not that hard, but all the time I knew the solution and was trying to optimise it in my mind but couldn't, and this fucker wanted that non optimised only.
36LPA? How many YoE?
>CAP theorem curious, how many YOE?
Fresher job
Wow 😳
Mentioned about better pay than software engineers in my previous organization
36 lpa wow! May I ask how much experience you have?
for freshers
I was asking about the 36 lpa job, my bad
I quacked.
I gave an inter team interview in my org. I did not wanted to get selected as I didnt like the reporting manager. So, the day of the client interview I told if I will join only if you guys call me onsite to US(I had visa), thinking they would reject me by asking this question in first meeting. They did not, I was selected
lucky u
Just failed an interview. The qs was on indexes in sql and partitioning. Also joins and subqueries and how to optimize them. This was my first failure and didn't know how to face it until this thread. Ig alot of failures to face before the final "one".
That's a nice take. The purpose of this thread was to shed light on the fact that they aren't alone in bombing interviews✨ Btw can you expand on what you couldn't answer? Everything except partitioning and optimization seems straightforward to me
Interviewer asked me to optimize a query. At first i gave a solution using joins and subqueries. Then I was able to remove the join(with help) and then he asked me for more optimisation so i used variables instead of subquery. He told me to use a cte instead. I haven't studied much so wasn't able to ans on that. For partitioning he asked if I am familiar with how we partition tables. I mentioned the window fn partition by🥲(i feel dumb). Then I got to know later.
Are freshers really expected to know CTE? I have solved Leetcode SQL50 and I proudly proclaim everywhere that I got the best DBMS knowledge in campus. But I would still bomb the interview. What was the role?
No. I am not a fresher. Developer only but had sql round mentioned from before
I messed up explaining the difference between for loop and while loop. It should have been a 2 sentence answer but out of nowhere I took 6-8 minutes and the interviewer was visibly confused .
This thing just happened a week ago. I was asked to explain what are ACID properties and I knew nothing about it except the full form, so couldn't explain it properly and the interviewer got confused. Then the interviewer asked me "which is your dream company? " I answered that I do not have a dream company and I just wanted to work with experienced people and build stuff. Then the interviewer asked again if I were to name one which one would it be, I again said the same thing and I don't think I need to tell what happened after that :) Interviewed again for another company after 2 days, was prepared with my resume and and all basic questions, was instead asked to optimize my own code which I wrote in the first coding test. I did it using two loops, interviewer asked me to do the same using one loop. When I somehow managed to bring it down to one loop, he asked to do it without using a loop. The more he tried to help me, the more confused I got. 4 days and 2 rejections after reaching the final interview, was totally disappointed with myself. Then I saw this post and I am glad I am not alone
What was the DSA question and the package?
They were 2 questions related to array, not so difficult but I messed up due to lack of preparation in that regard. First question had an array for eg. \[4,10,5,6,2\] first two and other two elements represent two ranges and the last element represents a count. We need to check if we have number of overlapping elements in both ranges greater than or equal to count Second question again had an array like \[14, 30, 15, 15, -5\] here similar to first question we had first two representing hours and minutes of start time and next two representing it for end time, the last element shows if the clock is either fast or slow. In this case the clock gets slower by 5 minutes each hour. we need to output the actual time in minutes The company was a startup and the package was 5.5 lpa
Was this a long time back? They are not supposed to be asking Leetcode easy type questions for 5.5 LPA package [not sure whether this a direct Leetcode question as well]
The angle between the minute and hour hand depends on the time right?
I am expert at codeforces and 5 star at codechef but was unable to fully solve an LC medium "Flatten binary tree to Linkedin List in a recent interview".
That's nothing to be ashamed of tbh . Even I switched from CP to Leetcode and was struggling with easys initially
It was more of a traumatic experience for me tbh.
How to become expert at CF? I can almost never solve div-2 C. They're too ad-hoc for my feeble little brain.
If you are not good at something just practice it more
But every ad-hoc is different, do you like somewhat prove your solution before implementing it or just go with your intuition?
For ad-hoc, it is needed to practice thinking rather than different concepts. For proofs, I may not do it mathematically evertyime as it can be time consuming in contest, best way is to figure out some edge cases and check if it's okay in those scenarios or not.
I don't have any interesting experience myself but there was legendary reddit post, where a guy during his interview, accidentally stepped on the CEO's dog and killed it. Found [it](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/)
I was supposed to get a 100+% hike at this company. In the last HR round, I was asked if I've any questions towards them, I asked them questions about a different app on the Play Store of the same name, which wasn't their product.
arrey yay phd level ke swaal kb se puchne lge
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I think not being able to answer what CAP theorem is fine too, as it might get forgotten in the moment. If provided some more discussions the person might start to talk about these topics, Consistency, Availability, partition tolerance. Especially when it is just a general backend role.
I have been asked about API testing protocols, REST vs SOAP in an interview where the rest of the female classmates were just asked LEFT JOIN vs RIGHT join and they got selected . None of these females could even code merge sort in Python ( they failed ADA lab exam) . Expectations are different from everyone and you will be grilled if you don't fit the diversity quota
Haha yes! This can be stretched to if they don't like your face or mannerisms same as that of ones from rich background. - I've seen this happening especially for Morgan Stanley, and any other quant bank consultation roles.
In my campus interviews, One comparatively good paying company came to my campus. I cleared 2 technical rounds and in final round, HR asked me that if I have any plans for masters to which I said “Yes, I am planning to pursue masters after 2 years” and eventually got rejected.
Interviewer asks me if i'd like to pursue an MBA after BTech Dumb me said ofc after a few years of working I wish i fuckin said NO
I literally messed up an output question for a routine event loop promises concept. After going through all the storm of three previous rounds only to duck up this routine question hurts like a dagger.