Interview Kick start - Anyone tried?

[meri_zindagi]

2 minutes ago, Faang said:

Amazon okate contact avthey saripodhu kadha so wondering if these fellas with do anything to setup interviews or atleast have any referral programs to help any person who has never worked in faang b4. 

They do.. I meant Amazon recruiters. Most of the times manager also contacts directly for his team.

[Android_Halwa]

7 minutes ago, Faang said:

Do they also help in getting interviews with their connections? Lekapothe waste 

Nah...they won't help you in getting any interviews..

[meri_zindagi]

9 minutes ago, meri_zindagi said:

Donno think it’s worth it.. DB lo someone posted sometime back.. i have saved it.. will check and post

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

If you answer YES to above questions you are already in a good place to start...if you answered NO to above questions, you're still fine (I was in the same position last year)

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode(https://leetcode.com/). Leetcode is the most popular platform used by people interviewing for top tech companies. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Most of the interview problems come from these topics: trees and graphs(BFS,DFS), arrays, strings, recursion, binary search, linked lists, backtracking

so make sure, you work on these before you jump on to advanced topics like Dynamic programming

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round(s) if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful.

You can start with system design primer: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with leetcode premium subscription https://leetcode.com/subscribe/) and free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

 

Additional tips and resources:

1. for general questions & answers about tech interviews, referrals, tech life, etc from FAANG employees (https://www.rooftopslushie.com/, https://www.teamblind.com/)

2. You can pay for referrals or get your resume reviewed or ask questions (starting from $5, but $15-20 is a reasonable starting point) here: https://www.rooftopslushie.com/

3. For long-term DS& algo prep (this book is available in three versions: C++, Java, Python) especially for Google: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Insiders-Guide/dp/1479274836

This book has preparation plans ranging from a weekend to 4 months. This is the best possible resource with great problems and explanations

4. Boot-camp style resources: https://interviewcamp.io/(cheap and effective), https://www.interviewcake.com/ (cheap and effective), https://www.interviewkickstart.com/(expensive),  https://www.outco.io/

5. For Salary info check: https://www.levels.fyi/, https://www.teamblind.com/salaryComparison

6. For referrals, Linkedin Premium is very useful. If you are trying for Google, you can search for 'google hiring', 'google recruiter',etc and then send messages to recruiters/hiring managers (whose linkedin intro mentions that they are hiring) in the search results. You can find a lot of resources online on what to send in the intro message. This approach is mostly a numbers game. So message as many people as you can.
 

[Faang]

1 minute ago, meri_zindagi said:

They do.. I meant Amazon recruiters. Most of the times manager also contacts directly for his team.

Hummm

[Faang]

1 minute ago, Android_Halwa said:

Nah...they won't help you in getting any interviews..

Expected. 

[hunkyfunky2]

9 minutes ago, Faang said:

Expected. 

There is another website to get referrals... Google for it...

[Faang]

11 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

There is another website to get referrals... Google for it...

Yupp but just curious to find out if these guys were doing it too

[hunkyfunky2]

5 minutes ago, Faang said:

Yupp but just curious to find out if these guys were doing it too

They also do and they keep a database of previous group who got in....

[Raazu]

Proj mgr and Proj lead positions ki how to prepare? Any help

[Faang]

34 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

They also do and they keep a database of previous group who got in....

Ane cheptharu but teera program lo join ayyaka maata marusthara ani lite teskuna .. 

[Faang]

5 minutes ago, Raazu said:

Proj mgr and Proj lead positions ki how to prepare? Any help

Search in blind bro with keywords 

[areyentiraidhi]

1 hour ago, Android_Halwa said:

They are good. Again, they will try to help you and sharpen your personal skills only and tips to crack interviews.

Initially $7000 antadu...cohorts fill ayipotunayi, seats levu..repu poddugala kanipiyu, malla poi ra antadu kani its the tactic they use to create an impression that you are losing out...

I know a  guy who was quoted $6k and ended up paying only $3k. So, gattiga beram adu...niku call chesi burra tinadi desi gaade so siggu sheram lekunda beram adu

 

[Raazu]

1 minute ago, Faang said:

Search in blind bro with keywords 

Link pls

[jaathiratnalu]

54 minutes ago, Raazu said:

Link pls

Nee.. XXX meeda pette focus .. Technical discussion lo kuda pettu

Blind app install chesuko

leet code - discussion page chudu

[Faang]

59 minutes ago, Raazu said:

Link pls

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Project-not-Product-Manager-role-in-FAANG-LCpuUgyP
 

Neeku em kavalo a specific keywords tho search chala info untadhi .. sign up with ur work email and start interacting .. good info + @jaathiratnalu cheppinatlu leetcode discussions also