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I recently went through the Databricks interview process and ended up getting an offer, so figured I'd write this up since I know there are a ton of questions about the process on here. I interviewed for a non-technical role, so obviously the exact loop is going to depend pretty…

Background going into this: 6 years of experience as a backend engineer, strong on distributed systems and Python, average on algorithms. I did not grind LeetCode for this one and it turned out that was the right call. Preparation Anthropic's interview structure does not reward L…

Landed an L4 SWE role at Meta earlier this year. Got pretty lucky with the timing and signed before the Feb 10 layoffs lol. 2.5 YOE | $350k TC $193k base / $29k bonus / $128k stock I’d been looking for a job for 9 months before this, so this was definitely not a quick/easy search…

I went through full interview loop at Google for L6 MLE position. This is how it went. I won’t be able to share the exact questions. Round1: ML system design, went well. Question was about designing a content moderation system. Feedback: Positive. Round2: ML system design, went v…

Wanted to share a recent experience interviewing for a Product Marketing Manager role at InMobi — partly to vent, partly so other PMMs can avoid walking into the same trap. The assignment they gave was for a “media buying product that enables automated buying across multiple chan…

I actually applied for another role in the company. It was a senior product manager role which was switched to just product manager. I decided to continue pursuing it. It was a payments role - an area I don't know much about. So I did a ton of interview research and spoke to peop…

I recently started as a data scientist at a fairly large tech company in Palo Alto, and figured I’d share the process since my background was pretty nontraditional. I was working as a financial analyst for the government, so I definitely didn't have the typical CS/ML background.…

Started my prep around October 2024 and I was consistent with the planning, efforts, applying and studying. It was painful but sweet. Applied mostly to backend/full stack roles in USA. Resources -  Coding \= Leetcode, Leetcode discuss section company specific, Leetcode explo…