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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 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…

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 graduated with a CS degree in 2019 and worked as a software engineer for 2 years before transitioning to PM at a mid-sized tech company. Been doing PM work for 3 years now, mostly in B2B SaaS. Applied to Google in December, got the offer last week. Total process took about 2.5…

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.…

I got laid off from Meta and then a few other companies. I finally hit kind of rock bottom after working for a disastrously failing startup and had to part ways. I spent 2 months heavily focused on Linkedin, applying to jobs, trying to reach out to people I know. The one thing th…

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…

I recently went through the Databricks interview process and ended up getting an offer, so figured I'd share what I learned. I interviewed for a non-technical role, so obviously the exact loop is going to depend pretty heavily on the position. From what I experienced, though, the…