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Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





i was told to post in this thread for interview/tech related stuff for jobs in the bay area..

been at my current company 6 years or so and they've kinda burned me on promotion so i feel like i'm well underpaid for other places. my plan is to interview at all the big companies even if i'm not planning to join them. experience is ~15 years with the last 10 or so in the bay area, initially doing startups. i have a compsci degree and understand the the general running times of all the basic sorting and searching algorithms. i'm pretty flexible about what i'm looking for. i've done "front-end" and some back-end all generally in javascript for the past ~10 years but i'm interested in anything as long as its not c++.

what is the scene like now vs 6 years ago for interviewing? generally i would get one phone call from the recruiter, then one call from an engineer asking me a tech question. assuming i past that question, there would be an onsite for a day anywhere from 3-6 people interview.. if they like you then they'd ask you to talk to a much higher-up person. i'm guessing that format is basically the same?

coding question wise... is it just memorizing l33tcode questions now? i've started looking through them and i've noticed that there's more questions i never saw ~6 years ago. for example, the alien dictionary question. can anyone knowledgeable discuss the differences interviewing now vs 6 years ago? graph related stuff is kinda a weakness so it looks like i'll have to review those. does anyone here pay for l33tcode or something similar?

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