这位F1同学在最差的2024年居然找到好几个大厂,供子坛批评

Giving back to community. I received 6+ SWE offers

 
 

A lot of ppl asked about the prep plan, so I decided to share the same and hope it helps someone :)

I received 6 SWE offers - Google, Meta, Amazon, Tiktok, Walmart, and Oracle. I joined Google recently

All these offers are either New Grad/1-2YOE roles.

Background

I’m an international student on an F1 visa, graduated from a top 30 school in the US in computer science. I had 1.3 YOE before MS. I received an offer from a startup in April’24, but the joining date is Jan’25, so I decided to shift gears and actively apply to top companies from April and received offers in Sep, Oct, and Nov 2024.

One thing that might have helped me get interview calls is that “I have Microsoft on my resume (I worked there after my undergrad)”

Rejections: I received many rejections for internships, new grads, and experienced roles(1-2YOE). TBH I just didn’t care when a company sent a rejection mail. I only cared when they sent an interview invite. Rejections can be for many reasons.

  1. The company hired someone else already.

  2. Fake job role - no hiring 

  3. Someone has already advanced to the final stages

  4. Luck - recruiters sometimes randomly pick resumes/applications that seems to be a good fit for the role, even thought ur profile is better than all of them. ‘coz lot of applications and they dont have time to check everyone.

  5. other reasons ...

My plan: 

Context: I used to do DSA during my undergrad, too, so I didn’t have to learn basics(like how a hashmap works….) stuff again. I regularly did Leetcode during all semesters in MS.

TLDR: Blind 75 -> Neetcode 150 -> Neetcode all

Don’t memoize solutions, try to think why a particular algo/ds works for a question and why it won’t work for another question. So, learn to develop intuition.

My goal here is to get a good grasp on all intuitive approaches for all probs. 

I visit “revisit list” frequently - every 2/3 days and try to solve 5/10 probs from that and remove the probs that I’m very confident.

Visiting the “revisit list” is an extra overhead to my prep plan

Everyday 6-8 hours of intense prep, excluding my personal time “watching shit on youtube, talking with family, friends, etc”

I literally didn’t go anywhere from May’24. I self doubted myself many times that my friends were visiting places, watching movies, and having fun, whereas me doing LC all the time and applying to companies. Still, I had a pinch of self-confidence on myself and my goal is to crack a good-paying company.

WEEK 1: 

Revise basics - Blind 75 probs - 

WEEK 2,3: 

Revise med probs - Neetcode 150 - most companies ask either these or questions that are very similar to these probs

If I don’t get intuition - proper working logic for a prob, I try to learn different approaches, check why I didn’t get the intuition, and add it to my revisit list. 

Week 5,6,7,8: Neetcode all

Week 8 onwards: Solve company-tagged questions Meta, Tiktok .. (even before I had interview calls). I did this just to have more confidence.

Note: My plan might be rigorous and doesn’t suit everyone, but I wanted to share my approach.

When an interview is scheduled:

  • I take a break from my current plan

  • Try to solve/get the approach right for tagged questions. If there are a lot, maybe check out recently asked top/tagged 200 questions.

  • Check recently asked questions in LC discussions.

  • Get approaches right on Neetcode 150 (to make sure that my basics are strong in all topics)

I hope this helped someone, and I wish everyone the best in their job search!

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这还要批评。。。倒是可以给子女教育不少启迪吧 -两女宝妈- 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:10:26

就看能写出这么多招工心得的 -保_膘- 给 保_膘 发送悄悄话 (93 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:13:13

重点是没想着“裸”得哈 -两女宝妈- 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:17:14

有志者,事竟成 -专业潜水妈- 给 专业潜水妈 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:13:38

英文很顺溜。 -Bailey4321- 给 Bailey4321 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:14:00

正常情况,小留就是拼刺刀 -米汤- 给 米汤 发送悄悄话 米汤 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:15:54

其实这原本也应该是小中的正常情况,奈何大环境让人都想着天上掉馅饼 -两女宝妈- 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:18:21

虽然是NG但他是有1年多工作经验的。比没经验的纯NG还是有些优势。当然他本人肯定也是非常积极努力的 -newca- 给 newca 发送悄悄话 newca 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:20:51

干猜,USC工学院的印度理工本科 -phobos- 给 phobos 发送悄悄话 phobos 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:22:00

没错,估计就是USC -洒家很二- 给 洒家很二 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:24:45

小印本科毕业在微软印度工作一年多来美国T30读硕,拿到几个大厂offer -洒家很二- 给 洒家很二 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:24:06

如果已经有微软工作经历再去读研,进大厂不是水到渠成? -岁月当静好- 给 岁月当静好 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:32:05

感觉不是的,我觉得主要是这个人的准备很充分 -两女宝妈- 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 01/20/2025 postreply 09:42:19

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