Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
by majormajor on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:21PM
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I would love to know how long the average FANG dev spent on leetcode practice before their interviews. From my small sample of friends who've done stints there, it's far less than "months". I similarly have had - but declined - an offer from one of them with prep measured in "hours" not "days."
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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
by smilekzs on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:04PM
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Survivor bias alert: These people have all passed the interviews.
I wonder if this is an intended side-effect, namely also filtering out people who would have passed if only they did rote memorization instead of actually mastering the CS fundamentals.
Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
by Ocerge on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:38PM
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I probably spent a month and a half studying most days for it (including reading my old data structures and algorithms books). It's the first time in my career I actually tried to prepare for a LC-style interview, and tbh it really wasn't bad. I also had a good experience and am still in the position, so YMMV.