Overhyped Lifelong Hackathon
Overhyped Lifelong Hackathon
Good pay, if you negotiate aggressively.
Good food.
Good benefits.
Location is good; California is a nice place to live, although expensive.
Lots of exposure.
Management is constantly pushing you. You don't work at your own pace; you have to work at everyone else's pace.
You need to stay after work every day and go to work on weekends.
People are very egocentric, and their ego is entirely tied to how much code they write.
I'm afraid of getting fired every single day.
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I was asked two LeetCode questions. One was a medium-level tree problem, and the other was a hard-level graph problem. I needed to find the best solutions. My initial answers did not have the optimal Big O, so they asked me to think again and find th
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I had a few interviews. The interviewers were not very helpful when I was stuck on a question. They also seemed a bit judgmental. Overall, it was not the best experience I have had interviewing for a software engineering role.
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Interviewer was nice and easygoing. Didn’t make me feel bad for not knowing anything. Let me take a phone call from my mom midway. Shared their diet coke when I asked for it.
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Palo Alto, California, United StatesAugust 6, 2025I was asked two LeetCode questions. One was a medium-level tree problem, and the other was a hard-level graph problem. I needed to find the best solutions. My initial answers did not have the optimal Big O, so they asked me to think again and find th
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Palo Alto, California, United StatesMarch 2, 2025I had a few interviews. The interviewers were not very helpful when I was stuck on a question. They also seemed a bit judgmental. Overall, it was not the best experience I have had interviewing for a software engineering role.
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Palo Alto, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2024Interviewer was nice and easygoing. Didn’t make me feel bad for not knowing anything. Let me take a phone call from my mom midway. Shared their diet coke when I asked for it.
