Software engineer interview bootcamps

Mid-Level Software Engineer at Taro Community4 months ago

Interviewing

Layoffs

Discussion

(5 comments)

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Jonathan C
•Employee @ Robinhood
4 months ago
Honestly if you're paying for Taro, trying leveraging the community first. There's events for interview prep fairly often & it's not hard to find someone else in Taro to pair up with.
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  Trisha
  •Backend SWE
  4 months ago
  “& it’s not hard” could we please remove that from our vocabulary when giving advice?
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Trisha
•Backend SWE
4 months ago
As someone who did a coding bootcamp, I thought about doing an interview prep bootcamp but I knew ultimately I just needed to put in the hours studying and I wasn’t sure if the structure from the interview prep bootcamp would actually help me focus and study

Below is what worked for me: Watching videos on neetcode pro to understand DSA Hello interview DSA to understand leetcode patterns and practice leetcode problems Having interviews on my calendar which pressured me to prepare for them. I also used leetcode premium’s company specific interview questions lists
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Rahul Pandey
•Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
4 months ago
The Meta brand is very powerful, I would test the job market and try some self-studying first.

With that said, bootcamps can be great for accountability and structure. Especially if you have a very specific job profile in mind, a bootcamp could help if they seem well connected in a specific area.

A good discussion on the value of bootcamps: Coding bootcamp or 4 year Computer Science degree?

And a comparison of Formation vs IK: Interview Kickstart or formation.dev?
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Alex Chiou
•Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
4 months ago
Sorry to hear about the lay off 😓. Meta is a brutal place to be right now.

I would try the self-study route first. Since you're ex-Meta with good experience (almost 5 years), you'll have a far easier time with interviews than most.

Engineer time (especially that of top engineers who can genuinely help you with interviews) is expensive. All the decent bootcamps will set you back around ~$5,000 minimum.

The main value of these bootcamps isn't the tactical advice from my experience (that's already online, especially on Taro), it's the accountability. If you need help having a consistent routine and maintaining motivation, these bootcamps provide you a fellow human to enforce that.