u/Army_77_badboy

Corporate America is a cold place, but this one genuinely messed with my head.

About seven months ago, I vouched for someone to get into a lead role at my company. Since we had history, I trusted them to be my eyes and ears in upper management.

I was wrong.

Two weeks before my layoff right after we’d just let someone else go I specifically asked this person to give me a heads up if I was ever on the chopping block.

Then the day came. An unexpected invite appeared on my calendar, and I asked them directly: should I be preparing for this meeting?
“No, just a check-in.”

I’ve loss all levels of trust in management tbh.

I’m applying for roles and have been through different loops over the last few weeks. I want to say that this platform though simple is the cheat code to acing interviews now.

Most companies are doing a combination of pair programming, Leetcode easy problems, with or without ai and then drilling system design heavy.

It’s like you either know how to build systems or don’t and grinding HelloInterview has helped me get past those rounds.

I’ve been interviewing for startup ups and wanted to show examples of how I have scaled and built a system from scratch. I’ve been passed for at least two startups even though I laid out the trade offs along with how the system I built for the project evolved overtime.

At what scale does it make sense to use my personal project as an example. I know it probably gives weak signal that I didn’t give a corporate example but just want some thoughts.