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There is a certain person who will be joining the Civil services soon and I was reached out by this person clearly in an intimidation attempt to give out a small sum of money to their family member living in the same country as I. Clearly a misuse of power.

It is very confusing why someone is going so far for such a small sum and trying to get that out of me clearly illegally. As I understand it there was a ledger(app) between me and this person where on the app it shows I owed him X amount but I paid in person and never bothered to change it. Now my denial to paying it again is what has led to this. This person is pushing it far and my guess is he hopes that I will give in to pressure, just based off of his ledger app that I can’t access anymore.

Right now I’ve reported both contacts which have tried to contact me. Just to stop them from contacting me again because clearly this is ridiculous. I’ve also mailed the DoPT committee (UPSC) about this incoming civil servant, reporting his intimidation attempt.

The fact that this person has pushed this so far in an attempt to extort what would be a small sum of money from me is already insane and makes me wonder with his civil servant connection what other trouble could he bring me back in India?

My understanding is that we clearly dislike each other and I basically don’t even interact with this person anymore and as weird as it is, that might have been the motivation behind this, without elaborating further.

As far as I can tell, legally I don’t see how they can do anything at all but I’m just trying to cover my bases. One day you are living peacefully and another day this happens.

Hi folks, I recently went through a full loop at Amazon and wanted to give back since ya'll have been so helpful! Spolier alert : I got REJECTED

1.5 YOE SWE at a big manufacturer.

I'm based in APAC and I'm on a Visa here (NOT IND, NOT US/Canada or EU before someone comments)

Started with OA application:
Standard OA with 2 DSA problems and their work style simulation

- I ace'd it, ran through the DSA problems in like 15-20 minutes and the rest of the hour was spent crawling through workstyle simulation and trying to answer them with LP's in mind.

After a week's worth of wait I got invited to a phone interview

Phone Screen:

Interviewer was a relatively younger SDE II, there was a Shadow(lot more experienced) tagging along but didn't say anything throughout the round. Started off with an LP and deep dives, this lasted about 25-30 mins.

Problem : Schedule courses II
Breezed through this part, a very common problem. Explained TC and SC.
Now despite acing the DSA portion I felt a little stressed out and had to a use a bunch of my more promising stories for the LP part, I learnt my lessons here for what was to come.

After an anxious wait, I get a mail saying I passed the phone interview and recruiter wanted to schedule a preparation call with me before the Loop.

Recruiter just went over the process and just general LP's that they definitely need a junior to know but nothing specific.

HM + GenAI Round:
This person was the HM for the team I was interviewing for, started off with intro and then asked me to talk about a situations that includes me using AI at work. I think the answer I prepped was pretty good, he did do a few deep dives on it and but nothing that caught me off guard.

Then asked me a question that I don't quite remember now:
But essentially needed log(n) time lookups and log(n) time insertions, I was pretty fast with implementation here and once he was convinced, I just went over TC and SC in a bit more detail.
Now at this point we had at 20 minutes left and he told me since I was done so quickly he'd like to ask me some other questions but wouldn't need code for it - essentially we talked about concurrency for about the next 10 minutes and for the last 5-10 minutes I asked him a couple of questions.

Logical and maintainable code round:
This was right after the HM round (1 hr break in between)
A long tenure SDE II interviewed me. Started off with a couple of LP's, "Sacrificing short term gains for long term results" and another question I don't remember at this point.

Then started off with the design problem: It was one of those ecommerce problems, started with drawing out entities and then mainly focused on 2 specific methods for one of those entities(or class). Early on I struggled to get the optimal TC for both of them, and I let him know that I was thinking about this, at which point he goes "that's fine" as long as I can move on with the design.
So I stared with something that seemed brute force at first but achieved O(1) TC for one of the two methods, but the second being O(n). Once, I explained this to him, I thought I'd get time to optimize it but interviewer started asking me design problems, which were essentially about extensibility of my class design and how that would work. I wrote out clean code to explain how all of those cases would work. And then I again tried to tell him I'd like to think about optimizing it but he told me that was fine and that he had a good set of points already and that he'd just like for me to ask him any questions before we end it.

Overall for this day, I felt super confident about the HM and not so much for this LLD round simply because I could not workout the implementation for the other method optimally but instantly realized how I could potentially do it.

After this, it took about a week to get the Bar Raiser scheduled(different time-zone 16 hr difference).

Bar Raiser:
As soon as the round begins, BR tells me he's gone through my resume and told me I wrote a pretty clean resume. I was caught off guard by his compliment and this was like 6 in the morning. He tells me the round needs to end quick since he was out of time but that he's got great feedback from others and so he's not worried.

Asked two LP's:
"Tell me about a time you went out of your comfort zone"
"Tell me about a time curiosity helped you"

after I was done with this part he again goes on to compliment me and tells me those were great answers, I know that I prepped well for this but I was finding his words hard to believe in that moment since it all felt so overwhelmingly positive.

He tells me he is very inclined and that he hopes to see me again. Then took a couple of questions from me and wished me luck before he left.

Now this was followed on by a long wait time and certainly high hopes after that overwhelmingly positive last round with the BR. I thought I definitely had BR and HM in the bag and so it could be a positive outcome afterall.

After not receiving any feedback for 6 business days, I reached out on the 7th. Recruiter replied and told me they were moving on with someone else. Essentially it was someone native.
This is a country where there is negligible FAANG opportunity and so that really hurt, it felt like I was so close to making it out of the trenches, alas that won't be the case.
I'm joining a pretty large tech company(definitely a tier below FAANG) with a bitter mouth. It feels helpless and disappointing knowing opportunities like these are far and few but we move.

If you've read till here, how long is Amazon's cooldown?

I wish you all the best!

Hi leetcode community, I recently went through a full loop at Amazon and wanted to give back since ya'll have been so helpful! Spolier alert : I got REJECTED

1.5 YOE SWE at a big manufacturer.

I'm based in APAC and I'm on a Visa here (NOT US/Canada or EU or the large Asian country before someone comments)

Started with OA application:
Standard OA with 2 DSA problems and their work style simulation

- I ace'd it, ran through the DSA problems in like 15-20 minutes and the rest of the hour was spent crawling through workstyle simulation and trying to answer them with LP's in mind.

After a week's worth of wait I got invited to a phone interview

Phone Screen:

Interviewer was a relatively younger SDE II, there was a Shadow(lot more experienced) tagging along but didn't say anything throughout the round. Started off with an LP and deep dives, this lasted about 25-30 mins.

Problem : Schedule courses II
Breezed through this part, a very common problem. Explained TC and SC.
Now despite acing the DSA portion I felt a little stressed out and had to a use a bunch of my more promising stories for the LP part, I learnt my lessons here for what was to come.

After an anxious wait, I get a mail saying I passed the phone interview and recruiter wanted to schedule a preparation call with me before the Loop.

Recruiter just went over the process and just general LP's that they definitely need a junior to know but nothing specific.

HM + GenAI Round:
This person was the HM for the team I was interviewing for, started off with intro and then asked me to talk about a situations that includes me using AI at work. I think the answer I prepped was pretty good, he did do a few deep dives on it and but nothing that caught me off guard.

Then asked me a question that I don't quite remember now:
But essentially needed log(n) time lookups and log(n) time insertions, I was pretty fast with implementation here and once he was convinced, I just went over TC and SC in a bit more detail.
Now at this point we had at 20 minutes left and he told me since I was done so quickly he'd like to ask me some other questions but wouldn't need code for it - essentially we talked about concurrency for about the next 10 minutes and for the last 5-10 minutes I asked him a couple of questions.

Logical and maintainable code round:
This was right after the HM round (1 hr break in between)
A long tenure SDE II interviewed me. Started off with a couple of LP's, "Sacrificing short term gains for long term results" and another question I don't remember at this point.

Then started off with the design problem: It was one of those ecommerce problems, started with drawing out entities and then mainly focused on 2 specific methods for one of those entities(or class). Early on I struggled to get the optimal TC for both of them, and I let him know that I was thinking about this, at which point he goes "that's fine" as long as I can move on with the design.
So I stared with something that seemed brute force at first but achieved O(1) TC for one of the two methods, but the second being O(n). Once, I explained this to him, I thought I'd get time to optimize it but interviewer started asking me design problems, which were essentially about extensibility of my class design and how that would work. I wrote out clean code to explain how all of those cases would work. And then I again tried to tell him I'd like to think about optimizing it but he told me that was fine and that he had a good set of points already and that he'd just like for me to ask him any questions before we end it.

Overall for this day, I felt super confident about the HM and not so much for this LLD round simply because I could not workout the implementation for the other method optimally but instantly realized how I could potentially do it.

After this, it took about a week to get the Bar Raiser scheduled(different time-zone 16 hr difference).

Bar Raiser:
As soon as the round begins, BR tells me he's gone through my resume and told me I wrote a pretty clean resume. I was caught off guard by his compliment and this was like 6 in the morning. He tells me the round needs to end quick since he was out of time but that he's got great feedback from others and so he's not worried.

Asked two LP's:
"Tell me about a time you went out of your comfort zone"
"Tell me about a time curiosity helped you"

after I was done with this part he again goes on to compliment me and tells me those were great answers, I know that I prepped well for this but I was finding his words hard to believe in that moment since it all felt so overwhelmingly positive.

He tells me he is very inclined and that he hopes to see me again. Then took a couple of questions from me and wished me luck before he left.

Now this was followed on by a long wait time and certainly high hopes after that overwhelmingly positive last round with the BR. I thought I definitely had BR and HM in the bag and so it could be a positive outcome afterall.

After not receiving any feedback for 6 business days, I reached out on the 7th. Recruiter replied and told me they were moving on with someone else. Essentially it was someone native.
This is a country where there is negligible FAANG opportunity and so that really hurt, it felt like I was so close to making it out of the trenches, alas that won't be the case.
I'm joining a pretty large tech company(definitely a tier below FAANG) with a bitter mouth. It feels helpless and disappointing knowing opportunities like these are far and few but we move.

If you've read till here, how long is Amazon's cooldown?

I wish you all the best!

Hi leetcode community, I recently went through a full loop at Amazon and wanted to give back since ya'll have been so helpful! Spolier alert : I got REJECTED

1.5 YOE SWE at a big manufacturer.

I'm based in APAC and I'm on a Visa here (NOT US/Canada or EU or the large Asian country before someone comments)

Started with OA application:
Standard OA with 2 DSA problems and their work style simulation

- I ace'd it, ran through the DSA problems in like 15-20 minutes and the rest of the hour was spent crawling through workstyle simulation and trying to answer them with LP's in mind.

After a week's worth of wait I got invited to a phone interview

Phone Screen:

Interviewer was a relatively younger SDE II, there was a Shadow(lot more experienced) tagging along but didn't say anything throughout the round. Started off with an LP and deep dives, this lasted about 25-30 mins.

Problem : Schedule courses II
Breezed through this part, a very common problem. Explained TC and SC.
Now despite acing the DSA portion I felt a little stressed out and had to a use a bunch of my more promising stories for the LP part, I learnt my lessons here for what was to come.

After an anxious wait, I get a mail saying I passed the phone interview and recruiter wanted to schedule a preparation call with me before the Loop.

Recruiter just went over the process and just general LP's that they definitely need a junior to know but nothing specific.

HM + GenAI Round:
This person was the HM for the team I was interviewing for, started off with intro and then asked me to talk about a situations that includes me using AI at work. I think the answer I prepped was pretty good, he did do a few deep dives on it and but nothing that caught me off guard.

Then asked me a question that I don't quite remember now:
But essentially needed log(n) time lookups and log(n) time insertions, I was pretty fast with implementation here and once he was convinced, I just went over TC and SC in a bit more detail.
Now at this point we had at 20 minutes left and he told me since I was done so quickly he'd like to ask me some other questions but wouldn't need code for it - essentially we talked about concurrency for about the next 10 minutes and for the last 5-10 minutes I asked him a couple of questions.

Logical and maintainable code round:
This was right after the HM round (1 hr break in between)
A long tenure SDE II interviewed me. Started off with a couple of LP's, "Sacrificing short term gains for long term results" and another question I don't remember at this point.

Then started off with the design problem: It was one of those ecommerce problems, started with drawing out entities and then mainly focused on 2 specific methods for one of those entities(or class). Early on I struggled to get the optimal TC for both of them, and I let him know that I was thinking about this, at which point he goes "that's fine" as long as I can move on with the design.
So I stared with something that seemed brute force at first but achieved O(1) TC for one of the two methods, but the second being O(n). Once, I explained this to him, I thought I'd get time to optimize it but interviewer started asking me design problems, which were essentially about extensibility of my class design and how that would work. I wrote out clean code to explain how all of those cases would work. And then I again tried to tell him I'd like to think about optimizing it but he told me that was fine and that he had a good set of points already and that he'd just like for me to ask him any questions before we end it.

Overall for this day, I felt super confident about the HM and not so much for this LLD round simply because I could not workout the implementation for the other method optimally but instantly realized how I could potentially do it.

After this, it took about a week to get the Bar Raiser scheduled(different time-zone 16 hr difference).

Bar Raiser:
As soon as the round begins, BR tells me he's gone through my resume and told me I wrote a pretty clean resume. I was caught off guard by his compliment and this was like 6 in the morning. He tells me the round needs to end quick since he was out of time but that he's got great feedback from others and so he's not worried.

Asked two LP's:
"Tell me about a time you went out of your comfort zone"
"Tell me about a time curiosity helped you"

after I was done with this part he again goes on to compliment me and tells me those were great answers, I know that I prepped well for this but I was finding his words hard to believe in that moment since it all felt so overwhelmingly positive.

He tells me he is very inclined and that he hopes to see me again. Then took a couple of questions from me and wished me luck before he left.

Now this was followed on by a long wait time and certainly high hopes after that overwhelmingly positive last round with the BR. I thought I definitely had BR and HM in the bag and so it could be a positive outcome afterall.

After not receiving any feedback for 6 business days, I reached out on the 7th. Recruiter replied and told me they were moving on with someone else. Essentially it was someone native.
This is a country where there is negligible FAANG opportunity and so that really hurt, it felt like I was so close to making it out of the trenches, alas that won't be the case.
I'm joining a pretty large tech company(definitely a tier below FAANG) with a bitter mouth. It feels helpless and disappointing knowing opportunities like these are far and few but we move.

If you've read till here, how long is Amazon's cooldown?

I wish you all the best!

I will keep it brief, 正社員 at A, dispatched to B.
So actual work takes place onsite at B.

Let's call my supervisor Tanaka. I submitted my 退職届 today through mail -
I get a text from them (yes didn't reply to my email) saying I can't decide it without calling
and consulting with them. Tells me I can't leave development work midway(I have 0 development work right now?). I'm not sure what to make of this? Is he saying he has rejected my 退職届? In which case, what do I do? How do I proceed?

Had a phone screening yesterday.

With 30mins LP + 30mins Coding - A young SDE 2 interviewed me and a more experienced engineer was the shadow(didn’t say anything the whole time)

I breezed through the coding problem - knew the approach instantly after reading the problem - so mainly focused on explaining it well, interviewer seemed doubtful but was convinced after running a couple of test cases on it.

I struggled on the LP part, tried to ask Claude what it would rate me, it says a lean Hire for LP.

What are the chances I get an invite for the loop? I know it doesn’t matter realistically but I’m very anxious and kind of sad honestly. I’m hoping they let me go to the loop, I thought I had enough prep for the LP portion but they caught me off guard with a couple of deeper dives even though it was a project where I was a big part of its delivery.