u/RevolutionaryStrider

Spent a month interviewing with Teradata.

Cp level OA

4 interview rounds, hours of prep, and I genuinely thought I was interviewing for an AI Engineer role.

Only after the final round was I told it isn't actually an AI Engineer position. Manager apparently trickily named the role title as AI engineer yet the actual work will be backend so that the manager gets funding for the role.

I'm still looking. I've got 3 years of software engineering experience at Amazon and I'm targeting backend, AI, and AI infrastructure roles.

I'm currently unemployed, with a 1.5+ year gap so if your company is hiring and you can refer me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Ex-FAANG here, laid off about a year ago. (3 yoe)

After several months I got an Apple coding interview. The interviewer asked me to design and implement an LFU Cache with TTL.

At first I honestly struggled to fully understand the requirements. LFU by itself is already a pretty involved design problem, and layering TTL on top made it exponentially harder to reason through all the edge cases.

I spent a long time thinking through the approach while the interviewer patiently waited. When I finally started coding, I kept running into logic issues. He gave hints, walked through examples, and gently nudged me in the right direction, but I couldn’t put the pieces together. Every time I fixed one thing, another problem popped up.

The entire hour felt like I was digging myself deeper into a hole.

When the interview ended, I already knew it was not going well. I walked away thinking, “Yeah, that’s probably a rejection.

This has been a case for me in previous interviews also.

Anyone here could point me right directions (other than leetcode) to ace these interviews ? and help me with referral if possible