So, there were multiple questions about where did I go after Microsoft? As promised, revealing today, didn't want to spoil it, cause knowing my random health, flights luck etc - I might not be in Dublin today with working machine.

The company I joined is Snowflake in Dublin. I will then do some detailed articles, about interview process, offer from Google that I had to reject, and in general interview/market situation in 2025/2026

I can fuxking reverse engineer google, hack pentagon, but I am completely lost here.
What do I wash my stuff with..

I mean I can go military/dorms style, just washing with soap, as it was first 2 weeks in cz, but I DO have washing machine in hotel, and I really want to fully utilise 100 eur per night

Daily (150 day streak)

Today is amazing problem for binary tree. I remember seeing it on top100, top150 or 75 list. Go and do it, this is very rare case when you have good problem for daily in leetcode.

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-level-sum-of-a-binary-tree/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-06

#daily #medium

After eating got nausea and dizziness. Panicked because I dont know local doctors, hospital locations etc. Then it got better on its own. Then again peace in mind.

Anxiety + hypochondria + relocation + my health randomness is a killing mixture for me(

You know that first 1-2 weeks in big-mid corpos are mainly security/complience/d&i/privacy trainings. Not only they are boring as shit and typically there are nonsense questionnaires/quizes after, but also it is usually listening mode

This is the most “exciting” part. Hate it. Was like that in Epam, Microsoft, now here

Idk, for me, I literally cannot keep focus on audio content. I can only focus on visual content, like pdfs, presentations, etc. but paying full attention to some voice, no. I just cannot.

The problem with trainings that it is mostly voice content.

Today I was soooo bored that I have built a wall

So story about Czech Republic's delivery services or how I missed my Snowflake swag.

For those who does not know what ALWAYS happens in CZ when you order delivery to your home address. You are getting sms saying you to be at home in some datetime range, because courier will come to hand over the package.

LITERALLY FOR EVERYBODY I KNEW, it was like that: they were at home, monitoring phone for sms or call. And then after 1-2 days they were getting notification that courier didn't find you at home, so you gotta go to some ass of Prague on branch to take your package there.
That's why, what all Microsoft people are doing - they mention office address, and it always gets there, cause reception is 24/7. And that's what I did with swag, but it was so long that I resigned earlier than it was delivered.

That's why I'm coming to the Snowflake office with Microsoft bag.

Daily (151 day streak)

I guess this week is binary tree week. Amazing problem once again. Don't miss it, it is rare occasion for daily leetcode.

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-product-of-splitted-binary-tree/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-07

#daily #medium

Have to say, that public transport in CZ was really good. I am still not used to situation, when public transport and walking time are the same

Daily (152 day streak)

Nice dynamic programming problem. Not that hard tbh


https://leetcode.com/problems/max-dot-product-of-two-subsequences/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-08

#daily #hard

tbh, I would rate it as medium, very default, very straight forward if you know dp, and easy to build an intuition for that

Was on apartment viewing, and I guess I found a boss in this neighbourhood

Daily (153 day streak)

Amazing daily again, from one of the lists, so probably you have it solved (I had). But good to remind.

https://leetcode.com/problems/smallest-subtree-with-all-the-deepest-nodes/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-09

#daily #medium

So you can understand. At One of the viewings (apartment), there were 15 people at the same time. 3 chunks sequentially for review. 3 out of 6 guys along with me were ready to submit all documents right away at the place and sign everything.

I have talked to one guy - he told that he is searching for apartment for him and his wife for 3 months already. Crazy