Hah, Microsoft, now Google

Daily 455th day streak

Actually nice problem, I like "emulating scheduling tasks" problems with some sort of real-world entities.

However took me 10-20 mins to ACTUALLY understand and sort out everything that is going on including the rules

Has pattern.

https://leetcode.com/problems/process-tasks-using-servers/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-11-07

#daily #medium #pattern #recommend

In general, recently I saw quite some people are interviewing for big names: Google, Cisco, etc.

LET ME KNOW if you get offer, let's have some monthly-quarterly report of people who got offer, so other can praise and ask questions.

So sharing my stats

2021

AWS
- coding1 - failed
- coding2 - failed
- system design - extremely good
- behavior1 - okayish
- behavior2 - okayish

result: REJECT

Microsoft
- OOP coding - good
- leetcode - good
- system design - okayish
- behavioral - okayish

result: OFFER, level 60 (Jun)

2025

AWS
- didn't pass initial online assessment (bad runtime complexity)
result: REJECTED

Meta
- coding - good
- linux troubleshooting - okayish

result: REJECTED


Snowflake
- coding - okayish (was bug, but interviewer wasn't able to find either)
- system design - extremely good
- behavioral - good

result: OFFER SE II

Google
- coding1 - extremely good
- coding2 - complete failure, LIKE DISASTER
- coding3 - okayish
- behavioral - good

result: OFFER L3 (not acceptable ofc)

2026
😏😁 ......................

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around 30-50 other companies applications are either cv level rejection(90%) or recruiter level rejection or first tech screen rejection

You remember my global OS level vim motions set up, so that you don't have to use mouse or arrows and be giga chad navigating with hjkl, _, $, b, e, etc?


I'm editing video, hopefully today it will be out.

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