Status: May 2020 Graduate, BS CS at a Catholic University.
Position: Software Engineer at Dell
Location: Philadelphia , PA
Date: April 2021

LeetCode count : 335.
Currently work at a tech company.

Applied on their career site and recruiter reached out to me. Interview process took about two weeks. Afterwards i received an offer.

Recruiter phone call (30 minutes):

• Recruiter to learn more about me and why I am looking to leave my current company
• Casual conversation
• Did not ask for salary requirements nor anything. Just wanted to make sure i am in the Philadelphia location.
• Scheduled my technical phone screen

Technical phone screen (1 hour):

• 1 hour interview with the team's tech lead

• Behavioral questions, super cool guy.

• Algorithm question - verbal

• Java OOP questions

Onsite (3 rounds):

Technical (1 hour):

• Interviewed with 2 engineers, talked with the tech lead again. Super cool guy.
• System design, design spotify.
• Verbal algoirthm
• OOP Java
• All 3 of us felt the vibe and it was pretty casual

Technical (1 hour):

• Aglorithm on word document. Simple algorithms
• Some database question about modeling.
• SQL questions
• Java questions

Manager Round(1hour):

• Talked about the team and culture, chill guy.

Result: Offer.

The worst experience I've ever had with HR. Took awhile for a written offer. I asked to speak to the tech lead to learn more because I was hesistant of the position. The recruiter was in our zoom call, listening to our conversation. It made me uncomfortable because the tech lead was talking about salary.

Recruiter encouraged me to provide documents that were NDA so they can match RSU and other compenstation. I told him that I cannot send him documents because the paper says "NDA".

He gave me a verbal offer of 90k + 30k sign on bonus. I was pretty satisfied with that consiering i'd lose my RSU from my current company. I told him to send the contract over. When i read the contract, the final offer came out to be 90k + 3k sign on. I followed up with him and he told me to get my ears checked. Super rude to me from the very beginning. Dell has been quite unpleasant to work with.

The lead and the manager were cool people. The other engineers seemed pretty dead inside. The interview process was on the easier side compared to other FAANG. They seemed like they wanted me more than i wanted them.

I ended up rejecting the offer.