YOE : 8 years, masters degree in computer science
Current employer : Non FAANG
Leetcode prep : Easy 99, Medium 241, Hard 48

• Google L5 -- Reject (Expected)
  • Postive interview experience, except for the system design round, the guy who was doing system degin Interview was not listening to what I have to sat but watching his phone all the time, that lowered my confidence.
  • Not exactly Leetcode questions, but if you solve Leetcode questions, you would know how to approch the interview questions.
• Amazon L6 -- Reject (Unexpected)
  • I had postive experience, and postive that I will get hired, but turned out one of the interviewer did not like my performance.
  • All Leetcode questions, tagged under Amazon.
• Meta L5 -- Offer, downgraded to L4. (Unexpected downgrade)
  • Postive interview experience.
  • All Leetcode questions, tagged under Facebook.
  • Base 150k, RSU 165k, sign-on bonus 40k.
• Microsfot 63 -- Offer, upgraded to 64. (Accepted offer)
  • Postive interview experience.
  • Not a typical FAANG style interview, was given a code snippet and asked to identify issues in the code, assuming that there is multithreading involved.
  • 1 Medium LeetCode question.
  • Base 185k, RSU 200k, sign-on bonus 50k over two years.