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“A pretty interesting stat we dug up is I compared the rate of agreement between interviewers at companies with a data set of users reviewing movies online, right? And the numbers were actually, were basically, and the integrator agreement was equivalent.”

“One thing, one number we have that's interesting is that the engineers who do the best At companies go on to pass, ah, about 80% of their interviews, but not a hundred. No, almost no one passes more than 80% of their interviews at companies.”

“A surprising percentage of a new question ends up being Slightly obscured applications of sort of those, especially sort of, you know, hash tables and breadth first search. Those two things by themselves represent probably 40% of the questions that are asked b…”

“Hard application, you know, sort of practical application of a computer science topic represents The significant majority of questions at big companies.”

“The reason it's the right decision is that most engineers don't have side projects. Most engineers have been, have, you know, been working at a company, and it's all proprietary code, and there's very little they can show. That's, you know, eight out of 10 eng…”

“Big companies don't care at all where you're based. They have, they fly people in, you know, by the hundreds every week.”

“Very few companies, especially only, generally only smaller ones, are like directly evaluating flashy new tech.”

“Facebook, for example, has started providing a sort of an interview prep class to everyone who applies so that they're sort of going over the material.”