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atDeloitte · rejected

Not even enough time to open the resume. Somewhere an ATS filter is very confident about me based on a keyword I did not put in bold. The machine said no before a human said hello.

atRazorpay · accepted

Bigger brand offered ~10% more. Took the one where the manager talked about growth and actually asked what I wanted. Six months in, no regrets. You join a manager as much as a company.

When the interview prep starts colonizing your sleep, something is off. Cutting to a fixed two problems a day and actually stopping. Quality over the guilt-driven grind.

Nothing says spontaneous joy like a calendar invite with a mandatory RSVP and a sign-in sheet. Forced fun is just a meeting wearing a party hat.

Half the internet says it signals desperation, the other half says it triples recruiter reach. I have data for exactly zero of these claims. What actually happened for you?

atUber

One product company, one bank, both "SDE-2 equivalent" in Bangalore. The spread was enormous. There is no "market rate", there is what you can anchor and what they can pay. Talk to peers, the only cheat code is sharing numbers with each other.

atOracle · ghosted

The interviews themselves were fine, standard DSA + a design chat. Then "we need to align internally on the level" and I never heard back. Aligning on levels apparently takes forever and sometimes never ends.

If it is a weekend project, say weekend project. The "2 hours" fiction just filters for people who lie about how long things take, which is a weird thing to select for.

atAtlassian

The disaster interview was free training for the one that counted. Every faceplant taught me the exact question I would get again. Bomb forward.