Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me: "Employed, ideally"
Ambitious, I know. Manifesting a signed offer and one (1) uninterrupted lunch break.
Correct answer honestly. Five-year plans died with stable employment.
Ambitious, I know. Manifesting a signed offer and one (1) uninterrupted lunch break.
Correct answer honestly. Five-year plans died with stable employment.
Every quarter, another "difficult decision". The survivors are not lucky, they are exhausted and doing three jobs. Quietly hunting now. "Do more with less" has a floor and we are through it.
Survivor guilt + tripled workload is its own layoff, just slower. Get out while you can choose.
Five stages spread across three weeks. Online assessment (2 DSA), then a live DSA round, then machine coding (design an order-notification service, they grade OO design and edge cases hard), then system design, then a managerial + HR chat. The machine coding round is the real…
The "cases you were not told about" line is exactly it. Write the edge cases down before you code.
Found out when my emails started bouncing. My whole loop just fell into a void because one person left and no handoff happened. Always ask "who is my backup contact" early.
Applied to something posted 30+ days ago. Reposted, or genuinely still hunting, or already-hired-and-forgot-to-close? Trying to figure out where to spend my limited energy.
Higher fixed, but they dropped the variable, the meal card, and the WFH allowance, and the commute added an hour each way. On paper a raise, in reality break-even at best. Compare total packages and your actual life, not just the CTC headline.
You've reached the Mariana Trench. That's everything for now.