My Experience Doing 25+ Software Engineering Interviews

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

I hope that everyone looking for a new job finds one more easily this year 💪🏼🤓

[@Kaos.the.1st]

I'm a later in life SENG student at a Canadian University, and finding the search for internships to be really demoralizing and confidence-killing, but it's nice to hear that the struggle is universal to all skill/experience levels. Helps me to remind myself that it's not 100% on me.

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Yeah it's definitely a very widespread issue right now. The economy is so messed up and companies aren't hiring much and are really picky when they are. Keep working hard and practicing and it'll come in useful once the time is right :) you can also find smaller companies to do internships at (like if you have any local startups)

[@0bsy96]

Thanks for the tea! These kind of videos are really helpful for someone like me trying to land their first job in the industry. Subbed!

[@Aripoma]

this was very entertaining can’t wait for the follow up. i’m also looking for a job

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

thank you! I'm happy you liked it and I hope you find a great job too

[@1grace]

Congrats Maria on the new job 🎉and props to you for sharing your journey ❤

[@danielvalle9986]

I have 9 years of experience and got laid off last year. Have been Leetcoding and memorizing the textbook definitions of concepts from HTML tags to System Design for the last few months, no luck. Dev interviews are now a full on Squid Game, I'm considering moving away from the industry

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

I agree with you that it's like Squid Game right now and I wish you the best of luck. It may not be a bad move if you have other passions and want to explore those too. I don't even know how long this field will be around.

[@Degetaus]

This was really helpful, thanks for sharing!

[@reannachangoor]

Incredible video Maria! I love how open you are about your journey ❤

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

waw love you Reanna

[@reannachangoor]

@@maria_sitkovets_tech Haha nah you can never be too open 😉

[@Jonap2001]

Great video, I just finished my undergrad degree this job search is tough

[@abombfuenmayor]

Good video. Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@enilec.]

sad that I can relate to you right now on the “everyone around you got made redundant and teams keep restructuring” front 😅. Might need this advice in a few months when I hit your breaking point

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Ugh damn that really sucks :(

[@gellirollz]

Can you make a few video on 1.salary negotiations and what you did , said 2. A video on the courses and learning practices problems you did from infrastructure, system design , Leetcode 3. What project did you or do you have on your portfolio 4. Interview prep for technical and behavioral 5. What jobs did you apply for and why like dev ops, front end, full stack, back end, Thank you I’m going into

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Yeah! The next video I'm posting is basically all of those combined in one video so stay tuned for next week :) I just filmed it and will edit it this weekend. Since I've been working for a few years, I don't include projects on my resume anymore but I do have videos from when I was doing internship and new grad interviews and a video where I roasted my past resumes so you can check those out for more information about what projects I had. And for looking for a new job this time, I mostly applied for fullstack, backend, and infrastructure (production engineering/site reliability) jobs

[@JustinBishop]

great story telling!

[@KashfiFahim]

Props on the hustle

[@wilsonwang4702]

Amazing video Maria! Thanks for sharing 🎉

[@yashikajotwani1558]

This was such an amazing video to watch, thanks maria, please can you let us know what were you studing for the prep apart from leetcode stuff.

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

thank you! yes I will definitely include that in the advice video next week

[@This18_]

great vid!

[@KashfiFahim]

Loved the tea!

[@m137z]

Amazing video! I'm a new grad trying to find a job. What's your suggestion on how to succeed?

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

thank you! I'll have a bunch of advice for you in my next video but I also recommend watching some of my old interview videos too. I would suggest that you: 1. don't be so hard on yourself (because it's a tough market and you're still early in your career) 2. don't wait for some recruiter or company to pick you out of thousands of applicants, put yourself out there and message recruiters and hiring managers yourself 3. go to events and meet people! that's how I met 2 people who work at my current company and I was able to get more information from them about what it's like working there. You never know who you might meet at an event 4. delete social media and grind really hard XD

[@KashfiFahim]

2:30 Which System Design course did you take, would you recommend?

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Oh I did this one! www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview. It's annoying because this website changed their payment method to be subscription based instead of being able to buy a single course. So I did like 5 other courses on their website after buying the 1 year subscription. It's unfortunately hard nowadays to get good content for free (unless you share passwords/accounts with your friends -- which I highly recommend to save money). I also took notes from it and sent that notes page to my friends too. You can also use AI like chatgpt to help explain system design concepts

[@beepdotboop]

Sending data to India is AI... Actually Indian

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

just like the amazon go grocery stores

[@harpreetjanday1660]

maria the goat!

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

harp the bigger goat!!!

[@Zhilajoon]

Just discovered your channel and subscribed. Great video! fwiw I think you made the right choice by following your gut instead of going with a more well known name.

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Thank you for such a nice comment :D

[@QK_Engineer]

awesomee what was the other company that you didnt accept? the Infra role

[@hen56349]

hi what course did you use for system design

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

this one: www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

[@sumant2000]

Let's talk and have mock interview of each other

[@arianneghislainerull6418]

ur so strong and cool omggggg #slay

[@alex-cu1tz]

Lucky you. 60 applications, 1 interview 😢

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

Yeah I'm very lucky but like I explained in the video, many of these interviews were for smaller startups who reached out to me and not FAANG companies that I cold applied to. Keep going and applying and networking! I believe in you. It's really a numbers game with interviewing and it's especially hard right now so you're not alone in this

[@alex-cu1tz]

@maria_sitkovets_tech yes, it's very hard, at that moment also in Europe (I live there). I can't believe that just 3 years ago, with just 30 applications I got 5 interview and 3 of them where from companies in the US

[@alex-cu1tz]

@maria_sitkovets_tech yes, it's very hard, at that moment also in Europe (I live there). I can't believe that just 3 years ago, with just 30 applications I got 5 interviews and 3 of them where from companies in the US

[@anotheredenchibi5335]

Your first job interview question was Turbo tax brackets lol.

[@arianneghislainerull6418]

slay queeen

[@clefang7568]

Woman == frontend 🤡 oh boy

[@maria_sitkovets_tech]

yep when it happened over 3 times I was like hmmm seems a bit fishy

[@igorshingelevich7627]

Learn Russian. Come and work.

[@stig44]

It's easier to get a job as a woman, because team leads search for "diversity"

[@johnrgrillot9901]

Please do not take advice from this person !! A person will never be successful in this field using this approach. Sure some employers are looking for the "unicorn candidate" that's the smart thing to do. Stop looking for the "unicorn" job. When you get a job work your butt off, stay in the grunt positions, pay your dues and if you are talented, you will be rewarded.