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OpenAI: $900k Total Compensation for Senior Engineers!

OpenAI salaries are highly competitive and also offer a special kind of stock grant, known as PPUs.

Nov 16, 2023

OpenAI: $900k Total Compensation for Senior Engineers!

Nov 16, 2023

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Check if Word Can Be Placed In Crossword (Matrix Rotation Trick strikes again)!

Here’s a fun one: https://leetcode.com/problems/check-if-word-can-be-placed-in-crossword/description/

Jun 29

Jun 29

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A Beginner’s Guide to Binary Exponentiation

Inspired by https://leetcode.com/problems/powx-n/description/, solutions in Python.

Nov 19, 2023

Nov 19, 2023

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Uber Staff SWE Onsite Technical Coding Question ($660k average salary)

Uber’s compensation is excellent at the staff level (Uber calls it “5b”), averaging around $660,000 (~$240,000 base, ~$400,000 stock and…

Oct 14, 2023

Uber Staff SWE Onsite Technical Coding Question ($660k average salary)

Oct 14, 2023

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Rating Leetcode Editorials: Leetcode #433 Minimum Genetic Mutation

I just solved this Leetcode Medium question, Minimum Genetic Mutation (for fun, on a Thursday night, as one does). Let’s see how good the…

Sep 14, 2023

Rating Leetcode Editorials: Leetcode #433 Minimum Genetic Mutation

Sep 14, 2023

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Can you solve this Binary Tree ZigZag question from Amazon, Uber, and Apple?

Here’s the question (link from Leetcode #1372):

Jul 14, 2023

Can you solve this Binary Tree ZigZag question from Amazon, Uber, and Apple?

Jul 14, 2023

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Navigating the Debugging Interview: Insights from Stripe and Retool

Stripe and Retool both have a debugging interview — Stripe asks it in the onsite, while Retool uses it as a first-round interview. I…

Jul 13, 2023

Navigating the Debugging Interview: Insights from Stripe and Retool

Jul 13, 2023

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Solving the famous “water jug” problem from Die Hard 3 with code and math

The water and jug problem from Die Hard 3 can be solved with a graph algorithm or a bit of math.

May 28, 2023

Solving the famous “water jug” problem from Die Hard 3 with code and math

May 28, 2023

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How the Recruiter Helped me Secure an Extra $50k in Salary — A guide to the HR screen for software…

Most people think the recruiter phone screen is the easiest part of the software engineer interview process (”It’s just talking to HR and…

May 17, 2023

How the Recruiter Helped me Secure an Extra $50k in Salary — A guide to the HR screen for software…

May 17, 2023

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Six reasons why you got rejected after acing the coding question

Confused why you got rejected in the software engineering interview phone screen despite finishing the question? Here are some reasons why.

May 17, 2023

Six reasons why you got rejected after acing the coding question

May 17, 2023

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Software engineer interview and career tips. https://santal.tech has my interview experiences with Square, Datadog, Retool, Two Sigma, and more. Thanks!

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