Жан 2025

Когда-то мне пришел нелепый отказ от Гугла после технического интервью. Я написал очень длинный email (ниже), после которого рекрутер извинился, назначил несколько интервью и я получил оффер. А после я еще смог сильно поднять total compensation в несколько раундов переговоров :)

Спасибо людям которые научили быть настойчивым!

Hi X,

Hope you are well.

Could you please share the detailed feedback with me here for all sections (coding, communication, algorithms, and data structures)? I want to learn from mistakes to become better, but first I need to figure out what I did wrong during the interview.

During the interview, I came up with an efficient solution quite fast, however, the data structure which I used, Persistent Segment Tree, is quite uncommon and complex for people without a solid competitive programming background. I explained the idea of the solution and data structure with additional drawings, everything was clear for both of us. But, yesterday I heard negative feedback regarding the algorithms and data structure part. I was quite surprised because that part objectively was good. So, don’t get me wrong, but I think the interviewer wasn’t objective. If it’s possible, I want to request another interview with a different interviewer (if possible with a great competitive programming background like Petr Mitrichev).

To support my high competence in problem-solving and data structures I would like to attach these links for my profiles.

* I’m ranked number 1 in Kazakhstan and 370 around the world on Leetcode. Millions of people use Leetcode to prepare for coding interviews.
https://leetcode.com/rtmkz/
* I got a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. This is the most prestigious informatics olympiad in the world. The level of algorithms and data structures is extremely high compared to coding interview problems.
https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6857
* Top 1% on competitive programming platforms such as Codeforces and Hackerrank.
https://codeforces.com/profile/RockyB
https://www.hackerrank.com/RockyB

If it’s still not convincing, I can take any online coding assessment or anything you suggest.

Hope you understand. Big Thanks!

Sincerely,

Zhan Kurbanbayev

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Когда-то мне пришел нелепый отказ от Гугла после технического интервью. Я написал очень длинный email (ниже), после которого рекрутер извинился, назначил несколько интервью и я получил оффер. А после я еще смог сильно поднять total compensation в несколько раундов переговоров :)

Спасибо людям которые научили быть настойчивым!

Hi X,

Hope you are well.

Could you please share the detailed feedback with me here for all sections (coding, communication, algorithms, and data structures)? I want to learn from mistakes to become better, but first I need to figure out what I did wrong during the interview.

During the interview, I came up with an efficient solution quite fast, however, the data structure which I used, Persistent Segment Tree, is quite uncommon and complex for people without a solid competitive programming background. I explained the idea of the solution and data structure with additional drawings, everything was clear for both of us. But, yesterday I heard negative feedback regarding the algorithms and data structure part. I was quite surprised because that part objectively was good. So, don’t get me wrong, but I think the interviewer wasn’t objective. If it’s possible, I want to request another interview with a different interviewer (if possible with a great competitive programming background like Petr Mitrichev).

To support my high competence in problem-solving and data structures I would like to attach these links for my profiles.

* I’m ranked number 1 in Kazakhstan and 370 around the world on Leetcode. Millions of people use Leetcode to prepare for coding interviews.
https://leetcode.com/rtmkz/
* I got a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. This is the most prestigious informatics olympiad in the world. The level of algorithms and data structures is extremely high compared to coding interview problems.
https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6857
* Top 1% on competitive programming platforms such as Codeforces and Hackerrank.
https://codeforces.com/profile/RockyB
https://www.hackerrank.com/RockyB

If it’s still not convincing, I can take any online coding assessment or anything you suggest.

Hope you understand. Big Thanks!

Sincerely,

Zhan Kurbanbayev

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