How a non-CS graduate bagged 11 offers?
This is a summary of a talk with a person from non-cs background who cracked 11 interviews.
Let's start!
Q. How long have you been coding?
-> I started coding when I was in 9th std, and my first language was HTML.
-> I learn C and C++ during my pre-university period.
-> When I joined engineering, I learnt different languages from clubs.
Q. When you decided to focus on CS subjects alongside EEE subjects of your branch?
-> My grades were very low.
-> I was performing well in CS topics
-> I decided to focus more on CS topics.
Q. How did you learn coding?
-> Clubs (First 3 years I spent for web development)
-> I got to know that in interviews only DSA matters.
-> Only 6 months were remaining, I started watching YouTube videos of an IIT professor.
-> I was also having internships going on, I had to balance my time.
Q. During your interviews, what companies you got exposure of?
-> Oracle was the first company I joined, I worked for a year and then left because my learning rate was very slow.
Q. Could you keep solving DSA questions while working?
-> It was really difficult to manage two tasks
TIP:
- If you have plan to change company after working for some time, do not stop solving DSA questions.
- Interviewer ass questions based on what you have written in CV.
Q. Did you target a specific company or prepare for general interviews?
-> Initially, i used to prepare without keeping in mind a specific company, but later on i started preparing for specific companies.
Q. Which was your organization after oracle?
-> A Mumbai based startup. I joined as senior dev.
-> The beauty of startup is that, you learn a lot.
Q. How did you choose to join a startup and not a big company? What was your motive behind that?
-> I was looking from a long time to increase my learning rate and never stop learning.
-> Startup is something that helps me in achieving that.
Q. What was your main aim of joining hotstar?
-> When i joined hotstar, their main aim was to become independent of service based companies and
they wanted to handle their products themselves.
During that time there was a great need for more engineers.
Q. What do you look in an engineer if you were to hire someone?
-> I look mainly at the persons willingness to learn more and correct their mistakes.
-> A person who has this type of mindset learns faster than others
Q. How should a person prepare for interviews?
-> Build good communication skills.
-> System design & DSA.