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All right.

Thanks for coming, Cyrus.

Do you want to say your name first?

Sure.

Uh, way.

All right.

Thank you for coming, Cyrus.

And, um yes.

So let's just have, like, a casual conversation because you know I'm not try hard anymore, so we can just say yes, your name.

What do you do?

And then just so that you could get some contacts.

Sure.

I'm sorry.

She I just recently joined uber Um, yes, I met on that job at Facebook.

We're on the same team in July, 2017 on.

And then I was there for about a year and 1/2 on Gwen through interview Prep cycle.

So nice.

So wait.

So what college did you go?

Toe?

I went to a small rewards college in Kentucky at about 40 100 students.

Got Centre College in 1400 suit as pretty 100 students.

Total weight, the total Totally like 54 years.

Four years?

That's crazy.

And what would his liberal arts college, if you don't know eso?

Basically, they try to emphasize like a general education.

So trying to, like, produce well rounded students.

Eso.

When I was there, I wrote a lot of papers.

I was really a philosophy major, so I switched to computer Science Junior year.

So it's a bit late.

CFC.

Okay, So the reason why I brought you here is because you have a very famous post on C s career questions right on Reddit.

So, yes, I'm gonna put that in the description, but can you kind of tell me like what that poses about?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So basically, I spent a lot of time reading the subreddit before I joined Facebook on, and I saw a lot of posts talking about people joining Facebook, Google, big tech companies.

And a lot of them had, you know, pretty impressive backgrounds from Stanford.

You know, you Waterloo, Stanford of Canada.

But, you know, I came from a smaller birds college.

I didn't really know anybody got any of those companies.

And so when I did, Evan should make it out there.

I thought I could give back and talk about how medo.

Okay, so you did have a C s degree, but it's from like a ship called Dr Pretty Much.

But then and then when you came out, you got what you got a job, but like, yeah, yes, I graduated the beating of 2015 and I joined, like a big financial company still in the south on then.

Then I joined a startup, And then throughout this time, I had been getting like interview calls for, like, Amazon myself, ghoul.

But I just didn't really focus on studying and didn't want to do well on.

Then finally, I got another call from Facebook and I decided that, you know, this is the moment you try hard.

Yes.

Want to try hard mode?

I went all in and I studied, like, 120 hours in, like, a month working for time.

Um, it's really grinded and just wrote a post about experience.

That's perfect, because I just quit my job, You know it.

But my audience doesn't know.

I just quit my job as a data scientist and now I want to go back into sweet, you know?

So I've already prepared and interview a lot, but I want to hear, like, your cheek holiday juice start like, OK, I don't know.

You have your full time job.

Still, you quit or no, you just study on the side.

Yeah, I think ideally, you don't quit because it's, you know, it's really risky, but it does depend.

I have a friend who successfully quit her job studying four.

Time on.

She was actually you know, Austin, North Carolina.

Um, made it out to s so called that way.

But so I think the benefit of quitting is that it's kind of like you get, like, forcing function.

You get that desperation.

But obviously it's a big gamble.

It doesn't work out.

You kind of screwed be Ideally, you keep your job and you study on the side.

So you said you're inside yesterday on the side book times.

So you just went back, Coleman and start studying.

Uh, yeah.

So not yeah, pretty much every day, I guess.

But basically, yeah, I came up with, like, a study plan and a schedule through about timeline on.

And then one thing s I just recently another post.

But one thing I talk about is that I think it really helps to have, like, a quantifiable goes Just because it's so easy.

Become frustrated in the beginning.

And it's hard to tell, like even making progress.

And so my goal is where to study, you know, like, 100 hours and do like 100 coding problems, including problems.

Okay.

And what did you use for these?

Quoting problems.

Yes, I mainly easily code So lee codes really trendy right now, but I think you get a premium for it.

Yeah, I think it's worth it.

Just the return investment, but yeah.

So I did a lot of the code I think is the most efficient way of studying.

So before Facebook, you diddly code.

I did?

Yeah, I did some for Did some for Facebook?

I did.

I think I did about, like, 76 problems.

Then this time around, I did like 100 30.

Hard mediums are easy, mostly mediums.

The medium is the best bang for your book.

Easy's, um you can strike with their love really fast, but you don't really like struggle that much, so you don't get experience.

And their hearts are like, you struggle too much because they don't cover as much ground.

Okay, but your job at Facebook was as a data engineer.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

What do you do now?

Eso now must offer engineer.

So actually, I guess similar to you.

I wanted to transfer back to being a software engineer by Yeah, I didn't really find a transition too hard, I think interviewing They mostly want to see if, like if if you can code and you can show that through the Cockney interview.

They already care.

Okay, so?

So they'd engineer.

They still ask you, like code stuff.

Like I'll go to them since.

Yeah.

Okay, So you did about 70 something questions.

And was that like, an overkill for Facebook?

Or was it?

Yeah.

So for Facebook, it was a little bit overkill, because that was the date engineering position.

But this time around, for, like, uber and Google, it was about the right amount.

So your goal was 100 hours, like total?

Don't know until you started interview.

Yes, I ended up doing about 120 but I think wafer before Facebook Not sorry.

Before Facebook, it was a remember, yes, our before video here before Facebook.

It was, I guess, like 100 to get over 120 or something like that.

Um, but yeah, I tracked my time.

Just because I feel like, um if you only track problems, then you're, like, incentivized to like, only too easy problems in a way.

Like subconsciously.

And they've only track time.

It's kind of like you, you incentivize be inefficient.

I spent a lot of time for problems like it doesn't really matter.