Students, super high achievers / superstars, and people who are willing to "play the game" and re-study everything for 2 weeks or a month.

LMAO.2 weeks?

HA!

Currently a graduating student that goes to one of those top schools. Do you really wanna know how long many of my peers are studying for these interviews? Months!!!!! I have a few friends that spent all of last summer after their daily internships doing interview prep for fall recruiting season. I also have a cousin that spent 5-6 months unemployed(given he did a masters/bs in ee and not in cs but wanted to move into the field) doing interview prep and just landed offers from Google and Dropbox. The competition is absolutely ruthless.

this is a good point. Every successful interview I had was the result of about a month of study time.

I think the only way I could make it through an interview is by quitting my job and studying for a month!

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