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Software Engineer @ Opendoor. Past co-founder of Tinker (S14).

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I was in a similar situation 3 years ago. Like other people said, I'd focus on growth-stage startups (Stripe, Checkr, Airbnb, Opendoor, etc). I found their interviews more practical and approachable than Facebook, Google, etc. Most of the places I interviewed had me writing and running real code on my own computer.

I spent about a month prepping with:

* Cracking the Coding Interview

* https://www.interviewcake.com: curated set of ~50 questions with excellent step-by-step hints that don't immediately spoil the whole problem. Well worth the $250 — I didn't do any Leetcode-style problems aside from these.

* https://interviewing.io: Real, anonymous phone screens. This was amazing for me because I hadn't done a technical interview in 4 years and going through a real interview with a real person is totally different than practice problems.

Companies in SF will cover your costs to interview and usually will give you a relocation bonus as well, so don't discount moving down here :)

Opendoor is on a tear to change the way people buy and sell homes. Since January, we've:

• Expanded services from 6 to 19 cities — on our way to 50 markets in 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Added 500 employees, with an expectation of reaching 1,000 by year-end as the company continues to support rapid market expansion

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs

Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE

Opendoor is on a tear to change the way people buy and sell homes. Since January, we've:

• Expanded services from 6 to 19 cities — on our way to 50 markets in 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Added 500 employees, with an expectation of reaching 1,000 by year-end as the company continues to support rapid market expansion

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me directly at trevor@opendoor.com

"You are given two eggs, and access to a 100-storey building. Both eggs are identical. The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that floor. If an egg is dropped and does not break, it is undamaged and can be dropped again. However, once an egg is broken, that’s it for that egg.

If an egg breaks when dropped from floor n, then it would also have broken from any floor above that. If an egg survives a fall, then it will survive any fall shorter than that.

The question is: What strategy should you adopt to minimize the number egg drops it takes to find the solution?. (And what is the worst case for the number of drops it will take?)"

http://datagenetics.com/blog/july22012/index.html

I would absolutely have paid for this with my last startup, especially if I could specify which blogs/reddits etc to pull content from. I had a manual process that involved checking 5 blogs and 2 subreddits every day to pick out the top 3-4 interesting posts to link to.

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This feels like a bizarre shift away from Facebook's core focus. It takes a very different kind of company to bring a consumer hardware device to market.