r/cscareerquestions
A large community where people post real interview experiences, timelines, offers and rejections, which is the only reliable public source for what a process actually looks like right now. Read it for the data points and discount the mood.
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What it is good for
Ground truth on process. How long a company takes between stages, what the phone screen actually contained, whether an offer was negotiable, what the level maps to in practice. That information exists nowhere official and shows up here constantly.
How to read it carefully
Communities like this skew toward the extremes, because a smooth ordinary process rarely gets posted about and a disaster always does. Treat individual posts as anecdotes and look for repetition across many before concluding anything. The salary and timeline reports are more reliable than the sentiment around them.
The failure mode to avoid
Reading it instead of preparing. It is easy to spend an evening absorbing other people's anxiety and mistake that for progress.
Best for: calibrating expectations about a specific company or a current market, in limited doses.
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