Riddhi Dutta

When I was waiting for my Amazon Interview Results , I got very anxious after having no updates for more than a week since my last interview.

I normally don't tell anyone including my parents , till I get a result , but my grandmother knew everything.

Seeing my restlessnes , she asked a random Amazon delivery boy , who came to deliver a parcel at our place , “Humhara ladka interview die apki company me. Results kab milegi?🥲🥲“

Grandparents , sometimes , can be so caring and soooo CUTE too.

Did you have any such fun/embarassing/anxious moment waiting for #interview results?
Comment down below.😛

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#amazon #softwareengineering #interviewpreparation

I barely managed 60% marks in my Board Exams. I failed JEEs twice , and got into a Tier 3 college in Kolkata (UEM Kolkata) , where we were the very first batch. Coming from state board , I couldn't understand coding , and used to feel lost , when I saw my classmates knowing 2-3 programming languages. As we were the very first batch , we had no seniors to guide us , nor there were too many online resources to help me , way back in 2015.

I got 6 pointers in my first semester , but thankfully that improved in the later semesters.
I never got any good internship opportunity , as people refused to give me referrals based on my college tag. I didn't knew where my life was heading towards.

In 2018 , in my final year of college , I got rejected by TCS , and in 2019 , I started working for a service based company , due to lack of good placement opportunities. I remember during placements, our college was not even eligible for Hack with Infy , a coding competition run by Infosys.

From there , I managed to work for Amazon , Salesforce and currently Google , and have cracked many other multiple offers from top tech companies , in the process.

Sharing my journey in this video , not to flex , but to motivate , inspire people , and also to spread awareness based on my experiences and learnings : https://lnkd.in/gHg8p686

#softwareengineer #tier3 #faang #google #amazon #motivation

This Valentine's week where everyone is busy finding their true love , here's a very interesting and a heartbreaking story of a man whom you had expected the least to play any part in this context.

Ratan Tata , ex-chairman of Tata Group did not marry in his lifetime , NOT because of the fact he was too dedicated to his work and was least interested to have a family.

Apparently , when he was 25 years old , he did fall in love with an American girl in Los Angeles and decided to tie the knot very soon.

However as fate would have it , Ratan tata's grandmother fell very ill and wanted him to come back to India. He had a very troubled childhood after his parents divorced at the age of 7 , and he found himself under his grandmother who took care of him.
He therefore wanted to be with her , when she breathed her last and asked his girlfriend to come along with him to India where they would eventually marry.

However , it was 1962 , the Indo-China war was at it's peak , and admist the unprecedented situation and chaos which ensued , the girl's parents advised against their daughter from going to India.

Their relationship soon fell apart due to long distance and in a series of events which followed , Ratan Tata came to know that her girl was married to a guy of her parents choice.

Ratan Tata had always maintained his ground of sticking to his words be it with his employees or customers , and he did it no different this time. He did not marry anyone else as he had given his word for marriage to his former girlfriend.

This promise day , let's take a moment to appreciate this man , full of dignity , integrity and humility.

Because be it relationship or business , all you need is TRUST to succeed.

#business #ratantata #promiseday #enterpreneurs

Top 5 Chrome Extensions , that would enhance your Leetcoding Experience.

1. LeetCode Video Solutions - This would be helpful for watching LeetCode video solutions on the problem page itself , available on Youtube , and hence saving you from the distraction of opening Youtube separately , coz the Youtube Home Page suggestions can sometimes be a bit diverting.

Link - https://lnkd.in/gHK_9U_M

2. LeetHub - With this extension, you can automatically integrate and push your Leetcode submissions to GitHub when you pass all tests on a Leetcode problem , and thus have all the solutions in one place.

Link - https://lnkd.in/gfSqM8yF

3. LeetCode Timer - Very helpful for tracking your time , which you need to solve this problem. A must have feature if you are preparing for coding interviews , and you don't have a lot of time to sit for contests.

Link - https://lnkd.in/gAfm3wnd

4. LeetCode “VS Code extension“ - If you are a VS Code fan , you would love this. You would be able to solve , LeetCode problems directly in VS Code

Link - https://lnkd.in/gmcPkSBG

5. Big Omega Extension - This is very helpful for giving you some of the Leetcode Premium features , like showing company tags of the problems. Thanks to Gourav Rusiya for suggesting this.

Link - https://lnkd.in/g63TGYVz

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Today I would be sharing a very honest anecdote about my first interview experience , NOT for a company , but for US Visa Process back in 2016.

The story starts in my second year of my college , when I , along with few of my batchmates worked on a research paper based on Image Processing and was invited to present it in a IEEE Conference in Columbia University , New York.

I went to the US Consulate on the day of the interview , with a little bit of anxiousness , as we had heard stories of rejections , though we were being told , business visas wouldn't be a great deal to get.

However the scenario turned out to exactly the opposite. As we stood in the queue , I saw my batchmates , and other people getting rejected one by one , and to top it all off , my friend and my research partner was not given the US visa and was asked to apply later.

I started feeling apprehensive , as I was pretty excited for this trip , like any other middle class Indian guy , who till then , haven't even been to an airport and stepped outside of his hometown.

Seeing the pandemonium , the guy in front of me got extremely nervous , and as he stepped in front of the counter , he couldn't communicate at all and as a result , was NOT granted the visa.

At the same time , my attention went to the other counter , where another guy , greeted the interviewer , tried his best to communicate with a smile , and MOST importantly stood up confident. His communication skills weren't great enough , with his English all over the place , but still he was able to make things clear to the interviewer somehow , and got the VISA.

Seeing these two parallel incidents unfold , I made up my mind to be confident and to be honest , and NOT go down without a fight(like the person in front of me) , even if things are NOT going in my favour.

And yes not only did I get the US VISA , but learnt a lesson for life which I applied during my campus interviews and even today.

It's okay if you can't speak english fluently , you just need to communicate. Remember , they are judging your skills , your authenticity and NOT your english fluency. We give up , because we feel , we are getting judged , because that's what society does to us all the time.

Also , no matter what , we shouldn't anticipate things , by having a negative mindset in the middle of an interview , even if things are not going well. We should ALWAYS fight till the end. In one of my DSA interviews , my brain was jammed , for the first 20-25 odd mins , with the interview going haywire , but then I gave my everything , eventually getting a hire call.

Keep grinding and trust your skills. And don't LOOK down upon yourself just because you can't speak English fluently.

“Have a great trip to the US“ is what my VISA interviewer said , and I had one , indeed.

This picture is a 19year old me posing in front of the Times Square New York.😜