How I landed a job at Twitter as a software engineer

This is the story of how I landed a job at Twitter as a full-time software engineer, what I went through, how I prepared and why I finally decided to join the team. This story is also cross-posted on my personal blog, where I share my journey of how to be a better software engineer.

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Click-clack-click-clack. The sound of my furiously smashing the keys on my keyboard reverberated through the night.

I looked up from the screen of my laptop and casted my glanced towards a clock on the wall of my basement apartment that I rent for $600 a month.

It was 2 in the morning.

Now you might think that I’m writing a piece of software for a startup, like a typical hacker.

I wasn’t.

I was preparing for my upcoming technical coding interview using a website called leetcode.com.

Fury took over me because I couldn’t reverse a linked list, which was rated Easy on the platform (try it here).

How I got here

A recruiter from Twitter had reached out to me asking if I would like to schedule an initial phone screen with one of their engineers.