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From stalking forums, it looks like a majority of the invites normally go out by the 20th of October, with some trickling in the last week of October. So at this point almost everyone who is getting an invite should have one.

I received an invite on 16th. they started rolling them out on 10th itself

Congrats! Good luck in the interview

Received an invite yesterday. All the best to anyone who’s still waiting to hear back

Hi! Can you please update the decision tracker here: decision-tracker/index.html Thanks a lot

Got an interview invite this morning!

For everybody who got an interview I just want to make sure that you understand format, you basically need to do a fairly long soliloquy on your life story, it’s a bit of a monologue at first and it’s something that you need to work at - you don’t want to repeat your resume - you want to really connect the dots talk about your motivations for doing certain things, key learnings - the story behind the resume dots.