The other day I got a PDF with prep materials for Facebook interview. It's a few pages of pure insanity, e.g. "In your tech screen, you’ll be asked to solve one or two problems in under 35 minutes. Practice coding solutions to medium and hard problems in less than 15 minutes each to help you be ready for the constraints during the
interview.", "If your tech screen is in person, you'll use a whiteboard"
Who can solve a "medium to hard" problem in 15 minutes, on a whiteboard, under stress, twice in a row? Who are they looking for? Leetcode psychos?
It's known for quite some years that this interview approach produces _those_. By induction, those who have FAANG lines in their resumes are, unfortunately, suspicious for this reason alone. All else being equal, non-FAANG person would get preference on the interview, and seeing somebody applying to FAANG causes both frowns and sighs. One should be really desperate for that these days.
Which system design books does it suggest reading? Last time I interviewed I did poorly on the system design interview because it was all about a scalable web app while my experience is mostly in smallish devices.
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The other day I got a PDF with prep materials for Facebook interview. It's a few pages of pure insanity, e.g. "In your tech screen, you’ll be asked to solve one or two problems in under 35 minutes. Practice coding solutions to medium and hard problems in less than 15 minutes each to help you be ready for the constraints during the interview.", "If your tech screen is in person, you'll use a whiteboard"
Who can solve a "medium to hard" problem in 15 minutes, on a whiteboard, under stress, twice in a row? Who are they looking for? Leetcode psychos?
Yes :) .
It's known for quite some years that this interview approach produces _those_. By induction, those who have FAANG lines in their resumes are, unfortunately, suspicious for this reason alone. All else being equal, non-FAANG person would get preference on the interview, and seeing somebody applying to FAANG causes both frowns and sighs. One should be really desperate for that these days.
:(
Haha this needs to be said with Zuck's poker face and without a smiley, just "Yes".
Which system design books does it suggest reading? Last time I interviewed I did poorly on the system design interview because it was all about a scalable web app while my experience is mostly in smallish devices.
A literal online course called Grokking the system design interview.
Tell-tale signs of a company basically ruled by cognitive dissonance.
And you have 3 coding rounds, so it's 6 problems.
Even the slightest problem solving one of those will be a sureshot ding.