FB PE onsite - bombed coding
Had my on-site with FB for a Production Engineering role. It went really well overall (4/5 rounds) but I bombed the coding interview (1 round). The interviewer asked a strange question (file manipulation) which is fine but basically just wanted me to write code without talking or explaining my algorithm. I think that flustered me and I wrote shit code. Do I have any chance? Should I mention the interviewers behavior to the recruiter? I thought this was going to be my easiest interview round actually.
I did bad with two rounds I think and still got offer. Your guess is as good as mine. Hope for the best.
How are the interviews ?
They are good overall. There's a lot of breadth but I think it is manageable. Everything was reasonable although I didn't have a great experience with the coding interviewer as I mentioned.
Hello Microsoft, 1. Was the coding question around - Open JSON or CSV files and read from them, then based on some logic, print items on screen? 2. Would easy on top facebook leetcode questions be enough prep ? 3. Is system design round based on whats there in grokking ?
Any chance you could give a breakdown of each round and the types of questions, not exact questions, just general types that were asked?
Coding: easy-medium leetcode. Make sure to review file IO library in your language of choice. Systems: know the kernel with a lot of breadth and a good amount of depth. I assume you may get asked Linux perf utility questions. I did in the phone screen but not in the on-site. May have coding (for ex design a specific or new system call) Networking: good high level of how networking works. How you would debug a network issue. Design: typical design questions.. think about scale and be quantitative. Behavioral: usual + why fb + why pe
Keep us in the loop if you hear anything.
Have a chat with recruiter today but I think it's just a follow-up to know how the interview went etc. He asked for it the day of the on-site so I doubt it's a rejection today but could be :)
Wishing you the best !
Good luck. Keep posted.
Still nothing from the recruiter.. he had emailed me saying that we'd speak on Wed but haven't heard from him since they day of the interview..
Atleast your guy is better than mine I haven’t heard a single work after the on-site last week
I wonder if that's a good or a bad thing? Lol
Recruiter said process on their end is proceeding and he mentioned that this is positive but said they still have a meeting coming up with the interview team in the next few days after which he'll call. Any thoughts as far as what this means?
Positive means it’s a good sign .
Recruiter is so unresponsive it's painful. Has been about 2 weeks. Ughh the frustration. I also have pending offers so don't know what to do. I've been email every 2 or so days without being excessively pushy but no response or anything. Are they just trying to evaluate as many candidates as possible in the interim? Only thing I can think of .. otherwise he could just reply and say still missing a few steps or I'll let you know in 10 days
If it’s 1/4 interviews that went bad , you might get called for an additional round of coding . Saw this with another guy who had a bad coding round