I want to apply as a reng at Facebook. Any tips on how to prepare?
I’m an engineer in Seattle. Couldn’t afford college. Self taught. I’ve been working since about 2004. I work on large scale systems for user base in the tens of millions. Current salary is in the low 80ks. Single dad. Would love to get into a job that has a better pay structure but I don’t know what would be good to study/prepare for. Any tips?
Whats "reng"?
Rotational engineer. It’s a year long position like a tryout for those who don’t have a traditional education background but can code.
I know a few self-taught (no degree either) software engineers at Amazon, Uber, Tableau, and some startups. You have the skills and experience. It sounds like you need confidence and to pick up interviewing basics (Leetcode, System Design and basic CS terminology).
This. No one cares whether you went to college after a couple years of experience. Just leetcode.
Yeah. I’ll admit I have a huge case of imposter syndrome. I’ll research these things thank you for a clear answer with come concrete resources.
I don’t know if you’re set on Facebook, but I know someone in a similar situation to you who recently got a normal SDE job at Microsoft Redmond with ~200K TC.
My tech stack isn’t well suited for Microsoft unfortunately. The gist of my c# is mainly unity game development using their api. I’m far more comfortable with other web languages php. JavaScript redis vue angular. Things of that nature. It thanks for the tip. I’ll look and see what they have to offer and see if there’s anywhere I fit.
I understand. A lot of new software coming out of Redmond lately is written in JavaScript (well, TypeScript). The future is the web, and Microsoft develops a lot of SaaS for the web.
Teach yourself data structures and algorithm terminology. It’s not that hard compared to the everyday challenges I’m sure you face, but it will make all the difference. You gotta play the game.