Multithreading in FAANG interviews
How important is multithreading for FAANG senior developer interviews? Does it come up at all? Especially if I claim python as my first language.
It’s very important if you are talking to recruiters from FAANG at the same time
That’s the idea. I don’t want all the threads to throw exceptions at the same time. ☹️
Faang interview = leetcode medium / hard. There is rarely any use of low level threading constructs.. But you should be proficient in talking about parallel programming, immutable data structures, functional approaches to parallelism or actor systems or something similar for design rounds.
Can anyone confirm? This sounds weird.
I welcome other inputs. But I solved around 300 lc before finally getting into Google. Didn't use threads once. Not saying that parallel programming is not useful.. Just saying that threads are generally abstracted away. If your algo for a leetcode type problem depends on state and locking, then you are probably doing it wrong. Rather use something like java stream.parallel or Scala parallel transformations on immutable ds or numpy in python. Again, this is applicable for interview type questions only.
I interviewed at a non-FANG company. The interviewer wrote out a bunch of multithreaded code and asked questions about it, and how to refactor it. Completely threw me off because I came to the onsite to regurgitate memorized leetcode solutions and not display any of my actual technical skill lmao
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That's rare. If they want you to deal with threads, then they are probably dealing with legacy code. There's no direct interaction with threading in spark or tensorflow or scikit, or micro services world. I would rather throw another container in the cluster than deal with debugging threads.
Linkeind, Niche trading shops(Jane street ) asks. In Google system design conversations can resolve around issues with concurrent access (serialization, locking, mutability). So ensure your fundamentals about multithreading, essentially concurrent programming is clear. Dont worry too much on language specific constructs.
In an interview at citadel securities it came up. Interviewer didn’t care much about what language just wanted a concurrent solution in c++, java, or python.
It's been a couple of years so I don't remember the exact question, but the first question in my Google on-site was about multi threading. So I guess it depends on the interviewer.
Dropbox asks multithreading questions.
FAANG won't ask about this unless you list it on your resume and one of your interviewers wants to know if you're full of shit. We MapReduce instead of multithreading. Unless you are interviewing for a very specialized position where it's obviously relevant. But not for general SWE
Multi threading is an interview topic one would need to brush up on for a Dropbox interview, as I’ve been told.
There is always “RACE” condition in FAANG !