I am preparing for Facebook onsite thats gonna happen in next 2 weeks. I have been preparing for last 3 months and also was able to secure an amazon offer for SDE but I am scared and anxious to go for Facebook onsite. I notice that I tend to forget tricks of a problem in few days, really feeling dumb, I have to look at the problem and solution again to see what I did. Really feeling under-confident. The weird thing is I have done many hard problems on leetcode and when I do i totally understand it and code it well but when i see that again after few days I just suck at it. Is this normal, or I am really dumb and need few more months to prepare? Please help me boost my confidence. How should I deal with this anxiety. I desperately want to crack this interview.
It's not abnormal to be anxious before a big interview. A little bit anxiety actually helps in keeping you focused. The trick that has worked for me is to not think if I have solved this problem before or not. I start with looking at the problem and start breaking it into small meaningful functions as a stub. And once I have that ready I fill the methods in. Usually by the time I break the problem in small subproblem I realize that I have solved this problem before.
I was in the exact same situation awhile back. Got an offer from Amazon right before interviewing for FB. I tried to keep the mind set that Amazon is a very decent company. I will definitely learn a lot at such company. And with Amazon on my resume, my path to FB later on, if I decided so, would definitely be easier. So yeah, just come into the FB interview with a cool head and knowing that your other plan isn’t bad neither. At the end, I got the FB offer and I am gonna start there soon 😊 Good luck with your interview!
Do you mind telling what was your preparing steps? I’m preparing for FB. Nothing yet but I want to prepare before I reach out for ref
When you say you have done many hard problems, you mean you solved them on your own? If so, there is no reason to be worried, just display those problem solving skills when you interview.
No , not my own, i looked at the solution ,understood totally and then coded
How did it go? Any advice on preparation? I've mine in few weeks.
Get an offer from Google. When you do your Facebook onsite I promise you will be very confident.