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- Meta graphql change I know the graphql trick doesn't work anymore, but my Meta graphql thing just got updated with a couple lines added. One says "Global Immigration Form" INELIGIBLE. The other one says "Globalimmigrationform" Nodes: [ ] Does it mean anything? I am done with onsite couple weeks back. Waiting for a de
- Fb e6 onsite Hi folks I am setting up fb onsite for E6 Recruiter told me i can choose single node vs distributed systems for system design and it would not matter to them what I choose . I am not sure why not, since single node interviews have to be easier than distributed systems. Can someone from facebook p
- Best resources on coordination frameworks like Zookeeper ? Hi all, I am trying to find best resources online to learn how Zookeeper does failure detection in a cluster of nodes, leader election if master goes down, heart beating with all the nodes in a cluster and service discovery. I recently had an interview where the discussion was about how nodes in a
- Reverse Roasting We've enough hatred/trolling/criticism going on blind already. Let's start something good. Tell one genuinely nice thing about the previous posters comment. I will start. Since I'm the head node with null previous node, I will assume a virtual previous as 'Facebook'. Let's get things rolling. One
- Data Eng Tech Lead @FB Hi All, I have FB, Data Eng. Tech Lead Interview. HR mentioned there will be "Basic Coding (15 minutes - Python): You may also receive one or two basic coding questions. utilizing lists and handling basic algorithms (relationship graphs, loops, arrays). The relationships amongst a set of nodes is
- Facebook - Bootcamp - Programming Hi, I’ll be joining Facebook in July, and like everyone else, ll’ be going through the Bootcamp. Throughout my career I’ve been working with Java stack and bit of node. Any advice on brushing up any specific programming languages to make life a little easy during early days?? Cheers...
- Nosql vs sql Looking for some advice here. I am trying it really hard to understand what it take to use nosql vs SQL one. I went through few youTube videos and sys design book some are using nosql and some SQL..but no one seems to really provide (was not able to understand myself mostly) clarity around it othe
- Scaling write heavy systems. Scaling a read-heavy system is straightforward as we can add more read replicas. Write to the main node and read from replicas. How is a write heavy system scaled? Do we use some ingestion pipeline similar to ELK? I don’t see this explained in Grokking the system design interview, Designing Data
- Tree Question in Interview Can any one shed light on how to solve this tree question? I was asked during my Facebook phone interview. Given a tree, the algorithm should print node values in a certain order. ______________________ A _______________ /________________\ ________ B__________________________ C _____/_______\__
- Referrals Hey everyone , SWE with 1.5 YOE Backend with Go,Node and Csharp good c++ STL skills LC 200+ Was wondering if anyone is willing to give out referrals for the following companies: Paypal Slack TikTok Twilio Twitter Facebook Amazon Microsoft Slack Dropbox Please drop a comment so I can DM you in
- Stripe / OAuth I like to build a SaaS web app with Stripe / OAuth. OAuth is for users to login via Facebook or Google. I like to save time by not implementing these commonly developed features. Is there a good boilerplate web app on GitHub that provides that? Preferably with React and Node. Thank you...
- Referrals please. Thank you! Hi all, I'm looking for referrals to entry level or junior positions(front end/full stack)( react js, node js,MySQL) from any companies. YOE: 1.5 years (mostly internships) Please drop a comment so I can DM you my info. Thanks in advance! #swe #engineering #software #referral #hiring #jobhunt #te
- vote Why is PHP so hated? Stop the fake news: it is really great! Have been working with PHP for years. Still my favorite language to get anything done with quickly. Even for large scale web apps: PHP is still the best, have people tried node or other languages and how painful those are? Though I’m ok with what Meta has done with Hack, I would honestly prefer pla
- Seeking referral Trying to leave a toxic work environment. Looking for an opportunity for technical and team leas growth. Preferably hybrid, cool with remote/in office. Current TC: $117 2 years of experience all over the stack: - distributed systems (micro-front ends) - JS / TS / React / HTML / CSS - web accessib
- Most difficult interview questions you’ve been asked? Apple: minimum k shortest window strings in large string containing all characters Google: cat and mouse Facebook: trapping rain water 3d Airbnb: robot roomba question, can only move left or move rights Some no name startup: Reverse linked list nodes in k group All of these questions were on L
- vote 5 interviews, 5 offers I studied/did phone interviews over a span on 3 months. I took the last two weeks off work to focus on the last bit of prep I wanted to do + the on-sites themselves. My prep over those few months: 1. ~350 LC questions - ~80-90 easy, 200+ mediums, and ~50-60 hards. During the latter part of my prep
- Fb phone screen cool off So I had phone screen for fb few weeks back , I hadn’t taken the entire day off from Amazon and was feeling quite exhausted, in that situation I misread the question and rather that returning the node with min distance I returned the distance, algo used was optimal and code was clean , frankly the i
- Referrals Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. LC: 200+ InterviewBit: 250+ Dev Skills : (Node, React, PHP, C#) - Very well versed YOE: 2 months Tier 3: Got no chance to show my DSA skills when came out of college, settled for much less Will not let your referral down, pleas
- Looking for referrals for the following companies: Full-stack engineer / web dev w/ ~10 YOE, will need to be remote for the next year and a half or so. If the company will absolutely not accept FT remote for new employees, please let me know so I can cross them off my list. Am also interested in finance, and have done some market prediction / portfo
- Anyone have a FAANG company swap coding with something else? Happened a few times: Interviewed at FB Realty Labs a few years ago. I only had one coding interview (trapping rainwater and Read4), the other tech interview was a PhD from MIT asking me to do ray-triangle intersection and some other problem. Interviewed at Amazon, one coding interview (skyline pr
- link Design technologist looking for referrals I am a design technologist / UX engineer with good grasp on front end dev as well as UX design. I am proficient in React, React Native, and have decent knowledge of GraphQL, Node, TypeORM. Recently built an online service as a personal project : https://cryptomash.io Looking for referrals in FAANG
- Fresher looking for referral! Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. I am a 2021 graduate and have worked as an SDE intern at Amazon for six months. Skilled in: React, Spring, Node, JavaScript, C++, Java, AWS, Python, etc. YOE: 10 months (3 internships) LC: 300+ It would be great if you can refe
- How to get over the hump as a Front End Engineer I've been working with JS stacks for 3 years and love it but unfortunately I'm getting severely underpaid by working in aerospace doing what I'm passionate about. Im Looking for a Node, React, Redux shop in Seattle and have been prepping for a few months with ctci, leetcode and eloquent JS. I get hi
- Working on a project during summer Hey! Because my FB internship got cancelled and I couldn’t find anything else, I wanted to use my summer productively. I want to join some project where I could do the frontend work (ideally React). Maybe backend using Node. If the project is open source, I am willing to work for free. Just want to
- Is Coding test for L6 /L7 Engineering Managers? trying to prep for next and best mive for my career in FAANG L6/L7 software development manager roles. I am prepping system design interviews with lot if resouces on youtube and behavioral situational questions as STAR method. Would there be coding interview? do i need to prep leet code like things
- Given a software, how can you analyze its performance? This is a common question in interviews for hardware-software co-design roles. And in hardware performance roles. I've been listening to Brendan Gregg's talks but I don't have a clear cut answer yet. Primarily because his focus is on distributed systems. I'd like to address this question for a sing
- Hi Blinders! Can you provide Frontend/SWE referrals in UK, EU? Hi! Im currently at Salesforce with 3.5 YOE in one of the platform engineering teams. I want to move away from India for a while and work in UK, EU. Im in need for referrals for some good startups/FAANGish companies. I have done around ~100 probs on https://bigfrontend.dev/, ~100 probs on Leetcode a
- Went through Frontend Interviews recently, here are the kinda questions they ask. Edit: Some companies included a frontend architecture/system design round. No need to study backend/devopsy stuff except for like Rest API design. Dropbox, Square, Facebook, Pinterest, Twilio had frontend architecure rounds. Rivian: Screen was algo (backtracking) Pinterest: Screen was algo (looks
- Disagreeing with CtCI answers I've got the 5th edition and just went over the answer for this question: > How would you design the data structures for a very large social network like Facebook or LinkedIn? Describe how you would design an algorithm to show the connection, or path, between two people (e.g., Me -> Bob ->
- Why do I suck at the easiest LC problems in an interview? I’ve done serval phone screens and onsites and had success on the harder problems more often than what would typically be the simplest which has caused me to fail out of a few good job opportunities. This usually ends up happening when a company wants to do the FB approach of solve 2 problems fast.
- How challenging FAANG in Bay Area in terms of work? Hi Blinders, I am in TN right now making decent salary. I have 8 years of experience but I feel like most of the time I worked for very simple CRUD web apps with some or little business challenges. I am at this point where I want some challenging problems to work on. I do get emails from recruitors
- Ever had a really easy Facebook onsite ? Hi guys, Just like the title says - I recently had a Facebook onsite and it was quite easy and yet I got rejected (Not mad, I'm sure there are far better candidates than me) Anyways, I just wanted to retell my experience and someone might be able to point out, what I did wrong, despite of it being
- Weird Facebook product/system design question Interviewed with facebook a while ago and had a pretty weird experience. Was asked to design a type ahead suggestion for google search. It was a product design interview , not system design. Came up with a trie, computed via map reduce periodically over 1 hour(configurable), frontend implementatio
- link What exactly do you expect on System Design Interviews? (FB) I have a FB interview coming up, and I would like to hear ideas and thoughts on what exactly do you expect on System Design interviews? A little bit of background about me, I have more than 6 years of experience working on an Infra team (we handle queries in the magnitude of a few thousand QPS, def
- Interview Experience| FB E5 | G L5 | MS AS2 (62) | Seattle | May 2020 [Offers] ## Interview Experience (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) #### Profile: *YOE:* 4+, all at Amazon (Applied Scientist) *Education:* PhD in Machine Learning (ML) from a Top 20 CS school *Location:* Seattle *Current TC:* $270K *Interview dates:* Last two weeks of April *Facebook offer (MLE):* 205K/700K/100
- Meta E4 - Competition for E5 I have been in the industry for almost 12 years. I wear a lot of hats before joining PwC. But have always stayed close to coding. I mean during development phase, I spend 80% of time coding. Since, I didn't have a badge to prove that I can be an E5 or E6 (or may be based on the examples I used duri
- link Chipper Cash is hiring! We are growing fast here at Chipper Cash, and looking for exceptional teammates that can help us in our mission to provide financial services to the next billion folks in Africa. We're backed by some of the best VCs (recently raised a Series A) and have a talented team that's already scaled the pro
- link the world of coin change problems a very popular interview question in fb and others with many variations given a set of denominations (infinite supply) and total amount in cents 1.is it possible to make change 2. number of ways to make change 3. minimum number of coins to make change 4. ways to make change order does not matter 5
- link Giving back - how I cleared L6 System Design - Part 2 Part 3 is out: https://www.teamblind.com/post/qubF6fS2 This is part 2 of a series. Here is part 1 which has a long intro: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Giving-back---how-I-cleared-L6-System-Design---Part-1-4yufM3RY 0. Preface Let me touch on some points from Part 1 flood of comments: Is Nathan
- Home Network? Recently saw a late 90s home network diagram for a AWS VP. It was super cute... Got me thinking.. what’s your average FAANG home network look like? Here, dual WAN, weighted load balance through a pfsense VM. 1.4gbps from diverse providers. Stopped going to the office a few years ago, so made sense
- Should I interview without system design experience? tl;dr: I have 8 years of front end experience and know nothing about system design. I want to work at a FAANG. Should I cram system design or just apply now and see what happens? I'm a front-end leaning full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience contracting for a bunch of different startups and
- vote FB Phone screen chances Had my phone screen with FB today. After a 3-4min brief introduction he asked an LC medium Binary tree root to leaf path sum question. Slightly trickier variant than LC. https://leetcode.com/problems/sum-root-to-leaf-numbers/ There was some back and forth about definition of the question. I told I
- Interview tips for laid off engineers or those preparing for interviews Yesterday's layoffs at Uber, and other ongoing layoffs have many preparing for job interviews. For those Blinders who struggle a lot with algorithmic interview questions and/or are rusty on their coding skills, I'd like to share a few interview tips that have helped me interview at FANG++ comp
- vote A Facebook interviewer told me if I didn't get the maximum stock gain in O(n) time, I won't even go to onsite interview I went to a first round Facebook interview, and I requested to be on campus, since the phone can be unclear. *It was for a web front end dev role* So the interviewer asked me to solve the "Maximum Stock Gain" problem. Simply enough, given an array of stock prices, such as from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of
- Facebook interview chances? Interviewed for E4/E5 Coding 1: two questions Leetcode hard: took most of the time. ~25 minutes. Solve it nearly exactly how the most optimal solution was on leetcode Non-leetcode. I’d rate it easy to medium. Found it in the discussion section of leetcode. Answer presented was a binary search ty
- vote Facebook/Meta Virtual Onsite Review TLDR; Had 4 onsite interviews at Facebook. Felt really good about the coding rounds and answered 2+ questions for both of them while thoroughly going through inputs and outputs and walking through code to show it was correct. Behavior round we had a good genuine discussion (at least to me it felt th
- link 7 offers - List of common leetcode questions I used this list in my current job hunt to only do the important questions. Got 7 offers. Going to fb. It's a combination of few lists and my personal fav. Good luck! Array - Two Sum - https://leetcode.com/problems/two-sum/ - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock - https://leetcode.com/problems/best-ti
- link Facebook - MLE onsite Interview feedback/recommendation/rant I currently have 13 yoe in software and I am at a very senior role at my current company. (senior TL / ML / Architect). I lead a team of 10 people (Engineers, Data Scientists, and etc...). I was promoted recently to an Architect to lead multiple ML teams of the same size with more scope, responsibil
- vote Technical incompetence at Wayfair -- is there anything worse?? Is there anything worse than Wayfair at this scale in terms of sheer technical incompetence and poor engineering practices? Wayfair's codebase and infrastructure are stuck in a pathetic, sorry state. The PHP repo, the databases (which are all mirrors in some way), the vertical scaling -- it needs t
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks