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- Uber Sr PM interview process Hi - I have a call with a recruiter soon. Can somebody shed light on the PM interview process for Uber? Is it similar to FB? Somebody said that the first round is a jam session round. Is it standard across the board at Uber now ? Thanks!
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- Meta - M2 Hiring manger screen + Loop I have googled and made notes on ton of FB interview process & material. I'm slotted for a M2 level Hiring Manager screening in early March. That could lead to loop. I'm preparing with Leetcode medium & whole set of system design questions. Any good resources to study? Especially the coding & system
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- Data structures and algorithms practice Hello people! Does anyone wanna seriously practice Algorithm questions thro a session every week or so? It could be a Meetup or online as well. I'm in the Bay area. I just feel it's better to practice in a group to keep the energy and motivation up. I am targeting swe roles in Google and Fb. Have d
- facebook technical product interview dear colleagues, i might be invited to facebook for a Technical Product Manager interview. Could someone suggest on the topics? is there coding sessions involved? i came up with the following list: - System design - Behavioral - Coding (?) - Algorithms and data structures (?) - SDLC methodologie
- How far can I negotiate up an L4 offer at Facebook I have an L4 offer from FB that is 145 base and 260 RSU. It was my first interview of this session so I was pretty rusty and I guess it showed. I haven't negotiated it yet. But I just got a "senior" offer with 200 base and 525 RSU which I also haven't negotiated on. I would really rather work at FB
- Facebook Phone Interview Gone Wrong I had a phone interview with Facebook. The interviewer gave me two problems, that I solved optimally within 40 minutues. I asked good questions after the problem solving session and interviewer seemed to been enjoying the conversation and stayed past the interview time. I just received a NO without
- Desperate for Salvation from Abusive Manager at Facebook Hi Community at Blind, I'm at your mercy, please hear me out. Ever since entering Facebook, I've began having disturbingly negative thoughts because of the stress from work. I maintain my PSC, but my manager weaponizes any and all feedback from anyone about me and verbally abuses me in closed-doo
- link Facebook Engineering Manager - Interview need help Hello All, I have my first 45 min phone call with a SEM at Facebook in 2 weeks. Do they expect a shared webex coding session or will it be behavioral only? To clarify this is for Engineering Manager. I found a very good post that recap the onsite but couldn't find information about the first 45 mi
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- Data Engineer Phone Interview at Facebook I have a data engineer phone interview coming up at Facebook. Should I expect questions on Graphs, Trees, linked lists in the phone interview? Are the questions really tough in the phone interview? I will have two coding interview sessions 30 mins each for Python and SQL. Appreciate any insights o
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- System design for FANG senior positions Just got a rejection from Facebook after on-site. I have 10+ years of experience so can only be evaluated as E5 or above. I thought I did well during interview. Solved almost two coding questions on each of the three algorithm sessions (demonstrated my thought process as much as I can instead of jus
- Facebook London E6 preparation Hi, What should be the preparation strategy for this level in terms of system design, coding and behavioral breakdown? Planning to use leetcode FB tagged for coding and Grokking System Design (Advanced) + DDIA + well known papers as system desing refresher resources. First phone interview is not s
- Technical Program Manager Google/Facebook What's the role of Technical Program Manager at Google? Day to day activities? Does it get technical? Are you part of design sessions? Etc... Also can you convert from TPM to Engineering Manager? What's the TC vs SWE? How low is it? Also what's the interview difficulty vs SWE? Any insights and t
- link PM Interview with Facebook (Meta) - documenting my experience ---------------- Update 11 Done! This process is a marathon, not a sprint. Nearly 3 months for me, although I got COVID which added 2-3 weeks worth of delays. I feel like I did very well overall. Execution was my weakest in both rounds, although my second Execution I felt was stronger than my f
- Offering mock app critique & whiteboard prep (FAANG Designer) Hey there, I'm a product designer (L6) that has been offered roles at FAANG, have spent quite a bit of time preparing for all the interviews and have some time now before starting my new role. I would be more than happy to do app critique run-throughs, or whiteboard sessions for any practicing! Hi
- Facebook TPM Hey everyone, I recently got a message from facebook recruiter about TPM roles, I am product manager with a CS and software engineer background. I have been preparing for the product manager kind of questions ( product sense, design, excution) but I am totally clueless on what kind of questions sh
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- Mentor needed for preparing to apply Facebook as Front End Engineer Hello everyone, I am planning to apply to Facebook as a Front End Engineer, preferably as E5. I am looking for someone who can be my private mentor. My plan is to have weekly or biweekly 1 hour meetings at a location of your choice (I live in Sunnyvale and work at Santana Row) and go over my initi
- Facebook PM interview about Leadership & Influence ? Hi, currently I am interviewing with Facebook and already completed three of the five virtual ones (Program Management, Problem-Solving & Communication, and Partnership). That went good I'd say. Next interview session now is "Leadership & Influence". Recruiter told me that one will be about an amb
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- Facebook ML Engineer Onsite Hello folks, I was invited to Facebook ML Engineer onsite. (Location: Europe) The interview consists of two coding rounds, one behavioral, one ML design, one general system design. My questions: 1. Is this interview for E5 or E6? Folks say two design interviews are usually for E6, but hard to bel
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- FB onsite I have my FB onsite in a week for MLE, I feel like I’m average in everything, LC, ML and maybe even below average in system design. Already rescheduled so I’m gonna go through onsite anyways. What do you suggest to focus the most in this week? With LC my problem solving might be above average but c
- Should I switch back to engineer and join Facebook? Currently an engineer manager in charge of 2 teams in a smaller company, interviewed with Facebook last month and was offered a level 5 engineer position because I did well in those coding/design sessions but not so in their management sessions. I have not been coding in the past 1.5 years so not su