- rejected from fb. quit engineering? just got rejected after onsite with facebook. I did all the coding with the optimal performance and the interviewers didnt really point out any major or minor issues. just evolved the question more. finished quick enough where both coding sessions i had 10 mins to ask question. behavioral i thought
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and industry lounge. - 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
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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
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- Amazon Sunnywale Interview feedback Hi everyone, just wanted to share some feedback on the Amazon Interview process. YOE: 7 Current TC: 330k I worked in a few startups and 2 large enterprise companies. Over the last 6 month have interviewed with Netflix, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Now let’s come to Amazon: - Completely unprofessio
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- 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 many been there done that, i.e. interviewed by FAANG and failed all? I never in my wildest dreams thought that I will get a Google on-site and as luck would have it, had it last year. Needless to say, read through everything, knew about hash tables, queue, stack, and what not. I couldn’t solve any of the coding problems, had a good design interview, just explained th
- Finished my FB onsite pretty bad I wanted to post my experience for Data Engineer position @ FB. First of all, the interview is pretty easy. But, unfortunately, I got the most intimidating interviewer ever I have seen in my interview experiences. Everyone posted their experiences as positive. I don't know why I felt the interviewer
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- Stalker from work My coworker/colleague turned out a stalker. It all started when he asked me for mentoring sessions. I was happy to help out. By the third or fourth session, he openly shared that he had a crush on me. I liked him as a friend, but no more and in all interactions behaved as such. We grabbed tea one ev
- How do you come up with stuff? Yeah, how do you come with stuff and get your inspiration? This is more a question directed to the veterans - not like the the average blind person "I just got out of college and I have an opinion" (like myself). Every company is trying to come up with the next technology innovation. My company ha
- Google 2nd try Last yr i was rejected after onsite, which was expedited w/o phone screen due to another offer. Recruiter girl didnt know nor care where workex fit well (yoe 15+) so just kept saying on the call that she was arranging "embedded sw loop" (i don't do embedded sw just sw that is used to translate chip
- Challenging mock interviews Hi I am looking for a mock interview partner. I am able to solve most LC hards. I am looking for someone who would like to practise Google/FB style mock interviews. By this I mean we would ask each other twists of well known problems. Also, just like in a real interview setting we would do multiple
- Do I have a chance of getting hired? Last year I interviewed onsite at Facebook, Apple, Twitch/Amazon, Netflix, YouTube/Google, Microsoft, and a some lower tier companies. I got offers from Apple, Microsoft, and a lower tier company. Accepted Microsoft, which I hate. To study I worked out of CTCI for a month or two. No Leetcode. Did
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- What to focus for interview prep for Fb/G in this case 20 yoe + MS (top 20 US) + BS (one of topmost intnl uni) Worked in SW (c++) tools used for chip design automation 2 yr ago began prepping for 1 yr off and on using LC, became p good. Solved ~300 1 yr ago, Rejected after onsite at Fb (for L5. Non-typical sys design, but was cited as reason for reject)
- 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 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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and industry lounge. - System Design Interviews : What do the interviewers look for ? I've been reading through Grokking the System Design Interview, System Design Primer for past couple of days but I'm still not sure how to approach the interviews(or rather, what the interviewer will be looking for) For e.g if the question is Design a video distribution system, there are so many as
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