It is so common to rag on big players but in this job search round alone I have had: - interviewer go off the script and ask a question predicated on sequential reads from ssd taking the same time as memory (they do not in fact and when I tried to reason with him he became a no-hire). He was supposed to ask a completely different type of question, and didnāt know the answer to the question he asked beyond a hack predicated on faulty premise. He also assumed that ordering with bash tools should not count toward algorithmic complexityā¦ like anything done outside my code is āfreeā. I have a friend on the inside the decision was 6 strong hire, 1 no hire - interviewer didnāt show up (from my perspective) recruiter then said that something went wrong with zoom. I provide new availability recruiter ghosts me for a week then I get a rejection (they didnāt hire anyone, the interviewer is pleading on LinkedIn for people to apply) - Python interview, an interviewer asks a relatively simple question but clearly does not know Python standard libs relevant to answering the question (heapq, collectionsā¦ nothing crazy) I can go onā¦ so I know the standard interviews suck but at least I have some idea of what I am evaluated against. Also most bigger companies have two people in each interview which could help, startups are a complete Wild West. If this is how the work gets ādoneā I may have dodged a bullet. Really unmotivated to go work for low salary in hopes that some day they make it big if they donāt even know what they are hiring for. And donāt get me wrong, I got rejected from plenty of big companies too, but almost always because the interviewer was actually better than me. Also I have gotten startup offers for both good and bad reasons and seen some good interview experience where I did not, but overall the quality of startup interviews are so much lower TC 315k (non Bay Area) YoE 10
The worst is when startups give you a "take-home" project that is really free labor in disguise. Just run.
Yea I had that too
Yeah leetcode is a bunch of bullshit but the FB and G interviews were by far the most enjoyable ones with supportive & collaborative interviewers who ask you reasonable-difficulty questions, comfortable with python, understand your code and algorithm quickly, etc.
OP have you interviewed with Apple?
No, it is the only FAANG I didnāt get to interview for yet :)