Cracking google/FB interview
Any pointers for an experienced engineer cracking google interview. Looking for resources other than careercup/geeksforgeeks. I heard they focus on codechef problems..
#1 (Re-)Learn the concepts: "Cracking the Coding Interview" book by Gayle Laackmann McDowell #2 Practice, practice, practice: www.pramp.com #3 System Design: https://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/ #4 More System Design: https://youtu.be/-W9F__D3oY4 #5 More concepts: www.interviewcake.com Those 5 things helped me the most.
Be a white male from a top school, or a non white and/or non male from a non top school. Or solve, memorize, and rehearse 300 leetcode problems.
Is the "solve 300 problems to crack an interview" thing some sort of meme? I keep seeing that number casually thrown around, I'm not sure if people are serious.
Totally serious. The actual number is closer to 150 (for a 50% probability of success), but 300 is for close to 100% success. The problem is it could take you 10,000 hours to do such a thing if you are a novice, 1000 or so if you're skilled, 300 hours if you're an expert.
i guess you would have probably memorized as many problems as possible from the sources, this is not going to get you far. The fact that average people -- despite months of prep -- is because their foundation is poor and their understanding is flaky. Obviously, the ninja coders from g and fb are going to shoot avg. coders down by saying practice etc. They assume you have a strong base and all you need is a couple of months of prep which is not quite the case for plebs.
OP works at Microsoft. The bar there is way higher on average than Adobe. You still have to solve really hard problems to get into Microsoft and really hard problems to stay. It's not much different except the talent bar is probably higher on average there at Google than even Microsoft since so many people want to come there from top companies like Microsoft and Amazon already.
I agree the bar is higher but there is a lot of variance. And plus op is talking about Google/FB, MS/amzn engineers have to break a lot of sweat to get into Google or FB. All I am saying is asking questions like these -- a common trend being observed here in the last few weeks-- to the general populace aren't going to get you anywhere. You really need to find someone whom you think resonates with your capabilities and learn the secret sauce from him/her.
Join interview kickstart
I did not get benefit yet but class is good
Go back to school, apply as an intern, work hard, get ft offer
U mororn.... Juat because u work in google does not mean u r smart....just baseless answer. Google is new microsoft...old cisco.... People stay there just to get stock money ...become stagnant
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Apply to a company that asks relevant questions to the job you'll actually be performing instead.
And get paid nuts
Speak for yourself
@slippy / @google is product manger hiring process similar? Can anyone please share recent experience and guidance to some who would love to be part of google pm team especially in cloud ?
Yes they ask coding questions
I want to know too