FAANG interviews not going well
Hi all. I had a question regarding interviews at some of the big developer shops here in the Bay Area. I've interviewed in the last six months (final round) with Facebook, Amazon, Linked-In and Google. They all ended up declining for the exact same reason, I'm bad at doing algorithm puzzles on a whiteboard. It definitely didn't help that I went to a crappy college and have had to learn computer science pretty much solo. My situation is that I have about 12 years professional experience and I'm currently a team-lead / senior developer. I can definitely do the job, it's just hard to prove it when asked to write an algorithm to rotate a tree 90 degrees. I'm sitting there going "do you really write your own tree rotation implementations?" Or something else along the lines of "implement a regex parser using recursion". Am I basically screwed in ever having a chance to get in if I can't do the whole "just graduated with a CS degree" algorithm dance? I totally get it that it's the best way lately to measure the candidates IQ, it just seems to heavily favor new grads. I guess I can just keep hitting sites like leetcode and hackerrank. It just always seems somewhat random with so many types of problems to solve. Any advice?
You can learn algorithms or give up