Had a chat with one of the recruiters. They asked me prepare to solve at least 3 medium leetcode problems in 40 minutes. Is this realistic? Or will they look for approach and process of problem solving(even if 1 problem is solved) This is for E6. #engineering #software #facebook #coding #interview
It's pretty common for FB to ask 2 mediums per round. They asked 1 easy and 1 medium on the phone round for me. The interviewer also made me run the code and asked me to validate all edge cases for both questions.
If you seen a problem before it realistically takes 5 minutes to solve it, if you really would just walk through it quickly and code it down. If you haven’t seen it before it’s pretty much impossible to do 3 mediums in 40 minutes. That’s like 10 minute per question. The recruiter said in other words: study leetcode like a monkey and pass the interview.
I had an interview with bookface where one of the coding questions wasn't on LC and it was a problem that would take more than 40/45 minutes to solve.
Why does Facebook care about speed so much? Google’s emphasis on core algorithmic knowledge seems so much better.
Speed is the primary reason why their revenue growth has been so stellar at scale. I don't think they have traditionally cared about building the best engineering culture, and don't think that is going to change anytime soon.
Sigh - sounds like just grinding the FB tagged is the only way to go. I was actually kinda excited about solving a novel problem and working through it with an interviewer. Guess that’s more of a Google thing
It's real... Just do the FB tag problems and you can easily sort them out in minutes if you know the optimal solutions in advance.
Lol now we have to do 3. I’ll get into management or next time I have to interview, they will ask me to do 10
May be they said 3 to make me better ready for it.
Yeah means if you are solving 3 problem then you are fast enough to solve 2 problems in interview since in interview you do discussion dry run etc also
If I solved 4 in one round can I skip the next one
First, you don't have to "solve" the problem in the interview. You'll need to mug up FB leetcode tagged problem and spit it out in the interview. Second, they don't care about the thought process and approach. I mean, no one can explain their thought process when they have to solve two LC Medium/Hard in 35 mins. So, either you write the correct solutions or get rejected.
I think people on Blind over exaggerate how difficult FB interviews are. I had my on-site a couple weeks ago, got top of band offer, and I did not perfectly solve all questions in my interview. The nice thing about FB interviews is you cannot compile and run the code, so there’s tons of leeway for you to write not-perfect code and pass. I made sure to thoroughly explain how I planned to solve the problem step by step to my interviewers, and most of them gave subtle hints about the approach (e.g. yeah that’s perfect or can you solve it with better time complexity?)
It depends on the interviewer and the group.
No wonder FB wlb sucks. They hire robots and people complain they dont act human.
Lol this is dumb. 3 in 40 mins is possible if you’re good at leetcode tho. If they’re fb tagged and I’ve seen them before would be able to.
No recruiter..., just one of your friends pulling a prank on you
No. It was a recruiter.