This is for E3/New Grad. 3 coding interviews.
All should be solved optimally in a timely manner.
Hey mind if I ask when you got done with your phone screen?
Don't bomb any, but they don't have to be perfect. The interviewer wants to see how you approach the problem and improve your solution, not whether you know the answer immediately.
Perfect is an absolute. It’s either perfect or not, hence the interview must be perfect to be perfect.
I've been a hiring manager for eng at 3 companies similar in eng rigor to fb. Everyone needs to cut the bullshit. There a solution they want you to get to. Nobody gives a shit about your thought process. You either hit that solution in the alotted time or you fail. The only part where anything else matters is if you're on the fence
Incorrect. This is what people tell themselves after they fail the interview, so they can believe everyone who passed was just lucky.
What? As someone who's been on countless loops at different companies, the solve isn't vital. I mean, it's obviously really important, but not vital. Also, solving it exactly correctly with a specific solution— never necessary, if I found out an engineer was using that standard I would take them out of the interview loop.
You need to get all of them. Don't bomb any.