Is it only in recent years or are interviews becoming more and more harder and impossible to crack? I recently had an interview at a faang company and the kind questions that were asked were oddly specific and experience you gain if you work in their team. After the interview I looked for answers online and couldn't find anything specific. Are roles becoming more and more precise or I'm just not an experienced engineer? Edit: my earlier plan was to gain some experience at Intel before applying elsewhere. Now I've been laid off and I'm interviewing wherever I'm getting a call from. Yoe: 2 TC: 135k
For example?
Scenario based questions, I explained my answer from the knowledge and experience I had. But the interviewer was sighting issues in their team and how I can resolve. I can give generic answers but cannot provide the exact answer they are looking for because I don't have experience working on the specific problems in their team.
happened with me too. got an offer at the end anyway. they did mention that it is their current problem so they were looking for an answer from me so they can get an idea to unblock. it was hilarious and we all had a big laugh about it. I think the interviewer was not good in your case for having absurd ways to evaluate a future employee.
Depends on really what level of specific domain knowledge this role requires. If it’s just a generic role, then they are bad inexperienced interviewers. They will fail their own type of interviews else where. But some roles are truly specific, if you don’t have knowledge, avoid or start from low level. That said, I don’t find those specific roles pay more than SWE generalists, even less in many cases.
Can you please share the type of question?
Compared to tech interviews 10 years ago, todays are bonkers hard. And sadly, the questions rarely have anything to do with the kind of code you’ll actually write on a daily basis. It’s like having to tame hungry lions and the job is playing with kittens.
10 years ago was 50/50 LC easy/medium. Now Lc mediums are reclassified as easy and many hards are now considered mediums. And they ask only medium and hard with this higher standard
It’s a bullshit standard. How often do the questions they ask have ANYTHING to do with the code youI’ll actually write? 15-20 years ago, interviews were all practical application of the skills. Now, it’s the MAANG interview style cancer that everyone copies like lemmings.
Definitely not the case here. Questions that would be considered hard today would’ve been a warmup question in 2010.
Give us an example of a warm up question from 2010.
https://leetcode.com/problems/guess-number-higher-or-lower-ii/
Questions are there to test if you are a good candidate, not if you have the answer. So saying: I don't know because I would need more context regarding particular things... then I would approach the problem from this way... I imagine a solution may involve... Shows that you can think for yourself. Also that you think in a good way.
Obv you would showcase what expertise you do have along the way.
Your information is old This would be a reject these days
Ironically yes.. even though nowadays with the amount of technology.. it should be easy to find answers to.. on the job.. attitude is more important than experience.. but interviewers or companies wouldn't accept this easily.. in my view, individuals should be hired just after 1 or max 2 rounds.. and all these quantification of your achievements is taken to extreme in all the CVs.. utterly boring !
My first round question at Google was something I would consider leetcode super duper flooper hard . You needed to be a maths genius to solve it efficiently . Had to act like I was thinking something for 40 minutes hehe .
Lmao, did you pass?
God those moments where you draw a total blank are so embarrassing lol
How did you get an interview? Any tips on that? I'm in dire need of an interview with Google, I wanna face those hard problems
What's the dire need?
MUNIES
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