Just failed an onsite coding round last week. Interviewer asked if I seen the question before and told her yes so she changed to a different question i might have seen but forgot about it. I got the optimal solution but didnt finish the code. Whats the point of asking candidates if theyve seen it before when you only have 15 minutes to come up with the optimal soln and then code it bug free.. Question itself has so many edge cases tc 520
Meta's questions mostly come from leetcode. Everyone does leetcode. The interviewer themselves very likely got into Meta by leetcoding and solving the same problems in their interviews. Interviewers...don't be stupid enough to pick leetcode questions and ask candidates whether they solved them before. Some people are going to be honest about it, and some aren't. Don't be a lazy idiot and tighten up your interview game.
Yeah thats why im wondering why they bother telling the candidates to tell them if ive seen it
I think they gaslit themselves into believing their candidates have seriously never seen any of them before.
Interviewer asked me five questions I'd seen before then gave me some super hard version of the last one that I could even think of the first step to solving. If I ever interview there again I'm just keeping my mouth shut.
ok so the interviewer had 6 or perhaps a never-ending list of questions to ask from, until finding the 1st one the candidate hadn’t seen ? 🤣 After around 3 questions, you could ask them to find the 1st such question in optimal time instead of brute-force and then reject them for terrible time complexity 🤣
I don't even fucking know. It was fucking years ago when I was trying to get into a FANG for the first time. When I interview candidates myself I only have three questions, if someone knew all of them I'd have to extend them to scalability rather than come up with new ones. I can't remember if he had to look at his laptop or something for more problems but dude gave me the biggest wide eyed look when I kept saying I'd seen his question before. I thought I was so smart till I got one I couldn't even figure out how to start. I made literally zero progress the entire interview. Even with hints I had no idea what the hell to do. I was just trying not to cry by the end of it. I did ask him at the end how he would have approached it and he told me it was a variant of the last one he asked but with a sliding window. I had spent months preparing and never heard of a sliding window type of solution, so I was trying to apply his hints to other types of algorithms and problems I'd studied.
I have seen all the coding questions when I did meta interview last time. You get extra points for hard work and remembering the solution.
Never say you've seen the question
I’ve conducted a lot of coding interviews at meta. I don’t ever ask if they’ve seen the question before, but it’s very obvious when they have. I use that time to dive in deeper and see if they know what they are talking about or are just regurgitating the answer.
Sounds like you're interviewing correctly then
Its easy to notice if someone is just writing memorized solution or if they can explain the approach. Seeing a question before is not the same as memorizing right
The amount of questions people prepare now a days, I don't think its possible to just remember how to solve without knowing why to solve that way.
What was the question???!!!
Apparently they don’t want honest people working there, only the dishonest ones.
You dug your own grave, son
Nice guys finished last