Hi everyone, Can anyone please give me some advise on Facebook technical phone interview on Backend Software Engineer ? Thank you very much!
They overlap. I would target this list though since the “top fb “ list might not be updated regularly.
Read the question thoroughly. When the interview started I heard the question and immediately thought of the Leetcode equivalent, not realizing it was different. Similar but not the same so I started solving the wrong problem. It was a really dumb mistake on my part. Also I got stuck at one point and to avoid dead air, I was just throwing things at the wall and writing code snippets. Before long I had a lot of snippets of code, that was closing in on the solution but no structure. No function definition, no driving method. And just as I finally sorta figured out the solution time ran out and I was left with about 15 lines of code snippets with no test cases or structure. While I haven't heard back as of yet, I'm pretty sure I know how this story ends. I'd recommend doing some mock phone interviews first so you get some practice at it.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your perspective ! Not long back (when my friends joined Fb) they said FB used to ask Leetcode verbatim.. guess now Fb has changed a but, but then it depends on the interviwer i guess
@Qualcomm - my question was on Glassdoor. Which likely also threw me a little bit because the person who posted it said he implemented a non-stack version and was rejected for not using a stack. So I knew I should use a stack and I did. I just went down a wrong path to start with. I think if I had 5 more minutes I finally would've solved it and cleaned up all my code but ran out of time. That's another thing, try and get to the coding question quickly. I was nervous so thought I'd ask a simple question about the role to start even though you should save questions for the end. I didn't realize they'd be so strict on time. The minute we hit the 30 minute mark after the question was read we were done. So we spent the next 5 minutes going over questions I had. It wasn't a hard problem by any means and had I not immediately gone to the Leetcode version I likely would've solved it in time. Lesson learned for sure.
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