Twitter interview result
Recently interviewed for a tech lead role in Twitter. Did exceedingly well in 3/4 rounds but bombed the coding round. It was so bad the interviewer asked me to take a few deep breaths before continuing. Nailed the phone screen coding round, two sys designs and behavioral. The HM loved my personality. What are the chances I get an offer? #offer #interview TC: 250k
Third possibly: another coding round.
I'll buy you a months supply of beer if they give me that opportunity.
The phone screen really has no bearing on a decision. You said you bombed the coding round, but which one? We have two coding rounds in onsite interviews.
I only had one unfortunately
I was hoping the HC looks back at the phone screen to judge that I'm a decent coder who just froze up in that one off interview
I only had 1 onsite coding session as well.
What role/department?
Cortex ML platform engineer
Unlikely you’ll get an offer then
Facebook has two coding rounds, one sys design round, and one behavioural for level E5. Funny thing is that even if you rock the two codings and the behavioural, but you don't do well on the sys design, you will be rejected. I think that is the mode of operation of these companies. Because they have so many candidates they can afford to lose good ones even for marginal reasons.
I'm an EM so do pretty well on sys design. Coding has been my Achilles heel as I don't hands on code anymore. FB has insanely high thresholds for all thier rounds.
I had 3 coding rounds for FB E5 loop. Recruiter said there would be only 2 coding interviews.
did u get it?
@op did you get through?
How’d it go OP?
R u interviewing there too ?
No, trying for Albertsons
I had a very similar experience. Normally I'm pretty good at coding rounds but bombed this one. I started on a wrong and difficult approach. Asked the interviewer(s) - I think the senior one was shadowing- who were super quiet all the time and she said ok on my stupid approach. I am an experienced interviewer myself and yes you should not interrupt people but also interrupt to give some tips before they dive and choke on wrong water if you wanna get the best signal. And I asked if the approach looks good... Nevertheless, I challenged to make my code - 80 lines or so- to work, then stopped and solved it in a suboptimal way in last 10 mins to at least have a solution. That worked. The minute we ended -when I had to chance to use my brain instead of just nonstop coding- I noticed a better and easier solution. I'm super annoyed about the experience but especially on my own performance. Because the other 3 rounds were pretty good for me too. So @UKvP22 Did you hear back?
How many YOE? Just curious. I had a similar experience. I didn't bomb the algo but I didn't implement fully. The other rounds I did very well.
5 YOE. What position did you interview for? Did you get an answer yet?
I didn't get an answer yet and it was for an Senior Android position. What team were you interviewing for? 8 YOE