Just found out that Meta expects you to solve TWO leetcode medium/hard questions in 30-35mins time. So you’ve to understand the problem, figure out a solution, explain it, code it and have it bug free and performance optimized all in 17 mins time. Are they just targeting people who spend all their time on leetcode and have seen every question? #tech #idumb #interview
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Expectation is you have already solved them, prepared for the interviews and already know how to solve it in 35 mins. Don’t go in with I know the concepts, I will crack it during interview.
so they want people who can memorize stuff not people who can solve problems? No wonder Threads is where it is.
Kinda. I think it shows to them how prepared you are wrt solving these known LC problems and slight variations they throw at you. Thats just my observation, not that I endorse it!
It’s not that hard to clear their bar.
Yeah, nothing's hard once it's easy.. Don't act like it didn't take you countless months or even years of studying and learning various concepts before you got to the point where you could comfortably say that
Skill issue
Meta is quite easy to clear. They ask questions from their top 100 questions from leetcode. I got unlucky and the bastard who interviewed me decided to ask me one of the most down voted questions in their question bank.
Which one please? If it was downvoted
Probably alien dictionary or some stupid text parsing question
It's an informal handshake. Did you spend a bunch of time working on obtuse and irreverent skills to pass our bar? If yes, great you're willing to work and learn. If not, then we don't want you. The more general idea of being able to understand a problem, code, communicate, adapt to change in problem, and debug are good though. Not saying the entire process is good, but that's the industry standard at the moment.
Working on obtuse and irreverent skills is a very good way of describing a software engineers job 🤔🫨
@Amazon they dont want good enough, they literally want perfection these days
Crappy interview straight from leetcode. Would not join
You’re at Google which has an even worse interview, speaking from experience.
Meta have one of the best interviews hands down. You know what you are going to get. Could not clear L4 with google not even less than a year. But I just cleared their interview cause I ran into people who ask relatively easy grap and tree questions. Last year, I failed because two douchbag want to ask segments tree questions.
Not true. I was at Meta some time in the past and obviously passed their interview before. I only solved one task in each interview.
Did you mean even if you pass one out of the 2 questions in each round, they may select you if you have a good reasoning etc for the other problem?
No. I was asked one problem in each interview.
I'd say it skews more towards medium than hard. For what it's worth, I only practiced 50 LC problems and found Meta to be the easiest of my interviews. Out of my 3 coding interviews 5 of them were medium and only one was a LC Hard.
Do you think blind 75 is good enough or so there another list you’d recommend?
@Microsoft I cleared all questions including the LC Hard. @Apple it depends on who you are and how lucky you are with the questions you get. I'd say it's less about how many questions you do versus how much you actually understand the solutions. The reason I felt ok doing fewer questions was because I didn't focus on memorizing solutions, but recognizing patterns and really understanding the solution.
Most interviewers don’t expect you to get perfect solutions to LC hard in 17 min. It’s mainly about seeing if the candidate demonstrates strong technical understanding, can effectively communicate technical concepts, is enjoyable to work with on a potentially frustrating problem, etc. Getting a perfect solution is a plus but everyone knows people study these problems so completion is not a strong indicator of ability anymore.
Lol, does anyone actually still believe this?
yes hiring so few means selecting for top
Top doesn't mean best at leetcode.
Also Meta/Amazon are way easier than Google/Apple/Netflix to get into….so even for FANG LC standards they’re mostly not top.