Are you expected to do better in FB interviews because your competition has memorized the problems from LC?

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hgda

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Aug 17, 2021 14 Comments

Wondering if all the people memorizing leetcode problems mean you have to do them super fast just to stand a chance.

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  • And yet you’d be shocked how many people do poorly in interviews.
    Aug 17, 2021 3
    • I would be shocked if someone got the right answers in a short amount of time and was declined. The flags id see that would be problematic would be communication and ability to explain yourself, combined with a potential inability to take hints.
      Aug 17, 2021
    • Amazon
      singasong

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      singasong
      I required no hints at all in both the questons.I did my Google onsite recently and got very positive feedback and waiting on HC results now. My explanation is really well imo. I also did like 15 phone screens before fb including Google, Apple, Microsoft, instacart, LinkedIn and many more. So I had good practice of providing explanation also. Not sure why the interviewer didn't like me. This is my first time having a female phone screener and she rejected and now recruiter is not even providing any feedback. Weirdly I am female too. Feeling so sad.
      Aug 17, 2021
  • Google
    d-ll-b

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    d-ll-b
    I guess so yeah. For that reason I’ve decided to ignore FB recruiters asking me to interview, cuz I don’t see any reason to memorize hundreds of LC solutions just to be able to interview
    Aug 17, 2021 0
  • Yes, that’s why they ask you two leetcode medium/hard in 45 minutes. Even extremely smart people seeing a problem the first time may not be able to solve both in that time constraint. Don’t forget that there are actually only 30 mins for the technical part.. kids on 1point3acres aim for 500 15 which is 500 mediums in 15 minutes each.
    Aug 17, 2021 4
  • Google
    axhe2

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    axhe2
    In theory no, in practice yes
    Aug 17, 2021 0
  • If I passed on the fb interview then it means it's not hard at all and you will be fine
    Aug 17, 2021 0