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The author/candidate may have ten years' experience, but he still sounds a little naive: (1) He seems to have (twice) gone into intensive studying mode without
by donaldc 16y ago
The author/candidate may have ten years' experience, but he still sounds a little naive:
(1) He seems to have (twice) gone into intensive studying mode without first doing research on what questions facebook was likely to ask him at that stage. He seems to have instead guessed at what they were going to want to talk about.
(2) For a computer geek, the Facebook site/system resembled the UNIX system. And I just love NIX. Wall == wall command on unix. Message == mail. Photo and video viewing permissions was dependent upon groups or individual USER_ID rights. The thousands of external sites using an API to connect to the Facebook internals, reminded me of service ports on a given system.
^ These analogies are not useful from the perspective of actually understanding how facebook works.
Admirably, he has learned from his experience, and is taking steps to correct what he was probably lacking with respect to the position he wanted.
- gaius 16y agoMartial arts analogies too. Someone who uses "kung fu" metaphors has seen The Matrix one too many times; I never hear it from people who actually do do a martial art.
- reneherse 16y ago"Kung fu", translated literally from the Chinese means "hard work". So you may be misinterpreting the writer's intent. He didn't strike me as some pseudo-martial arts meathead. Perhaps you've never heard someone use the word kung fu to describe their martial art, because their art wasn't of that particular Chinese tradition? Personally I thought the writer's usage was apt, given that he had newly dedicated himself to a difficult path of work.
- humblepatience 16y agoI agree, spending hours brushing up on topics that are unlikely to be asked in the actual interview seems like a total waste of time/rookie move, if interesting