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Some of your complaints lack credibility. For starters, I find it odd that you claim that the recruiter gave you feedback, and on the technical skills of all t

Some of your complaints lack credibility. For starters, I find it odd that you claim that the recruiter gave you feedback, and on the technical skills of all things. If you reached the last round of interviews of a FAANG, that round does not focus on technical aspects and it's more focused on soft skills and personality traits that emerge during the interview. In fact, I know for a fact that they don't look at the solution at all, and look at the process that the candidate follows such as how he takes suggestions and how he attacks problems or how he adapts to changing requirements. Sure, there are technical questions, but they barely fill 30% of the interview time, and even then their main goal is to gather info on the candidate's personality traits. With that in mind, it's easy to believe you bombed your interview if you are the type of person who opens a discussion on a public forum attacking your interviewer with accusations of being too incompetent to evaluate you and too immature and having no clue about how great you are and how awesome you did. Just from this post alone I was readily convinced I would hate to work with someone like you, and apparently so did your interviewers. If you ask me, they've clearly dodged a bullet.

amir734jj 7y ago
She gave me one-sentence feedback. Why should I lie? what will I gain? I wanted to share my experience. That's it. I got all the unit test passing for all their algorithm questions. I didn't bomb the interview. Maybe we have different definitions.
- 14u2c 7y ago
  You're responding to a comment claiming that technical questions are not as important by saying you passed all the technical questions. I was on the fence about OPs theory, but this comment does not help your case. You didn't really process the feedback, even if you don't agree with it. They might look for that.
  - jtthe13 7y ago
    Yup. Not to point towards OP's case specifically, but it's a usual trap a lot of exact science majors (and many PhDs) fall into. I'm not saying it's limited to exact sciences BTW — personality is also a factor. There's a joke here that we should stop our startup and start a business coaching PhDs navigating the job market. There's money there I tell ya :)
  - slightwinder 7y ago
    Let's be fair, one general sentence is not enough feedback you can process. He probably is here to also get the real juicy feedback.
- loopz 7y ago
  Isn't this just general suckage of workplaces? Interviews are like lottery tickets, you never know who you'll meet, what their culture are or how the meet goes. You may in time be surprised both ways too, given the chance! It seems you have high bars from academia you may need to let go of, in order to find your place in the company world. Start with: Nobody owe you anything, not even fairness.
- slightwinder 7y ago
  Passing unittests alone are irrelevant. There are other relevant metrics too. [..] They had no clue how to calculate time complexity. No clue why provided unit tests were not enough and etc. [..] This part makes the impression that you lack the pracmatic understanding of real world-coding. Testing to much, focusing on unimportant things, building to big and wasting to much time for worthless things. In coding there are usually two type of people: tinkerer who get things done fast and dirty, and academics who slowly build shiny ivory-towers. Both have their legit space, but not every job fits both of them equal good.
- rumanator 7y ago
  > She gave me one-sentence feedback. I really doubt the veracity of your claim, but even taking your complains at face value I have to say the rationale you are trying to gather your complains make no sense at all. I mean, do you honestly believe you are able to adequately justify your case by quoting a single sentence provided by a recruiter (who, mind you, is not he one interviewing you) who happened to be the one talking with you over the phone? And again unit tests are completely irrelevant to the issue. If you made it to the last interview round of a FAANG then you already passed their tech screening. The last interview of a FAANG hiring round typically focuses on your personality and soft skills, which clearly from the way you chose to present yourself in this thread is something you are really struggling with.

amir734jj 7y ago

She gave me one-sentence feedback. Why should I lie? what will I gain? I wanted to share my experience. That's it. I got all the unit test passing for all their algorithm questions. I didn't bomb the interview. Maybe we have different definitions.

14u2c 7y ago
You're responding to a comment claiming that technical questions are not as important by saying you passed all the technical questions. I was on the fence about OPs theory, but this comment does not help your case. You didn't really process the feedback, even if you don't agree with it. They might look for that.
- jtthe13 7y ago
  Yup. Not to point towards OP's case specifically, but it's a usual trap a lot of exact science majors (and many PhDs) fall into. I'm not saying it's limited to exact sciences BTW — personality is also a factor. There's a joke here that we should stop our startup and start a business coaching PhDs navigating the job market. There's money there I tell ya :)
- slightwinder 7y ago
  Let's be fair, one general sentence is not enough feedback you can process. He probably is here to also get the real juicy feedback.
loopz 7y ago
Isn't this just general suckage of workplaces? Interviews are like lottery tickets, you never know who you'll meet, what their culture are or how the meet goes. You may in time be surprised both ways too, given the chance! It seems you have high bars from academia you may need to let go of, in order to find your place in the company world. Start with: Nobody owe you anything, not even fairness.
slightwinder 7y ago
Passing unittests alone are irrelevant. There are other relevant metrics too. [..] They had no clue how to calculate time complexity. No clue why provided unit tests were not enough and etc. [..] This part makes the impression that you lack the pracmatic understanding of real world-coding. Testing to much, focusing on unimportant things, building to big and wasting to much time for worthless things. In coding there are usually two type of people: tinkerer who get things done fast and dirty, and academics who slowly build shiny ivory-towers. Both have their legit space, but not every job fits both of them equal good.
rumanator 7y ago
> She gave me one-sentence feedback. I really doubt the veracity of your claim, but even taking your complains at face value I have to say the rationale you are trying to gather your complains make no sense at all. I mean, do you honestly believe you are able to adequately justify your case by quoting a single sentence provided by a recruiter (who, mind you, is not he one interviewing you) who happened to be the one talking with you over the phone? And again unit tests are completely irrelevant to the issue. If you made it to the last interview round of a FAANG then you already passed their tech screening. The last interview of a FAANG hiring round typically focuses on your personality and soft skills, which clearly from the way you chose to present yourself in this thread is something you are really struggling with.