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I've had FAANG tell me to read Cracking the Coding Interview, sent me links to leetcode/hackerank, sent me PDFs with notes on what topics would be covered for d
by marcinzm 6y ago
I've had FAANG tell me to read Cracking the Coding Interview, sent me links to leetcode/hackerank, sent me PDFs with notes on what topics would be covered for domain specific interviews, linked me to their blog posts on architecture design, videos by their engineers on how to prepare, given me the literal behavioral questions I got asked, etc, etc. Facebook sent me well over a dozen links to guides for my interview and half of those had further links in them (including to a list of practice questions on hackerank).
edit: It is also very reasonable to study having done it myself and talked to people who have gotten into these companies. At 15 minutes a pop you can do 100+ leetcode questions a week. Spend a few months and you'll have studied almost every reasonable question. Most of them are repetitive patterns but around 5% have tricks you need to memorize. That covers 2-3 out of your 5 interviews. Behavioral you need to memorize around 5 questions that they'll basically give you ahead of time. System design is harder but there's videos for the 10 topics that will cover 90% of the potential questions.
- m3kw9 6y agoI really think having people pass these coding interviews is so that the interviewer isn’t responsible in selecting the wrong person.
- charliepark 6y agoWhat kind of team are you with? And how many leetcode-style problems have you solved in your actual work over the past week?
- euix 6y agoI went through the same thing for my Facebook interview. How do you do this if you have a day job or even worse, a day job and a family?
- marcinzm 6y agoI feel these companies prefer to promote internally so losing senior talent doesn't bother them as much. Fairness is not a quality I associate with them.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThat is definitely not true any more, as they got bigger most of them desperately tried to hire experienced external hires, on the principle that nobody gets for fired for hiring an ex-Googler.
- mlboss 6y agoCan you post the source of system design videos ?
- cmonnow 6y ago> At 15 minutes a pop you can do 100+ leetcode questions a week. By that logic, most people would have completed all 1500 LC's in 4 months. Numbers say otherwise. Each medium difficulty problem takes an hour to solve, assuming you can come up with a non-brute-force solution. Most of them force you to lookup, understand and implement other people's ideas. If you can do 3 problems a day, completely on your own without any lookup, you're doing good pace.