As a person working in Facebook for 7 years I feel like this post is incorrectly portraying FB's process and culture: - First, Facebook avoids titles, so there

As a person working in Facebook for 7 years I feel like this post is incorrectly portraying FB's process and culture: - First, Facebook avoids titles, so there's no such thing "senior software engineer". Levels are generally unknown by people so ICs get judged by their ideas, and not their title. - If there was such a thing as "senior" in Facebook, it's not starting at the E4 level. (If you look at levels.fyi and align the Facebook levels with Google you might get that an E5 is a senior) - This entire list of chapters of CLRS chapters is ridiculous. It's a great book and I'd recommend it for people into theory and who will be around Computer Science. But if you didn't go through a college degree and algorithms course, and need to interview, do yourself a favor and go directly for LeetCode or Cracking the Coding Interview. YMMV as to how much you need to learn. Some people I know can easily breeze through these interviews with no prep, those people are also super smart. Some smart people I know have a harder time, no system is perfect. - To actually get hired in one of higher levels at Facebook you will need to go through the design interview, which is a very different type, and the career experience one. No matter how well you ace the coding, you will not get an offer for a high level if you didn't succeed adequately in these. - All of my coding questions in the last few years required knowledge I learned in my first year learning programming. This is usually the norm. Of course, this is my personal experience at Facebook, but it is based on quite some time and a lot of interviewing.