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> Only got through one question, and even that required assistance from the interviewer. My understanding is that if you don't finish two problems, you're doome
by vjeux 6y ago
> Only got through one question, and even that required assistance from the interviewer. My understanding is that if you don't finish two problems, you're doomed.
Different loops and interviewers conduct interviews in different ways. There is no "one problem" rule.
Usually the questions are structured in layers where there's many follow-ups available. Based on the question, the interviewer, the loop, they can ask one problem or more. Unless you are the interviewer, it's not clear how far into the question you've been and what the expectations were. It is common to ask two questions though.
Context: I have 300+ interviews at Facebook and been active in the whole process.
- decafninja 6y agoWould be jawdropping pleasantly surprised if feedback came back positive, but I'm not hopeful. I do understand that miracles happen though. I completely, utterly, bombed my Microsoft phone screen - as in, I could not even get a basic brute force algo down. Yet I got invited to the onsite because the interviewer liked me for some non-technical reason.