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I have interviewed with them more than a single time, and this is simply not true.
by nice_byte 4y ago
I have interviewed with them more than a single time, and this is simply not true.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThis thread leaves me wondering if, perhaps, interviewing differs within the organization. Lots of confident "nuh-uh"s on both sides.
- nice_byte 4y ago
- nsenifty 4y agoThey don't ask leetcode questions for Front-end engineers AFAIK. It's mostly practical Javascript/DOM/browser questions. Funnily enough though, I heard once you join as a Front-end engineer, you are pretty much a regular SWE and can join any team and work on any tech, even backend/systems.
- tempsy 4y agoit probably depends on the role and team. to say they don’t have leetcode style interviews at any stage for any candidate is “simply not true”
- nice_byte 4y agoI mean, they do ask algorithmic problems, but first, they're not "leetcode hard" (leetcode hards can get just insane, it's impractical to ask those in an interview setting), more like mediums, and second - out of 6 or 7 interviews maybe 2-3 will be those. Domain-specific / system design ones are more important. Though that depends on the level they're hiring for, I imagine fresh grads get more "write code on whiteboard" types of questions.
- tempsy 4y agothe claim was that they don’t do leetcode questions, not that they do easy and medium ones but not hard ones.
- loeg 4y agoBoth upthread claims specifically say "hards," which is not true in the last few years. (In fact, LC "hards" are explicitly proscribed.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025573
- athorax 4y agoFacebook is notorious for using leetcode problems verbatim. Your singular experience does not invalidate that fact.
- nice_byte 4y agoyou're forgetting that it's leetcode pulling their problems from the companies' question pool, not the other way around.
- sh4rks 4y agoIt doesn't matter. At the end of the day, all leetcode "style" questions fall into a particular bucket. Two pointers, graphs, etc. It's not like the company is innovating new types of problems. It's just the same problem reworded.
- m00x 4y agoThis has been my experience as well, same for Amazon. I didn't practice that much since I hate wasting time on useless tasks, and the interviewer literally told me to just leetcode and read the interview book. I asked him a bunch of web questions and he had no fucking clue, all he did was leetcode and interview every year.