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Algorithm problems are what FAANG candidates do in interviews but is it what FAANG engineers do for work?

• roflyear 4y ago
  They don't do much work. Must be nice.
  • underdeserver 4y ago
    Yet somehow Search works, AWS machines spin up, and Windows gets updates.
    • roflyear 4y ago
      Each individual doesn't do much work. Surveys and friends I know both say they do about 2-4 hours of work a day (rest of the 6-8 hrs (yes, 10hr days are now normal it seems) is is hanging out & meetings).
    • coldtea 4y ago
      Yes, with 5000 coders you can do those "wonders"...
• danpalmer 4y ago
  No. FAANG interviews are mostly about filtering very large candidate pools efficiently and getting good enough engineers out at the end. The job is much more architecture/design, creating API contracts, understanding the health of systems in many different ways, measuring impact of changes, etc. Regular engineering stuff at big scale. Obviously there’s plenty of coding too, but it’s not really the important part of the job, and already has a ton of automation for boilerplate. I imagine that the automation will just improve another step change, there will be more need for review and guidance of the AI algorithms and the engineers will do more of this. And interviews will involve in some way.