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by leeny 3y ago
OP and founder of interviewing.io here. We spent hundreds of hours interviewing current & former FAANG interviewers to write this piece. We really wanted to peel back the curtain on what happens during these interviews, what actually ma
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews(interviewing.io)
172 points by leeny 3y ago|183 comments
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by leeny 3y ago
Post updated. Thanks for the feedback!
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by leeny 3y ago
Author here. I replied to a similar comment, but I'll reply to this one too because it's a really good point, and I think I should have done a better job of calling out in the post that humans suck at hiring as well. Most recruite
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by leeny 3y ago
Author here. 100%. Most recruiters are terrible, and they're kinda set up to fail because the data isn't there in exactly the same way. The difference is that good human recruiters can make some meaningful warm intros, let 2 engin
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by leeny 3y ago
Venture backed CEO here. I'm a "her". Also, please see the first footnote in the post. "If I were you, I’d be justifiably skeptical at this point. Wow, a recruiter is writing about how AI can’t do recruiting. Classic Lud
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AI can’t do hiring because it lacks the data(interviewing.io)
52 points by leeny 3y ago|89 comments
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by leeny 4y ago
Do you know how many shares are outstanding, i.e., what % of the company you'd be getting? Moreover, you should absolutely ask for the preferred price at the last fundraise. They should be able to give you that figure, just like they g
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Should you post that you’re OpenToWork? A tale of two labor markets(interviewing.io)
56 points by leeny 4y ago|66 comments
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A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview (2nd half)(interviewing.io)
62 points by leeny 4y ago|4 comments
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by leeny 4y ago
Author/OP here. Just heard an interesting and relevant tidbit from someone who read the post. Apparently a while ago, Google fed resumes of employees into an ML model and correlated several metrics to the success of a specific engineer
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Certifications create wrong incentives for engineers and recruiters(interviewing.io)
85 points by leeny 4y ago|79 comments
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by leeny 4y ago
Hey, founder of interviewing.io here. We actually did zero thinking about SEO. We had someone look at this guide at the end through an SEO lens, but then we decided that that would make the content not as good and would make the guide less
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A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview(interviewing.io)
909 points by leeny 4y ago|376 comments
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How behavioral interviews are evaluated at Meta (from a former Meta eng mgr)(interviewing.io)
2 points by leeny 4y ago|0 comments
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How many engineers have gotten laid off in 2022 and 2023 so far?(interviewing.io)
2 points by leeny 4y ago|0 comments
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We built a rating system for technical interviewers. And you can too.(interviewing.io)
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by leeny 4y ago
It's on its own axis because the blue line represents the number of open tech jobs across all disciplines, whereas the red line is engineers only.
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by leeny 4y ago
I also just fixed the first graph. It still has 2 axes, but the order of magnitude is more realistic.
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by leeny 4y ago
Author here. Publishing this post brings us no pleasure. I originally had that in a footnote and then moved it up after seeing these comments. One might say that because we’re a mock interview platform, publishing this post is self-serving.
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by leeny 4y ago
TrueUp doesn't have historical data from before 2022. We couldn't find another index of open tech jobs, sadly. If you know of one, please lmk, and we'll rerun the numbers. Here's the raw TrueUp data: https://w
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by leeny 4y ago
We commented on this in the post. While we are targeting a specific slice of the market, FAANG and FAANG adjacent, so are our users. It's true that these companies run a process that's not indicative of the whole industry. However
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by leeny 4y ago
We used 2 different axes because the values for each of the lines were different. For instance, in the graph comparing open tech jobs to the bar, the bar is the average technical in interviews from 1 to 4. It wouldn't have made sense t
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You now need to do 15% better in technical interviews than at the start of 2022(blog.interviewing.io)
52 points by leeny 4y ago|24 comments
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by leeny 4y ago
just saw this. thank you. that means a lot.
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by leeny 4y ago
Founder here. This piece took my team and I months to research and tag and write. We spent hours counting individual layoffs in spreadsheets and on LinkedIn and running and rerunning the numbers. And the conclusion wasn't even what I w
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by leeny 4y ago
Author here. For what it's worth, I added the conclusion pretty late in the game. When I first ran the data, it looked like engineers were barely getting laid off (because of engineers not opting in to layoff lists as much as others).
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by leeny 4y ago
Author here. Good call, just fixed to a more generic link about layoffs on Blind. No shortage of recent conversations.
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How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?(blog.interviewing.io)
249 points by leeny 4y ago|348 comments
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Why we’re pausing our Pay Later program(blog.interviewing.io)
83 points by leeny 4y ago|55 comments

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