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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by angf on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:01PM (#22193558)
Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews.

From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by lordCarbonFiber on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:36PM (#22193927)
That's super cool, do you know if any of those results / methodology were every publicly published? I've been trying to find prior art in interview analytics and data driven hiring in general to try to improve things at my current workplace.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by mountainofdeath on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:51PM (#22195427)
There was a point in time (roughly 2015-2016 timeframe when dynamic programming interview questions were really in vogue. Every interview loop from smallish startup to leviathan corporation felt like it had at least one.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by duderific on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:59PM (#22197405)
Sadly we are still doing them at my company. I feel like we lose good candidates because of it.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by akhilcacharya on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:52AM (#22201614)
Last loop I had there was 3 explicitly DP problems, and this was in 2017/2018.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by fkfaduc on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:42PM (#22194682)
This sounds very counter-intuitive! Did you hear this from someone working at Facebook or did you read it online? If it's the latter it'd be great if you could share a link!
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by dzlobin on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:17PM (#22197047)
I don't know of any online links to point to but I am an active interviewer at FB and I know we don't ask DP questions
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by ceejayoz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:25PM (#22195139)
Why is it counter-intuitive that people who interview well may still not function well in a specific organization?
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by objektif on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:37PM (#22195969)
What is counterintuitive about this? That best dynamic programmers are the absolute best programmers? I mean come on man..
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by SegFaultx64 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:02PM (#22196256)
Seems like pretty clearly GP isn't familiar with the definition of dynamic programming in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by naniwaduni on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:27PM (#22199055)
Key takeaway:

> It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible.

How times have changed!

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by objektif on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:05PM (#22203850)
Whats GP here are you referring to me?
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by fkfaduc on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:13AM (#22200480)
I don't exactly understand why this is getting downvoted, I'm genuinely curious if companies have published anything on that.

Also for me, it _is_ counter-intuitive, since DP was one of the hardest things for me when I started with programming, and I'd at least expect a non-trivial correlation between being good at DP and job performance, that's why I was asking about where I can read more about this.

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