Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by eindiran on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:16PM
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> I did about 20+ technical interviews at Google/Facebook over the last 2 years.
That seems like a huge number of interviews. Are you counting each interviewer as a distinct interview? Even then, that seems like a lot for 2 years!
Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by yodsanklai on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:40PM
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I applied two times at Facebook, and two times at Google (they contacted me each time at one year interval). Each time was 0 to 2 screening interviews, then 5 to 7 on-site interviews. Yes, I'm counting each interviewer as a separate interview (not counting discussions with the recruiter, but counting "culture fit" interviews).
Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by whycombagator on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:16PM
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Not entirely on topic, but could you share what your preparation was like for these interviews? Resources/timelines etc
Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by yodsanklai on Saturday September 12, 2020 @06:45AM
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You can have a look at the Leetcode forums. A lot of people share their experience there.
I did about 20+ technical interviews at Google/Facebook over the last 2 years.
Overall, the interviewers were competent. Sometimes you could tell that they didn't really enjoy interviewing people but it was ok. I only had one interviewer I'd consider bad (gave confused advice to lead me to his solution), but maybe it was just a personality mismatch.
I had better experience with more senior interviewers too, and I found Facebook better than Google (although similar), on every respects (choice of questions, team matching process, more interesting projects...).
My main complaint is that I've found the whole process random. Right now I'm in the team matching phase at Google, but not sure it'll go through (and it's not the best time).