Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview
by permille42 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:51PM
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I had the same experience. They only asked about things I haven't focused on or cared about in over 20 years.
The person on the other side of the design interview also seemed very inexperienced and wasn't able to follow things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture.
Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview
by fatnoah on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:52AM
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>...things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture
Load balancing web servers was one of those that almost got me in trouble. I just assumed that any sane web infra would balance load.
FWIW, I joined FB at 20 YOE and spent about 3 hours on Leetcode problems just to get my mind back to being able to handle "stupid computer" tricks. Array manipulation, algorithm cleverness, etc. are things that I hadn't really done since the early days of my career. Aside from that, the only real challenge was a system design interview with a VERY junior engineer where I had a really hard time keeping things at a level they'd understand while not coming across as patronizing.