Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview
by balls187 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:19PM
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Amazon asked me to implement a hashtable and email the interviewer the solution by the next morning.
I politely declined; was heading off to Spain for a long weekend.
Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview
by sagarm on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:31PM
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IMO that's not a good interview question even f2f, let alone on email. As an interviewer I would learn nothing from that, and I agree it's unreasonable to give an interviewee homework.
As far as I know, that is not SOP for FANG interviews.
The point of the undergrad CS syllabus is not to teach you specific algorithms, but to give you a toolkit for solving problems. The goal of a SWE interview should be to test your ability to apply that toolkit to a "new" problem.