Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview
by ummonk on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:54PM
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When conducting interviews, I like to ask questions that are similar to coding problems I've actually faced.
That said though, in general the coding interview doesn't need to be directly related to work to be useful signal - in fact, to the extent that it's not similar to the interviewee's day to day work, it successfully measures the interviewee's ability to quickly pick up and excel at a new tech / framework / skill.
As others have noted, the same seems to be true of a number of other computing companies: the "technical interview" is a sort of qualifying examination (largely focused on undergraduate algorithms/algorithm puzzles/leetcode type problems) that is unrelated to the actual work.