Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby?

Posted by horofx on Monday December 02, 2013 @06:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So, I went to the second phase of the facebook recruitment process but lately I've been mostly coding ruby, javascript and playing with functional programming.

Even though I did code a lot of C/C++ in college, I don't really feel that much confident with it.

Is it ok to use Ruby? Some problems expect me to be in a typed language or some sort of stuff, does facebook take that into account?

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby? by aristus on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:03PM (#6837814)

I conducted hundreds of interviews at Facebook, and we always tell the candidate to use whatever language is most comfortable. I've seen all the major languages plus all manner of oddball ones. One candidate did everything in ocaml, and walked me through why it worked (and why it was 20X smaller than an equivalent python program).

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Re:Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby? by horofx on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @10:44AM (#6840903)

Awesome! This is definitely going to be fun :)

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Re:Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby? by fredwilkins on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:57PM (#6837789)

What about scala and python?

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Re:Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby? by jasiek on Monday December 02, 2013 @06:55PM (#6837511)

Yes.

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