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throwaway0218

Thanks for the replies, all. It's not looking good for me from the sounds of it.

I was told I have the ability to do self-study before the interview, so I guess I'll dump my free time into it for the next month or two and see how it goes.

Ask HN: Highschool dropout, have FAANG interview, don't know DS/algos

Title says most of it -- I have an interview at $BIGCO for Big Data team.The hiring manager + technical recruiter told me the initial phone screen would be ~1 hour of primarily data structures and algorithm questions. Then a 5-hour virtual interview if I pass, which will focus on Systems Design + Integration and questions about concurrency/distributed systems.I've been building software...

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