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Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#22
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Tech is reflexive. Since most tech/saas companies sell/support other saas companies, they all go down. Think about all the startups who rely on AWS, Apple computers, and Facebook ads. What happens when they all die? The tech bull run is over, and we'll find out where the bodies lie soon.

Oh no the market has corrected to 2019 levels because the ridiculous amount of free cash has stopped! Clearly the era of tech is over and we should all wrap up and go home.

I don't think there is anything substantial here to suggest this is anything other than a normal recession and even if this was like the dotcom bubble, these companies aren't like dotcom era startups. They're massive behemoths intertwined with the fabric of American society, not to mention their warchests make most other companies blush.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#23

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

They are notorious for wanting their engineers to spit out memorized solutions of leetcode hards

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#24

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

They definitely did when I did a loop a few years ago. Maybe things changed or you got lucky?

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#26

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

I have, and it was straight up leetcode. But that was a few years ago.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

They are notorious for wanting their engineers to spit out memorized solutions of leetcode hards

I have interviewed with them more than a single time, and this is simply not true.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#28

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

Have you ever interviewed with Meta? They are _the_ FAANG company that places the highest weighting on leetcode problems.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#29

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

Completely not my experience. All the questions I got were word-for-word Leetcode problems. At least Amazon goes through the trouble of disguising them as "Amazon Deliver Trucks going from house to house" instead of "an array of numbers"
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