31–40 of 540 posts
I wonder what this means for people I know with accepted offers who haven't yet started.
But it might depend on whether they were pre-allocated to a team (which I understand is very rare, but it does happen).
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.
Though it worked out for me in the end, but I was definitely annoyed for a day or two.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm with you, and then I read 83K employees doing Metaverse? Simply amazing! That must be at least 20 billion dollars a year! The correction in the tech sector has plenty more correcting to do it seems.
Inverse QQQ?
My uneducated opinion is this company had some downsizing and restructuring coming. But the leading edge of a big wave of downsizes might look like this, too.
I doubt it. My guess is Google/Alphabet will do the same, as they have too high a proportion of people doing things that are neither basic research or contributing to revenue in any way. You can see how that can happen when you have an unconstrained gusher of money. There's effectively zero feedback. However given the weakness of their management (see: gusher of money + lack of focus) it's unlikely that the cuts will…
Apple -
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/18/23268953/apple-slow-hirin...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-16/apple-lay...
Microsoft
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/microsoft...
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-22
Amazon
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/amazon-slows...
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 definitely did when I did a loop a few years ago. Maybe things changed or you got lucky?
Of all FAANGs I expect FB to be the first to sink. I see the writing on the wall..
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt it. My guess is Google/Alphabet will do the same, as they have too high a proportion of people doing things that are neither basic research or contributing to revenue in any way. You can see how that can happen when you have an unconstrained gusher of money. There's effectively zero feedback. However given the weakness of their management (see: gusher of money + lack of focus) it's unlikely that the cuts will…
Apple is down like 6% today on reports of soft iPhone sales. In an economy where people are actually belt tightening luxury hardware sales are not exactly recession proof
Over 200bn the last time I saw a figure (90bn in cash, the rest invested).
https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...