Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by sauravt » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

Get that job at Facebook (2012)
facebook.com

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by orangethirty » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:00 AM UTC

Does facebook still use PHP?

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by myko » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:07 AM UTC

I didn't realize Facebook did tech talks, I'm glad to see they do and they're linked from this site:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=vb.9445547199&ty...

My only complaint is I wish they were on Youtube, I'd like to make playlists and watch them on my TV.

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by coldcode » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:07 AM UTC

Why? Work 70 hours a week finding new ways to put more ads in people's lives.

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by jamesaguilar » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

One thing I have seen repeatedly in interviews for engineering positions of all levels is people who have not gone back and reviewed the basic algorithms they learned in second year. I know coding questions as posed in interviews are not the best measure of job performance, but they are also one of the few we have that is guaranteed to be sourced from the candidate in question. To perform well at these sorts of questions, you should be familiar with basic algorithms and techniques. It's a common language that you and the interviewer can speak. Not knowing that language is gimping yourself unnecessarily. Don't know what a graph or a queue is? You're gonna have a bad time.

Take a few hours to study up before interviewing at the big engineering-focused companies.

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by strandev » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:14 AM UTC

jamesaguilar wrote: post #5

One thing I have seen repeatedly in interviews for engineering positions of all levels is people who have not gone back and reviewed the basic algorithms they learned in second year. I know coding questions as posed in interviews are not the best measure of job performance, but they are also one of the few we have that is guaranteed to be sourced from the candidate in question. To perform well at these sorts of quest…

If you agree that these types of questions are not a good measure of job performance, why encourage this line of questioning? Wouldn't it be better for the industry as a whole to discover better ways to determine future job performance?

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by davyjones » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:15 AM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #2

Does facebook still use PHP?

They do (according to a post I saw on here a couple of months ago). But for people who don't know, they have an open source VM called HipHop (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php) that consumes the PHP.

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by mcrittenden » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:16 AM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #2

Does facebook still use PHP?

Yes, if the .php extensions on most of the URLs is any indication.

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by brokentone » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:17 AM UTC

I left after "elemental awesomium," someone TL;DR?

Re: Get that job at Facebook (2012)

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Post by diamondhead » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:18 AM UTC

Getting interviewed by Facebook was the a waste of time in my experience. They asked me to code something dummy at home saying "it'll only take 2 hours".

It takes 1 hour to write a new NPM module and publish for me. In the next remaining hour, I get feedback from somebody and learn something useful.

2 hours are really important for me. I would never spend that much of time for any company without getting paid.