The new way to land a job at Facebook
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The new way to land a job at Facebook
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#2Can we just please have the Netflix recommendation engine?
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#4This looks like it's effectively a newer version of the old puzzles, which look like they've encountered problems:
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#5Rather than the puzzles which are now discontinued, I recently did an online timed puzzle through interview street I believe. By solving the problem properly within 2 hours I received a series of phone interviews, and once I start my senior year at college will be able to begin the remaining full time interviews, so they've had something like this for a while.
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#6I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for me. And so I am interested what makes it so interesting to work for this (Edit: scrapped [kind of]) company.
Edit: I mean; so interesting that you want to jump through hoops to get in.
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#7"The challenge is to recommend missing links in a social network. Participants will be presented with an anonymized, directed social graph from which some edges have been deleted, and asked to make ranked predictions for each user in the test set of which other users they would want to follow."
When has this kind of data ever been successfully anonymized?
From Netflix's attempt: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497 (First link I googled, but has the gist)
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#9I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for m…
If you're a top-shelf coder who can write his own meal ticket to anywhere: nah, working at a post-IPO facebook doesn't sound particularly worthwhile.
If you're a so-so coder then, hey, big company, steady paycheck! What's not to like?
Re: The new way to land a job at Facebook
#10I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for m…
This looks like fun. I'll probably jump through the hoops without trying to get in.