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We should make it easier for people to get a job without leetcode. Here's a job board I made for jobs without leetcode. https://say-no-to-leetcode.netlify.app/
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Not everyone follows American politics and watches sensationalized American news media all day. Facebook is a great place to work, has some of the best tech in the industry and its products have done a lot of good for the world, especially in developing countries.
I really wonder what good they have done. All of their initiatives are self-serving. And at the end of the day, no amount of good they do will ever make up for all the damage they cause to their users. I am not even talking about the American politics, just the amount of psyops tricks to get people engaged and addicted to the platform, manipulation of one's sense of wellbeing, the social anxiety they cause. They make…
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They didn't brief me to expect that. Or, to be fair, maybe they did and I missed it. I didn't mention above that he refused to answer a couple of basic questions (what type of work is it? what language? where will the job be? can I be remote?) until he got through the script. It was like talking to a machine. And he was rude. I got a negative impression. I know, sometimes recruits are expected to put up with some rud…
Yeah, you're getting a lot of pushback from the corporate drones on here, but you 100% made the right call. If you want to be a part of the FAANG hive mind, you have to be willing to jump through a bunch of hoops. The job itself is mostly just cranking out/maintaining a bunch of boring backend plumbing for boring stuff, with little to no correlation between the value you bring to the company and your compensation. Sa…
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This is a poor analogy. It's like making a soccer / football player answer a test on the history of the sport, how the ball is made, the geometry involved in kicking the ball, the mesh size of the goal net, etc. There may be some relevance but in the end if they're a good player none of that matters. You'd be testing the wrong things to know if they're a good player.
I'm an athlete-turned-software engineer at FAANG. This is the NFL scouting combine: 40-yard dash, Bench press (225 lb repetitions), Vertical jump, Broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, 3 cone drill, 60-yard shuttle, Position-specific drills, Interviews – each team is allowed 60 interviews in 15-minute intervals, Physical measurements, Injury evaluation, Drug screen, The Cybex test, The Wonderlic test I would consider this set…
If someone doesn't need to do binary math or write complex sorting algos from scratch you don't test those, just like how you wouldn't ask an athlete the mundane questions I posted above. You might ask high level questions to demonstrate knowledge of sorting, but not ask someone to implement that algo from scratch.
If someone is trying out for the NFL they're not going to have to demonstrate baseball skills, how their shoes are made, engineering questions about how the stadium is built, what software should be used for the ticketing system, or any other questions unrelated to the position. You have them to demonstrate skills directly related to the talents they need to fill their role, like standard field drills.
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Turns out you got to pay bills even if you are on a moral high horse. Besides if one has to have a clear conscience to match everyone's standard here, one should stop working at FAANG, stop using FAANG products, maybe stop using big oil products, stop using big pharma products, is it ok to pay taxes to a govt if you don't agree with something they did or should one pick up and move too? what else did I miss? HN is so…
You are doing a whataboutism just like many others. Among FAANG, Facebook is distinctly more problematic. If you don't see that, you are just unaware of the scandals upon scandals from the last 5 years.
If you have moral issues with a company, you should have it with all companies, regardless if one is more or less problematic. Otherwise, it’s just hypocrisy.
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Well you list the company name and enough ethical failings can be found for that also
I'm certain the small startup I work for hasn't failed too badly ethically. But I don't own a home in SF so... failure?
It’s virtually impossible for a company the size of Facebook to be free of controversies.
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Most people with 20 years of experience can't write basic code? Come on.
I have been a tech interviewer for a decade, and this is spot on. The entire reason FizzBuzz-style questions are popular in screening interviews is that most people fail them.
There are two interesting things in this post. The first is that a senior developer at Facebook believes every single senior developer looking for a role at Facebook can revise the same things. Clearly the author believes that Facebook are looking for programmers who fit a very specific mould, to the point that they're willing to go out in public and state exactly that. I'd argue that points to a massive monoculture…
There are two interesting things in this post. The first is that a senior developer at Facebook believes every single senior developer looking for a role at Facebook can revise the same things. Clearly the author believes that Facebook are looking for programmers who fit a very specific mould, to the point that they're willing to go out in public and state exactly that. I'd argue that points to a massive monoculture…
> I'd argue that points to a massive monoculture problem at Facebook, but I'm massively anti-Facebook so I'm biased. I'm pretty sure that's the point. Massive enterprises like Facebook have no need for creative "outside the box" thinking anymore. They need dependable, solid developers with a standardized skillset that they can plug into a position like lego blocks, easily replaced whenever they burnout or stop toeing…