A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
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#3Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
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#4Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
Yes
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#5I skimmed this briefly but I can't reiterate enough the importance of practice that the author mentions.
I am the same person when a FAANG hired me as I was 15 years prior when I first interviewed there (I also interviewed a bunch of times in between, for successively more senior roles and did better in the process each time.)
When I was young, I had some fixed mindset - I am either good enough or not. They will either see that I am good or they won't. Nowadays, it's obvious to me that it's my responsibility to make it easy for them to see that I am good. That's what practice is - it's you working on your ability to articulate your fit for the role. That could be your ability to solve problems at the whiteboard, honing your career story, etc - the point is that if you ultimately don't have something to offer, no amount of practice will help - but if you have the potential but don't know how to let it show, you won't get the job either.
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#6Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
I imagine a FAANG salary allowing fully remote would be a very competitive position.
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#7Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
There are a ton of remote roles at every FAANG too. If you are good and they want you, you can negotiate for those.
Being able to interview and get good offers helps your story. Even if your story ends up using those offers as leverage elsewhere.
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#8Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
Its the difference between making 400k+ a year and retiring early, versus grinding away on software
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#9I don't know, I've walked into these interviews with zero preparation and succeeded.
And I've failed FAANG-ish interviews where no amount of leetcode grinding would have helped me.
In my opinion, it's getting rather silly. They're scaring off and filtering out excellent candidates with these excessive processes. None of them even cared about my Github repository that's full of code I write for fun.
Software developer hiring is definitely ripe for revolution/innovation.
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#10Tangentially related, is it worth it to do the leetcode grind and all the FAANG-interview preparations if I'm always planning on working remote? Are there remote companies with FAANG-level compensation that would warrant this sort of interview prep?
Netflix still hires remote. I'm guessing for the right team and with the right resume you can get remote at Amazon, Google or Meta right now if you have enough seniority.
Finally, I think most companies are using some LC type questions. Asking if you should practice leetcode is like someone asking if they should get in shape. Vehemently the answer is 'yes to some degree', and the rest just depends on your goals.