Top reason: the people at Facebook. They are the most brilliant and smartest people I have ever met. They provide you with an awesome learning experience and a very cool work culture.
Other reasons: Nice salary package, great food, minimal politics, and other nice perks (too many to explicitly state!)
I can't think of any except for one compared to smaller startups. The low-hanging fruit on the infrastructure side is pretty much all gone now, so to make improvements or impact takes a lot of time, hard work, and requires you to go very deep into one particular aspect.
None really.
A recruiter reached out and initiated the conversation. Then came the initial phone screen interview. I feel the problems at the initial phone screen were easier than the ones onsite. The process was very straightforward and standard: * Two coding
The first part involved solving a timed coding challenge from the InterviewStreet website. After that, I received a phone call to schedule a phone interview. This interview consisted of three algorithmic problems to be solved in a shared text editor
Applied online and heard back a few months later for a phone screening. I was asked the Wildcard problem. Be sure to clarify the question. I had trouble understanding my interviewer, and I didn't fully understand the question until I only had ten min
A recruiter reached out and initiated the conversation. Then came the initial phone screen interview. I feel the problems at the initial phone screen were easier than the ones onsite. The process was very straightforward and standard: * Two coding
The first part involved solving a timed coding challenge from the InterviewStreet website. After that, I received a phone call to schedule a phone interview. This interview consisted of three algorithmic problems to be solved in a shared text editor
Applied online and heard back a few months later for a phone screening. I was asked the Wildcard problem. Be sure to clarify the question. I had trouble understanding my interviewer, and I didn't fully understand the question until I only had ten min