A place where engineers can be amazingly effective
A place where engineers can be amazingly effective
There is little friction between developing product improvements and shipping them. Engineers are generally given lots of authority to figure out the right thing to do and just do it. When people come from other companies, they are often shocked by this. Even as the company has grown, there are still very few gatekeepers between an engineer and getting their code into production.
Lots of the internal systems can be flaky. Scale is more important than reliability or consistency in some cases, which makes building reliable apps frustrating.
Put more focus on engineering quality, and many issues will right themselves.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2012First round interview at the Facebook Seattle office. The question was related to string parsing: basically given a set of key value pairs in some format, to print them according to another format. I did not understand the specifications clearly and
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2020Easy-going and nice people. The interviewer made me feel at ease. Recruiters were very responsive, and I always received timely emails. I love Seattle. I went to the campus for the interviews. The hiring process wasn't difficult. An offer was sent
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 25, 2025Two LeetCode questions per round. The system design round felt a bit weird because it’s just you doing a monologue. Otherwise, a pretty decent experience. Strongly recommend going through LeetCode questions thoroughly. Also, practice writing two qu
