- Questions for me - questions.md
- Questions for interviewer
- Questions find glassdoor & careercup questions - difficult
- Project Table - use resume especially
- Project Nugget/S.A.R table - use project table and resume
- Review CTCI
- Research, See section below - only thing not printed
- Research, Understand resume
- Review FB blog post use its questions
- Choose one FB product I really like, know it WELL, maybe open source?
- Resume - Understand all listed. Be able to talk about all technologies listed, what is best when, why I like it.
- Make sure I know INSTAGRAM inside and out
- Look at the FB news room - technical aspects that I like?
Projects List ~5 and know in detail
| Common Questions | Proj. 1 | Proj. 2 | Proj. 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challenges | |||
| Mistakes/Failures | |||
| Enjoyed | |||
| Leadership | |||
| Conflicts | |||
| What You'd do differently |
- Master my ability to talk about these projects.
- Be able to talk about challenges, mistakes, technical decisions, choices of technologies (and tradeoffs), and the things I would do differently.
- Follow-up questions, i.e. how would I scale the application up? (Maybe how would I add new feature)
- Projects come from resume, top column is Major aspects of my resume as well
- Projects where I played a central role
- Interviewer: "Tell me about when you had to persuade a group of people to make a big change."
- Candidate: "Sure, let me tell you about the time when I convinced my school to let undergraduates teach their own courses. Initially my school had a rule where..."
- Grab the attention. Make it very clear what your story will be about. Focused in on communication since we are very clear on what the response is.
- Outline situation, explain actions I took, lastly describe the result
- Everything should be clear. Especially the result, the interviewer does not need too many details to understand what happened (more details can actually confuse them - just make a simple clear impactful result).
- Clear situation -> dive into action, i.e. I did three things. First I..."
| Story | Nugget | Situation | Action(s) | Result | What it says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story 1 | 1. 2. ... 3. ... | ||||
| Story 2 | 1. 2. ... 3. ... | ||||
| Story 3 | 1. 2. ... 3. ... |
Actions Should Show:
- Initiative/Leadership
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Humility
- Teamwork/Helpfulness