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README.md

Study

  1. Questions for me - questions.md
  2. Questions for interviewer
  3. Questions find glassdoor & careercup questions - difficult
  4. Project Table - use resume especially
  5. Project Nugget/S.A.R table - use project table and resume
  6. Review CTCI
  7. Research, See section below - only thing not printed
  8. Research, Understand resume

Research

  1. Review FB blog post use its questions
  2. Choose one FB product I really like, know it WELL, maybe open source?
  3. Resume - Understand all listed. Be able to talk about all technologies listed, what is best when, why I like it.
  4. Make sure I know INSTAGRAM inside and out
  5. 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

Project Stories to answer questions - structured answers with nugget/S.A.R

Nugget

  • 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.

S.A.R (Situation, Action, Result)

  • 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:

  1. Initiative/Leadership
  2. Empathy
  3. Compassion
  4. Humility
  5. Teamwork/Helpfulness