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“I got all the way to the end for an L6 EM role, and the must-pass round was a 200-plus-line code review in a Google Doc where I had to manually debug broken interval logic with no IDE and no tools.”
“Not all interviewers may be able to adequately ask the right questions to go in depth, but they are absolutely looking for you to provide that depth by yourself. Your examples should not be surface level, but show you actually lived through the situation.”
“I was really confident of getting an offer, but they told me I scored higher on the management side and failed coding and product design. What surprised me most was hearing the product design feedback was structured so the recruiter couldn't really challenge it.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
“I was a little complacent because I’m already ex-Meta, and the surprising feedback was that my project retrospective was only leaning toward hire because I answered a constructive feedback question like they were asking for praise. I cleared the loop, discussed numbers and joining date, and then the offer got put on hold because of the hiring freeze.”
“Prepared a concise self-introduction and walked through a major project from my experience that is highly relevant to the role. For the questions what are you most excited currently? my answer is too general and can be more specific. ”
“didn't go well: (1) missing image data handling was not a good answer. i realized a better solution right after (2) hierarchical classification, how to do level by level? (3) overall infrastructure design including model training infra and streaming data serving”
“The recruiter did not explain very well about the second round. It turned out to be an AI assisted round that included solving for system architecture, implementation scope, staffing and project planning etc ”
“The process was more rigorous than anything I’d done at other big tech companies, but the recruiter was actually accurate and helpful on what to prepare. A few things caught me off guard: one round had the level of details and requirements for scalability.”
