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Comment by Ancalagon | Hacker News Reader

Which company did this? Genuinely curious because the prep I was given from Amazon and Facebook for their interview processes was very short and obviously did not entail the full extent of leetcoding required to get into a position at one of those companies.

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One was Facebook. I did just find that their prep guides are apparently public on their website, so here was the one I was given for the tech screen, which was heavy on data structures (look for "our comprehensive Facebook Technical Screen Guide" link to the PDF):

https://www.metacareers.com/swe-prep-techscreen/

And heres the one I was given "the loop" interview (theres a link "our comprehensive Facebook Onsite Interview Guide" in the first paragraph):

https://www.metacareers.com/SWE-prep-onsite/

I only saw the tech screen guide, so maybe that was my issue. Still though the onsite guide is not very thorough nor does is encompass many of the tricks these interviews present in coding interviews beyond "check out these leetcode/youtube/hackerrank" links. Really not sufficient to even sample the broad range of questions which can be asked from the LC bucket for Facebook in my opinion.

>metacareers

It seems like all this preparation to pass an interview is the meta-career.

Can confirm. I also got a ton of preparatory materials when I interviewed at FB. I ignored it, but it was definitely provided.

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