What skills are needed to get S/W tech or Data Scientist job in #FAANG?

[acuman]

Please post resources and book links to crack interview here. Thanks!

[AFDB_Director]

first step is to know that the acronym is FAANG and not FANG

[Pitta]

6 minutes ago, AFDB_Director said:

first step is to know that the acronym is FAANG and not FANG

[rowdimogudu]

8 minutes ago, AFDB_Director said:

first step is to know that the acronym is FAANG and not FANG

Actually it's FAANG, as Apple no longer considered in giving high salaries and RSU, it was ignored.

[rowdimogudu]

for interview do leetcode, sys design and behavioral 

[Help_please]

i recently signed an offer with a FAANG company. Copy pasting info that I sent earlier to a DB member

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

If you answer YES to above questions you are already in a good place to start...if you answered NO to above questions, you're still fine (I was in the same position last year)

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode(https://leetcode.com/). Leetcode is the most popular platform used by people interviewing for top tech companies. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Most of the interview problems come from these topics: trees and graphs(BFS,DFS), arrays, strings, recursion, binary search, linked lists, backtracking

so make sure, you work on these before you jump on to advanced topics like Dynamic programming

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round(s) if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful.

You can start with system design primer: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with leetcode premium subscription https://leetcode.com/subscribe/) and free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

 

Additional tips and resources:

1. for general questions & answers about tech interviews, referrals, tech life, etc from FAANG employees (https://www.rooftopslushie.com/, https://www.teamblind.com/)

2. You can pay for referrals or get your resume reviewed or ask questions (starting from $5, but $15-20 is a reasonable starting point) here: https://www.rooftopslushie.com/

3. For long-term DS& algo prep (this book is available in three versions: C++, Java, Python) especially for Google: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Insiders-Guide/dp/1479274836

This book has preparation plans ranging from a weekend to 4 months. This is the best possible resource with great problems and explanations

4. Boot-camp style resources: https://interviewcamp.io/(cheap and effective), https://www.interviewcake.com/ (cheap and effective), https://www.interviewkickstart.com/(expensive),  https://www.outco.io/

5. For Salary info check: https://www.levels.fyi/, https://www.teamblind.com/salaryComparison

6. For referrals, Linkedin Premium is very useful. If you are trying for Google, you can search for 'google hiring', 'google recruiter',etc and then send messages to recruiters/hiring managers (whose linkedin intro mentions that they are hiring) in the search results. You can find a lot of resources online on what to send in the intro message. This approach is mostly a numbers game. So message as many people as you can.

[sri_india]

5 minutes ago, Help_please said:

i recently signed an offer with a FAANG company. Copy pasting info that I sent earlier to a DB member

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with premium subscription) and these for free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

rachaa post bro ..... thanks for sharing

[Help_please]

14 minutes ago, sri_india said:

rachaa post bro ..... thanks for sharing

you are welcome bro 

[BeautyQueen]

37 minutes ago, Help_please said:

i recently signed an offer with a FAANG company. Copy pasting info that I sent earlier to a DB member

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skip

 

 

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round(s) if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with premium subscription) and free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

Woww awesome!! Thank you so much bro  one of the best informational threads  

[Help_please]

4 minutes ago, BeautyQueen said:

Woww awesome!! Thank you so much bro  one of the best informational threads  

yw bro

[acuman]

44 minutes ago, Help_please said:

i recently signed an offer with a FAANG company. Copy pasting info that I sent earlier to a DB member

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skip

 

 

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round(s) if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with premium subscription) and free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

Thanks!

 

which level you got into? 

[Help_please]

2 minutes ago, acuman said:

Thanks!

 

which level you got into? 

tried for E4...got down-leveled to E3 due to previous (consulting) experience

[suraj]

1 hour ago, Help_please said:

i recently signed an offer with a FAANG company. Copy pasting info that I sent earlier to a DB member

Step 0: Where you start your prep depends on where you are right now. Answer these questions honestly (don’t worry, I was terrible in the beginning too) and I’ll tell you where to start:

how comfortable are you with programming in general? Do you have a good understanding of common data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, Queues, etc? Do you have a decent understanding of depth first search and breadth first search? how comfortable are you with trees and graphs?

If you answer YES to above questions you are already in a good place to start...if you answered NO to above questions, you're still fine (I was in the same position last year)

Step 1: pick a programming language that you’re comfortable with. I used python. You can use any common ones like python, C/C++, Java, etc

Step 2: All you need is leetcode for DS and algo problems. But first, You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

If you want to brush up on any topic you can use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena-ebook/dp/B00B8139Z8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=algorithm+design+manual&qid=1589754774&sprefix=algoithm+des&sr=8-3

Step 3: once you are good with solving simple problems from cracking the coding interview, you can jump to leetcode. Pick a set of problems that covers major topics. I used the following lists.

1. I started with the following list (75 problems) which covers major topics

https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/

(source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU)

2. this one covers broader ground

https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/448285/List-of-questions-sorted-by-common-patterns.

Step 4 (System Design, optional): You'll have System Design round(s) if you're aiming for E4  in FB/ L4 in Google or higher. This is a bit hard if you don't have much distributed systems experience. But here are some sources that are helpful

you can check YouTube videos( Tushar roy, Gaurav sen) or read this book for system design concepts

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=designing+data-intensive+applications&qid=1589776963&sprefix=designing+&sr=8-3

And practice these problems:

https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview

Step 5: Final step is doing company tagged problems in leetcode (available with premium subscription) and free mock interviews (https://www.pramp.com/#/, https://interviewing.io/)

Super info bro...thanks a lot

[rahul_arora]

1 hour ago, acuman said:

Please post resources and book links to crack interview here. Thanks!

check in blind.

lot of disco going on there.

 

[ShruteSastry]

Gp, one of the best in recent times.

Appreciate your effort in putting down all these and Congratulations bruh.