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Facebook Software Engineer Interview

Posted Jun 18, 2012

No Offer – Interviewed in Jun 2012 – Reviewed Jun 18, 2012

Interview Details – I got contacted by an HR. After some email traffic, I got a skype call with HR to discuss the interview process.
I solved a puzzle at interviewstreet and they set up an appointment with the engineer at California.

Technical Phone interview lasted 30 mins. Interviewer was friendly but he immediately asked for live coding (in 6-7 mins). And because of he is Indian, it was very difficult to understand him as a not native English speaker.
He asked for a technical question, wanted to optimize code, and then told me the interview is over.

Interview Question – You have a file consists of billions of records.
It cannot fit into memory, so you need to reverse every word in that file and save to another file.   View Answers (2)

Other Details - I applied through a recruiter and the process took 3 weeks.

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