Novati on Interviewing

Facebook has “technical behavioral” interview

strong career trajectory at your current company is very impressive, like being promoted every 6 months, or receiving really high (like top 5% at your company) performance reviews. (Novati 2022, “https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ui98mg/comment/i7b9dz1/”)

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Finally, technical behavioral interviews (Facebook calls this the Jedi interview) are extremely important. They typically are looking for flags that would otherwise be missed by the other interviews. So someone who studied their way through all the other interviews might fail the Jedi interview if they can’t talk about their experience in a way that would be consistent with other people at your level on that team. (Novati 2022, “https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ui98mg/comment/i7bfwhh/”)

Novati, Michael. 2022. “I’m Michael. I Was a Principal Engineer at Facebook.” https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ui98mg/im_michael_i_was_a_principal_engineer_at_facebook/.

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