My story is about an interview I had at FANG. Getting a job in that company was my dream at that point of time.
It was the system design and my background at the time was in mobile, mostly Android and a bit iOS.
The interviewer came in and his first phrase was: "I don't know anything about mobile engineering, I'm a backend developer". So he obviously read my CV and knew that I'm not a backend dev.
Then he asked about scaling some backend service. I was trying to move the conversation into border areas that I know and have experience with, like the API design and things needed for the clients, but he was not interested in it at all and was just asking questions I had no idea how to answer.
I miserably failed that interview.
And it felt like the message was: "Your experience is crap, see, I don't know anything about mobile and I'm here and you can't even answer this question I ask?"
Since then I've never replied to their recruiters.
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My story is about an interview I had at FANG. Getting a job in that company was my dream at that point of time.
It was the system design and my background at the time was in mobile, mostly Android and a bit iOS.
The interviewer came in and his first phrase was: "I don't know anything about mobile engineering, I'm a backend developer". So he obviously read my CV and knew that I'm not a backend dev.
Then he asked about scaling some backend service. I was trying to move the conversation into border areas that I know and have experience with, like the API design and things needed for the clients, but he was not interested in it at all and was just asking questions I had no idea how to answer.
I miserably failed that interview.
And it felt like the message was: "Your experience is crap, see, I don't know anything about mobile and I'm here and you can't even answer this question I ask?"
Since then I've never replied to their recruiters.