Ask HN: Highschool dropout, have FAANG interview, don't know DS/algos
Title says most of it -- I have an interview at $BIGCO for Big Data team.
The hiring manager + technical recruiter told me the initial phone screen would be ~1 hour of primarily data structures and algorithm questions. Then a 5-hour virtual interview if I pass, which will focus on Systems Design + Integration and questions about concurrency/distributed systems.
I've been building software professionally for a bit under a decade. I am not nearly as concerned about the practical interview as I am the phone screen.
Never needed algorithms for the sorts of software I build (Microservices/API's, data tools).
How nervous should I be about these algorithm questions? Is it something anyone can pick up in ~1 month of leetcode, or am I screwed?
The hiring manager + technical recruiter told me the initial phone screen would be ~1 hour of primarily data structures and algorithm questions. Then a 5-hour virtual interview if I pass, which will focus on Systems Design + Integration and questions about concurrency/distributed systems.
I've been building software professionally for a bit under a decade. I am not nearly as concerned about the practical interview as I am the phone screen.
Never needed algorithms for the sorts of software I build (Microservices/API's, data tools).
How nervous should I be about these algorithm questions? Is it something anyone can pick up in ~1 month of leetcode, or am I screwed?