| " it was almost certainly because of your interview performance" This will be a function of one's company culture. FANGS have a pretty high operational bar that's sometimes hard to grasp from the outside, without internships, friends and networks of exposure. BigCos have varying levels of professoinalism etc. But both tend to have specific expectations that can be hard to grasp when from a smaller company. At smaller companies I find people tend to generalize, and work on smaller projects obviously. At BigCos there's much more opportunity for specialization, and sometimes huge codebases and if you've never worked on something like that it can seem unwieldy. I think a frame of reference is important for setting interview expectations etc.. |
Bingo. I think having an "inside" view of expectations is key to interviewing at these kinds of companies.