[dominotw]

I had a coderpad facebook phone screen last week, interviewer said " that code the won't compile, can you see why?" .. It was missing a semicolon.

on a related note, I write scala on daily basis but scala is not that well suited for coding interviews, I found.

[jammygit]

Facebook likes their interview nonsense, but stores passwords in plaintext. I think the credibility of the system is in question

[jensvdh]

They didn't store pw in plain text. Pw were accidentally captured in logs and those logs were stored in an internal DB. This happens often.

[chopin]

That's storing passwords in plain text. "Happens often" is no valid excuse, on the contrary. If it happens often you should know about it if you are a qualified engineer.

[sk5t]

That's because Scala doesn't have nearly enough semicolons.

Kidding aside, why do you feel Scala is unsuited to coding interviews, assuming the interviewer well-understands the language?

[dominotw]

hard to write heap sort in functional style with immutable collections. I guess you could write imperative style code.

[sk5t]

Well, ah... unless you're applying at Amalgamated SortCo Industries, asking for on-the-spot sorting implementation is pretty high on the list of absurd interview questions.

Anyway I'd think one might use an array and not some other list/collection.

[bm1362]

I used clojure once during an interview and bombed, passed again 2 years later at the same company with Python. Would’ve made a big difference in my equity had I just started then!

[dominotw]

Yea functional langs just get in the way during interviews. I can write same imperative code i write in java in scala but it just makes it harder( eg: remember to use var instead of val, mutable collections vs default mutable ect) at which point I am just better off practicing for interviews in java.