How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?
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Moreover actually doing a real interview can uncover where you are weak more than introspection or mock tests can.
Most companies allow re-applying later anyway, and there are plenty of others too.
One of my first interviews out of college years ago was at a FAANG company (rhymes with pamazon). I completely embarrassed myself, wasting not only the entire loop’s time but losing a ton of confidence in myself at a young age in my career. The entire experience was embarrassing.
Looking back I still have no idea how I ended up even getting invited in for an in-person loop.
My advice is to at least honestly assess any job posting’s requirements and compare to your true experience.
In my limited experience, your attention is better spent sleuthing about on LinkedIn, on the company website, and especially a dev blog if one exists. Getting to know a company is far more instructive and helps with every stage of an application.
Job hoppers have a huge advantage in this. If you stay in a job for 5 years and work hard you will have some good stories but likely not do well in interviews without a lot of practice first.
Its worth just having interviews every year at FAANG and others just to keep you up to speed.
The first half seems iffy to me, though. It sounds like you're performing a technical interview, then calling the result of that a measure of "skill," then using that to judge how well skill aligns with FAANG technical interviews. But what I think you're really measuring is the correlation between your own interview process and the FAANG interview process, which seems like a very different measurement.