u/michaelnovati replied ·
I was a senior staff engineer at Facebook for 8 years and interviewed about 450 people, and I would say that it's a little bit of a mix of both. You need to be good enough at leet code like problems to pass the bar and it's a fairly high bar. But at the same time you need to have something interesting on your resume whether it's a project or past internships or experiences that add some dimension to you as a candidate. There have been several memorable people that have interviewed that have been way too good on the algorithm side and had nothing else to talk about and they didn't get offers. On the other hand you really do have the crush the coding interview or you won't get an offer either.