u/InTheDarkDancing wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Has your team prepared people with no professional working software engineering experience (e.g., bootcamp grad or a person who completed the Odin project) to be competitive in FAANG interviews? If so, how would your team coach one of them to answer questions such as "who was you
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah we have. Most people have some professional experience, but there are a few people with zero experience that have gotten top tier jobs (Facebook included).
Again, it varies so much by person so there aren’t definitive patterns, but these are some examples:
1. We have a production level internal codebase where people complete tasks and bugs and get code reviewed by our team. People with less experience often work on this area, whereas people with experience do not. The goal of this is to learn professional level git, and how to communicate with engineers. So while employers know this is a project and not a job, people have examples for team-based stuff to talk about.
2. Some people have extremely impressive personal projects (this is an entire thread topic hahaha) and we help you practice talking about them very impressively.
Overall, using our extensive Facebook experience, we know what is impressive and what isn’t, and we help each person triple down on their strengths. And we train you how to steer a conversation towards those strengths, rather than your weaknesses, instead of having a mediocre answer to everything.