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Facebook Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person
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http://memcached.org/about

- Ashupriya September 14, 2012 | Flag Reply
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memcache is nothing but a distributed hash table. A simple enough implementation of a DHT can be found at http : //dks.sics.se/jdht/index.html#example

- chandershivdasani September 15, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Read more about how does memcached manages servers additions and removals:
en. wikipedia.org /wiki/Memcached
en. wikipedia.org /wiki/Consistent_hashing
www . tomkleinpeter . com /2008/03/17/programmers-toolbox-part-3-consistent-hashing/
offthelip.org /?p=149

- myok12 February 05, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Facebook engineers are crazy.

- Anonymous September 14, 2012 | Flag Reply
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People sometimes ask things they are very knowledgeable. I guess it strokes their own ego, and also when someone answers well it really impresses the asker.

- People sometimes ask September 15, 2013 | Flag
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The point of interviews (usually) is to judge problem solving skills.

This question is a bad inteview question, as memcache is well known and has many research papers as the foundation. It is severly biased towards knowledge, rather than problem solving skills (i.e. it is hard to judge different candidates, when there could be a mix of people who are new to distributed computing vs people who know etc).

- Anonymous September 15, 2013 | Flag


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