Jobs

Quant Hedge Funds

• Cantab Capital Partners
• G-Research
• Oxford Asset Management
• Winton Capital

Facebook

London background

• Opened August 2012 with 12 US engineers
• As of Feb 2014, about 80

To discuss

• Thrift (multi-language interface generation, Facebook, opensourced 2007, Apache incubator 2008, Apache TLP 2010)

To do

• Getting ready for coding interview
  • [DONE[ Check http://collabedit.com works on portable
  • Print out checklist for coding interview (ambiguity, etc)
  • Get decent C++ compiler going on laptop (think already have Xcode?)
  • Run up a solution to the video problem
    • Using recursion
    • Not using recursion
    • Have a test hardness for them both
• Read Facebook Links
  • Working at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150331790590484
  • Facebook Engineering:https://www.facebook.com/Engineering
  • Newsroom: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
  • Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/facebook
  • How to prepare for a coding interview and what to expect https://www.facebook.com/Engineering/posts/10152735857917200
  • How to Crush Your Coding Interview https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152735777427200
  • Get that job at Facebook (useful tips from a Facebook engineer) https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that-job-at-facebook/10150964382448920
  • Engineering @Facebook https://code.facebook.com/
  • Facebook Bootcamp https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150411360573109
  • Engineering notes https://www.facebook.com/Engineering/notes
  • Facebook Newsroom http://newsroom.fb.com/
  • Facebook London https://www.facebook.com/facebooklondon
  • Video of Philip Su (London Engineering Director) at a hacker meet up and it gives a good idea of the Facebook culture http://vimeo.com/60896034
• Coding interview links
  • Career cup http://www.careercup.com/page?pid=facebook-interview-questions
  • Work through examples in "Cracking the Coding Interview" http://bit.ly/1naR71w
  • More algorithmic challenges! http://www.algorithmist.com/
• Maybe not so much
  • Project Euler https://projecteuler.net/
  • Geeks for Geeks http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
  • Code Chef http://www.codechef.com/

Done