FAANG Interview Prep by Company
FAANG companies each have distinct interview formats. Choose your company below.
Escalating follow-ups, ambiguous problem statements, hiring committees, and a heavy dose of graphs, recursion, and DP. Prepared narration matters: your interviewer's notes become your case file.
How Google interviews differ → Leadership Principles everywhereAmazon
Standard coding bar, but behavioral questions carry roughly equal weight in every round. STAR stories mapped to Leadership Principles, the Bar Raiser round, and an online assessment before you meet a human.
How Amazon interviews differ → Speed and executionMeta
The fastest coding rounds in FAANG: often two problems in 45 minutes, drawn from a well-known pool. Flawless, quick execution on standard patterns beats clever solutions to hard ones.
How Meta interviews differ →What Every FAANG Interview Has in Common
Company differences are the last 20% of your preparation. The first 80% is identical everywhere. Every FAANG loop is built from the same four blocks: a phone screen, 2–4 coding rounds testing the same ~15 DSA patterns, a behavioral round, and (for mid-level and above) system design. Every coding round grades the same process: clarify the problem, narrate your approach, write clean code, test it yourself, and state complexity unprompted.
That shared core is why we recommend preparing in this order:
- Build the foundation first. Work through the complete FAANG interview prep plan: fundamentals, then patterns, then timed practice. Budget expectations are in our timeline breakdown by experience level.
- Pick your tools once. Our unbiased 2026 resource guide covers what’s worth your time and money (including where competitors beat us).
- Tune for your company last. In the final 2–3 weeks, use the company pages above to bias your practice toward that company’s format, pacing, and evaluation quirks.
Sharpen the Core Patterns
Whichever company you’re targeting, these pattern deep-dives cover the highest-frequency interview topics:
- Hash Maps and Sets: The Most Underrated FAANG Topic
- Binary Search Beyond Sorted Arrays
- Recursion, Explained Properly
- Backtracking: N-Queens to Subsets
- The Trie Data Structure, from Scratch
- Bit Manipulation Interview Tricks
- The Data Structures Cheatsheet
Not Sure Where to Start?
If your fundamentals need work before any of this pays off, start with the 60 Days of Algorithms challenge: one topic per day from arrays to dynamic programming, sequenced for exactly this. Sign up free and begin with Day 1 today.