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How to Handle a FAANG Interview That Goes Off Script
Lucas and Luna tackle a stressful but common scenario: your FAANG coding interview veers off the planned question. Maybe the interviewer adds a constraint you haven't seen, or asks you to solve a problem you've never encountered. Lucas breaks down a three-part framework — pause, reframe, communicate — using a real example of a binary search question that got twisted into a search in a rotated array. They discuss why interviewers do this deliberately, how to buy thinking time without freezing, and why the worst mistake is to keep coding in the wrong direction. Luna shares a counter-intuitive…
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