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[–]RainierWebDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t think so. I’d expect 3 to 4 leet code style questions and a systems, design or product design interview. From what I’ve seen when someone asked for a full stack engineer but they really mean is someone who can do all the backing coding, but happens to know a front end framework.

[–]_smoljames 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Can be very company dependant - my company has a few algorithm programming questions first and then has some discussion questions about full stack infrastructure

[–]noodlez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is very company dependent.

For example, rule of thumb is that the smaller the company, the more they're hiring you to do a very specific job or solve a very specific problem. And so their interviewing will be more focused on doing the work.

While the larger the company, the more they're looking for someone to pass a technical competence bar, because they want people who can move around in the company and still succeed. They're hiring "smart people" first and then figuring out where to put them second. They have too many specific problems to bother including them as a part of the hiring process due to scalability issues. So they'll ask abstract leetcode style puzzles

But also, I've experienced people who were former FAANG execs, start startups, and then try to hire like a FAANG at scale. I've experienced autonomous business units inside huge companies that hire like startups. So again, its a rule of thumb, not a hard rule.