I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
I applied through career fair, and received email within a week. scheduled a tech phone interview the next week. It was a 45 min interview. the interviewer was nice, but I was not in good condition (just taken a nap, and my brain was not functioning well). we went straight to the problem. The problem is some dynamic programming stuff, I was afraid that I can't come up with the right solution so I just started writing stupid recursion solution to save some time. and then we spent some time fixing it. And I came up with the "right" solution at the end, but I don't have time to write it, so I just explained how it should work. and then I asked a few questions, and that is it. I got rejection email in only 15 minutes later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
for encoding that {a,b,c,...,z}<->{1,2,3,...,26}
if given a list of digit e.g. [1,2,3], this may represent {1,2,3}->{a,b,c} or {12,3}->{l,c} or {1,23}->{a,w}. so there are 3 possible interpretations for list [1,2,3]
so, given a list of digit, calculate the number of possible interpretations for the list.
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env