I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Tel Aviv) in Oct 2016
Interview
It's not an interview really, but a series of tests.
Approached by a recruiter, had a phone conversation and then an on-site coding test (could also have been done by phone, but I live nearby). After another phone conversation with a recruiter who explained the process, came into their office for another series of four tests - 2 more coding tests, a design question and one with some vague personal questions and YACT (Yet Another Coding Test). Questions are not too difficult, but I'm assuming they expect near-perfect performance (mine was not :)
Everyone was very friendly, positive and respectful, so even though I was rejected, all in all a positive experience - as someone often involved in recruiting myself, I think we can all learn a lot from how it's done there, especially when it comes to giving candidates a good feeling, regardless of outcome.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Test if it's possible to break up a sequence of characters into several known words.
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.