I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Boston, MA) in Feb 2017
Interview
In-person, on site interview. 45 minutes. Purely technical/coding. One person (current engineer at FB) interviewed me, and I think it was fairly similar to other software engineering interviews, but purely technical. Did not go over anything except one coding problem on regular expressions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to match a regular expression to a string.
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.