I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2012
Interview
I was cold-called by a recruiter and offered a technical interview. I scheduled the interview, but in the meantime, I received an offer from another company, and canceled the interview.
Later, I decided to re-apply for the same position and the process continued where it was left.
I was interviewed by phone and asked to complete a coding assignment. As I discovered later, this assignment appears here as one of the questions.
Later, I was notified I passed the phone screening and was invited for an on-site interview. There was a total of 4 interviews, including three coding interviews. Even though most of the questions appeared on this site, I did not do very well in the coding part, thus, as expected, did not receive the offer.
Throughout the entire process, the hiring staff was extremely helpful and provided lots of information regarding the position, and the interviewing process itself. The recruiter also organized a phone call with on of the engineers to help me learn more about the position I was applying for. While at Menlo Park, I was accompanied by the recruiter and she showed me all around the campus.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None of the questions were difficult, or unexpected. Most of them appear on this site.
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.