I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
Two days after internal referral, recruiter contacted me and set-up a phone interview. The coding problems are standard and not difficult. Two weeks later, I went to their head quarter for the onsite interview. There are 4 rounds of technical interviews, involving coding and database design.
Wait almost 4 weeks before the recruiter got back to me and offered me a position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Database design. Don't have background in CS and know little about that.
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.