I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2014
Interview
Applied online posted my cv. Was called approx 2 weeks later scheduling a phone interview. Got the phone interview asking :
- Why Facebook ?
- Do you have a preference in which offices you would want to work ? (I guess because I live in Belgium)
- Favorite coding langs ?
- How many hours do you code besides school projects ?
1 week after the phone call they setup a technical phone interview with a coding question. No response as it is weekend, and the interview was on Friday.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A professor wants to see if two students have cheated when writing a paper. Design a function :
hasCheated(String s1,String s2, int N) that evaluates to true if two strings have a common substring of length N.
Additional question after implementation. Assume you don't have the possibility of using String.contains() and String.substring(). How would you implement this.
Questions about complexity of my solution.
Overall a very friendly interviewer, was saying "Good" the entire time, but no idea if he wanted to keep me focused or if it was really good.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I was invited to take their OA about a week after applying, mostly consisted of leetcode easy and mediums. It was a pretty smooth process, with quick feedback. Good experience overall
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structures and algorithms, leetcode style medium and easy
They ask the normal standard DSA questions that you would expect for an internship like LeetCode mediums. I think there were two rounds of technical interviews before the offer stage.
DS&A questions, interview is just that with only a couple mins of non technical. Need to be quick and fluent in standard leetcode easy-med, and have decent enough grasp to come up with good ideas to approach leetcode hards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DS&A. Asked about how to merge 3 ordered array into ordered array. Then, how to generalise for k ordered arrays. Was okay, but need to be faster and have solution down as if you can do it in your sleep.
