I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2023
Interview
Had a screen with the recruiter then they offered to do a mock interview of 2 questions, then a real interview with the same format. I think the mock was slightly easier but it could have just been the easier for me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You're given an array of zero and nonzero numbers. You need to modify the array in-place by moving all nonzero values to the left of the array, then you need to return the number of nonzeros that were originally in the array.
The Facebook company store sells stickers that say the word “facebook” on them. We just got a new shipment in, and we have way more than we know what to do with. We came up with a plan: we can make posters by cutting and pasting the letters in the word "facebook" to make other words.
Given a particular source string representing a word on a sticker, write a function that tells me how many stickers of that string I need in order to make a given target string. Your function should take in both a source string and target string, and return the number of stickers.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
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