I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Was contacted by interviewer on LinkedIn. Since I live in Seattle, I was called onsite for 45 min preliminary round. HR received me and gave office tour. Then, I was introduced to interviewer. Interviewer was young and energetic . Interviewer asked me a question around binary tree and I was able to answer the question and write code quickly. Next day I was contacted by recruiter saying that they want to scheduled another interview before calling me onsite. This time I asked for phone interview. Second interviewer asked another question related to trees. I was able solve the problem and write code in 40 min. Later HR contacted me and said Interviewers are not happy with me. I'm not sure what they were expecting. HR said they couldn't tell me the reason for rejection due to legal reasons. It seems like they just want young engineers who can just code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions around BinaryTree and BinaryServiceTrees
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.
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