I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2012
Interview
A friend of mine working there referred me to the recruiter. The recruiter promptly contacted me to set up a phone interview and asked me what I want from my career and if I like fast paced working environment. Everything was very smooth and professional.
The phone interview lasted about an hour and I was asked to write codes on some collaboration editing web site like google doc.
The problem to solve and a couple of function headings were already given in the web page.
The question was about the binary tree. I was supposed to write a function to return the next node in inorder traversal sequence. In itself, it looks complicated but, there was a funciton heading called, init(), that you can use to preprocess and add any data structure you need.
I somehow missed this initially and found this too late :(
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write an iterator function that returns next node in inorder traversal sequence in binary trees. You can write an init() function to initialize what you need
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
