I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter and had a phone chat with her the next day. After a week, I went to to the in-house interview. I arrived 5 minutes before the scheduled time and I waited for 20 minutes in the reception area. My scheduled interviewer could not make it and they found a young engineer to interview me instead.
He is friendly and has worked in the industry for only 2 years. The conversation started almost like I was the interviewer as he introduced himself and told me what he does at Facebook for about 5 minutes. He asked me what I do in my current project and proceeded with a coding question. I solved the question in Java, tested edge cases, modularized the solution and discussed other potential solutions I could think of. We had a nice conversation and the interviewer agreed the solution given was good. He ended the interview by giving me the opportunity to ask any questions.
They did not proceed to the next stage with me and I was surprised. Obviously I missed something and I do not know what that is. I asked the recruiter for feedback via e-mail and did not hear back.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My current project and how I scale our applications.
Given n nodes and an X node, find k nearest nodes to X.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jun 2015
Interview
Recruiter contacted me on Linkedin.
I requested for in person interview in place of telephonic. Arranged a 1 hour interview at Menlo park office. Cleared the interview and was called for a six round interview.
Interview was strange.
Easy and not so complex algorithmic rounds. Not sure what is so special about those rounds or whether they were even part of the decision making. Interviewers were happy with the answers and not much corrections.
Then there were these design rounds. One of the rounds was about designing location services. The interviewer was very knowledgeable. Pointed out my in-efficiencies with the choice of data-structure. Enjoyed it.
Then started the real fun in the final round. An awesome interviewer with an awesome attitude. He spoiled my interview experience though. Asked me to design a messaging app system. Once the interviewer breaks the comfort zone, it would be a difficult place to stand. His expressions were horrible and sometimes I felt like saying "shut-up and listen first" which I didn't say obviously. When I mentioned that the server knows the ip address of client only when the server receives a packet from client. He said, there are a lot other ways it happens. I mentioned the only way is clients packet to the server. He made it an argument and finally I had to ask him to mention a way. He skipped the part and asked me to move on :-D
Ignoring the final round, I actually enjoyed the interview process. No offer though :-)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2015
Interview
I had two interviews and each takes 45 mins. I answered each smoothly and near perfectly. All bug-free code. But they still reject me without giving any reason or feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Read number, e.g. 100 -> one hundred, 113 -> one hundred thirteen
Stock
Search in rotated sorted array
Sort Color