Meta Developer interview questions

Interview for a summer internship The process is really fast - it takes two consecutive days to take the interviews and you get the result within twenty four hours Interviewers are friendly and try to relax the candidate Usually there are no knowledge-based questions, and you can choose your preferred language

Was contacted by recruiter through linkedin profile. Had a initial phone interview with collabedit. Was not offered an onsite interview. Was asked to write a program that would take a filename and a search pattern as arguments and return if the pattern matches the filename. Wildcards * and ? can be used in the pattern. eg: 1. filename: file.txt pattern: f*txt result pattern matches 2. filename:file.txt pattern:f?le* result: pattern matches Answer: bool matchFilename(const string& flname, const string& patter) { for (int i=0,j=0;i<flname.length(),j<patter.length();i++,j++) { if (patter.at(j)=='*') { if (j+1<patter.length()) { i = flname.find(patter.at(j+1),i+1); i--; } } else if (patter.at(j)=='?') {/*do nothing*/} else { if (flname.at(i)!=patter.at(j)) return false; } } return true; }