I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Austin, TX) in Oct 2016
Interview
Technical Phone Interview: A programming problem online while on the phone with an engineer. I had a HUGE unfair disadvantage because the engineer was very uncertain about the problem I was given. About halfway through, I had completed what I thought was the problem only for him to tell me I misunderstood the problem. After redoing it to meet his guidelines with the remaining time, he then informed me that "due to a communication error, my original solution was the right way". But after about 5 minutes of trying to revert the code, he said he was sorry that we're out of time and maybe next time I'd have better luck. Utterly ridiculous - I wanted to complain to the recruiter but I didn't because it makes it seem like I'm just bitter about "not passing" the interview and will be reapplying next winter.
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Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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