I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
First call is to get to know you as a person, see if your resume is accurate, judge your interest in the company. My recruiter was AWESOME (Facebook prioritizes this).
The second interview is where the knowledge is tested. I did well up until the last question and I floundered pretty hard. More details in the second question below.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Open ended: what do you know about Memory Management in Objective C?
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.