I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2018
Interview
Recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn. Set up a ~15min call with the recruiter a few days later. Recruiter asked me about my current job and project. Everything went well and I was set up for a technical phone screening with one of their engineers. We set up the phone screening two weeks out. Facebook engineer called me in two weeks and asked me about my current project, then jumped straight to the coding challenge. (See below to read about the challenge). I got nervous and did not complete the challenge. At the end I got to ask the engineer a few questions about Facebook. Two days later I got a nice rejection email from the recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a multi-dimensional array representing a board, how would you traverse from one point to another. The board has 1's and 0's, you can only traverse through the 0's.
Board = [
[0,0,0,0,0,1],
[0,0,1,0,1,0],
[0,0,1,0,1,0],
[1,1,0,0,0,0],
]
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
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