I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Had a phone interview followed by on site. Phone interview was good and the interviewer was very friendly. During onsite, I had about 5 one one one interviews. My interviews started on a bad note - the recruiter was late to pick me up from the lobby and my first interviewer came 10 minutes late. He then rushed me into a system design question. I outlined the initial design and checked with him if there were any specific directions he wanted to go into but got no response. I then kept working on the design question without him giving me any feedback. When there were only 5 minutes left, he started asking some questions on how some scenarios would work. I always thought that interviews were supposed to be a discussion rather than the candidate talking and other people listening but perhaps its different at Facebook.
Other interviews were also average - my third interviewer was a girl who seemed too full of herself and kept being very sarcastic. My fourth interviewer hardly showed any interest in my thesis work though he was a very experienced guy so its possible, they are able to absorb everything without even listening.
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.
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