I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I was referred internally by my friend. I attended a phone interview after contacted by a recruiter. The interviewer actually told me directly on the phone that I should work more on my coding skill. So I was totally surprised to learn that the interviewer's feedback was positive and they'll continue with my application.
All the following process was mostly coordinated by another recruiter, who is very responsive and I greatly appreciate his help. The on-site interview had 2 sessions before noon and 3 after, with the last one and lunch time not being evaluated.
Originally I was told that I'll hear the result the next week, but instead I waited 2 weeks and learned that I didn't make it. The recruiter did emphasize that I was really close, and also let me know that it was the system design question that I didn't perform well. (There was yet another coding question that I found difficult, but the recruiter told me that they had no problem with my coding skill.)
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
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.