I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in May 2015
Interview
Stage one was a phone screen, clearly intended to give them a feel for whether I can think on my feet or not.
Then, a full day of interviews in the office - mixture of coding and culture fit interviews, where the culture fit interviews were done by underrepresented groups, and the coding interviews were mixed. Again, very clear that the goal was to get me a chance to sink or swim on my own merits.
Coding interviews were split between coding on laptop and coding on whiteboard, to give me a chance to come back if I can't code on a whiteboard.
That came back unsure, so I came in for one last interview session.
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.
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