Enter OA, and then final VO, failed on one leetcode. HR was very nice but once you failed, she ghosted you, no feedback.
The overall interview took very long, because they ran out of interviewers.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2024
Interview
Phone screen E4 MLE - interview went well, with two coding questions that I solved within the time limit, despite a minor hiccup with an edge case. I got a benevolent interviewer who occasionally helped out.
Onsite - coding rounds went well. Nothing earth shattering.. The ML System Design round was the most challenging by far coz the interviewer was covering so much ground but I'd practiced a LOT on Prepfully and it went alright.
My recommendation: Blind75 + Meta top 50 on leetcode. Prepfully for ML design mocks. That's it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Designing next post logic for fb news feed w/ some arbitrary constraints and optimization goals the interviewer added - effectively a variation of recommender
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Nov 2024
Interview
Phone screen, followed by a technical. Final round is 3 technicals, a behavioral, and a machine learning system design. Pretty standard stuff.
PROS: Interviewers were kind and helpful and professional.
CONS:
Scheduling was a bit awkward. Some things were scheduled after hours for the start of the day, resulting in both parties missing the meeting.
EXPLODING OFFERS! Recruiters are arrogant and unattentive. They do everything over the phone to leave no paper trail, including the offers, and pressure you to negotiate on the spot. Furthermore, the offers "expire" after 24 hours. And they *don't* give you any offer letter till you accept verbally/via email. Very predatory.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard leetcode medium/hard and cookie cutter ML sysdes questions.