I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2024
Interview
The interviewer asked two leetcode medium questions given 45 minutes of time. first 5 minutes is for intro and last 5 minutes for the questions you might have. So you have almost 35 mins to solve two leetcode medium questions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2024
Interview
2 Leetcode medium-level questions. No machine learning, all software engineering. The interviewer copy/pasted the questions, and wasn't really helpful in the process. They also asked about Big-O run times of the solutions I wrote.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode question 53. Maximum Subarray
Given an integer array nums, find the subarray with the largest sum, and return its sum.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Mar 2024
Interview
The process is very structured and well-documented. Call with an HR -> code pre-screening (45 min leet-code style interview) -> 4 panel interviews (2 leet-code coding interview, ML design, behaviour interview). For ML design preparation the best source is Grokking ML design interview preparation course. Behaviour interview is also a very formalised one, the guide in Cracking the Code Interview is a good one. I haven't reached the bar specifically on the coding interviews, unfortunately. A lot have been argued about the relevance of leet-code style interviews, for ML engineers I found them especially far from the real experience but these are the rules of the game. If you are really motivated to land a job there - practice leetcode until you lose your will to live and a bit more. It has nothing to do with your normal software development experience as an ML engineer but this is a special dance you are required to master if you want to work there.
The process itself was organised in a good way, scheduling, career portal, can't complain about them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For ML design it was about a recommendation system. For coding interviews - pick any leetcode-style medium level problem and implement it extremely fast. Be sure to correctly assess O-complexity for computation and memory