I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in May 2019
Interview
Phone call with recruiter, phone technical screen followed by on site technical interview. Overall a fast process and recruiters were also fast in scheduling and responding. Company culture is very nice. Employees seemed happy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tech phone screen was general tech conversation of technologies worked on, projects and past work experience and telling me about the work and culture at Sage Intacct. The interviewer was very sweet and polite.
On Site:
All Questions were Leetcode HARD level questions variations, being copy pasted or typed exactly from Leetcode HackerRank by looking at screen.
1 was a tricky variation of the number of islands question from LeetCode, one was a super hard DP problem similar to coins problem of Leetcode. I mentioned to the interveiwer that although a DP solution is available, I am not comfortable with DP and hence doing the iterative version, he reacted in a very confused way as to 'why DP/what DP'. After I gave the full solution on the board, the interviewer didn't seem interested in discussing the approach or anything else. He just wanted me to write the same code from the board on HackerRank coding screen and submit it. Obviously, in the last 12-14 min, I couldn't complete this question at all.
This was followed by a system design question about online collaborative editing tool.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Feb 2019
Interview
Recruiters went to my college, prepared the students that were interest in taking a technical interview. It was amazing and an organize event. 3 months later I took 2 interviews of 45 min long. Both interview was about data structures style problem. After finishing we talked a little about me.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2018
Interview
Applied by referral, got a phone interview from the company asking about myself based on my resume and some algorithm questions. The signal was terrible but they proceed the interview anyway.