Easy question but the interviewer insisted on finding the most optimal solution that took a lot longer. Could have been done in 4 lines using brute force. Just practice hackerrank and leetcode and don't be nervous. The interviewer was pretty nice and helped me calm down a lot during the interview but I couldn't finish my code as I spent way too much time on discussion.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Scheduled phone screening around February first week of this year. The interviewer called asked a typical question which I solved for the most part and answered few of his additional question. Nothing felt was going extremely bad. However, there wasn't any second question or any specific question for me. Lot of background noise was coming from the interviewer side. In the end, I asked few questions and interviewer ended by saying thanks. There wasnt much enthusiasm from his part. It felt i was not cutting out to his standard but lack of interaction from his part made him very hard to read.
After more than two months now, I haven't yet heard a courteous rejection from FB. Reached out more than two times. I have appeared in FB interview a year back and the process went smoothly. The recuriter this time reached out early and i had to tell her that I appeared less than an year back. When it was just an year past, i reached out and the phone screening was scheduled.
It just feels the recruiting process has lost its finesse. If I have spent my time preparing, the least i can expect from my recruiter is to let me know of the outcome.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
FB has a very standard interview process. Practice Leetcodes top 100 most frequently asked questions for facebook .
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Mar 2019
Interview
I submitted my resume and was contacted for an interview ~4 months later. I did one phone interview and was sent a message saying they did not wish to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I signed an NDA but it was a simple coding question related to numbers in an array