I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2015
Interview
Applied through Career Fair at my University, Got called for an On campus interview.
The Interviewer was very helpful. Started off with discussing my resume and asked two questions based on algorithms. The interview lasted for 45 minutes.
Waiting to hear back
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Balance a String of unbalanced Parenthesis ?
Q. Iterator class for binary tree.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
Initial 45 minute screen: whiteboard coding problem, algorithmically simple, but with oddities.
Full loop: 6 x 45-minute sessions: 2 coding, 2 design, 1 cultural/technical (tell a story about a difficult experience and how I overcame), 1 lunch (off-the-record chance to ask tons of questions about company culture)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a real-time type-ahead search-phrase predictor which presents the top-10 ranked search strings that begin with a given prefix.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2015
Interview
Phone screen test of duration 45 mins where interviewer started with briefly describing what he works on and straight away went to asking the interview question. Towards the end he left 5 minutes for me to ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string 12345 and a alphabet to number mapping like a =1, b =2.., y=25, z=26 write a code to find number of possible alphabet strings from the given string.
E.x. string 12345 has possible alphabet strings as {lcde,awde, abcde}.