I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2015
Interview
I was referred to Facebook by a friend who works there and was contacted by a member of HR about a week later. We set up a date for a 45-minute technical phone interview which was to be held a week and a half later.
For the actual interview, I was first asked a couple of generic questions about myself and Facebook before moving on to the technical questions. There were two programming questions.
For the first question, I first described what my algorithm would be, then discussed time and space complexity before finally implementing it. My interviewer didn't have anything to say about my answer and we simply moved on.
I took the same basic approach to the second question; described my algorithm, discussed space/time complexity, and then implemented it. However, after discussing the space and time complexity for my potential solution, my interviewer asked me if I saw any draw-backs to my algorithm. I told him that it used a lot of extra space, and he asked if I could think of a more efficient (space-wise) solution. I thought about it for awhile, but unfortunately blanked out. He then suggested I just go ahead and implement my algorithm.
The last 5 or so minutes of the 45 minute interview were devoted to me asking questions. I asked a few, and the interview was over.
I received a generic rejection email 3 days later.
Given "data", "from", and "to" fields, replaces all occurrences of the characters in the "from" field in the "data" field, with their counterparts in the "to" field.
Example:
Input:
Data: "Hello World"
From: "lod"
To: "xpf"
Output:
"Hexxp Wprxf"
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I had my friend referred me to the intern position. It took about 3 weeks to hear from a recruiter. The process was pretty easy. After only one phone interview I was invited to go onsite. The phone interview takes 45 minutes. First talked about one of my previous projects. Then two technical problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first one is, given a tree, each node contains a digit. Calculate the sum of all numbers formed by paths from root to leaf.
The second one is given a string, remove all 'b's and duplicate all 'a's.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Very technical questions. Be sure to review your data structures, sorting algorithms, and syntax without a reference. They don't care much about syntax, but it might trip you up during whiteboarding. They were extremely friendly, put you up in a hotel and take good care of you during the interview. I think there were many opportunities to ask questions and learn more about the specific problems they're trying to solve.