I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Five Interviews:
Talked about a past project and deep dived into my thinking about it.
Design a probabilistic english language word tokenizer.
Design a data processing infrastructure for petabytes of data and estimate the cost & perf characteristics of the system.
Permutate ways to count up to a number using a set of potential constituents.
How to efficiently choose numbers from a set and prove that the solution is the big-O optimal solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to mathematically prove the big-O bounds of an algorithm. I was a little rusty with my math, but my interviewer helped me and I got it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Sent resume through campus career fair. They set up a phone interview within a week. I was called for on-site interviews at Menlo Park after a few days. Three interviews, lunch and campus tour, followed by two tech talks of sorts.
The questions were fairly simple. Basic trees, recursion, order of complexity etc.