I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2017
Interview
I was referred by a friend. They then reached out and scheduled a 45 minute phone interview. I was contacted the next day and asked to come back for one of their Facebook University days to do 3-5 onsite interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked a series of technical questions (balancing parens, etc)
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Vancouver, BC) in Apr 2017
Interview
It is an onsite interview when all group interview are not available and can't be rescheduled since the hiring season is ending. We had serial engineers as interviewer in turn. They didn't had our resume and didn't know anything about us.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The most challenging problem you faced and how you solved it.
I had one on-campus interview the week right after our career fair. I made it to the second round and had one on-site interview at the Menlo Park location. They gave us a tour of the campus, fed us, and held an Oculus demo.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you store a sparse vector (meaning it has mostly zeroes). How would calculate the dot product of those two vectors?