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.
The process is straightforward and designed to help us get to know each other. It moves through a few stages at a comfortable pace, involves conversations with several team members, and focuses on making sure it's a good mutual fit.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Had an initial recuriter call and then scheduled a coding round with 2 leetcode questions. Practicing Meta-tagged leetcode questions would help prepare for this round. Interviewers expect clear communication and code.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 2,265 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 2,265 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 1%
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