I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2017
Interview
This was for a new grad position. Gave my resume at a career fair, heard back a few days later for an on-campus interview. Interview was fairly easy though I didn't think I did well, but heard back a few days later saying they wanted to schedule an onsite. Onsite was two algorithmic interviews and one behavioral plus a bunch of events selling us on Facebook. Algorithmic interviews were very standard Leetcode; interviewers were friendly. Behavioral was asking a ton of standard behavioral questions off a list. The guy very clearly did not want to be doing this interview and it was sort of uncomfortable. Got an expected rejection a couple of weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode easy-medium for the first interview and medium-hards for the onsites. Standard STAR questions for the behavioral.
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place