I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2014
Interview
I went for a networking event and gave the recruiter my resume. She contacted me shortly to set up an interview. I had a tech screen which was onsite since I have an office in my city. On clearing that I had 3 more on-site interviews. After that I was asked to solve a take home puzzle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The puzzle was actually the most difficult. Since they expected an optimum solution and there were no guidelines at all.
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
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Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
