I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2010
Interview
An HR contacted me and said I should complete one of their three hardest puzzles. The puzzle was interesting, but the fact that I spent 2.5 days to do that (1 day was spent on submitting it in a correct way so that the puzzle robot accepts it), and it won't help when interviewing anywhere else, annoyed me.
I then had a phone interview.
The guy was very clever, which was nice.
The questions were: what is the most exciting project you had, and
white a function to multiply two arbitrarily large integers.
I spent quite a while writing a recursive solution for the problem, made some mistakes during that, but fixed those purely by myself. The interviewer did not provide any feedback during the process when I described my "way of thinking" and the programming, so I even had to ask whether he was on the line. With phone interview, not feedback is a bit too harsh, imho.
Then I was asked to write an iterative solution, and I completed it as well. I did not write the solutions easily, and my way of explaining was not perfectly clear and great, but I solved what I was asked.
Then the HR contacted me saying they won't consider me anymore this year. I politely asked for feedback, but got the answer that there is nothing to share. Quite surprising for a social-oriented company.
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.