I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Tampa, FL) in Jun 2013
Interview
Contacted by recruiter, set up phone interview. Spoke with interviewer and was asked to implement Fibonacci sequence. Knowing that there are several methods of implementing it based on what is important (space, runtime) and what the goal is (for N > large values there's a constant time solution) Interviewer was unable to answer questions on the use and instead just told me to "just write something". I proceeded to implement the algorithm three ways.
I asked a friend there if he knew the interviewer, found out later that the interviewer was reading off a script and that's why he couldn't explain the requirements better.
Several weeks later was told they decided not to continue forward.
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