I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter call, technical screening then virtual onsite. Onsite consisted of 2 coding challenges plus behavioural and system design. The recruiter was very helpful and allowed me to change the interview when I got sick. The coding interviews are also very intense as you have to do 2 questions in 45min. Its almost like you have to be a competitive programmer. Even tho I was able to come up with a solution to every question I wasn't able to finish writing it out so you have to be very fast with and come up with very succinct solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
## Question 1
Given a matrix with walls(1) and open spaces (0)
return the path from start to end as a list of points
## Question 2
Given 2 sorted list of disjoint intervals return the union of the 2 lists.
## Systems Design
Design a scoreboard service for a game
Each game players want to to able to view the following boards
Global top 10
Global myPosition +/- 10
Friend Group top 10
Friend Group myPosition +/- 10
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
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env