I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2015
Interview
Applied through career fair. Got an on campus interview call after one week. Interview was scheduled 3 weeks after I got the email about being selected for the interview process. Facebook also hosted a dinner for all the people who were being interviewed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself, why facebook etc etc...
Then he asked my 'read' system call implementation, he provided me with a base file system interface which would always fetch 4k bytes from the current position. I had to make sure I read only as much bytes as specified in my system call
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