I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I contacted a fb recuitor and was selected for 2 skype interviews. The first one is a iOS concept related multiple-choices interviews. The second one is a technical interview with an iOS engineer.
In the second interview, i was asked with 2 questions about iOS concept and 2 questions about algorithm.
You have a simple tree structure Ⓐ and its clone ⓐ. Given an original tree's node Ⓑ, find and return the cloned tree's node ⓑ that is the clone of node Ⓑ.
Each node in the tree has a pointer to it's parent as well as an array of it's children.
Original Clone
Ⓐ ⓐ
┏━┻━━┓ ┏━┻━━┓
◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
┏┻┓ ┏━╋━┓ ┏┻┓ ┏━╋━┓
◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
┏┻┓ ┃ ┏┻┓ ┃
◯ Ⓑ ◯ ◯ ⓑ ◯
Three sections of Interview round.
First round Behavioral questions .
Second round Data Structures .
Discussions at the end. The questions were related to data structures and algorithms. Online interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Three sections of Interview round. Behavioral questions . Data Structures . Discussions
It was just as they described except that the interviewers came with their biased personality. I hate, hate, hate interviewing for meta. Always arrogant and I think ageist. When you think of tech bros, this is it. I will never bother with them again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a method to detect where in the coordinate space you are and validate some requirements. Super easy stuff but having an intuition that answers the question immediately is not what they want.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Aug 2025
Interview
Met with recruiter. Went over process. Didn't seem to be a good fit for the particular role. Said I would hear back for a position that would be more fitting and then never heard back again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about personal contributions to projects, and specifically contributions that helped deliver solutions at scale.