I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
They came to campus an hosted open office hours. It was an overwhelmingly positive experience at that point. I dropped my resume and was later (2 weeks) contacted by a recruiter; who scheduled a 45 minute interview with a SWE. The SWE seems distracted and was almost mad at me for logging in experimenting with text editor beforehand, which threw me off. Lesson learned - everyone can have a bad day, don't expect the up beat attitude characterized by the recruiters from every interviewing SWE.
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
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