I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2017
Interview
I had a internal referral through a former intern. Once I got into contact with the University recruiter it was several weeks and many unresponsive emails before I scheduled my first technical interview. Facebook does 2 x 45 minute CoderPad interviews with execution disabled. My interviewer wasn't very engaged and the recruiting team there are just too busy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Shortest Snippet. Given a sequence [A, x, x, B, A, x, B], return the shortest sub-sequence for the given query [A, B].
Returns: [A, x, B]
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