I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in May 2018
Interview
Applied through a current employee referral and was contacted for a initial phone call in 2 weeks.
Afterwards, was booked for a technical phone screen. Talked to a very nice engineer who had not been at Facebook for too long. During the interview I was asked two fairly standard coding challenges dealing with strings and arrays.
Went for an onsite 2-3 weeks later. Overall, I think they could have scheduled it a little better. I was told to get there 15 minutes early which is normal and we ended up starting my interview early. (first two rounds were technical coding) We were allotted about 1.5 hr but we ended up finish a bit earlier. Afterwards, I sat in the room for about 30 minutes waiting for someone to get me for lunch. Around noontime, I was picked up for lunch by hiring manager who took me to the canteen to have lunch.
After lunch, I came back to the room to start my interviews again.
Phone screen
easy or medium on leetcode
Onsite
tree, graph, merge segments…
design news feed.
prepared through leetcode, aonecode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Diameter of binary tree. Find number of islands. Meeting room problem.
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