I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
I applied through Career Fair in College and got called for on-campus interview. After 2 weeks, the interviewer notified me to go for an on-site interview. I chose San Francisco, at the headquarter of Facebook. The first question is easy when you only have to dfs or bfs to find all adjacent areas. The second question took place at the on-site, and it was a little bit harder than first one
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 2-d matrix with each cell contains a character from the alphabet. Given a word, verify if the exist in this matrix. A word is called to exist in a matrix if there is a path from cells to cells in the matrix and this path creates a word that matches the word we're looking for. a cell could move to all vertex-adjacent cells (so there are 8 adjacent cells) and cannot use a cell more than once
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target