I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
The whole process went by incredibly quickly. After applying directly to a recruiter, I completed a coding challenge through HackerRank as part of the screening process. I then received a call from the recruiter to walk me through the interview steps, which was a very kind gesture to make towards an intern.
After that, there were two phone interviews, each just a week apart. Both went rather smoothly, but I was rejected by email just hours after the second interview. While no feedback was provided, and although I thought the technical portion of the interviews went well, I have a hunch that they were looking for someone with more university and extracurricular project experience, something which I lacked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were some simple questions on array sorting, integer to string parsing, and a question on merging intervals that I got in another interview with another firm.
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