I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2012
Interview
A friend of mine working there referred me to the recruiter. The recruiter promptly contacted me to set up a phone interview and asked me what I want from my career and if I like fast paced working environment. Everything was very smooth and professional.
The phone interview lasted about an hour and I was asked to write codes on some collaboration editing web site like google doc.
The problem to solve and a couple of function headings were already given in the web page.
The question was about the binary tree. I was supposed to write a function to return the next node in inorder traversal sequence. In itself, it looks complicated but, there was a funciton heading called, init(), that you can use to preprocess and add any data structure you need.
I somehow missed this initially and found this too late :(
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Meta
very friendly and flexible interviewers. They all asked Leetecode medium questions. There were no tricky algorithms or data structures. The whole process took about 4 weeks from start to finish. overall a positive experience.
standard leetcode gatekeepers. nothing special about it. they expect you to solve multi problems, about 3 in total if you manage to solve, then they would consider. experience doesn't matter, your correct answer matters
The whole interview process took about a month, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. It began with a technical phone screen where I tackled a DSA question about arrays. This led to a more in-depth technical round that included a design question on building a real-time leaderboard system. Funny enough, that prompt was almost identical to what I practiced on PracHub, which felt like a lucky coincidence. The final interview was a bit more relaxed, covering behavioral topics. I ended up getting an offer, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design an online game leaderboard system that updates player scores in real time
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Background check: 4%
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Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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