I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2023
Interview
Recruiter reached out. Quick initial chat. Scheduled a tech screen interview. Coding over coderpad.io. Interviewer showed up half awake, kept rubbing his eyes, wasn't very involved in the process. I barely finished the first part of the question and we ran out of time. Interviewer cut me off and went off to some meeting. I gave the whole process a positive rating still, because Meta's process is actually very impressive. The engineering manager who interviewed me wasn't very good, but that's not Meta's fault imo. I've 15 years of experience with stellar referrals so getting denied because it takes me 40 minutes to manipulate a Linked List is disappointing still. The modern interview process is pretty bad.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Clone a LinkedList, with a twist. Overall pretty easy question, just know your data structures, cram leetcode for 2-3 months, and you'll be good.
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