I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
A recruiter found my resume online and emailed me asking if I would be interested in opportunities with Facebook. We then spoke on the phone and she scheduled my first technical interview. Throughout the process the HR person was very friendly and helpful.
The technical interviews were conducted using Skype and collabedit.com. They consisted mostly of algorithms and data structures questions, and a few questions about projects I had mentioned on my resume. The first two interviewers were very friendly and positive, and I felt the interviews went very well, having answered all the questions correctly. The last interview was conducted by a grumpy engineer with a thick accent who was running 15 minutes late and sounded like he didn't want to be there. Unfortunately this put me off quite a bit, and I did not perform very well in that interview, 3 days later I heard back from HR that they wouldn't be proceeding with on-site interviews in Palo Alto.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Print a singly-linked list backwards, in constant space and linear time.
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
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.