I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter reached out to have a quick conversation about potential interest, and initial phone screen was set up about 10 days from then. 2 coding questions in 40mins. Once screening was cleared, the recruiter set up a final round of interviews (4 interviews divided across 2 days). All interviewers were nice. Coding questions were not too difficult but there's always pressure to finish coding a problem in about 20mins to do well. All coding and behavioral rounds went very well, but I certainly did not do well on the Design interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Largest common substring, dynamic programming (sentence using dictionary), custom data structure with constant time insert, lookup, recall
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env