I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I was referred internally by my friend. I attended a phone interview after contacted by a recruiter. The interviewer actually told me directly on the phone that I should work more on my coding skill. So I was totally surprised to learn that the interviewer's feedback was positive and they'll continue with my application.
All the following process was mostly coordinated by another recruiter, who is very responsive and I greatly appreciate his help. The on-site interview had 2 sessions before noon and 3 after, with the last one and lunch time not being evaluated.
Originally I was told that I'll hear the result the next week, but instead I waited 2 weeks and learned that I didn't make it. The recruiter did emphasize that I was really close, and also let me know that it was the system design question that I didn't perform well. (There was yet another coding question that I found difficult, but the recruiter told me that they had no problem with my coding skill.)
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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