I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Feb 2015
Interview
Worst interview I've ever had. The interviewer had a very thick accent, the simple problem was purposely conveyed in the most convoluted way possible, and the phone line they were using was not a great connection. It took me 30 mins, just to understand what she was talking about. Even after that, I still got the problem mostly correct (except for one small error), and then was told it was "totally wrong". This indicates that Facebook interviewers are poorly trained, arrogant, and encouraged to needlessly complicate interview problems. Would never interview with them again. But whatever, I would have accepted the offer I got from Google anyway.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Ensure that there are a minimum of n dashes between any two of the same characters of a string.
Example: n = 2, string = "ab-bcdecca" -> "ab--bcdec--ca"
(dead simple problem, however it was expressed as some complicated event system.)
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