I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Austin, TX) in Sept 2017
Interview
I got this interview after going to a career fair that my university hosts each semester. During the career fair I talked to the people at Facebook and less than a week later I received an e-mail saying that I had been chosen for an interview. The interview was like a week after I got that e-mail and it was an in-campus 1:1 50-minute interview. The interviewer was a software engineer that worked at the Instagram branch of Facebook. The interview went well, but it wasn't flawless (it took me longer to come up with a solution than it should've). Thus, unfortunately, I wasn't chosen for the next phase of the hiring process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that takes a string and tells whether the string is a valid string or not. The string consists of only '[', ']', '{', '}', '(', and ')'. A string is valid only if for every opening bracket/parenthesis there is a matching closing bracket/parenthesis.
no referral, directly applied online.
1 takehome with blue jean
2 technical rounds
- easy lc in first round
- easy-medium lc in second round
that was sufficient for intern level interview
I applied through university. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
First step in person (University recruiting), two coding problems at the blackboard and 5 minutes for questions to the interviewer.
Second step remotely. A quarter behavioural and the rest three quarters of an hour for 2 coding problems.
I felt a strong connection to the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Motivations that brought me there.
Questions about SWEish experiences I had through my university career, both general (topic like particular challenges, collaboration) and more specific (experience with particular libraries).
Did the OA, the OA was 4 questions, passed, and then had an interview with a software engineer at Meta - still waiting to hear results back! I took it yesterday so fingers crossed
