I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in May 2017
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter who did a poor job screening me for the position. I'm a front end guy and they were hiring for a PHP backend. I went through the process for the experience, and it was incredibly tough. I failed miserably on the CoderPad interview, but it was still a good experience. I say it was good because they were very respectful and communicative. They send you a bunch of tips for preparing for the technical interview. I just bombed :)
Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Meta
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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