I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2018
Interview
I am excited about interview process. Interviewer was very friendly and helps me to understand hiring process a lot. First general HR manager have contacted me, tell about the company and role of the SW engineer, then asked to tell about myself to see "soft skills" - ability to communicate and check how I act in different situations at work. Then we agreed about technical interview. Tech interviewer checks programming skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General programmer skills, algorithms, data structures and system design. You can find set of question in the book "Cracking coding interview"
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