I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2014
Interview
Met Facebook engineers who referred me to the recruiter. The recruiter contacted me three weeks after I met the engineers. Set up round 1 phone screen within the next 2 weeks of our first email exchange. Facebook does move pretty fast with the recruiting process. The recruiter contacted me again about 2 days after round 1 interview to set up round 2. Round 2 was about 3 weeks after round 1.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Matching two strings, one is text, the other one is chars and dots and asterisks, each of which represents something. Similar to ones on CareerCup.
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
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