I applied through university. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I applied at a campus recruiting event and got an email a few days letter about scheduling an interview on campus. It was a 45 min technical one on one interview. He asked me one straightforward question (see below). A few days after the interview, I got an email inviting me to their Menlo Park location for another interview on campus. I flew out there for University Day and really enjoyed the whole experience. The interview was 45 mins again and the interviewer asked me two questions (see below). I thought I answered the questions really well in O(n) but did not get an offer.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Find all combinations of three numbers in an array that add up to zero.
Given an array of strings, return an array of arrays of anagrams.
Example:
Input: ("car", "rac", "start", "tastr")
output: (("car, "rac"), ("start", tastr"))
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.