I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. We scheduled a phone interview. The phone interviewer asked me about my background and then a coding question. He let me know that I did well at the end of interview. The next day, I got a call from recruiter and told me that they would like me to come onsite. I was also forwarded to another recruiter. Both the recruiters had been helpful along the way. I had two coding rounds, two design rounds and one behavioral round onsite. I may have made couple of mistakes in behavioral round, and some mistakes in other rounds. I was not very confident of getting through, but thought there could be a slim chance. I did not hear back from the recruiter for seven days, so I followed up. The recruiter mentioned she will get back to me as soon as she has an update. Three days later, I received a reject email.
Overall, I liked the interview process and everyone was great. I would have appreciated a call, just as a courtesy. The lack of courtesy seemed to me that the recruiter did not seem as much enthusiastic after on-site compared to before the on-site interview. It is understandable though, but she was thoroughly professional whenever I worked with her.
One more thing, if Facebook has so high a rejection rate, it is better to have phone screen + a video call screen, before bringing people in. It will save them some money, and save time from my side.
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