I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2016
Interview
1. Referral
2. Got contacted by recruiter, scheduled a technical phone screen
3. The technical phone screen, two coding questions
4. Onsite interview invitation
5. Onsite interview, one 1:1 technical interview, didn't quite figure out the coding problem, then lunch and campus tour
6. Two week later no response. I had to ask the recruiter and referer for the no offer response
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
