I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
On campus interview followed by an onsite interview. Great interviewers, very nice and helpful - answered all my questions about facebook's technology and the job's tasks. The interviews themselves weren't too hard, pretty standard DSA questions. The process was very quick as I had competing offers, but it was still pretty slow to set up the onsite interview after the on-campus round. I got delayed a week later than I wanted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard DSA questions, personal interests, why Facebook
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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