I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2013
Interview
1. Phone screen - coding questions solved over phone, using an online shared doc.
2. On-site interview - A day of 5 interviews, 45 minutes each. Two whiteboard coding interviews, one personality interview (how do you face conflicts at work etc.), one system architecture interview (high-level system design).
3. Offer process - my recruiter was very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system to recommend "People you may know" to every person using the service.
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