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      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 23, 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Palo Alto, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      I had one coding phone interview, I was invited for an on-site interview at Palo Alto. The process was quite fast. On site interview was 4 sessions: 2 coding, 1 system design, 1 behavioral and research experience (in happened in this order with a lunch break in the middle). Onsite interviews happened in a tiny 2 square meter room. The room temperature was unadjustable, and it got too hot and stuffy inside. It was almost like a torture room. On my 1st coding interview, while I was writing code on the board, the interviewer sat at the table and played with his phone most of the interview. I was thinking out load and explaining what am I doing but he was not listening to me at all. When I asked a question he responded "Huh?". He was rude and did not have any manners. 2nd coding interviewer was much nicer, stood up with me the whole time while I was coding on the board and followed what I was doing and helped me along. This is how it should be... 3rd interviewer came to the interview 5-10 minutes late in a hurry, and was too arrogant. Close to end of the system design interview, he asked me question, I answered but he did not seem to be satisfied with my answer. Then he said "You could do X, but anyway we do not have time left.", X is a technical term with I did not think about. 2 interviewers were East Asians, 1 of them was South Asian and 1 of them was an Asian-American. It felt like I am in Asia. Also, definitely do not dress up for this interview, jeans is more than enough. One of my interviewer was wearing lousy sweatpants and a t-shirt.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. You have a string consisting of open and closed parentheses, but parentheses may be imbalanced. Make the parentheses balanced and return the new string. 2. You have a string of numbers, i.e. 123. You can insert a + or - sign in front of ever number, or you can leave it empty. Find all of the different possibilities, make the calculation and return the sum. For example; +1+2+3 = 6 +12+3 = 15 +123 = 123 +1+23 = 24 ... -1-2-3 = 6 ... Return the sum of all the results. 3. How do you design google search auto complete? 4. Classic behavioral questions
      1 Answer
      6

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