I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Dec 2023
Interview
Recruiter call, then phone screen with coding, then on-site with two coding rounds (each with two coding questions), product design, and behavioral.
Overall, not too hard, mostly leetcode mediums. Product design was also not too bad, one of the common problems. Did pretty well on coding rounds, but seems I didn't get the offer maybe because of behavioral or design.
But the recruiter was not very helpful. Very slow in responding and ghosts some emails. No feedback at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you had to make priority calls.
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