I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2022
Interview
Screen interview did not go well because the interviewer was in a busy and noisy place and I had trouble hearing him. I asked him to move to a quieter place but he claim that his headphone had noise cancelation. He decided to ignore my request and start the interview with 6 minutes delay because of trying to check the noise cancelation. This was so stressful and distracting for me.
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