I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
Awful overall process. Had a phone interview and then on-site. On site interview was too generic. Facebook followed up with asking for references, then academic transcript which took two weeks. Then Facebook asked me to solve a coding puzzle and after one month, said no. The overall process was unorganized and length and even if I had gotten a job offer, I don't think it was pleasant in any way. In contrast, Google's interview process was much smoother and they replied within a week of on-site. Facebook should learn a thing or two from Google.
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