I applied in-person. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in July 2018
Interview
Standard phone interview and an onsite loop comprising of 5 (3 Coding, 1 System Design and 1 Behavorial) interviews. The process was smooth and the interviewers were friendly and helpful. However, experience with recruiter was unpleasant. I never met the person (had a sub greet me on the day of the interview) and it's understandable at times. But after the interview, I just got a generic reject email. Upon asking for constructive feedback, the person was reluctant to share any. This was probably okay a few years ago, but in recent times, every company (including FB) takes time to communicate decision and feedback via a phone call. At a good company, I'd minimally expect the HR to exhibit people skills.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on