I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2014
Interview
I applied online and within a few days received a request to choose a date for a 45min technical interview. They sent me a link of the "collabedit" I think - to familiarize myself with it.
Once I got on the phone with the interviewer, she send me the link and she had already typed the problem that I had to solve. The problem statement was unclear, when I asked questions she could not explain well what she wanted, there was a lot of disturbance on the phone - so I offered to start writing some code but she would not let me write till I came up with some idea of how I would proceed with the data structure she had in mind.
Unfortunately, we spent 40 minutes just talking and brainstorming and then finally in the last 5 minutes she said I could start coding. I quickly wrote some working code, but ofcourse 5 minutes is just not enough.
Overall, I think they should have a timed online code assessment where these all issues don't come in the way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you create a dictionary with the given words?
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.