I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Applied online via a referral to a different role (Partner Engineer) but was instead rerouted and interviewed for a Software Engineer- New Grad in Washington DC in February 2018. These jobs are coveted so I understand there is a lot of volume but I was never even contacted by a recruiter about the intent to interview for a different instead.
Anyway, ended up interviewing because at the end of the day I was trying to get in the door so I didn't make even bother to ask why I was now interviewing for this new role instead. Ended up having a phone interview with a manger from an Engineering team. Had a virtual call with a live coding test for ~45 minutes. Thought my solutions were at least acceptable to pass a virtual call test but I get theres a standard of quality I didn't show in my code. Hard to be personable over the phone but the whole thing felt very dull and transactional. Interviewer honestly didn't seem to care about my past work at all and seemed to ask those questions redundantly. Conversation felt very impersonal in general.
At end of it, I did realize I had never applied to Facebook with the intent of this role to begin with so I know I wasn't the best fit when it came down to it but I sort of felt that I got blatantly ignored by the company and siloed off immediately to a New Grad position with no communication about the reasoning .
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Encode a binary tree is one i specifically remember, some other data structure/algo stuff as well
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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.
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Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
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