I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2019
Interview
The first round of interview consists of phone screen which takes about 45-50 minutes. The interview asks about a coding problem, during that time. No questions from the resume are asked in this round. At the end of this first stage process, the interviewer also gives time to ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They only asked one programming challenge problem during phone interview.
The question was of 'Valid Parentheses', that is given a string containing parentheses, we need to remove all those parentheses which are invalid, and return the resulting string.
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place