I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2014
Interview
I applied online for the front end developer position and heard back the next day from a recruiter. We chatted over phone and she was very interested in my skills, so she gave me a coding challenge to complete. I was given an image, and asked to recreate the image in HTML/CSS/javascript with the functionality specified in an accompanying document. I finished it the same day it was given and gave them the code. Two days later the developers had reviewed my solution and asked to set up a Skype interview. It was an hour long interview where he asked about my experiences and we coded together online. They were two javascript coding puzzles (not exactly a clear representation of front end development skills). I got both of the puzzles working, but the next day they said they would not be moving forward with me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given an array where each entry can be another array, and so forth, flatten the array. [4, [3, 6, [9, 1, 9, [5, 1]]], 8] -> [4, 3, 6, 9, 1, 9, 5, 1, 8]
Meta’s interview process consists of the following steps:
Call with a Meta recruiter
Technical phone screen (and possibly a second technical phone screen)
Onsite interviews
Meta's technical phone screen is a 45-minute coding interview that focuses on data structures and algorithms.
At the beginning of the interview, your interviewer will ask you a question or two about your resume and recent work that you've done. This portion will take 5 minutes, and how you answer these questions doesn't meaningfully factor into the interview's outcome - they are just meant to break the ice and get you talking. The part that matters is the technical portion.
Didn't pass the first round but its a great experience. Questions include like basic data structures with stack and queue in javascript, they ask how would you write stack or queue in javascript so be prepared to know data structures and algorithms.
Technical video interview where I was asked to solve two problems that were frontend related. I was happy that they weren't algorithm-specific. They applied directly to understanding the browser and Javascript
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create an event emitter that stores events and then calls them