I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter call, technical screening then virtual onsite. Onsite consisted of 2 coding challenges plus behavioural and system design. The recruiter was very helpful and allowed me to change the interview when I got sick. The coding interviews are also very intense as you have to do 2 questions in 45min. Its almost like you have to be a competitive programmer. Even tho I was able to come up with a solution to every question I wasn't able to finish writing it out so you have to be very fast with and come up with very succinct solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
## Question 1
Given a matrix with walls(1) and open spaces (0)
return the path from start to end as a list of points
## Question 2
Given 2 sorted list of disjoint intervals return the union of the 2 lists.
## Systems Design
Design a scoreboard service for a game
Each game players want to to able to view the following boards
Global top 10
Global myPosition +/- 10
Friend Group top 10
Friend Group myPosition +/- 10
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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