I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2024
Interview
Recruiter was friendly and professional. Had 2 technical interviews, 1 was a code challenge and the other was an infra-related discussion. The interviewers were nice. I stumbled (not sure why), but it was a positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The infra question described maintaining a website that crashes several times a day and I was asked to troubleshoot / describe all the things that could be going wrong.
I had two screening rounds and 3 interview loop rounds, Meta leetcode questions, systems design can be extensive. Questions can be repeated so look out for all the available questions online. Systems debugging is a very important topic
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Question 1
Why Meta?
What are different internet web protocols
talk about internet.
Recuriter round then technical screen with an engineer that then final stage which is four rounds, 2 coding 1 system design and one behavioural, for Production Engineer the questions are often a mix of LC questions and practical file system operations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reading input from file
BFS/DFS Basic Graph problems
There are 2 rounds, first has PE basics and coding, second has PE basics, coding and Behavioral. Learn linux, OS, Networking in detail. They dig deep into whatever u say. Coding is usually easy, prepare file parsing questions