I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2024
Interview
For the first round interview, it starts promptly with a very short introduction. Then the interviewer will ask you two questions in which you will have around 20 mins to solve. You should discuss your solution with your interviewer before typing it out on coder pad. The interviewer will move on if you take too long to solve a question in order to give you equal time for both questions. If you use up all time you won't have any time to ask any questions at the end, so you should aim not to take up too much time on these questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 2d matrix, write an algorithm to navigate from the top left of the matrix to the bottom right of the matrix. The catch is that the matrix has some spots that are blocked in which you can't traverse that position. They can be represented as 1's vs open spaces can be represented as 0s. The solution should return the path as a list of coordinates (it should be in order of the traversal).
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
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