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
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
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