I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2024
Interview
Recruiter call, 60 min Technical Interview, 4 hour Interview Day. No one allowed me to introduce myself. I've never had so many interviews where the person conducting it is trying to get through it ASAP. I asked one of them if they could tell me more about Meta's work environment having a people centric approach. She declined saying they just had layoffs (this was before the recent ones that went viral) so she didn't feel good about talking about the company caring for its employees. They all seemed sad or had an air of over self-importance. I didn't do well, but there was no love lost from my side. I will never want to try to work here. ever.
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.
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