I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
The process consisted of multiple stages that took several months. First was a phone call with their in-house recruiter. Next was an optional practice interview (which was just like a regular screening interview). Next was the actual screening interview. If you pass the screening interview, you get moved on to the full-loop interview process. Mine consisted of two technical interviews, one behavior interview, and one API design interview (if I remember correctly). The entire interview process took place remotely (I forget which video meeting service was used).
After my full-loop interview, it took over six weeks to finally receive a rejection. The wait was intense.
The entire process took almost exactly 4 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with someone and how you resolved it.
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
