I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
You get initial interview close to where you live, and then they fly you over to Menlo Park. Flying and interview at Menlo Park was a waste of time, since I answered all the questions, but then they said they have too many other good candidates. The place seems dated (old Sun building), not very well designed, filled with people who think they are cool and changing the world, but feels more like software sweatshop: open space, peer pressure, overworked staff, crowded. I wonder what will happen to them once they will get out of favor on stock market. They seem to be wasting a lot of money on unrefined processes; the company still feels immature.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
First, I was contacted by the company recruiter through LinkedIn, then I had a phone conversation with some technical questions, next, I got a screen interview. You can take either online or in person. Since I was only 15 minutes drive from Facebook, I took it in person; within two days, I was invited for the onsite interview that took almost a day including free lunch there. They asked me if I want more time to prepare the interviews. I said I wanted the interviews soon. In respective, it was a mistake on my side. I did not prepare enough.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of several design questions was to design a website to accept a long URL and provide a shorted URL.
Programming questions are all fundamental data structure questions, like lists, trees, arrays, and maps. One of the questions was to determine whether a given binary tree is a binary search tree.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
After an initial phone call, you will do a 1 hour online coding exam with another developer. If you get past this stage, they will invite you onsite. You will talk with 5 different people with questions around coding and design.