I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Austin, TX) in Oct 2016
Interview
Technical Phone Interview: A programming problem online while on the phone with an engineer. I had a HUGE unfair disadvantage because the engineer was very uncertain about the problem I was given. About halfway through, I had completed what I thought was the problem only for him to tell me I misunderstood the problem. After redoing it to meet his guidelines with the remaining time, he then informed me that "due to a communication error, my original solution was the right way". But after about 5 minutes of trying to revert the code, he said he was sorry that we're out of time and maybe next time I'd have better luck. Utterly ridiculous - I wanted to complain to the recruiter but I didn't because it makes it seem like I'm just bitter about "not passing" the interview and will be reapplying next winter.
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Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Meta
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
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