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).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2013
Interview
It was 4 interviews in total with a lunch break in the middle.
Two interviews are considered to be conding, one disign and one cultural with a little bit coding.
Overal algorithmic problems on the interview were pretty simple.
But they pay attention to implementation details, make sure that code actually works properly for all the cases and try different test cases.
FB provides great hotel accomodation, one of the best hotels I've ever been :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Gray code, it was lack of time on a cultural interview. I think something like 15 minutes or so it was quite challenging.
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
