I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I got a chance of phone interview with Facebook through Interviewstreet about a year and a half ago and failed quickly, mostly because I'm not a native English speaker and I am really bad at speaking English. I keep practicing English after that, then I got another chance 2 months ago, recommended by a friend interning at Facebook.
The recruiter return to me very quickly, in less than a week, but I'm very busy and not well prepared at that time, so I did the phone interview a month later. I was asked to solve an easy coding problem, I finished it very quickly but made a small mistake in analyzing the complexity. I only found that mistake after the interview. The interviewer is very experienced, I have a great time talking to him after the coding phrase.
Then I got a chance to onsite. I had 3 interviews. 2 interviewers asked coding problems and 1 asked coding problems and also talked about my projects in resume. The problems are harder than the problem in phone interview. I really struggled at 1 of them. But I think I did a good job at another ones. The interviewer who talking with me about my projects is from a strong background and seems a little tough, I must say I was very nervous when talking to him, but luckily it turned out well.
In overall, the recruiters and the interviewers are all very nice. I am not familiar with the process of interviewing with companies in U.S and asked so many questions, the recruiters replied very quickly.
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
