I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
HR sent me email to let me choose to interview onsite or through phone.
I choosed to do it on site. Everything was great, we had good chat at there.
The whole process tooks about 45 minutes in a small room. I was asked to code on a white wall.
The question was not that hard, but I was too nervous to code it with several obvious bug - although I figure them out by myself.
I got rejected in the next day for no reason. I've heard that they are looking for bugs-free programmer.
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