Interviewer flaked. Twice. Went through with the rest of the process somewhat smoothly. LC questions were as expected, just practice a healthy mix of all problem types. The system design interviewer will play the devil's advocate, so prepare accordingly. Write out STAR scenarios to reference during the behavioral.
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Smattering of medium LC questions. System design whiteboard session. Behavioral questions from a manager, mostly related to how you deal with managers like pivoting or going "above and beyond" for the team.
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
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
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Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
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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.
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Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env