I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (California City, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
1. Recruiter Screening - Described about the interview process, asked background experience.
2. Technical Screening round - 2 medium leet code questions
3. Full Day loop interview consisting of 5 rounds
2 - Technical coding rounds - Each 2 coding questions of easy to medium questions.
2 - Behavioral rounds - Project experiences and classic behavioral type questions like how you handle conflict, challenging situation, the project you are proud of etc.,
1 - System Design round - Design a leetcode coding contest platform
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What have you learned from your previous company?
2. Describe a conflict at work.
3. How do you manage to work on a project where you didn’t get along with your colleagues?
4. Tell us about a time when you failed in one of your projects.
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
