had a screening call first. after was invited for an onsite interview. There were many tricky questions, mostly leet code stuff that everyone should know. Had some system design problems as well
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DP: given an input and pattern solve a regex expression matching support for '.' and '*'
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2024
Interview
The HR was superb, clear and concise communication, frequent reminders. He reached out via mail, phone, WhatsApp just to get information passed across
My interviewer: he was cool but frank!
The interview process was very structured. You were given access to a portal where you can practice algorithms from rather easy to more difficult. The data structures used there are ones that may be used in the real interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a problem, discuss your solution with the interviewer, then what data structure you will use. Then pseudocode and later code the answer.