I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
Tech screen was performed over Zoom and Coderpad. The preparation package accurately captured what you can expect. Interviewer was respectful and generous.
The first 20 minutes was spent on behavioral questions.
The last 20-30 minutes coding puzzle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral portion was based on type of questions in their prep kit shared by recruiter -- leadership and conflict examples.
The coding puzzle was about medium level difficulty that were slight variations on top tagged LC questions. Just practice doing it quickly and while talking!
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2023
Interview
Interview process took about a month and a few days. Overall, recruitment were prompt. Interview round 1 was a coding interview. After you pass that there is a closed loop sections with 2 more coding, 1 System design and 1 behavioral E4.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic DSA problem solving. I would recommend doing coding problem solving practice.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2021
Interview
Ok - but coming from finance, was unprepared for geolocation algorithm questions. Hand waving with "select a data structure to efficiently look up coordinates" was not enough as the interviewer wanted me to come up with something specific.