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      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 9, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Menlo Park, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2012

      Interview

      I was cold-called by a recruiter and offered a technical interview. I scheduled the interview, but in the meantime, I received an offer from another company, and canceled the interview. Later, I decided to re-apply for the same position and the process continued where it was left. I was interviewed by phone and asked to complete a coding assignment. As I discovered later, this assignment appears here as one of the questions. Later, I was notified I passed the phone screening and was invited for an on-site interview. There was a total of 4 interviews, including three coding interviews. Even though most of the questions appeared on this site, I did not do very well in the coding part, thus, as expected, did not receive the offer. Throughout the entire process, the hiring staff was extremely helpful and provided lots of information regarding the position, and the interviewing process itself. The recruiter also organized a phone call with on of the engineers to help me learn more about the position I was applying for. While at Menlo Park, I was accompanied by the recruiter and she showed me all around the campus.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      None of the questions were difficult, or unexpected. Most of them appear on this site.
      1 Answer

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