I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2016
Interview
General discussion on resume and previous professional experience and resume projects. I was given preference between Java and Python for coding.
One coding question. It was supposed to be completed in 30 mins. Asked me to dry run the code and find bugs myself. Also was asked for the complexity of my code.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
It was quick and not drawn down at all. Had a call with recruiter and then a call with HM after that it was a loop.
Every interviewer was very smart and kind. The whole process took a month (it could have been faster if I was not traveling in between)
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The preliminary LeetCode was rather easy.
The Loop round had two LeetCode problems, behavioral and system design. The LeetCode ones were pretty fair.
For system design, I got stuck on a DB question about the leaderboard design, and didn't go beyond that. Technically Sorted Sets in Redis. That system design interview was probably my weakest link in that particular process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a Game Leaderboard, showing top scores and rankings. And quickly retrieving score and rank of each player