I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Recruiter contacted me. It was followed by a phone screen where I was asked to solve a problem on coderpad.
I was brought onsite to the Menlo Park office where I had to go through 4 rounds of interview - one career discussion+coding, two completely coding and one system design.
The office seemed pretty dead and so did the people. During the design round, the interviewer never gave me any feedback and was busy typing on his phone the entire time. The lunch interviewer found it hard to smile it seemed. Overall, the place gave a pretty negative vibe to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can't disclose because of NDA. You can find everything on Leetcode.
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.