I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I was contacted by a Facebook recruiter via Linkedin and told that my profile indicated that I might be a good fit for one of their software roles. We set up an initial phone call and I filled out a basic email survey about my professional experience. One of the first questions on the phone was "tell me about your experience as a web developer". I have none, which I admitted in the pre-call survey and is obvious from my Linkedin profile. That seemed to be a big problem. The recruiter said he needed to check with his manager, then hung up and I never heard back.
I still use facebook, but I have no interest in ever working there now.
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
