I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter call, technical screening then virtual onsite. Onsite consisted of 2 coding challenges plus behavioural and system design. The recruiter was very helpful and allowed me to change the interview when I got sick. The coding interviews are also very intense as you have to do 2 questions in 45min. Its almost like you have to be a competitive programmer. Even tho I was able to come up with a solution to every question I wasn't able to finish writing it out so you have to be very fast with and come up with very succinct solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
## Question 1
Given a matrix with walls(1) and open spaces (0)
return the path from start to end as a list of points
## Question 2
Given 2 sorted list of disjoint intervals return the union of the 2 lists.
## Systems Design
Design a scoreboard service for a game
Each game players want to to able to view the following boards
Global top 10
Global myPosition +/- 10
Friend Group top 10
Friend Group myPosition +/- 10
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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.