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I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
Recruiter call then 2 live coding exercises each 45 min. Did well on first, but second was on binary trees and I had not prepped for that. You will need to do a lot of leetcode prep even for PhD level roles.
Two coding screens followed by virtual onsite. Onsite consisted of two coding interviews, one ML design, one research/behavioral. Coding interviews conducted by SWEs; questions are all on LeetCode. ML design was to design a recommendation system.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML design: how do you design a recommendation system?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2024
Interview
The full loop interview includes 4 rounds. There are two 45 mins coding interview, you need to finish 2 questions in each interview. There is 1 round machine learning system design interview, the question is related to recommendation system. There is 1 round behavior question interview.