I applied through university. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Everything was great until I had the phone interview. It was by far the worst phone interview experience I've ever had.
1) The interviewer did not speak English well and refused to move to a more quiet location.
2) The problems were easy, and after getting solutions the interviewer asked me to make impossible optimizations. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do this problem O(1) space; in fact, the interviewer's on solution runs in O(n) space.
But apparently I had to do this, even though I had a working O(n) space and time solution 5 minutes in. If my interviewer does have a working O(1) solution for this, someone should award him the Turing Prize.
no referral, directly applied online.
1 takehome with blue jean
2 technical rounds
- easy lc in first round
- easy-medium lc in second round
that was sufficient for intern level interview
I applied through university. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
First step in person (University recruiting), two coding problems at the blackboard and 5 minutes for questions to the interviewer.
Second step remotely. A quarter behavioural and the rest three quarters of an hour for 2 coding problems.
I felt a strong connection to the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Motivations that brought me there.
Questions about SWEish experiences I had through my university career, both general (topic like particular challenges, collaboration) and more specific (experience with particular libraries).
Did the OA, the OA was 4 questions, passed, and then had an interview with a software engineer at Meta - still waiting to hear results back! I took it yesterday so fingers crossed
