I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018
Interview
Applied for SWE positions but never heard back for those positions. Recruiter contacted me for a Data Engineer position because I had a little experience in it. It was a pretty bad experience overall.
1) She didnt book the meeting room long enough so she got kicked out of the conference room and was running around trying to find a room and was at some point panting because she needed to go up so many stairs
2) Didnt have any technical background whatsoever so she asked me to elaborate on everything and speak slow so she could write it all down
3) Tested me with 5 questions but was never told it was going to be technical. 3 were easy 2 of them I didnt know the technical term for but have done it in my previous job
4) Kind of talked to me condescendingly because in my new role I am not a Data Engineer but a SWE backend
5) Didnt offer to look up my old applications (said she has no idea and cant find it in the system) and by old I mean like 2 weeks ago I submitted for 2 positions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 Very very easy questions
How would you find kth highest number in 2D matrix
Describe star schema
When is it best to use star schema over snowflake
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env