I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2018
Interview
First stage involved 2-Phone Interviews with coding using collabedit like software. Couple of days later, offered on-site. Given option to fly out to Menlo Park the very next day, or interview over skype. Chose latter due to time constraints. The first interviewer (second stage), after going over experience asked to come up with a design of a simple web-based editor (like collabedit), and questions about basic tree manipulation followed (since dom was represented as tree). First interview ran long, hence late to the second one. Was asked to quickly implement a solution to the N-queens problem for the second interview. Couldn't finish answering before time ran out.
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
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