I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
got a dm from a meta recruiter on linkedin. process was super fast. initial recruiter screen was the usual - background and checking alignment on level (e4/e5). then a technical phone screen with two lc style coding questions, mostly mediums around arrays and strings.
the onsite was 4 rounds total. first was a coding round (traditional ds/algo stuff), then sys design where i had to design a real-time collaborative editor - really had to watch out for concurrency and scaling - they keep talking about it. third was leadership & drive, mostly situational stuff like handling conflict or project tradeoffs. the most interesting one was the new ai-assisted coding round. it's not like leetcode - you’re working in a real codebase with multiple files and an ai sidebar. had to build a feature into an existing structure and honestly, it’s tricky because you have to critique the ai output and not just blindly copy it lol. i was a bit shaky on the system design and how to actually 'collab' with the ai without looking like i was cheating, so i did a few mocks on prepfully with a meta swe. that helped a ton with my structure and how to pipeline my thoughts while the ai was generating code so i didn't just sit there idle. got the offer 2 weeks later, team seems great so far!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of strings, write a function to return all strings that are anagrams.
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.
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
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.