I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Chatted with an recruiter, who then directed me to the recruiter for Facebook Seattle. She had a list of multiple choice android questions as a really quick initial screen. After that had a skype interview with an engineer there. Mostly coding questions worked through in an online shared textpad environment. After that had a day with 4 onsite interviews. One was around system design, one was on career so far/career goals, and two more coding interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager.
Took about a month altogether, which felt longer given the intensity of the process. Kicked off with a technical screening, followed by two rigorous coding interviews. The DSA question on binary tree vertical order traversal hit me hard at first, but then I recognized the prompt instantly — I had just worked through something similar on PracHub. The final round was focused on system design, and while I ended up receiving an offer, I ultimately declined it. Overall, a challenging experience that definitely sharpened my skills.
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