I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Since I had some industry experience, after my phone screens, I had the full onsite interview loop. All interviews involve some coding, but they vary in how much:
- 2 ninja (coding) interviews. These are garden-variety programming interviews and can be prepped pretty much the same way you'd prep for Google or any other major software company.
- 1 jedi (engineering fit) interview. The jedi is designed to assess whether you'll thrive in Facebook's engineering team. You'll talk about problems you've worked through in the past, engineering decisions you've made, and so forth. You'll likely do some coding, too.
- 1 pirate (engineering design) interview. If you're in the product-engineering bucket, you'll probably be asked to design a user-facing product; the interview will range from actual coding to high-level design considerations. New-grad hires (people without significant industry experience) will generally not have pirates.
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1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
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.