I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Nothing exciting here, phone screen and than invite for onsite interview.
Most coding questions you can probably get out of the Programming Interviews Exposed books. Really UN-impressed with any real creativity there. There was an architecture question during the on site which was fun and interesting, but all the coding questions were a waste of time, especially when the person interviewing did not even know the answer to his own question. Overall impressions, campus is beautiful, the people I met were not to the caliper I thought they would be.. Seemed like more talent was at Amazon or Google.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the coding question can be found in programming interviews exposed books and websites, they are language agnostic, which is nice.
! of the interviewers not only wanted a correct answer, but *his* answer which was actually largely inefficient, but at least he knew the answer on that one...
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.