I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2012
Interview
I had a great feeling of solid communication with recruiters. The recruiters kept me accurately informed about interview progress. In order to establish an appropriate level of compensation, they seek information about my current employment without being invasive. I have felt interview process can be described by integrity and maturity, making Facebook a great place to work.
This is in stark difference with my experience I have interviewing for other companies (namely Google) where after I passed the technical interviews, the recruiters pushed for very detailed compensation information, even though they in the end failed to provide an offer, missing deadlines in communication causing me to miss a competitive exploding offer.
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What would be the most interesting job description ?
Design end 2 end, Facebook's messaging infrastructure .
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
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Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
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How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
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Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
