I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2023
Interview
Recruiter reached out. Quick initial chat. Scheduled a tech screen interview. Coding over coderpad.io. Interviewer showed up half awake, kept rubbing his eyes, wasn't very involved in the process. I barely finished the first part of the question and we ran out of time. Interviewer cut me off and went off to some meeting. I gave the whole process a positive rating still, because Meta's process is actually very impressive. The engineering manager who interviewed me wasn't very good, but that's not Meta's fault imo. I've 15 years of experience with stellar referrals so getting denied because it takes me 40 minutes to manipulate a Linked List is disappointing still. The modern interview process is pretty bad.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Clone a LinkedList, with a twist. Overall pretty easy question, just know your data structures, cram leetcode for 2-3 months, and you'll be good.
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.