I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2012
Interview
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I got contact with a recruiter, then we talked about 30 minutes. One week after I had one phone interview. He asked me two coding questions and he also wanted me to prove mathematically why my solution is right. I did the coding problems and I prove what he wanted.
After a week, they invite me for onsite interview. There were 4 interview. The first was more about my research and only one coding question. The last one was high level design question and the other two were just coding.
I did pretty good, and I just made one silly mistake for implementing one problem. I figured it out after 10 min, but I had the feeling that the interviewer does not like it. That was the coding question at the end of the first interview. I think that killed me and I didn't get any offer.
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.
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.