I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
The interview was pretty standard bay area stuff. It included two phone screens then an all day round of interviews on site. The interview was partially systems and partially coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a variety of questions with different areas of focus. Programming stuff was similar to fizzbuzz and things that demonstrated basic data structure and flow control fluency. Systems questions went fairly deep, beyond basic 'linux system boot' type questions. I think it would be hard to pass the systems interview without a few years experience at least.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
It was a long series of phone calls, talking with various people is be working with. Then an all-expense-paid trip to visit them at their office and interview for the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe techniques you'd use scale up a system of servers for millions of users.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2014
Interview
- Applied through Facebook website
- Recruiter followed up and asked few basic questions for initial screening
- Another interview over phone which was technical
- Then recruiter took 4-5 weeks to share result of Technical interview. First said its because of vacations, and then some other excuses..
- FInally after 4-6 weeks, said that we cannot move you foward
- Wastage of time and the recruitment experience was not up to expectations.