I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2016
Interview
I made contact with a recruiter to set up an interview and their initial response was quick. They wanted to set up an interview, however after I sent in my available times, it took them months to get back to me. Eventually after more emails were exchanged we were able to set something up. It ended up being a 1 hour technical phone interview, with 2 questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Given a list of (x, y) coordinates, return k nearest points to (0, 0)
2) Given a string of parenthesis and characters, remove the invalid parentheses.
eg. "(ab(a)" => "ab(a)"
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env