I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
Started with a recruiter, who gave a great deal of useful detail about what to expect. Initial "phone screen" was on-site, which I think helped me to do my best. Warm-up questions about previous work and Android particulars, then two not-terribly-difficult coding challenges. On-site full-day interview was six 45-minute sessions, including one for lunch and one for an interviewing trainee (coding-focused), otherwise two primarily focused on coding (much like the phone screen), one on a series of behavioral questions (classic stuff like, "What's something valuable you once learned from a supervisor?"--lots of dusting off old memories), and one on design. The design interview seemed frustratingly aimless, and while I felt I was able to give good answers, this was the one interview where I got negative feedback, too vague to make sense of, making me suspect poorly-communicated expectations. Otherwise, the whole experience was quite positive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA. Coding questions were non-trivial but straightforward enough to easily tackle two in the half-hour period allotted each time.
Leet Code questions over a voice call with screen share answering data structure and algorithm questions and trying to solve them within a timelimit explaining your working out. Interviewer was very nice.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2025
Interview
The interview process consisted of an initial phone screen followed by a full interview loop. It included coding challenges, system design, and behavioral questions. The recruiters were clear and supportive, and the process was well-structured.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system that automatically changes the device wallpaper every time the system boots up.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2024
Interview
Initial call with the recruiter, pretty standard on this one.
Once it is confirmed that I was going to move forward to the Online Screening, the recruiter shared resources to prepare mostly from the meta career site, which is quite comprehensive.
In the coding stage, I managed to solve just one question. Based on the feedback, that was the reason of not moving forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical DSA question, medium difficulty but a bit tedious to implement which can take some time.