I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018
Interview
Got referred in October, they reached out and we scheduled a phone interview a couple of weeks later. Question was easy, the interviewer did not really know Python syntax but never told me, so when I was writing out my solution I might've said something like 'ok so I only want this for loop to iterate through the rest of the list' and wrote something like array[i:], a few minutes after he wrote it he asked me what that was doing and took 5 minutes to understand it.
First did a brute force of the problem and optimized it. All my complexity answers were right. Rejected the next day.
no referral, directly applied online.
1 takehome with blue jean
2 technical rounds
- easy lc in first round
- easy-medium lc in second round
that was sufficient for intern level interview
I applied through university. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
First step in person (University recruiting), two coding problems at the blackboard and 5 minutes for questions to the interviewer.
Second step remotely. A quarter behavioural and the rest three quarters of an hour for 2 coding problems.
I felt a strong connection to the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Motivations that brought me there.
Questions about SWEish experiences I had through my university career, both general (topic like particular challenges, collaboration) and more specific (experience with particular libraries).
Did the OA, the OA was 4 questions, passed, and then had an interview with a software engineer at Meta - still waiting to hear results back! I took it yesterday so fingers crossed