I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2016
Interview
Started with two phone screens before an on-site interview. On-site interview was 4 rounds on 1:1 or 2:1 (in the case there was a shadowing interviewer) and includes lunch. On-site interview travel arrangements and reimbursements were handled by a contracted travel agency acting on behalf of Facebook. All my interviewers were very nice and professional. You will be hard pressed to find engineers with big egos here. The recruiters I worked with, on the other hand, mostly seemed like they had their act together.
I thought my interviews went well – each of my on-site interviewers complimented me on my solutions, so I was surprised when my recruiter emailed me that I did not get an offer.
Something fishy is definitely going on at Facebook. I am under the impression that their HR department is not completely honest with their candidates. If you sort the interviews by date on Glassdoor, you will notice that no one recently has been getting offers. I've been told by friends (inside and outside the company) that they thought Facebook wasn't even hiring anymore until the Fall... So I was definitely surprised when I was approached with the opportunity to interview with Facebook. I am at a loss of words after receiving my rejection despite the positive feedback my interviewers provided me. This experience has definitely deterred me from considering Facebook for future employment as it feels like I was brought through the process just so HR could justify their recruiting budget despite there being no job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Candidates are required to sign an NDA preventing disclosure of questions.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
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
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