I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
The whole process took about two months.
It started with a 30-min recruiter call, then a 90-min online assessment with four questions. I didn’t have time to finish all four, but somehow passed that round. The next step was a technical screening with a LeetCode-style question, and then the final onsite loop: 2 LeetCode rounds, 1 behavioral, and 1 system design.
After that, they scheduled a behavioral follow-up, saying I didn’t show a strong enough signal for “Navigating Ambiguity” and “Driving Results” in the previous interview. I did the follow-up, but then got rejected. The only feedback I got was that they found a “technical gap” in my knowledge — no details at all.
Still not sure what that means. If there was a technical issue, why make me do a behavioral follow-up instead of addressing it earlier? Felt like a waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode Meta tagged questions e.g.
- Valid Palindrome II
- Closest Binary Search Tree Value
- Merge Intervals
- Lowest Common Ancestor
- Max Consecutive Ones III
System Design was similar to designing LeetCode, but focusing more on online contest.
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
