I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Since I had interviewed on-site before, they directly brought me on-site this time. I had 4 interviews: 1 behavior, 2 coding and 1 design. I have 12 years experience. All interviews went well in my mind, but surprisingly, no offer. No feedback given. I feel it was because one of the interviewers wasn't that nice and was quiet through most of the interview. While I wrote on the whiteboard and talked out loud, he was mostly on his laptop and barely responded. They tell you to think of the interviews as a discussion with a coworker. Well it was definitely not an engaging or pleasant coworker at all. Makes you wonder if the interviewer decided your fate as soon as he met you because he didn't like you. I have launched many successful products with many customers. None of that is taken into account in this kind of hiring process.
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4 interviews: 1 behavior, 2 coding and 1 design. can't say more because of NDA.
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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.
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Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place