I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
Got the interview referred by an employee. The interview process was very impersonal, with canned e-mail responses and literally no connection between the recruiter and the applicant. The recruiter persistently ignored my questions regarding team assignments. Had only one interview, with the "collaborative" coding question asked within the first 15 seconds of picking up the phone. Poor English skills of the interviewer and unwillingness to provide any hints were extremely unexpected. Despite providing the complete theoretical solution to the problem, the interviewer toyed with me not finding a small mistake in the code. After "deciding to move forward with other candidates" the recruiter declined to provide any feedback on the application. Undeniably it's a great place to work, but the recruiting process left a bad taste in my mouth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question selected from the ones already provided. Revise your data structures and their implementation in your language of choice.
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]
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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.
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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]
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Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
