Virtual interview setup from the US location. The person who interviewed me was the manager who's handling many countries' operations. It was set up for 1 hour and went on for more than 1.5 hours. The question was a bit tricky.
The interview was off topic and focused on a lot of irrelevant stuff. I will not recommend this position to candidates because they have have been interviewing candidates but not a single one has been hired, moreover they delay the process so much and do not respect a candidate's time. I have met about more than 100 people int eh community for this particular role and everybody and the same opinion as me. This feedback is not because I did not get hired, instead I gave the interview thrice with all of them not being serious for this position at all. I have consulted about this with the folks in the m=company and they said that "yes, its unfortunate, but can happen".
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2025
Interview
Tough interview, not much equivalent feedbacks. After finishing a simple online assessment, I booked a date two weeks later to have time to prepare. I got turned down after the first networking and coding interview, and the coding question is a bit hard for a network position (Leetcode medium). I have to say for this to have been a "New Grad" requisition the tech questions that were asked were very high-level. The interviewer kept asking me questions in depth without guidance, which was very challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
A brief self introduction, followed by asking which protocol am I most comfortable with and I went ahead with BGP. The interviewer started with basic BGP questions, his questions were too generic (this is the catch). Why can't we use OSPF to connect all the systems together, and what is unique about BGP? What is autonomous system? How is the routing information exchanged? What's the difference between iBGP and eBGP peers? How does BGP differentiate between external and internal peers? How is a BGP session established? How to prevent loopback? How to control inbound/outbound traffic? Is there any inspection before sending a route to a different neighbour, by the sender or receiver?
Given a scenario of experiencing network performance issues such as latency and packet loss. What are the possible reasons for these issues? What steps can be taken to narrow down the issue?
Coding interview: An adapted version of the Leetcode "Battleships in a Board", returning all coordinates of a battleship by placing bombs. The interviewer kept asking me the solution of dealing with multiple situations, and I spent a long time understanding the rule of the game, since I have never played such game before.