I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jun 2015
Interview
I applied online, and within a few weeks a recruiter followed up with me to do an initial screen. After the screening, I had a phone interview with a team lead for the performance and capacity engineering group. After that phone call, they decided to fly me out to Menlo Park for a full day of interviews.
I met with 6 people at Facebook's main campus. Each interview was about 45 minutes and had a different focus:
- Coding interview, where the goal is to come up with a solution as fast as possible (on a whiteboard).
- System design.
- Probability and statistics.
- Culture fit.
Everyone I met was very pleasant and friendly, and the recruiters were quite helpful throughout the process, almost acting as a sort of coach.
Less than a week after the on-site interview, the recruiter contacted me to tell me they would be moving forward with other candidates.
When I asked for feedback, I was told I didn't perform well enough on the coding exercise (though I did solve both problems, but perhaps I wasn't fast enough?).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a sorted set of numbers, find the first sequence of numbers that add up to a specified value.
It was good as the process was smooth and recruiters were always helping in the situations whenever needed. I had a technical screening with DSA, a system design round, a performance round, and behaviour round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA and behaviour questions related to principles.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2024
Interview
Standard Screening round followed by a full loop.
Full loop consisted of 1 coding, 1 system design, 2 behavioral and 1 hiring manager round. The coding rounds were easier than the ones that Meta conducts for SDE roles
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the coding round, I was asked to solve a standard sampling question. Sample some items based on their weights.
Email question, coding interview, followed by technical knowledge interview with hardware and operating system internals questions and behavioural questions. The following superficial text is to fill out the word count.
