Candidates applying for Developer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Skills test: 33%
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The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2011
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter who asked about programming experience and why I want to work for Facebook. Then two separate technical phone interviews with software engineers followed. They introduced what they are working on in detail. They asked one or two typical coding questions, sharing them on the Collabedit.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Multiply two big integers which don't fit into an built-in integer type. How would you represent big numbers as a data structure? Write the function to multiply two big integers.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
First got an HR interview, asking very basic questions including some simple technical questions. Then first round asked me a coin probability problem. After that, the 2nd interviewer asked me sqrt() but I stupidly failed this problem. Great people, though interviewers are not very friendly.
Given set of coins and each coin has its unique probability to be head up, say double[] probs stores the probability values for all coins, print out all different cases and accordingly probability.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2011
Interview
Every single interview was exactly the same format: the interviewer gives me two or three programming problems and asked me to solve them in my language of choice in front of him on a whiteboard (or virtual whiteboard
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
FInd the maximum sum of a sub-sequence from an positive integer array where any two numbers of sub-sequence are not adjacent to each other in the original sequence. E.g 1 2 3 4 5 6 --> 2 4 6