I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Whole process took about a month but that's because I request about 1 week of prep time for each stage of my interview. I had 3 on-site interviews in total - my screening was on-site because I live very close to HQ. I also did a 3rd round interview because my feedback for 2nd round was somewhat mixed. Overall, very pleased with the whole interview experience. The internal recruiter was very friendly and helpful in helping me prep, and also very communicative of each step and process that they're going through. Was never kept in the dark. Almost every interviewer was super friendly and knowledgeable. I had mix feelings before the interview but after the whole process, I was convinced that Facebook is a great place to work.
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No question stood out as most difficult or unexpected. Just know your algorithms and data structures, as well as your specific domain knowledge.
Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.
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Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
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Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.