I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2015
Interview
Several engineers came to recruit to my university. I didn't feel the process was aimed at finding out about my thought process. I felt the interview was more about whether I got the answer and how quickly I figured it out. I did figure it out. The interviewer was at several times messaging on his/her mobile phone while I was explaining my reasoning. I felt he/she was rude at time, too. Some friends that interviewed with other recruiters got easier questions and passed to the second interviews. I searched for the question later online and my solution was correct and optimal. Bad taste on the whole experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two words (start and end), and a dictionary, find the length of shortest transformation sequence from start to end, such that only one letter can be changed at a time and each intermediate word must exist in the dictionary.
For example, given:start =
"hit"
end = "cog"
dict = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
From: http://www.programcreek.com/2012/12/leetcode-word-ladder/
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env