It was a slow, tedious, and not well thought out process. Everything you've heard, on both ends of the spectrum, is true about them - but they deviate towards the no bueno end of the spectrum. And they ghost you, or take so long to reject you you have found another job or moved on
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They ask about your history and background, they do a deeper dive into your technical expertise and ensure you understand the tradeoffs between approaches, leetcode questions, etc etc
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)
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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