I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2018
Interview
Contacted by Facebook recruiter on LinkedIn. The interview was setup one month after. The recruiter called me, asked me how comfortable I was with programming, and sent me preparation material. Though the post was for ML software engineer, the expectation was for all engineers to program algorithms/data structures such as arrays, trees, quick sort, radix sort, heaps, hashes, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Give me an example of a project where you used data and machine learning.
Q: Given a binary tree, write a function to find if this tree is a search binary tree or not.
Q: Given an array, write a function that returns a samples from the array.
Applied online. Received a recruiter screen within two weeks covering background and role fit. Followed by a technical phone screen with coding (LeetCode medium-hard, arrays/graphs). Then a virtual onsite with 4 rounds: 2 coding, 1 ML system design (recommendation/ranking system), and 1 behavioral. Interviewers were professional and gave time to ask questions. Results communicated within a week post-onsite.
First stage was a screen round with behavioral and 2 leetcodes, one medium one hard, 15-17 min each. If selected, loop is 4-6 interviews. 2 desgin, 2 coding, 1 behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
idiotic questions that can't be answered in depth in 35 minutes design, like "your solution isn't going to work, how will you handle it?" yea no sht this is a baseline bro, wait 15 seconds and ill talk about the optimal one.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (London, England)
Interview
Standard Meta process.
1. Recruiter Call
2. Screening Call
3. Onsite Calls -4 rounds (2 coding, 1 ML design, 1 behavioral)
Interviews were all nice except for behavioral. (wouldn't hurt to speak anything apart from okay-okay)
