I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2021
Interview
Super tough tech screen. Be prepared. I was reached out by a recruiter. Had phone call and schedule tech screen. Interviewer was nice but they really don’t go over your background or about you in the call. Just straight to the code so expect that.
The problems were as follows:
Given String word and a string order sort it according to the order.
So given ABBCC and order CBA the result should be CCBBA.
I used a HashMultiset of Character and iterated over input.
Then I iterated over the order and added the count from the set of that character, not too difficult.
Second problem was to do columns of binary tree and the columns should also be in top down order. Final result is list of the nodes data in that order. Honestly no clue how to solve that. I tried doing a traversal and fit each node putting its row and column into a map and then finally building up the list by sorting on the column
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