I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2010
Interview
The recruiter found me on linkedin and hounded me for more info about myself. 6 months and several non-technical interviews later, all of which went fine, they set up a technical interview with some guy who had such a thick accent and poor phone reception that I couldn't understand his questions, so I failed that interview and they notified me of my failure 2 days later.
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I don't know because I couldn't hear the guy because his accent and his phone were so terrible. It was something about processing an array of strings in some special way.
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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Question 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env