I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2024
Interview
Spoiler: This was my second time doing a Meta onsite with no offer.
A Meta recruiter reached out to me, as they do every year, and invited me to do a technical phone screen. I passed and went to the onsite. I didn't hear back for like 2 weeks so I contacted my recruiter a few times for potential feedback, since I thought I did well, and a request to possibly be down-leveled (this was mentioned to me as a possibility during my prep call) but was ignored and got an automated rejection email. They also didn't honor my request to speak with someone at Meta about the company, which is an option in the candidate portal. Bad experience. The coordinator also rescheduled my onsite 3 different times. I'm kinda over the idea of working at Meta now.
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
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on
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