I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
There were two interview rounds: the first was a one-hour technical interview involving a LeetCode-style coding problem, and the second was a one-hour research discussion centered on my previous publications, academic contributions, and relevance to the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round (Coding): It was Leetcode hard, which was surprising to me as this was an interview for an internship. It was the LC 297 (Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree). I managed to provide a solution, but I am not sure if it was the correct one, but the interview went well overall.
2nd round (Research): It was a discussion with the hiring manager. During the first half of the interview, we discussed about one of my previous papers. In the second half, we discussed about my workflow when it comes to research and there were a also few behavioural questions.
There was 1 research and 1 coding interview. The research interview consisted of 2 parts: in the first part, they asked questions about my publications, while the second part was a brainstorming session about a research problem.
I had two interviews: one for research fit, where I presented my own research and the interviewer asked a lot of open-ended questions and the second was 45 minutes of ML coding (no pytorch), which was not very hard.
there is one coding round, just two lc easy questions, and 1 research round, asked about my research papers, gave hypothetical situation and asked for specific model architecture design details. Overall was pretty normal and not hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Dot Product of Two Sparse Vectors
2. Randomly sampling K elements from a list without replacement