Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2012
Interview
They delayed me 2 times and twice the interviewers forgot to call, so I had 2 interviews in more than a month.
The interviews themselves were very ok and the interviewer was very approachable, the logistics part was just a pain.
It consisted on 2 problems and background general questions like what is "stack overflow" and what is the difference and advantage of continuous memory with regards to the non-continuous one
The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Meta in May 2011
Interview
It was a more or less standard interview.
On campus recruiting -> fly out to the campus to meet people.
People keep probing you for further questions to see if you can find something more optimal.
Both algorithms and coding questions during the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given an array full of positive integers. Write a function that returns the largest sum you can get by adding together numbers in non-adjacent indices from the array. I.e. you if you include the things stored in arr[i] in your sum, you can't include what is stored in arr[i-1] or arr[i+1]
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2010
Interview
I had 2 phone screens before I got internship offer. Both had the same format - first 5 minutes talking about my experience, then ~30 minutes of coding questions. My interviewers were nice, smart and asked only reasonable questions. After each interview I had couple more minutes to ask my own questions and learn something about Facebook.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a program that makes one move in Reversi game.