I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Londres, Angleterre) in Dec 2014
Interview
I got referred by a friend. After a 1-2 weeks I was contacted by a recruiter.
The first stage was composed of 2 phone interviews. This interviews are algorithm questions. The first one was about grouping anagrams the second one about range intersections.
After I passed this interviews I was invited for a day of onsite interviews. There where 3 onsite interviews, one was non-technical (about my background) and the other 2 technical (mostly algorithms and coding). Between the 2 technical interview I went for a coffee brake with an employee and I had the chance to ask him more questions about his work and about Facebook in general.
You a have a vector with the heights of an island (at point 1, point 2 etc) and you want to know how much water would remain on this island (without flowing away)
Write a function that takes a list of words as input, and returns a list of those words bucketized by anagrams with duplicates removed.
Example:
Input: ["star", "rats", "car", "arc", "arts", "rats", "bar"]
Output: [["star", "rats", "arts"], ["car", "arc"], ["bar"]]
Given 2 interval ranges, create a function to tell me if these ranges intersect. Both start and end are inclusive: [start, end]
Given 2 interval ranges that intersect, now create a function to merge the 2 ranges into a single continuous range.
Now create a function that takes a group of unsorted, unorganized intervals, merge any intervals that intersect and sort them. The result should be a group of sorted, non-intersecting intervals.
Now create a function to merge a new interval into a group of sorted, non-intersecting intervals. After the merge, all intervals should remain non-intersecting. You are given the function definition below.
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