Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 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 a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
After being reached out to by a recruiter, the first round involved a technical coding interview and a 1-on-1 chat with a current engineer to discuss my CV, research interests and experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a knight's starting location and an end location on an infinite chess board, find the lowest number of moves the knight can take to get to the end location.
I was asked 2 coding questions (leetcode medium level) in my first round. The interview was 45 minutes. It is pretty standard. The interviewer was nice and shared their experience at the company. I will move on the the virtual onsite interview now.
Interview process was straightforward. Got call from recruiter for screening and was either offered to interview for intern or full time. Choose to do it for the full time and got called for the pre-screen round as they call in Meta.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic Coding Round. Two Leetcode question.
One problem included designing class function from scratch for some computations. Second problem was the doing either DFS/BFS in the grid i.e to move from top left to right bottom with some constraints. Pretty standard leetcode stuffs.