Meta Software Engineer interview questions

Prior to a coding interview, they give you access to a preparation hub. It has a bunch of videos from the author of "Cracking the Coding Interview," which are extremely poorly done. They can be meandering and aren't edited well at all. They play in low-resolution with no option for higher quality, so you often can't even read the code in them. The video player itself is very buggy too, often skipping back to an earlier portion while you're watching. Not much quality control there; perhaps they should hire someone to fix it, though I guess they have little incentive to. Had a 1 hour interview with 30 mins of standard soft questions, and 25 mins of a coding exercise. It's the standard "coding challenge" thing where if you've memorized data structures, complexity and Big O notation, or even the actual problem which is on Leetcode under "Meta," you'll likely pass. I was able to implement a solution that worked, and realized only later that I had been a little off on stating the time complexity, which likely meant I didn't pass (just my guess). Suggesting the right data structure that could have led to a faster solution also might have helped. Ultimately, the coding challenge part of these interviews is mostly a test of if you've studied data structures and/or Leetcode problems, and remember them well enough to regurgitate during an interview. Not much to do with actually building software.

Standard FAANG process. 1 call with recruiter. 1 coding interview with an engineer. 5 hour final interview. 2 coding interviews, 1 system design and 1 behavioral/leadership interview. all ~ 50 minutes each with break in between