Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 5 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta (Seattle, WA) en may 2014
Entrevista
A recruiter reached out to me, but I didn't start the phone screen until four weeks later as I wasn't fully prepared. After I passed the phone screen, I was invited to onsite interview the next day. I went to their office two weeks later. After three week I was told that I didn't pass as I didn't do well in the system design round. The recruiter said as I had three years experience, so the position was a senior position, so the system design interview was really critical.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
I forgot some of the coding problems, but here are what I can remember.
1. move all 0s to the front of an integer array.
2. given a target and a sorted array, find the highest value smaller than the target.
3. given a 0-1 matrix, find the largest graph that is 1-connected.
4. design a system that can quickly return public accounts' activity data. For example, how many persons like/comment Taylor Swift's status.
5. In culture fit round, was asked many questions about how and why did you make this decision, what would you do in this case. For example, why did you apply for grad school? why not go to industry after undergrad? Why did you choose your current company three years ago? Why did you move to this state? If at that time you also got an offer from FB, what would you do? Why FB?
Recruiter call was pretty standard, first round was 2 Meta tagged LC mediums in 45 minutes. On-site was 2 coding sessions of 2 LC mediums, a system design interview and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.
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Pregunta 1
How do you answer if someone asks how long a deliverable or project will take?
The entire process usually takes 3–8 weeks, depending on scheduling and the specific role. Coding interviews heavily emphasize common DSA topics such as arrays, strings, trees, graphs, BFS/DFS, heaps, hash maps, and dynamic programming. System design becomes increasingly important for E4+ positions.
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Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
Unexpectedly, the first question in the technical round felt familiar. It was about finding a subset of strings with unique character concatenation — same problem I had worked through on PracHub a few days earlier. The interview included a recruiter screen followed by a rigorous pair of technical interviews where I tackled data structures and algorithms alongside system design concepts. After successfully answering a few more challenging DSA questions, I received an offer. The entire experience was intense but ultimately rewarding, and I happily accepted the position.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Given an array of strings, pick a subset whose concatenation contains no duplicate characters, and return the maximum possible length of that concatenation.
