The technical interview consisted of three rounds, each lasting about 45 minutes. In the first round, I was asked to design a scalable architecture for a fictional e-commerce platform, which allowed me to showcase my problem-solving skills and understanding of distributed systems. The second round focused on coding challenges, where I implemented a few algorithms in Python (Meta's preferred language). While the problems were challenging, I appreciated the opportunity to demonstrate my coding skills. The third and final round was an architecture discussion, where I presented my design for building a high-availability, low-latency backend system. This was a great chance to highlight my knowledge of cloud computing, databases, and microservices.

Classic jump through hoops, while not being paid, for months interview process. Much better way would to find people who know how to think not just run applicants through a test pipeline like code and only probabilistically get what you want.