Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta (Menlo Park, CA) en ene 2014
Entrevista
Overall the process is very fast and all the interviewers are very nice.
It take 3 weeks to finish all the interviews (include christmas and new year holidays).
I took 1 phone screen + 2 coding + 1 system design + 1 research interview( for PHD ).
All the coding questions are the common questions you could meet them easily when you read " crack the coding interview" or surf GeeksforGeeks.com, and there was no brainteaser.
The system design problem is kind of hard, because there are no right or wrong answers. I think I didn't perform that well in this round, because I am not very experienced in large system design.
The research interview mainly focus on my research project, and we also had a small coding part, I did well on that.
Honestly, I am kind of surprise that I did not get offer from Facebook, maybe there were some requirements that I did not match.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Overall Facebook's interview questions are interesting and not hard. All the interviewers are knowledgable and nice to talk to.
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.
Standard cookie cutter interview with a coding interview, a system design interview and culture interview. The coding part is basically leetcode. The system design is what you can find on many youtube videos. The culture one is more tricky as they want to see that you fit Meta's culture, not that you were doing great at your existing company. So skills like dealing with conflict without calling in managers is sought after.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
coding: I forgot, sorry
system design: design ticketmaster
culture: talk about past project; when you disagreed with a peer; how I resolved dissagreements, etc.
The interview felt more straightforward than I anticipated for a well-known tech giant. After a recruiter screen, I faced a technical round that included a DSA question about finding the lowest common ancestor in a binary tree. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized the exact problem had popped up in the algorithm practice section on PracHub during my prep. Ultimately, the experience was decent, but I chose to decline the offer as it didn’t align with my current goals.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor of two given nodes in the tree.
