Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta (Menlo Park, CA) en jun 2016
Entrevista
First call with recruiter went well and after a few days they told me that I am being invited for an onsite interview with a single interviewer (instead of the phone screen). That interview went well and I was selected for the 2nd "pirate interview". They gave me enough material about what those interviews will be like and how to prepare for them. Everything good so far. I go for the 2nd interviews and I thought I did really well in the interviews. The only gotcha was that I had a lunch with an "interviewer" and that lunch took too long and it shortened the time I had available for my next coding interview. Unfortunately that lack of time resulted in me doing not so well in the coding interview (i.e. not being able to come up with a good working and efficient program) and apparently that resulted into it being a "no go" for me. :-(
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design the Google search bar that prompts you with suggestions as you type in it. These suggestions are not personalized but based on most popular queries in the past by all Google users. e.g. as you type "Fac" in the search bar the drop down prompts you with "Facebook" or "Facts about Great Britain" and so on based on recent most popular queries. Once designed, optimize this based on feedback from the interviewer (e.g. most users don't see the suggestions within 3 seconds and Google management is complaining about the lack of performance. How will you debug and fix it?)
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Entrevista
It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged
There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well.
System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env
Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.
1 leetcode med, 1 leetcode hard. make sure you know your DSA and leetcode questions. I wasn't able to get an offer bc i didnt complete the second question. Got a reply 2 days later saying they would move on