Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta (Menlo Park, CA) en oct 2012
Entrevista
Nothing exciting here, phone screen and than invite for onsite interview.
Most coding questions you can probably get out of the Programming Interviews Exposed books. Really UN-impressed with any real creativity there. There was an architecture question during the on site which was fun and interesting, but all the coding questions were a waste of time, especially when the person interviewing did not even know the answer to his own question. Overall impressions, campus is beautiful, the people I met were not to the caliper I thought they would be.. Seemed like more talent was at Amazon or Google.
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All the coding question can be found in programming interviews exposed books and websites, they are language agnostic, which is nice.
! of the interviewers not only wanted a correct answer, but *his* answer which was actually largely inefficient, but at least he knew the answer on that one...
Got a referral through a friend who worked at Meta, which sped up the entire process. After a casual initial chat, I went through a technical interview where I faced a DSA question about validating palindromes. The interviewer was friendly but rigorous. During prep, I had spent time with the coding challenges on PracHub, and it was funny to see a similar palindrome question pop up. Overall, I received an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it after careful consideration.
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Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
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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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
