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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Pregunta 1
Given a string s, return true if it can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character (Valid Palindrome II).
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Meta
Entrevista
For coding questions, practice the top 100 Meta-tagged LeetCode problems. During coding rounds, follow these steps:
Read the question aloud.
Ask clarifying questions to ensure you fully understand the problem.
Discuss edge cases.
Explain your approach and logic to the interviewer.
State the time and space complexity.
Confirm with the interviewer before starting your implementation.
Write your solution while thinking out loud.
Dry-run your code against the provided examples and add more test cases if time allows.
For product architecture design interviews, be prepared for both system design and product architecture questions. The interviewer mistakenly gave a system design question instead of a product architecture one. I pointed it out, but she refused to acknowledge the mistake, but I was not ready for a it, and I did not do well on it. Since interviewers may not follow the correct format, expect and prepare for both types of questions.
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Pregunta 1
-Alien dictionary Easy
-Basic Calculator2
-Kth largest element in an array
-shortest path in a matrix (print path)
System design
-design an ad click aggregator
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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Pregunta 1
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of two numbers that add up to the target
