J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Meta (Palo Alto, CA) en avr. 2011
Entretien
A recruiter found my resume online and emailed me asking if I would be interested in opportunities with Facebook. We then spoke on the phone and she scheduled my first technical interview. Throughout the process the HR person was very friendly and helpful.
The technical interviews were conducted using Skype and collabedit.com. They consisted mostly of algorithms and data structures questions, and a few questions about projects I had mentioned on my resume. The first two interviewers were very friendly and positive, and I felt the interviews went very well, having answered all the questions correctly. The last interview was conducted by a grumpy engineer with a thick accent who was running 15 minutes late and sounded like he didn't want to be there. Unfortunately this put me off quite a bit, and I did not perform very well in that interview, 3 days later I heard back from HR that they wouldn't be proceeding with on-site interviews in Palo Alto.
Questions d'entretien [4]
Question 1
Print a singly-linked list backwards, in constant space and linear time.
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor of two given nodes in the tree.
