Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto più di una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Meta (Seattle, WA) nel mese di ago 2011
Colloquio
I got a phone call from a recruiter one day after I applied online. She asked me general questions about my experience and expectations. Onsite interview happened about 10 days later. I only talked to one guy, he once again asked me about my experience, about what I like about FB. Then he asked me one coding questions: given is a binary tree, write a function that returns Lowest Common Ancestor of two given nodes. After I did that, there was some time when I was allowed to ask some qustions about the company/team/ etc. Next day I received an email saying they have no position for me.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
what can FB do to beat its competitors in my country, where it is not the most popular social network.
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.
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Domanda 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.
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Domanda 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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor of two given nodes in the tree.
