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Meta Interview Preparation

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Meta (Facebook)

Faby (Recruiter) → Sitting in LA, work in LA office, currently WFM Been at Meta for 6 months

Nick (Software ENgineering Manager) → Here for two years Works on business side of things (specifically on front end) Located in Oklahoma (recently moved and went fully remote)

Possible Questions? 1. How close to the coding puzzles are the questions seen in the interview.

Interview Tips

  • Should have a process to fall back on.
  • Always prepare.
  • How you consider engineering trade-offs (memory vs. time)
  • Find the limits of what you know - Don’t feel bad if you don’t get all the answers right
  • During coding interviews intro should be quick (so you have more time for code).
  • Steps to a successful coding interview:
    1. Repeat the question back to your interviewer to ensure you fully understand what’s being asked. Remember, questions may be purposefully vague!
    2. Ask questions about edge cases.
    3. Take your time to think about a solution before coding. Don’t just jump into coding!
    4. Start coding while explaining your entire thought process. It’s encouraged to talk out loud. Don’t worry if you run into trouble! Feel free to ask your interviewer for a hint. Interviewers may also give you hints unprompted, take them and run with them.
    5. Run through your solution with test cases. Continue talking out loud.
    6. Iterate - how can you do better with runtime/memory.
  • Act like the question is vague regardless!
  • Don’t get caught up in name - easy way to waste time and get stuck

Meta Fireside Chats: Building A Career Here at Meta

  • Took Dean Jackson some time to find a good mentor. Easier to find mentor for a shape skill (presentation, etc.), general seemed to be harder for him.
  • Chris Echagarruga talks about having a great manager, helping her narrow down what she’s interested in.
  • Tianlu Wang talks about feedback from manager, and if she’s on the right track, is working closely with others. Talks about having 1 on 1 meetings with others, and says its important to post the work she’s doing for exposure and collaboration.
  • Chris talks about learning resources through cornerstone (resource?)
  • When are team members available to ask questions (reword - softball ask for WLB). Chris talks about first year or two learn about w/e you want, and who is one step ahead of me on this (so you can have some role models and follow those role models).
  • Chris mentions setting up a meeting with all the people they are working with, and what is the most important thing they are working on.

Meta University Day:

  • 20% of company size to date has been hired in past 6 months
  • Expect teams to stack in tact for 6 months, so pick based on what this manager can do for you in 6 months
  • Ask manager to share their pulse score.
  • Diff heat map, shows when people commit code.
  • Teams that are new, pulse scores are several months behind (such as often happens in MarketPlace)
  • Ask for social thread, and ask to be added on it.
  • Aashik Gowda - Works on reels for instagram.
  • Privacy or core infra have a tougher on call, so might be more required to work to get that instantly done due to regs i.e. for privacy. Positive is good for PSC review.

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