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Rejected

E5 at Meta

Difficulty
Process took
2-3 Weeks
Rounds
5
Format
Remote
Applied via
LinkedIn

How it went

At the end of the day, it was a tough experience, rejected

What they would tell you

At the end of the day, it was a tough experience, rejected

How to prepare

  • Onsite rounds are little bit hard
  • Trees, Strings, Hashmaps, Arrays, Modular Arithmetic

Round by round

  1. 1

    Phone Screen60 min

    Started with a recruiter call, talking about my experience and why I wanted to join Meta. Then came the technical part

  2. 2

    Coding Round 160 min

    The first coding round was with Meta engineer

  3. 3

    Coding Round 260 min

    The second coding round was with friendly engineer

  4. 4

    Design Round60 min

    The interviewer, a senior backend tech lead Design recommendation system for Netflix Personalized recommendations for movies/shows based on user history, demographics Service APIs and endpoints Database and caching strategy

  5. 5

    Behavioral Round60 min

    Standard questions about teamwork, leadership, challenges faced, and problem-solving approach

What came up

MediumRemote5+ years

A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.

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