Interview Experience Analysis for Facebook

Hi Everyone, last week, I had my virtual onsite with Facebook for the Sr Software Engineer (E5) position. I was asked following questions: ### Phone Screen Interviewer asked two coding questions. It was a 45 minute round. * [1650. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III](https://leetcode.com/pr...

### **Technical phone screen (1 hour)** I was asked two coding questions (no android questions): * Given an array of *n* integers, return an array of *n* integers where at each position *0 <= i < n* contains the multiplication of all the integers in the original array, except the one at the positio...

Hello Guys, It's time to give back to the community. I want to share my incredible journey to Facebook. In 2020 January I started learning algorithms and data structures from ground zero, I didn't even know what heaps were, dynamic programming, etc. and today I got an offer from Facebook. So I want...

In January 2020, I started learning algorithms and data structures from scratch, using LeetCode Premium's explore tab for fundamental data structures. I also studied 'Database Internals by Alex Petrov' to gain appreciation for algorithms and data structures in databases and distributed systems. Afte...

**Leetcode status**: Solved close to 800 problems ***Note: Updated post, not to reveal exact questions to avoid any issues due to NDA*** One of my friend who gave the interview before referred me to the Recruiter *Each round is of 45min and 2 questions in each coding round* Entire process took abo...

Status: 12years ExpPosition: Lead Engineer at a consultancyLocation: LondonDate: Feb-March 2021Talk with the recruiter (30mins):This was possibly one of the most important discussions regarding the interview preparation. The recruiter helped me a lot in terms of setting the expectations for the inte...

Talk with the recruiter (30mins): This was possibly one of the most important discussions regarding the interview preparation. The recruiter helped me a lot in terms of setting the expectations for the interviews. Tip: Treat this as an interview and a chance to ask any questions you might have regar...

Status: Developer with 20 years experience Position: E5 at Facebook Location: Virtual (would be working with Menlo Park folks) Date: March 2021 I had my final round of interviews for a remote position with Facebook last week. The interviews were video calls using CoderPad and Excalidraw. **Coding ...

I was able to code solutions for all of them and practicing problems on LC helped. FB also has their own interview prep coding problems but they're generally much easier than the ones on LC. I'm pretty sure the system and product design rounds were my downfall. I was preparing for designing distrib...

Hi Everyone, in my last Leetcode post, I shared my Facebook E5 Virtual Onsite Experience - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1096480/Facebook-Virtual-Onsite-or-E5-or-Bay-AreaSome of you asked in the comments about my phone screen experience. So, here are the details.The interview was...

Knowing the questions beforehand helped me a lot to finish both problems with optimal solutions within 45 minutes. My advice for preparation is to complete as many LeetCode questions (especially recent FB tagged ones) as possible, as questions often get repeated in interviews. More details on my pre...

There were 4 rounds in total. 2 Coding, 1 System Design, and 1 Behavior which also involved a small coding problem. Each round was 45 minutes long. In the **1st coding interview**, I was asked a question similar to [Intersection of Two Linked Lists](https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two...

## Recruiter Phone Screen I was referred by a friend at Facebook. Recruiter asked me the following questions: 1. Details about my current job 2. Why am I leaving my current company? 3. Status about my interview process - Pending interviews with other companies and offers if any 4. Other general ques...