Interview Experience Analysis for Meta

Started with a coding round where I was asked to merge three sorted arrays and then solve the Binary Tree Right Side View problem. The interviewer was very supportive, asking me to explain my code and how I would test it.In the AI round, I was given a problem where I had to find a subset of words th...

Coding Round 1This round focused on algorithmic problem-solving. I was asked:The "K Closest Points to Origin" problem. I had to find the K points closest to the origin (0,0) from a given set of points.A variant of the "Subarray Sum Equals K" problem. Beyond just finding if a sum exists, I also had t...

Recruiter reached out via linkedin. Currently working as a SDE-2 in MAANG company. **Screening** One online OA where we were asked to solve a problem and its uts with every solve some condition was added to the problem , total there were 4-5 stages i was able to solve all except last. Problem it...

Hey everyone,I recently finished my full interview loop with Meta and unfortunately got rejected at the end. Still, I wanted to share my full experience since posts like these really helped me during preparation.📍 Recruiter Reach-out (25th Sept)A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and asked to sch...

I recently interviewed with Meta for their Product role and wanted to share my experience across the phone screen and onsite rounds. ⸻ Before the phone interview, I completed two assessments: • A coding assessment with 4 stages • A work-style assessment ⸻ Phone Screen 1. Count number of 1s in...

## Non-AI Onsite Coding ### Question 1: Column Traversal Given a binary tree (NOT BST), print the column traversal from leftmost column to rightmost column. If two nodes are in the "same column", the top most node in that column should appear before the bottom most node. Pretty straightforward tr...

The onsite process1 AI coding round1 non-AI coding round (more leetcodey)1 sys design1 behavioralThe AI Coding RoundThe real thingI was given a codebase which consisted of a main.py, test.py, solve.py, utils.py and a data/ directory consisting of txt files with bunch of words and needed to find some...

How to PrepThrow everything you know about leetcode out the window for this round. Grinding leetcode won't help you pass this roundYou will be given a coderpad with "AI Assist" mode, but you can only choose from the lightweight foundation models (eg: o4 mini, claude haiku, llama 4 maverick) in the A...

Just got done with my first Technical screen in Meta. I was asked two questions: 1. Find the minimum element in each level of a Binary Tree. Similar to LC102. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal, but just need to keep track of the minimum element in each level. Follow-up: What if we have to do this i...