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One coding question for Meta E6 interview

Had a phone screen with Meta today for an E6 role. 30 minutes was behavioral questions, which left 25 minutes for coding. I think behavioral went well as I’ve had large scope that I can speak to. I thought we’d move to coding after 15 minutes of behavioral but interviewer said we were ahead of schedule and wanted to ask more behavioral. Coding question was straightforward, so I was able to get to optimal solution easily and coded it up with 15 minutes left. I offered to run through a test or skip in case we wanted to do another question but interviewer said let’s test. Communication was strong, code was clean, caught some minor bugs in testing. Biggest issue is I might have been off on my space complexity answer. Other than that, I’d say my coding performance was about as good as it could have been. Edit: Def wrong on space complexity. I said O(n), should have been O(n^2). Other variations of this question are of O(n) but one modification to the requested output (and thus data stored) makes it O(n^2). I knew this might be the case, I wish I said as much. Does one coding question mean reject? Or am I overthinking it? @meta

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P&G OldNeil Mar 15

At that level it shouldn’t matter that much as experience based questions and solutions design

Google zOKe30 Mar 15

Coding at E6 is much less scrutinized vs your behavioral answers. As long as it was clear that you know how to code and how to evaluate complexity you’re good, even if you had one mistake.

Google zOKe30 Mar 15

Btw E6 at Meta is miserable, don’t go there unless you absolutely love working a ton and want to play games in Zuck’s performance review theater.

Amazon GodSpeed🚄 Mar 15

Share the questions please

Microsoft ciRK31 Mar 15

Nah you’re good E6 you could bomb the coding they don’t care as long as your resume is packing and you talk the talk

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specreserv OP Mar 20

UPDATE: Moved to virtual onsite!

Microsoft smkdnn Mar 20

Op, how large the scope is expected to be considered for E6 onsite and not get downleveled to E5?

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specreserv OP Mar 20

I have no idea what their bar is since I’ve never worked at big tech, but in my case I was head of eng at a Series B startup and led numerous major company initiatives ranging from technical to operational. Oversaw an eng team of 25.