Recently finished my virtual onsite loop. 1st round behavioral: Usual questions. I did above average in all questions except one. Something along the lines of, how did you handle working with difficult people in your team. After the interview, I felt I should've given a better answer to this question. Everything else, I did pretty good, IMO. Second round, product design: a very common system design question, but the focus was more on the API like the request/response, etc. I would say it was good IMO. But you never know what the interviewer thought or if I was giving the right signals. 3rd round coding: 1st question - completely bombed. It was like the easiest of the easiest question IMO, but not sure if it's due to pressure or something else, my mind froze and couldn't complete. After the second question, I revisited and finished it in the last 5 mins, but I understand my initial struggle for something this simple clearly gave out a red flag. 2nd question: LC Medium - solved it optimally. But due to the poor first round, I think the interviewer was doing this just for formality. 4th round: 2 LC Medium. Solved both optimally. Had 10 mins left at the end were we talked about work culture, wlb, etc at Meta. My take away, it's simply not my time yet. I prepared so hard. Above average behavioral, average/above average product design and 3/4 problems completed optimally without any hints. Apparently Meta expects perfect code in all 4 questions and hence expecting a reject. I was looking forward for this opportunity, sucks big time to think that I lost it due to a such a simple question. Life moves on. Please don't ask the actual questions, I respect the NDA. Update: Got offered E5. Feedback has been extremely positive for everything else (according to recruiter) other than 1 question and even that one, I managed to solve in the last min. So happy!!!!! TC: $135K New TC: 400K+ (203/15/650 + 95 signon) Exp: 11+ #meta
Same thing happened to me. I had 2 sys designs both went average/well. And on coding I solved 3/4 optimally (1 with some hint). 1/4 non optimally in terms of space complexity and couldn’t optimize further. Got denied. But you never know. All the best! I hope you get it. Prep work takes so much time and in the end it all comes down to mere luck.
Thank you. I solved 3 med problems with 0 hints. The interviewer was least interested in my solution after the easy question failure and hence I concluded that this isn't gonna work out.
In these these loop interviews was there another person shadowing the interview process for training purposes?
Thanks for the info OP and keep your head up. You never know how your interview gets scored until you get the results back. Did you do any other interviews?
Have an offer with Microsoft :)
Is the rejection speculation or it's official?
You might still have a chance. I completed 3/4 optimally, and froze like you did on a follow-up question. I must have given enough of a positive signal on the rest of my coding, because I received an offer just the other day. However, I did get down-leveled. I guess my system design interview didn't go so well. I'm hoping for the best for you. 🙏
I got down-leveled too. How did they tell you? In my case i just received a lower level offer and no mention of downlevel until I asked specifically. Did you accept it?
When the recruiter told me the good news, I was asked if I had any questions - I asked about the level for which the offer was for. The recruiter then answered my question and provided context on the outcome. I will be accepting the offer, however, as I was given the maximum E4 offer and Meta is one of my dream companies. I won't really be making more money than I currently make - outside of the first year - but I'll be able to grow my career and get promoted pretty quickly hopefully. Did you accept it?
Did you get an update OP?
Check my update :)
Congrats OP. I’m in a similar boat. Had 2 coding rounds. First round both questions coded optimally with zero hints. 2nd round - 1st question I froze. But solved it in like 20 min after many hints. 2nd question, I solved in like 5 min and also a follow up for that. With another 8 min remaining, interviewer went back to the first question and had me fix some bugs and ask a verbal follow up. I stumbled first but got to the right answer after running through a case. Yet to have my design and behavioral. Just hoping that 1 question where I needed lot of hints to get to optimal solution won’t bite me!!
Would you be able to share if the questions came from the LC list or not
2 medium LC tagged, top 100. 1 medium not tagged but should be solvable if you are strong in concepts. 1 easy was not tagged but as I said, easiest of the easiest.
Based on freq or it could really be any of them? Thanks