Thank you for sharing your experience - takes a lot of motivation to share especially when you didn’t make it through. Very nice of you to help so many people out on the interview process and experience at Meta and other big tech companies. Wishing you the very best in your career.
Thank you! I will be talking to a recruiter this week on a hardware position at Meta. Now I know what to expect. So happy for you that this prepared you to your next interview.
I know that feeling. I bombed one of my final rounds of interview last year by not able to solve a fairly easy question. I think its the nerves, we panic in pressure situations and fail.
I had a very similar experience with my coding interviews in both my tech screen and final panel phases. Every other interviewer in the panel was very positive and engaging. The coding interviewers were straight to business, skipping the introductions and being very direct and terse. It was awkward factory. But... I got the call afterward saying I was moving on to team match!
Thank you for sharing your experience and being so honest, I am a designer but this video helped me to prepare myself as a candidate not just for a specific role.
Thank you for sharing your experience, Pooja! Much appreciated. I was contacted by a recruiter for a contract SWE position @ Meta. One thing I found odd is that I went straight from a general phone screening to a technical interview, with zero steps or guidance in between. I assume this is because I'm going for a contract position; not sure. Curious if anyone here has had a similar experience?
Thanks for the video,Where is the “what they don’t tell you part ?? Rest of all things are pretty standard what you have explained in her video but the video title says “What they don’t tell you” I am confused
Awesome video, you have a new subscriber here! I am getting prepared for engineer manager role and I am a little bit worried as well for coding interview.
Im going to college and what to major in computer science then become software engineer, Idk if it’s worth it…. But I’m obsessed with the job opportunities 😞😞…. And help me if I’m making the right decision even though my dad wants me to do chemical engineering 🤮🥺
There are plenty of job opportunities for both, but software engineering will probably give you a lot more flexibility (I literally just work on my laptop from home every day). So It depends on your personality (-: if you also don’t like the subject matter, it’s probably a better option to go with the former
Meanwhile, I can't even get an interview. Any idea what can I do to lend an interview. I am a computer science, junior, looking for an internship. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I would say, it’s easier if you have experience from a small or mid-size company first . There’s a lot of competition as a college student, but if you still want an internship at FAANG, I would reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn and network like crazy at school events and job fairs!!!
> Do you have a proxy in here, do you have a load balancer in there Nope, not quite. The system design interview is about how do you approach solving problems, that are not very well defined.
I do know you have more potential to achieve more than you think in interview. I do have a question. If you happen to practice coding interview with Java. Does coding IDE of interview allow auto suggestion or error detect? Or does they allow u use ur ide? I am just not sure if common Java error like type incompatible might slow me down in interview. I am not say i am Java beginner, but does i need switch to Python to save time? Hope to know ur answer
Thank you for making this. Would you say that Facebook's resources and practice questions helped, and would you recommend them over another tool like leetcode?
Anyone reading this, So i want to become a frontend developer and learnt Html css javascript and react now i came to know that DSA is important so i started learning C. I just wanted to ask that is it worth learning C language for DSA or should i learn someother language for DSA.
Good question - it honestly depends on how much you’ve already practiced. If you’re well-versed on LC problems, I’d do the questions they gave you. If not, blind 75 is a good starting point because there will be discussion posts/solutions for those ones!
Almost same experience I had :) 2 coding questions in each round is too overwhelming and blocked me in my 2nd round 2nd question I was just rushing though I coded I didn't have time to test and funny to say the interviewer had a beeper every 15 minutes !
I learned via school (they had a course on DS and Algos in my computer Sci degree). But they have courses available online if you check udemy or coursera
It was for a mid level software engineer! You’ll probably still be required to do some Data Structure and Algorithm style interviews unfortunately :-( but I’m not entirely sure
Literally, I have gone through your video more than 100s times to gain confidence and I am very thankful to you, for the best supportive and informative knowledge you have given, that's a really great help. Would you please never mind to help me to prepare my first round of interviews which is coding - Thanks
I interviewed at Facebook for an engineering position. We did the usual 3,4,5 or more rounds of interviews. The first 2 rounds were good. The people I spoke to were very nice and seemed interesting and genuine people. The 3rd round was with the manager of the engineering department. If I had accepted a job, I would have been working directly under him. Not even 2 minutes into my discussion with him I could tell he was going to fail the interview. "Wait a minute. I thought you were interviewing to get a job there?" Yes, I was but when I interview anywhere, I am more concerned about the interviewers than what they expect of me. I have enough confidence in my abilities to land any job I apply for. Otherwise I would not apply for it. Back to the hiring manager... As expected, he failed drastically. He tried to stump me a few times, didn't work. Just to see what he would do, I pretended to be stumped on one of his questions. This is where he failed. The 2 engineers before him were happy to give instant feedback in a very positive way (I pretended to get stumped with the too). The hiring manager became annoyed almost instantly. I fake figured out the answer to show I can solve issues and he just seemed like he didn't care. This told me everything I needed to know about him. When he was done asking me questions, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him one thing, "What is your opinion on team members who aspire to move into more challenging roles?" He gave me a look like he was annoyed by me asking that question. I let him finish his answer (filled with a bunch of "hmm"s and "uhh"s). I stood up, thanked him for his time and told him I would not be moving to the next round.
Did you buy your desk at Costco? Because mine looks exactly like yours.😀 I have only a slightly different cover. It is an interesting, did they provide also an interviewer Facebook profile? It is a very good observation, given problems usually repeat each other, so generally it is a low chance you get some unique problem. So I develop a specific technique to generate all time a unique question and never repeat it. It is a very familiar situation, I wrote a book long time ago how to program on Windows and what is a message loop and where it is implemented. However when I got the question where is a message loop implemented on an interview, I couldn't provide a right answer. It is a very funny.
This was actually the desk used at my parents’ old place, so I’m not sure where they got the desk from! And so true - it minimizes your chances of failing the interview by practicing specific patterns 😀 love it! What’s the book called? Would love to read it sometime! That’s a great way to tackle studying.
@@PoojaDutt The book is about using Turbo Pascal for Windows programming, so it has only a historical interest. But the idea to write a book about modern programming is still there, so maybe some day you will have one more resource to study.
Can you talk about how non-tech folks can maximize their chances for an interview at Meta? Im a liberal arts major but have years of experience with non-profits and program management.
Definitely! You’ll either need to have projects on GitHub or go the boot camp route. If you’re a self-taught developer, try to get an internship first to also gain work experience (that’ll be really important when transitioning to a full-time career)
Thanks a lot for sharing the interview details. Could you please share some good resources that you used for System design and Object oriented design. 🙂 It will be really very great!
Hi Chandra! I didn’t have any particular resources for Object Oriented Design/Sys Design (I’ve heard that systems expert .io (similar to Algo expert) was really helpful for people. For OOO, I just googled to refresh my memory and looked at old class notes from school 😊
Can you put the music less loud (or even better, just take it out, it serves no purpose), it makes it difficult to concentrate on what you say. Thanks for your sharing your experience anyway
They're very different places. I work for MS engineering, and my org is great. Amazing leadership. However not all orgs are the same! A colleague just moved to Meta and said so far he prefers the culture at Meta.
Pretty similar experience and I actually felt that I goofed with one question but the rest of the interview went really well. I did not get any portal information to follow up with the interviewer or send him/her thank you note. Can you please share your resources? Thanks!
I have an interview at Meta for Mask & Layout Process Engineer. I know it's a pretty niche postion but any idea if you, or anyone here who could help me out ?
So you had an experience in the tech industry? Why do they lie to us and say “you don’t need to have tech background, major in computer science blablabla?” 😒
Sounds like your study plan just optimized for seeing a lot of problems when the goal should actually be, learning how to solve new problems on the spot.
I actually preach problem solving over memorization - they just happened to ask pretty common questions so I got a bit “lazy” during the interview unfortunately ! But totally agree that the best way to tackle these interviews is to understand how to logically get to an answer versus banking on having seen it before.
why would anyone want to work for these big companies? Seriously I never understood, they are so restricting in every way. Also this where people try to learn and memorize algorithm exercises and data structures is so not good!
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Great video, but the continuous repetitive music i'd skip for next time! (just my one cent)
Thanks for the feedback! (-:
Thank you for sharing your experience - takes a lot of motivation to share especially when you didn’t make it through. Very nice of you to help so many people out on the interview process and experience at Meta and other big tech companies. Wishing you the very best in your career.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it (-:
@@PoojaDutt siang siang 🎉😂😂😂😂😂❤XQW, 😅@3
Very dope of you to include this and be honest about the rejection
Thanks so much - appreciate the feedback (-: got rejected a lot of times before finally breaking into big tech
Thank you! I will be talking to a recruiter this week on a hardware position at Meta. Now I know what to expect. So happy for you that this prepared you to your next interview.
How was it?
I know that feeling. I bombed one of my final rounds of interview last year by not able to solve a fairly easy question. I think its the nerves, we panic in pressure situations and fail.
I had a very similar experience with my coding interviews in both my tech screen and final panel phases. Every other interviewer in the panel was very positive and engaging. The coding interviewers were straight to business, skipping the introductions and being very direct and terse. It was awkward factory. But... I got the call afterward saying I was moving on to team match!
Thank you for sharing your experience and being so honest, I am a designer but this video helped me to prepare myself as a candidate not just for a specific role.
I’m so glad to hear it was helpful! (-:
ffhh
Keep grinding LC sister you will get it. It is only a matter of time.
Thanks! I started at a different company - but I appreciate it! 😀
Thank you for sharing your experience, Pooja! Much appreciated. I was contacted by a recruiter for a contract SWE position @ Meta. One thing I found odd is that I went straight from a general phone screening to a technical interview, with zero steps or guidance in between. I assume this is because I'm going for a contract position; not sure. Curious if anyone here has had a similar experience?
That was an amazing experience. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video,Where is the “what they don’t tell you part ?? Rest of all things are pretty standard what you have explained in her video but the video title says “What they don’t tell you” I am confused
The career center! Most companies don’t have a career center (specific questions, videos, platform etc for studying for their interviews)
Thank you for being transparent
So, do you have to answer code questions even if the role you are interviewing for does not require coding?
Thank you very much! Little difficult to follow you with that background music.
Please make a video on how you stay up to date with the trending/new/upgraded technologies.
GIYF
Do you have an idea of what coding questions for a network engineer role at meta? Pls help me with it.
Awesome video, you have a new subscriber here! I am getting prepared for engineer manager role and I am a little bit worried as well for coding interview.
Thanks so much! Appreciate the support. Good luck with your interview - I’m sure you’ll rock it!
Im going to college and what to major in computer science then become software engineer, Idk if it’s worth it…. But I’m obsessed with the job opportunities 😞😞…. And help me if I’m making the right decision even though my dad wants me to do chemical engineering 🤮🥺
There are plenty of job opportunities for both, but software engineering will probably give you a lot more flexibility (I literally just work on my laptop from home every day). So It depends on your personality (-: if you also don’t like the subject matter, it’s probably a better option to go with the former
Thanks for your honest review!
Of course 😊
Meanwhile, I can't even get an interview. Any idea what can I do to lend an interview. I am a computer science, junior, looking for an internship.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I would say, it’s easier if you have experience from a small or mid-size company first . There’s a lot of competition as a college student, but if you still want an internship at FAANG, I would reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn and network like crazy at school events and job fairs!!!
@@PoojaDutt Thanks! for the advice.
what System Desgin questions did you get? I have a interview coming up with them
> Do you have a proxy in here, do you have a load balancer in there
Nope, not quite. The system design interview is about how do you approach solving problems, that are not very well defined.
I do know you have more potential to achieve more than you think in interview. I do have a question. If you happen to practice coding interview with Java. Does coding IDE of interview allow auto suggestion or error detect? Or does they allow u use ur ide? I am just not sure if common Java error like type incompatible might slow me down in interview. I am not say i am Java beginner, but does i need switch to Python to save time? Hope to know ur answer
Thank you for making this. Would you say that Facebook's resources and practice questions helped, and would you recommend them over another tool like leetcode?
Yes! I would say the questions they provided were really helpful, but if you have time, I’d supplement your practice with LeetCode as well.
@@PoojaDutt great, thank you. I've been focusing on leetcode but still complete what Facebook has on it's portal.
can you share those fb recruiter shared resources if possible? I can share my contact if you can share those resources 😀
@@NirmalSilwal they actually take away access once you’re no longer a candidate :-/ if you’re a candidate, they allow you access to their portal!
@@NirmalSilwal
Anyone reading this, So i want to become a frontend developer and learnt Html css javascript and react now i came to know that DSA is important so i started learning C. I just wanted to ask that is it worth learning C language for DSA or should i learn someother language for DSA.
Thanks for sharing! Do you recommend doing the portal questions first or the blind 75 for the initial technical screen?
Good question - it honestly depends on how much you’ve already practiced. If you’re well-versed on LC problems, I’d do the questions they gave you. If not, blind 75 is a good starting point because there will be discussion posts/solutions for those ones!
Good advice! Thank you so much for replying!
Choking at a question: Normal thing happens with me all the time.
Yeah hopefully it’s more normalized - the pressure can make it difficult to find your footing sometimes 😅
Thank you for sharing the insight and the procedures at FB .." Meta"!
Absolutely! 😀
Almost same experience I had :) 2 coding questions in each round is too overwhelming and blocked me in my 2nd round 2nd question I was just rushing though I coded I didn't have time to test and funny to say the interviewer had a beeper every 15 minutes !
Totally! It’s very nerve-racking to race through questions like that!
Thats great to know!! I hope i can share something with this detail after interview
how did you learn data structures and algorithms before solving Leetcode problems?
I learned via school (they had a course on DS and Algos in my computer Sci degree). But they have courses available online if you check udemy or coursera
@@PoojaDutt thanks
yo how do I counter attack low ball recruiters offer if I don't have money for next day grocery shopping?
Yeah it’s tough .. you have to know when to pick your battles basically :-/
What role did you interview for? Is there coding interview for solution architect ? I havent been required to code for my last 10 yrs in SA role
It was for a mid level software engineer! You’ll probably still be required to do some Data Structure and Algorithm style interviews unfortunately :-( but I’m not entirely sure
Literally, I have gone through your video more than 100s times to gain confidence and I am very thankful to you, for the best supportive and informative knowledge you have given, that's a really great help. Would you please never mind to help me to prepare my first round of interviews which is coding - Thanks
Aww so glad they’ve been helpful! 😀
Thank you for share your experience !
No problem! 😀
Great video!!!! New subscriber
Thank you! Welcome 😊
what role you interviewed? Code?
I just accept interview next week as designer. This made me nervous.lol
This was for a mid-level software engineer - can’t recall the exact title, but there’s leveling on levels.FYI !
great experience, appreciate for sharing :)
Thank you!!
What position were you applying to?
Just a mid-level software engineering role!
I interviewed at Facebook for an engineering position. We did the usual 3,4,5 or more rounds of interviews. The first 2 rounds were good. The people I spoke to were very nice and seemed interesting and genuine people. The 3rd round was with the manager of the engineering department. If I had accepted a job, I would have been working directly under him. Not even 2 minutes into my discussion with him I could tell he was going to fail the interview.
"Wait a minute. I thought you were interviewing to get a job there?"
Yes, I was but when I interview anywhere, I am more concerned about the interviewers than what they expect of me. I have enough confidence in my abilities to land any job I apply for. Otherwise I would not apply for it.
Back to the hiring manager...
As expected, he failed drastically. He tried to stump me a few times, didn't work. Just to see what he would do, I pretended to be stumped on one of his questions. This is where he failed. The 2 engineers before him were happy to give instant feedback in a very positive way (I pretended to get stumped with the too). The hiring manager became annoyed almost instantly. I fake figured out the answer to show I can solve issues and he just seemed like he didn't care. This told me everything I needed to know about him.
When he was done asking me questions, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him one thing, "What is your opinion on team members who aspire to move into more challenging roles?" He gave me a look like he was annoyed by me asking that question. I let him finish his answer (filled with a bunch of "hmm"s and "uhh"s). I stood up, thanked him for his time and told him I would not be moving to the next round.
Did you buy your desk at Costco? Because mine looks exactly like yours.😀 I have only a slightly different cover. It is an interesting, did they provide also an interviewer Facebook profile? It is a very good observation, given problems usually repeat each other, so generally it is a low chance you get some unique problem. So I develop a specific technique to generate all time a unique question and never repeat it. It is a very familiar situation, I wrote a book long time ago how to program on Windows and what is a message loop and where it is implemented. However when I got the question where is a message loop implemented on an interview, I couldn't provide a right answer. It is a very funny.
This was actually the desk used at my parents’ old place, so I’m not sure where they got the desk from! And so true - it minimizes your chances of failing the interview by practicing specific patterns 😀 love it! What’s the book called? Would love to read it sometime! That’s a great way to tackle studying.
@@PoojaDutt The book is about using Turbo Pascal for Windows programming, so it has only a historical interest. But the idea to write a book about modern programming is still there, so maybe some day you will have one more resource to study.
Can you talk about how non-tech folks can maximize their chances for an interview at Meta? Im a liberal arts major but have years of experience with non-profits and program management.
Definitely! You’ll either need to have projects on GitHub or go the boot camp route. If you’re a self-taught developer, try to get an internship first to also gain work experience (that’ll be really important when transitioning to a full-time career)
Thanks a lot for sharing the interview details. Could you please share some good resources that you used for System design and Object oriented design. 🙂
It will be really very great!
Hi Chandra! I didn’t have any particular resources for Object Oriented Design/Sys Design (I’ve heard that systems expert .io (similar to Algo expert) was really helpful for people. For OOO, I just googled to refresh my memory and looked at old class notes from school 😊
@@PoojaDutt Thank You Pooja for sharing the details. All the very Best 😇
Thanks for sharing. Liked and Subscribed.
Thanks for the support (-:
Thanks for sharing!
No problem!
so basically you need to know the exact or worst case a similar problem to do well, or a genius to crack it in 5 mins and code in 15 mins
love this vid
Helpful video, but music could be a little quieter!
Thanks for the feedback!
Had a very similar experience. Then they called me back months later for a second run through. Which is tomorrow
Good luck with your interview tomorrow!
their loss, thank you for sharing.
Can you put the music less loud (or even better, just take it out, it serves no purpose), it makes it difficult to concentrate on what you say. Thanks for your sharing your experience anyway
It’s ok, Microsoft is a better company than Facebook ever will be.
There was a reason why Microsoft wasn't included in FAANG, you know?
fb pays way more and has a stronger engineering reputation.
They're very different places. I work for MS engineering, and my org is great. Amazing leadership. However not all orgs are the same! A colleague just moved to Meta and said so far he prefers the culture at Meta.
Lmao
Wow.., that was most annoying background music. Can’t focus on content at all. Couldn’t take it after 5min.
Pretty similar experience and I actually felt that I goofed with one question but the rest of the interview went really well. I did not get any portal information to follow up with the interviewer or send him/her thank you note. Can you please share your resources? Thanks!
Oh interesting - usually they give you access to a portal throughout the interview process. I would ask your recruiter about this!
Thanks for useful info. Please remove the annoying background music,
Thanks for the feedback (-:
@@PoojaDutt Yes, a great video by a great presenter is getting diminished by annoying background music. It's not needed for your MVP.
I have an interview at Meta for Mask & Layout Process Engineer.
I know it's a pretty niche postion but any idea if you, or anyone here who could help me out ?
I could certainly give advice for general interview tips - I don’t have a specific person in mind for that role though 👀
So you had an experience in the tech industry? Why do they lie to us and say “you don’t need to have tech background, major in computer science blablabla?” 😒
Sounds like your study plan just optimized for seeing a lot of problems when the goal should actually be, learning how to solve new problems on the spot.
I actually preach problem solving over memorization - they just happened to ask pretty common questions so I got a bit “lazy” during the interview unfortunately ! But totally agree that the best way to tackle these interviews is to understand how to logically get to an answer versus banking on having seen it before.
you voice is very sweet, hard to focus on the content.
Mute the music
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R u usa born?
Likewise, people interviewing at Facebook looked cold as fk to me. I guess that's what it takes to be a nerd
What they don’t tell you here? Sorry I didn’t understand except the whole journey.
hello
couldnt listen bcoz of the music
why would anyone want to work for these big companies? Seriously I never understood, they are so restricting in every way. Also this where people try to learn and memorize algorithm exercises and data structures is so not good!
It doesn't make you any less of an engineer . Life exists out of FAANG.
Totally! You’re right about that (-:
A lot hot air... where is the detail
Don't kill time with fake accent and be quick, come to the point soon.
Did not they do the right thing? You could only solve the problems you already had memorized? C'mon... that should not be the way to do it