Meta | Software Engineer | Interview Experience
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Interview Process
The interview process consisted of four rounds:
- Behavioral Questions (BQ): The first round included standard behavioral questions.
- AI Coding: The second round was divided into four parts focused on pathfinding. The first two parts involved debugging: the first question required printing an error message, and the second question addressed why a path could not be found in a large maze. The third and fourth parts introduced new functionalities: the third question included a new terrain type that restricted movement, and the fourth question involved implementing a key and lock mechanism where the correct key was needed to unlock.
- Standard Coding: The third round involved a simplified version of a problem requiring a response on the existence of a path. The second question was about implementing an inorder iterator for a binary tree.
- System Design (SD): The fourth round focused on how to find all shops within a given radius of a specified coordinate.
Technical Questions
- Breadth-First Search (Graph, BFS, Pathfinding)
- Kth Smallest Element in a BST (Stack, Binary Tree)
Tips & Insights
- Be prepared for a mix of behavioral and technical questions throughout the interview rounds.
- Practice debugging and pathfinding problems, as these were significant in the coding assessments.
- Familiarize yourself with common data structures like binary trees and their traversals.