Software Engineer · Full Journey · System Design

Meta — Software Engineer ✅ Passed

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Round: Full Journey · Type: System Design · Difficulty: 7/10 · Duration: 180 min · Interviewer: Unfriendly

Topics: System Design

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Interview date: 2024-06-30

Summary

I summarized the most common asked question in Meta interviews

Details

I compiled a list of frequently asked system design questions at Meta, gathered from various online sources. I hope this helps others preparing for Meta interviews.

The list includes:

1. Ad Click Aggregator
2. Instagram / Newsfeed
3. LeetCode (online coding judge)
4. Real-time Game Leaderboard
5. Chat System (Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp)
6. Ticketmaster/Hotel Reservation System
7. Proximity service (Yelp)
8. Webcrawler
9. Webcrawler using 10k hacked machines - This question focuses on distributed hash maps.
10. Search autocomplete system
11. Top k heavy hitters
12. Dropbox/Google Drive
13. YouTube/Netflix
14. Facebook Live Comments
15. Auction System
16. Price drop tracker (Amazon CamelCamelCamel)