Meta | IC4 | London | May 2024 [Reject, After Full Loop]

Status: 1.5 YOE, BS CS, ex-intern Meta Position: Android SWE Location: London Date: March - May

Technical phone screen (45 mins): (Could not solve second fully, but explained the approach and wrote pseudocode) 1) Merge Sorted Array 2) Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

Onsite (4 rounds):

1. Coding 1: (Could not solve second)
   1. Clone Graph
   2. Find Cheese
2. Behavioral: (Went good) Standard questions: areas of improvement, conflict with colleague, project was delayed, project most proud of, conflict with colleague where you were wrong at the end.
3. Mobile system design: (Went average) Design a photo messaging app
4. Coding 2: (Went excellent)
   1. Nested List Weight Sum II
   2. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

Result: Reject mostly based on coding rounds