Meta interview notes, page 123 of 238

“My first instinct was plain BFS and I started coding it before really thinking about state.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight for engagement metrics and kind of lost the thread.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Meta, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a story ready but I fumbled the scale part.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just concatenate both lists and run a standard merge intervals pass on the combined result.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The O(1) space constraint is what makes this annoying.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first couple minutes just trying to figure out what angle to take.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Meta, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to business metrics, advertiser ROI, foot traffic lift, that kind of thing, and kind of glossed over the user side.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Meta, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to the feed ranking angle and spent too long there before realizing they probably wanted me to think about the full feature, discovery surfaces, content aggregation, moderation considerations.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just slice and concatenate which works fine but uses extra space.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a minute to even parse.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Meta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.