Meta interview notes, page 125 of 238

“I went straight to the marketplace angle because Facebook already has that surface, but in hindsight I think they wanted me to slow down and really question who the user is first.” 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.

“My first instinct was to use regex and I immediately talked myself out of it, which was probably the right call.” 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 base problem I got through fine.” 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 definitions part was fine, I've explained these enough times that it's almost muscle memory.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 went with DFS and accumulated the current number by multiplying by 10 and adding the node value as I went down.” 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just trying to nail down scope because Reddit does a lot of things.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is where I spent most of my time and probably got too deep too fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 classic mistake I almost made: I started writing the DFS to return the diameter directly.” 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 started with engagement stuff like response time and conversation completion rate, which felt right, then got a bit lost trying to decide where retention fits versus revenue.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“Classic backtracking problem and I'd seen it before, but I still fumbled the visited-cell tracking on my first pass.” 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.