Meta interview notes, page 134 of 238

“I'd done this one before so I felt okay going in, but I spent way too long on the feed ranking piece and barely touched storage or the fanout problem.” 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.

“BFS with a hashmap from column index to list of values.” 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 had a decent story for this but I fumbled the structure a bit, spent too long on context and rushed the actual actions I took.” 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.

“Knew this problem but still fumbled the edge cases a bit.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just scan and count mismatches, but getting the actual removal right took a bit more work.” 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 example they give makes it look straightforward but I spent a few minutes confused about what 'fully used' actually meant.” 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 is where I spent the most time and probably still left gaps.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“The problem itself is not hard but I fumbled the input structure at first.” 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 north star part is what tripped me up.” 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 in thinking I'd just talk about a bug that caused an outage, but the interviewer kept pushing until I got to something with real organizational scope.” 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.