Meta interview notes, page 140 of 238

“I started with the obvious stuff, job postings created, applications submitted, and they just kind of waited.” 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 just join everything and compare, which is exactly what the constraint rules out.” 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.

“Seemed easy at first glance.” 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.

“Straightforward enough.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the definition of cousins (same depth, different parent) but translating that into clean code took me longer than it should have.” 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 basically a constrained selection problem.” 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 started with CTR and immediately sensed that wasn't going to be enough.” 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 the recursive in-order approach first, threading a 'prev' pointer through the traversal.” 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 'variation from the original' part is what gets you.” 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 went with a min-heap of size k, which gets you O(n log k) and I felt pretty good about that.” 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.