Meta interview notes, page 214 of 238

“Blanked for a second because it sounds so open-ended.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Meta, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to sorting and scanning, which works but they pushed back on the space complexity.” 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 the naive scan and immediately caught myself because they literally said sub-linear.” 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 straight to Redis sorted sets and they seemed fine with that direction, but I fumbled a bit when they pushed on regional breakdowns.” 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.

“The key is the independence assumption, which they tell you to use.” 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 straight into market sizing and competitor analysis, which felt safe but probably wasn't the move.” 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.

“This part was fine.” 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.

“Spent probably two minutes just restating the definition back to myself out loud which felt awkward.” 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 self-joined the posts table to pair parent posts with their replies, then filtered on the timestamp window.” 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.

“This one sprawled in every direction.” 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.