Meta interview notes, page 22 of 238

“I went straight into listing ranking and relevance, which felt right, but I fumbled when they pushed on cold start for new sellers.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“Started with a naive backtracking approach and it passed the first two files fine.” 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 stared at this for longer than I'd like to admit.” 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 picked Google Maps because I actually use it and thought that'd help me sound grounded.” 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 pure DFS and I started coding before fully thinking through the alternating constraint.” 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 scheduling optimization problem with a bunch of constraints layered on top of each other.” 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.

“This part felt 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 part that tripped me up was the 'steel-man their position' angle.” 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.

“The 'you just onboarded' constraint is doing a lot of work here and I almost glossed over it.” 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 jump into features but I forced myself to slow down and think about who actually cares about these emails anymore.” 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.