Meta interview notes, page 28 of 238

“This question is basically a gauntlet.” 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.

“I went with Bernoulli, Binomial, and Poisson, which felt right.” 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 jumped straight to engagement metrics and said something like watch time, retention rate, and content completion rate.” 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.

“The tricky part isn't listing metrics, it's knowing which ones actually matter and why.” 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 is not a 'tell me about your work' warmup.” 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 knew BFS was the right move but fumbled on how to track column indices cleanly.” 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 data integrity because I've been burned before by jumping to product explanations when it was actually a logging bug.” 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 dedup part is what gets you.” 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 is the kind of question where the first instinct is to say 'look at call volume' and then realize that tells you basically nothing about group demand.” 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 started with users and rides tables and felt okay for the first few minutes, but then they pushed on things like driver availability, pricing history, and how you'd handle trip states over time.” 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.