Cleared the two rounds of Meta interview ! Had two levels of interviews. Now I have a Virtual onsite interview. I have been told that I can interview at Menlo Park, Seattle and New York. I chose Menlo Park (the teams were very interesting).
Question: What should I expect in the team matching interviews ? Also, how long should I expect the recruiter to schedule my interview with the teams ? Do they generally reject candidates before the team-matching interview ?
Questions I was asked in the coding rounds:
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Interview 1:
a. Contiguous array sum
b. Vertical order level Tree traversal -
Interview 2:
a. Interval insertion
b. Vertical order level Tree traversal II (I just verbally explained the solution)
c. Weighted subarray sum
Feedback from recruiter: I was kind of slow in one of the interviews. Scheduled a follow-up interview (scehduled within 2-3 days).
Reason: The reason being I spent too much time writing multiple solutions.
Suggestion: If you know the solution with optimal time/space complexity, mention the lower ones, but don't code them up. Big waste of time. Also, keep talking and explaining to the interviewer about the solutions !
Also, keep speaking with the recruiters. They are super helpful ! (atleast mine were).
- Interview 3 (Follow-up):
a. Find a local minima in a single dimensional array (Follow-up: Do it for a 2-dimensional array)
b. Find the k-th largest element in the array (unordered. Follow-up: What if the space limit is O(n/2). Also, cannot use sort).
Recruiter mailed me back with the on-site interview (took 2-3 days for her to do that)!
EDIT: Just received an offer ! I cannot disclose what they asked me in the team match interview, but it is not something to be worried about. They just want to make sure that the work on their team is aligned with what you are doing. Just make sure you know your projects well and you know some basic Machine learning. They would definitely want to know how you think about problems !
There were 3 team matching interview. I liked the last team and they liked me as well and the recrtuiter replied back with the offer.