Need guidance for Meta on-site scheduling and preparing.
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I have my on-site interview with Meta and the interview coordinator scheduled all interviews in the round on the same day with no breaks in between. My question is, should I go ahead or should I have them split across multiple days?

I am a new grad so there is no system design, but there are two coding rounds (software engineers, one has been with Meta for 1.5 years and the other for 11 months) and a behavioral (engineering manager).

Granted that the interview is almost a month away, but given the nature of these interviews (DSA hell), I am worried. It is also important to note that I have other interviews (ex.: Bloomberg phone screen) in the weeks leading upto Meta as well so I have to study the questions for them too.

As far as my preparedness for Meta is concerned, I think you can never really be truly prepared for these interviews. I have finished 200+ questions tagged Facebook (about 50% of the ones asked in the last 6 months, sorted by frequency), but I am planning to try and finish most, preferably all.

The reason why I am so concerned is that I have interviewed with Meta before (interviews on separate days, 2 whole days between the 1st and 2nd coding interviews) and was rejected because I solved 3/4 questions perfectly (optimal, readable and discussed edge cases, complexities). The one that I didn't solve was a variation of a question that is way below when you sort by frequency, asked in the 2nd round.

So, the dilemma is that should I go ahead with their proposed schedule or should I have them split? I had given my preference for splitting the round thinking that that way I could prepare better for the 2nd coding interview in the days leading to it. But that was the case for my previous attempt and it still didn't work out. I am confused.

Please advise.

Also, any suggestions for preparation is greatly appreciated. Anything other than Facebook tagged (last 6 months), Blind-75 that I should take a look at?

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