Time to give back to the community, I applied on Meta for Sofware Engineer, Product UK, the recruiter reached out after a while (5 Months from time of application). Had a chat and my on-screen was scheduled.
On-Screen:
A variance of :
Question. 1: https://leetcode.com/problems/vertical-order-traversal-of-a-binary-tree/description/
Question 2: https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-distance-from-all-buildings/description/
Was able to handle the Question1 and was not able to tackle second question, to my suprise the recruiter reached out that they will be proceeding with my application to the final round(Virtual Loop). Gave myself 1 month to get things together.
The day came for the Final Loop
Round 1:
Product Architeture(Design Instagram) - I did a general design, did not get time to do the deep dives and interview had so many questions about some of the decisions I made.
Round 2( Coding question):
Question 1: https://leetcode.com/problems/nested-list-weight-sum/description/
Question 2: https://leetcode.com/problems/find-peak-element
Was able to come up with the solution, for the first one, the second one proposed Linear solution but interview asked if we could do better and suggested the binary search and was able to code it up with a few follow ups.
Round 3 (Coding Question):
Question 1: https://leetcode.com/problems/powx-n
Question 2: https://leetcode.com/problems/copy-list-with-random-pointer/description
Gave optimal solution though a fumbled abit on the space complexity since I was using recursion for the first question and a few follow ups. The second question went well an was able to code it up, used the hasmap approach.
Round 4: Behavioral Questions**
- Went well
Round 5 : Behavioral Questions.**
- Handled the questions well
I' m waiting for the feeback from the recruiter. But since its an E5 role and I fumbled on System design I dont know how my chances look like. I'l be waiting to see how it goes.
Really thankful for the Leetcode community. I will be posting update once I get feedback.
Update
Got a regret after 2 days from the recruiter, no details were provided