META Interview Experience

Hello geeks I am sharing my Meta Interview Experience

Phone Screen:

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/remove-character-string-make-palindrome/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/program-evaluate-simple-expressions// with only + and *

Positive Feedback within 2-3 days

Scheduled onsite 3 weeks from a phone interview.

Coding 1:

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/shortest-path-in-a-binary-maze/ ( 4 directions only)
• A modified https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sorted-insert-for-circular-linked-list/

Except you are given an arbitrary pointer to the list instead of the head and are to insert the new element in the appropriate position. Also, imagine having many such queries for insert.

Coding 2:

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/vertical-order-traversal-of-binary-tree-using-map/

Question: Merge 3 sorted arrays but with no duplicate values in the final sorted array ( need to write clean code, easily gets messy for 3) Similar Leetcode Questions: Merge Sorted Array Merge k Sorted Lists

System Design: Webcrawler (self-driven | Talked about tradeoffs, how to avoid crawling the same webpage in the same iteration etc)

Behavioral: STAR-based questions

Rejection reason: Probably because of the coding2 part2 I took more time than expected to get the clean code. and Coding1 part2 I missed an optimization for the best case although overall soln would have the same TC. Pretty frustrating after 2 months of grinding.