Meta Software Engineer interview experience

Each interview had a similar rhythm—an easier warm-up problem followed by a medium-level problem—and everything was pretty fast-paced.

The interviewer expected me to clarify requirements quickly, propose an approach, and then implement efficiently within the time limit. There wasn’t much room for long exploration, so the communication mattered a lot. Complexity and edge cases came up during the work, and I focused on validating correctness as I built the solution.

The questions followed standard DS/Algo patterns like arrays, strings, BFS/DFS, and hash-map style thinking, though I kept it