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“They labeled one round “AI deep dive,” so I was studying all my AI stuff, and then she did not ask me any deep tech questions. She asked another case on proactivity, which kind of confirmed they didn’t really have a firm process.”
“I was definitely caught off guard because I was expecting more of a LeetCode type of question, and instead they showed a diagram about obstacles colliding and wanted me to figure out which one was bigger and where the force would move.”
“I just found like nervousness dropped my IQ like 20 points, so I ended up doing a lot of mocks with GPT. Then I started seeing way more causal inference in interviews, like the field can go back to the science part.”
“They literally moved my final to their hackathon and I ended up interviewing at 1:00 a.m. at the office. It was supposed to be collaborative, but instead I got dropped into this huge unfamiliar class and had to understand their code fast.”
“My system design round was literally, “You’re a Netflix subscriber, you forgot your password. Design everything that happens after you click the forgot password button,” including all the behind the scenes flow and edge cases.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
“I was a little complacent because I’m already ex-Meta, and the surprising feedback was that my project retrospective was only leaning toward hire because I answered a constructive feedback question like they were asking for praise. I cleared the loop, discussed numbers and joining date, and then the offer got put on hold because of the hiring freeze.”
“I probably did at least 10 solid 12 hour days of prep and kind of overprepped into oblivion, and then the interviews were so loosey goosey I barely got to show my thinking before they hired someone internal.”
“What surprised me most was that after typing a simple URL in the browser, they expected me to drive the whole conversation end to end, from DNS and system calls to interrupts and sockets, and then defend every layer.”
