Meta
Social media and metaverse company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a globally distributed rate limiter for Meta's Graph API. It needs to handle millions of requests per second and enforce limits based on user ID and application ID.
#Rate Limiting
#Distributed Systems
#Redis
#Concurrency
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a photo storage system similar to what Instagram uses. It must handle billions of reads and millions of writes per day with extremely low latency.
#Blob Storage
#CDN
#Caching
#Database Scaling
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a distributed caching system for Meta's newsfeed. How do you handle cache invalidation and the 'thundering herd' problem?
#Caching
#Distributed Systems
#Memcached
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