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
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the machine learning architecture for Instagram Reels recommendations. How would you structure the funnel from candidate generation to final ranking?
#Recommendation Systems
#Two-Tower Models
#Ranking
#Candidate Generation
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design an Ads Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction system for Meta's news feed. How do you handle the extreme class imbalance and delayed feedback in ad clicks?
#Ads Ranking
#Imbalanced Data
#Streaming Pipelines
#DLRM
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a multimodal content moderation system to detect hate speech in Facebook posts containing both text and images. How do you fuse the modalities?
#Multimodal ML
#Classification
#NLP
#Computer Vision
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the 'People You May Know' (PYMK) feature. How would you scale the graph traversals and ML inference to billions of users?
#Graph Neural Networks
#Link Prediction
#Batch Processing
#Scalability
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