Meta

Social media and metaverse company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Very Hard

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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

All Roles Cloud Engineer 7

All Topics SQL 29 Algorithms 18 LLMs 17 System Design 12 Statistics 11 Experimentation 11 Deep Learning 9 Product Sense 8

Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

What is a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)? How do you design a secure VPC architecture?

#VPC #Security

Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

What is a service mesh? Explain how Istio works.

#Istio #Service Mesh

Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain TLS/SSL termination in a cloud load balancer.

#TLS #Load Balancer

Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

What is AWS PrivateLink? When would you use it?

#PrivateLink #VPC

Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

How would you implement network segmentation for a multi-tier application?

#Security #Subnets

Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the exact difference between an L4 load balancer and an L7 load balancer. Describe how Direct Server Return (DSR) works in a massive scale environment like Meta's.

#Load Balancing #OSI Model #TCP/IP #DSR

Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between TCP and UDP. How does the QUIC protocol improve upon TCP, and why would Meta use it for video streaming or WhatsApp calls?

#Protocols #TCP/UDP #QUIC #Latency

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