Initial 20-question Linux command screener, followed by two technical phone interviews:
Rejection was received by email one week after the systems interview.
Initial Screener: 20 questions such as, "If I wanted to find a list of active processes, what command would I use?" (multiple-choice format).
Algorithm Phone Interview: If you had a program to play the Battleship game and you had a method fireBomb() that took coordinates on a square matrix of any size, implement an algorithm that uses the fireBomb() method the least amount of times to destroy a battleship.
Systems Phone Interview: If you had a program that needed 1TB of RAM but you only have 16GB, how does the Linux system allocate memory?
The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the Meta Production Engineer role in Dublin, Ireland.
Meta's interview process for their Production Engineer roles in Dublin, Ireland is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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