Software Engineering PhD Internship Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I had two screening interviews using Zoom and CoderPad.
There were two LeetCode easy/medium level problems. For all of the problems, I was asked to give a dry run and explain how I could improve them with respect to time/space complexity.
Questions
The first problem was to find the k-th largest number from an integer list.
The second problem was to compute the value from an expression with only '+' and '*', given the expression as a string, similar to a calculator.
The third problem was to store vectors with repeated elements, such as 221115555222 and 1110011, and then write a method to compute the dot product between two such vectors.
I don't remember the fourth problem, but it should not have been difficult.
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Meta Work Experiences
- 5.0Rewarding Pace, Rewarding PaySoftware Engineering PhD Internship • Former EmployeeDecember 1, 2022Pros: Great food and salary compensation.Cons: Too fast-paced work environment.
- 2.0Has become a toxic place to workEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 13, 2025Pros: Great technology work already built.Cons: Has become a toxic place to work.
- 3.0Okay place to be at, but definitely sinking shipSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 9, 2025Pros: Pay is really good, and coworkers are okay.Cons: The culture is rather toxic and sometimes coworkers are toxic too, due to PSC.
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