I had a wild interview run with Meta for E5 for Canada location, I had my onsites, 3 coding rounds 1 system design and 1 behavioral(Went really well). I did well on the coding rounds except for 1 coding round where I wrote some what unreadable code(It was to find LCA and I used Leetcode's method of adding 1 and checking if the sum was 2 and the interviewer asked me if there is a better way to do it). I bombed the system design. I got a call from the recruiter a week later saying that they will not proceed with my candidature because of the bad SD round. I begged her to get me a follow up for SD. I did much better on this round and the recruiter texted me saying that the feedback was positive, she said she is waiting for HC to approve me. Do you think HC will approve me? I initially interviewed for E5, will I be downleveled because of the follow up interview? (The interviewer from the follow up loved my solution and gave an excellent feedback) What do I need to keep in mind and tell my recruiter when she calls IF everything goes well? Also any information regarding salary for Canada location will be appreciated. PS: I also got my college mate to vouch for me through their internal portal UPDATE : Got confirmation from the recruiter that I have been selected at E5 Level. (Don't know the numbers yet) To the people who said I'd be rejected in the poll FUCK YOU!, you guys gave me anxiety for no reason. TC: 180k (CAD) YOE : 7.5 #faang #meta #facebook #swe #engineering #software #swe
Wait I didn’t know that would actually work. Damn, good job 👏
Nice! I don't think you will be downleveled. For TC, start with asking 400k CAD. They can pay.
Any particular reason you guys think it'll be a rejection in HC?
It could be any reason honestly. There are tons of factors outside your control. So a lot of luck involved for sure
Damn man! Can't say anything about that
tl;dr what was the offer
Haven't gotten one. I just posted my experience and thought I'd get some insight from the community
Mind sharing the sd question? 😀
Design leetcode.com contests feature
i got the same.
How did you prepare for the system design second time ?
Gaurav Sen's YouTube videos helped a LOT. I got asked how to design LC contest which Gaurav has made a short video about I used that as an inspiration. Rest of my prep comes from Educative and a lot of practice with the wall
Thanks. Totally how long would you have prepared for system design ?
Can you elaborate on how you did on the first system design and what you do better on the second one?
This is my previous round : https://www.teamblind.com/post/FWt0rUXp?cid=18449729 In the follow up round I was asked to design leetcode.com contests feature. I did a lot of rehearsal by speaking at the wall. That gave me some confidence to do well
Update us when you get the results op ! Good luck
I think you're likely to get an E5 offer if your second design went well. That was pretty smart to beg for a re-do. I just cleared E5 Canada remote as well, had the same sys design question and I don't think I did very well, I actually thought i failed the interview. Also had reference that I worked with before. new TC: 375k CAD (remote)
Surprised you managed to get a second chance by begging like that, but yeah you'll probably get E4 best case scenario.
No chance at E5? 🥺
I did all the other rounds extremely well