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Meta system design interview prep

Product-scale social systems and moving fast with data.

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Hiring processes vary by role, level, team and year. This is a general outline compiled from publicly shared candidate reports and company career pages, not insider information. The practice prompts are exercises in each company's product domain, not actual interview questions.

Interview process

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Role fit and process overview.

  2. 2

    Technical screen

    Typically coding over video.

  3. 3

    Onsite / virtual loop

    Commonly coding rounds, a system design round for experienced engineers, and a behavioural round.

  4. 4

    Review and team matching

    Feedback is consolidated; team fit is discussed after.

What they tend to emphasise

Read-heavy, fan-out workloads (feeds, notifications)Caching layers and consistencyData modelling for social graphsReal-time messagingMetrics-driven iteration

Practice prompts

  • Design a news feed ranking and delivery system.
  • Design a chat application with presence.
  • Design photo upload, storage and a stories feature.
  • Design a live-video comments system.
  • Design a typeahead search for people and pages.

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Learning paths & practice

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