RejectedOnsite

Four-Round Onsite, Rejected After a System Design Round I Hadn't Prepped For

MetaSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2025

March 26: first round, the screen. Two medium questions — one I'd never seen before, and the other was a variant of vertical order traversal. I'd actually only grinded 32 problems total, and somehow I passed. Still feels like a miracle. Onsite was on the 2nd. Let me update on that too. Four rounds total, as follows: System design. The interviewer was very nice, and the topic happened to be a syst…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.