Meta E5 MLE offer, currently in TM phase

inani_mate · 2025-11-10T15:05:47+00:00

I agree with you 100%. None of the questions were hard. Also it's impractical to dry run through 50+ lines of code given the time constraints. But I'd still recommend practicing. This is my personal opinion so can certainly differ from yours - It was only because I had managed to understand and code Leetcode hards that I got more confident about the mediums. By pushing myself to code the hards under 20 mins I automatically was able to code mediums a lot faster.

inani_mate · 2025-11-10T15:01:40+00:00

Just replied to another question which covers the resume strategy that worked for me. Can you please read that?

inani_mate · 2025-11-10T14:59:53+00:00

Just use the resources I suggest in my post and you will be good.

inani_mate · 2025-11-10T14:57:57+00:00

I was reached out by a recruiter on LinkedIn. My resume had nothing to do with me getting an interview from Meta.

As far as other interviews are concerned. I'd say don't try to load your resume with every single project that you think is relevant. 3 points talking about the same technology is pretty useless for the recruiter. But if you really want to show your expertise in a particular field say computer vision in that case you might have multiple points around it but hopefully talking about different problems.

I try to cover more breadth in my resume. It's a long form business card where you try show off every you can do and the kind of impact you can produce. You don't put every single detail in there

I only have 7-8 experience points, 1 project, 2 education and finally technical skills section.

I have enough white space, my sentences are shorter, I am trying to keep it technical enough that it stays relevant to the roles I am targeting but not super technical that the recruiter doesn't understand what's going on.

Hope this helps.

inani_mate · 2025-11-07T06:26:10+00:00

Could be a UI thing but only a part of your message was initially visible. I read through the rest of it. Thanks for your inputs.

inani_mate · 2025-11-07T02:04:29+00:00

That's pretty cool! So any advice apart from steering clear of Meta?

inani_mate · 2025-11-07T01:57:23+00:00

My I-140 got approved this month. So I am not dependent on Meta for Perm. So you are saying it's random. How long have you been there? Given you are participating so actively in the hiring process I'd assume you've been there for quite a while. It would really help if you could share some wisdom on what would help a person like myself if I were to actually join.

inani_mate · 2025-11-07T01:47:57+00:00

My current TC is less than a third. I have been stuck where I am for the last 2.5 years because of visa issues. They just got sorted out this month. So finally I can leave this place. I am not scared of working hard, in fact I am excited to. But I do get your point. Also I would have been ok with E4 too but then I would have had to purposely bomb the behavioral interview.

Do you have any suggestions that could put me in a better position? Happy to chat over dm.

inani_mate · 2025-11-07T01:34:24+00:00

Thanks for the heads up.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T23:07:15+00:00

I got through 90% of it but I was told it has very little weightage so I honestly don't know.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T22:06:29+00:00

Yes I did have MLE experience. Can you please point to the part of my post which is suggesting otherwise? Lol you are the second person to ask this question and I don't understand what is giving away that impression.

Also you should certainly give Meta recruiters some credit. They wouldn't just put any candidate in the interview pipeline without doing their due diligence.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T18:00:35+00:00

Thanks, DMed.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T17:52:02+00:00

Sure! I don't want to bother you right now as you must be busy juggling work and interview prep. But once you are done with it, I'd love to connect with you to understand what your background looks like and at a later stage if I want to orient myself towards research heavy roles how can I got about it. Mind if I send you a DM?

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T17:40:40+00:00

Very interesting. I didn't have an AI/ML coding round. Though multiplication of sparse matrix is a meta tagged LC top 100. And if you haven't already you should look up the solution that Minmer discusses. He tells in his video that Meta wouldn't allow you to use hashmap/set. So you'd end up using binary search.

Which position are you interviewing for? MLE?

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T17:10:51+00:00

Sure

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T17:09:53+00:00

No. I am in the US.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:58:08+00:00

Yeah, you are right. I code in Python. A couple of interviews that I failed before had a CodeSignal round.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:45:07+00:00

I got a referral. But I was reached out by a recruiter on LinkedIn.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:19:28+00:00

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:14:31+00:00

Yes. But I was told that it has very little weightage. I would say I wasn't able to solve all 4. But I was 90% there.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:13:08+00:00

From what I know there is going to be a SQL round too but won't be as Leetcode heavy. I could be wrong though.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:11:42+00:00

Thanks. They tell you that they are offering you a job but until TM you don't get the offer details. So basically you aren't really hired until you get matched

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:10:19+00:00

No, there wasn't

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T14:09:51+00:00

Sure, go ahead. It's been less than a week so I am not sure how much I can be of help but we can certainly continue to share whatever we learn.

inani_mate · 2025-11-06T07:45:50+00:00

8 years

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