He cracked the Meta E4 SWE Interview and landed a $300k offer - Here's how he did it (interview)

Discord:   / discord   Today we have an interview with a Meta SWE success story. One of our discord community members recently smashed their E4 onsite and landed a cushy offer. I interviewed him about his experience and how the process went. Here's that interview! TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:45 What is your background in CS? 01:45 What companies have you worked for before? 02:30 How many years of experience do you have? 02:45 Do you work on the product side or the infra side? 03:15 What tech stack are you most familiar with? 04:25 Have you done the Leetcode grind before? 05:55 How long did you take to prepare for the entire process? 07:37 What was your overall preparation approach? 12:43 Did you do any mocks? 15:00 Do you have any regrets about the way you prepared? 17:30 Top 3 tips for preparing for the Meta interview? 19:30 How did you find the overall interview process? 20:45 Were the questions about the difficulty you expected? 22:00 Did you get many new or unseen questions? 22:30 How did the systems design and behavioural rounds go? 24:00 For systems design do you have any real world experience to draw from? 25:10 How long did you wait for a response after the onsite? 26:00 What was your reaction to the offer? 27:15 Did you try to negotiate at all? 29:25 How did you find the overall team match process? 31:20 What sort of things did you ask the hiring manager? 33:10 Were you happy with the availability of teams on offer? 34:00 Any final words of advice?