Phone screen with Meta coming up

I worked at Meta and did 400+ interviews there. My advice: - No smalltalk, you'll jump very quickly into coding and go with it, because you want to spend the most time coding you can - Whiteboard style - they generally don't care about perfect syntax or compilable code. They also want to see you walk through and explain your code without an IDE telling you what's wrong or by running the code and guessing and checking. - Generally 2 medium questions in 45 mins and you want to solve both with clean solutions. You don't have to have the perfect approach if you have a very clean good approach. Clean code means: no extra logic or if statements, no overusing variables you do f need, readable names, visually tidy, consistent white space.