u/michaelnovati replied ·
Hi, hang tight until you officially hear back.
I worked at Meta for 8 years and conducted over 400 interviews there and I can tell from the way that you wrote this up that you're over analyzing every minute of the interview a little too much.
There's so much that I could say about the process and I can't explain it all here in a Reddit comment, but I think it's misleading, especially on Reddit and blind about like studying certain lists of questions and getting flawless solutions. and again, emphatically state that the goal of these interviews is not to see how many problems you studied and memorized.
They are looking for your problem solving process and the fact that you got questions you hadn't seen before might have rattled you. but if you had a clear and clean problem solving process and produced clear code that you walked through and explained well then you might have passed even though you're assuming that you failed.
You might not pass but don't blame yourself for not doing enough practice problems because that's not the reason, and you might have just not practiced your problem-solving method enough.