!process meta pe offer

[prisma wharf]

how did you study for pe final my os skills are ass 🙏

[azure spade]

Did you get dino question for first round too

[sinful quartz]

wats dino question

[sinful quartz]

just read an op sys book a bit ago it wasn't too hard, relatively basic questions and the questions are trying to probe knowledge of a specific networking/sys thing

[azure spade]

What did you get for first round

[sinful quartz]

honestly dont remember it was like 2 easy/med

[azure spade]

No file parsing?

[sinful quartz]

ye file parsing

[azure spade]

For one or both

[sinful quartz]

file parsing and i think like super basic metrics program based on the output of vmstat or smth

[crimson basin]

in what lang

py

?

[sinful quartz]

any

i did py cuz easy

[cunning roost]

could u be a little more specific

[azure spade]

Thanks

[crimson basin]

whats dino

[azure spade]

So the file question wasn’t related to finding speed of dinosaurs tho?

You can find it on lc forum a lot of ppl have been asked it

[sinful quartz]

no

[sinful quartz]

like if they ask you "how to make server faster" say horizontal/vertical scaling and explain what those are

or if they ask how to connect to url say tls/tcp and explain

they just have specific topics their questions are trying to get you to talk and explain but its pretty simple stuff nothing actually in that depth

last week

yeah i guess

[prisma wharf]

what's the name of the book if you don't mind sharing

does the round have any troubleshooting/debugging/coding?

[sinful quartz]

really basic troubleshooting looking for understanding of basic commands

[sinful quartz]

linux prog interface

[prisma wharf]

dang you read the whole 1500 pages? 💀

gonna find some youtube series on it probably

[sinful quartz]

reading it isnt that bad i crammed it in like half a month to a month a while ago prepping for some other interviews

[valid wedge]

congrats! was a former pe intern in 2025 myself, whats your location?

[prisma wharf]

how was pe intern experience

[valid wedge]

i worked 60 hour weeks unfortunately

quite team dependent

but i had a good team and manager

got the return offer for next year

meta is def a place where you have to work smart and hard

[prisma wharf]

was it more or less fun compared to swe?

[sinful quartz]

menlo, not taking offer tho

[odd plume]

was it smth like monitor vmstat for violations
problem: Monitor system metrics and detect when violations exceed threshold

also wat u taking instead of meta pe

[sinful quartz]

yuh

something like that yeah

[sinful quartz]

quant firm same role

[half ether]

@sinful quartz i did the technical screening and im pretty sure i passed. But recruiter said Meta is pausing next steps cuz of headcount. Do you know the chances that hc will open up again?

[odd plume]

1st interview or 2nd?

[half ether]

the technical screen so the 1st interview

2nd round is the full loop interview

[sour edge]

When did you interview?

[sinful quartz]

idk

[half ether]

i ended up going to final round. Is it possible to study everything in 2 days 😭

[odd plume]

They only let you take r2 in the next 2 days?