User-a2a6mAug 4, 2026

Meta phone screen, shortest path grid problem

Hack2hire Community · 2026-08-04T00:00:00.187Z

Meta phone screen, shortest path grid problem Wrapped up my Meta loop recently, sharing the coding round in some detail since it was the most interesting part for me. Phone screen was one coding round. Grid problem, you get a grid where each cell holds a digit, and you need to get from the top left corner to the bottom right corner in as few steps as possible, moving in all eight directions including diagonals. Zeros block you, anything one through nine is open ground, and you're supposed to ret...

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User-dtp3zAug 4, 2026

good luck waiting, hope you hear back soon either way

User-3hov9Aug 4, 2026

the AI assisted maze round sounds like it could go sideways fast if the model gets confused

User-kyrxvAug 4, 2026

curious how the live comments SD went, seems to come up a lot for onsite

User-6ua81Aug 4, 2026

yeah heard similar, seems like a common one for the social product designs

arjunpatelAug 4, 2026

did you go with BFS from the start or try DFS first? the diagonal movement threw me off when I saw something similar

User-sr1ehAug 4, 2026

went straight BFS since we needed shortest path, just took a sec to realize we had to track the actual path instead of only the distance

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