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Meta Frontend Developer Interview Questions with Expert Answers

Saurabh Mhatre
JavaScript in Plain English
7 min readJan 6, 2025
Meta Frontend Developer Interview Questions with Expert Answers

Meta ranks among the largest American IT companies, alongside other Big Five corporations. In 2023, it was ranked #31 on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking. In 2022, Meta was the company with the third-highest expenditure on research and development worldwide, with R&D expenditures amounting to US$35.3 billion.

So if that excites you, let’s cover a few questions asked in the front-end interview round Meta.

Q1. For a recursive description of DOM elements define a function that prepares actual DOM elements.

Example input:

// Example usage
const dom = {
type: 'div',
props: { id: 'hello' },
children: [
{ type: 'h1', children: ['HELLO'] }
]
};

In this question, we need to convert the above JSON object into actual DOM elements similar to how React converts its internal virtual DOM representation into actual DOM implementation.

Approach

Such problems can be effectively solved using a recursive approach. Coming up with a recursive solution is tricky so let’s break down the problem into smaller parts.

  1. Understand the Structure
    Analyze the recursive object format. Each node can…

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Written by Saurabh Mhatre

Senior Frontend Developer with 9+ years industry experience. Content creator on Youtube and Medium. LinkedIn/Twitter/Instagram: @SaurabhNative

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It's a tall ask in a timed interview test. A front end specialiast may know many things but unless they have the opportunity to exercise their experience in custom creation they won't be able to remember dom details like createElement, let alone be…

We store timeout IDs in a Map for efficient storage and retrieval.

Why do we need to maintain the counterId as the id returned by the setTimeOut is already unique enough to track and clear through this global handler